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Bigger grounds and quicker standard of footy suits the style of someone like Baker.

Deserves a 1 year contract. As you say, hasn't had continuity at all. When he is on the park he's made an impact.

When I watched him against Collingwood last week in the VFL he was 2 steps above everyone else. His speed and power around the contests were phenomenal. The fact that he is already making a huge impact with NO afl pre season behind is amazing. Has huge upside.

How he got a call up from Casey after his ordinary 14 disposal game is just bizarre.. The likes of Dunkley, Wagner and even JKH were far more dominant and influence the game much great then Neal Bullen.. Rewarding mediocrity performance.. it's gotta stop.

I see the usual negative Nazi's have gone missing now that we had a win.. So close to naming them but I'll leave that be for now.

JKH?? For what? Get a VFL standard player to try and convince a gun AFL player only to be delisted couple of months later.. Lol management at its best...

Article backing up what i said earlier.. if Brad Hill ends up asking for a trade request it will be at Hawthorn and Hawthorn only. https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/afl-trade-news-bradley-hill-ponders-requesting-a-trade-to-hawthorn-for-second-straight-season/news-story/8d770699c773956c39707b9520d8a949

Suit yourself bro..

Mate he's no chance at all. Once they nominate a club they just simply get there. Hill will nominate Hawthorn and get there.

No chance of Brad Hill ever coming to the Dees. Was very close to seeking a trade last year to the hawks. He'll be a hawk when he decides to come back to Victoria.

Yes

Oscar played a mixed of forward and back as a junior.

Yep agree ET. It's his lack of intensity and desperation that won't get him much further in his career. And as @Petraccattack said, sometime its just the simple case of just a limited footballer who is unfortunately not an AFL standard player.

Stormy is a dead set [censored]. Pots every single player at every opportunity. First year players or old.. bit like his mate Olisik.

Petty ahead of Oscar.. Quiet a statement there.

Jesus.. Only at Melbourne where a club has a bye and we still get [censored] injuries.

Can you elaborate more??

If Lever is out then Petty comes in for me. Time to start getting some games and development into him. Watched him play against Collingwood VFL game and his intercept marking and ability to provide drive from defensive 50 was fantastic.

[censored] hell.. potentially up there to be worse then the Joel Smith debacle.

What an interesting take. McCartney would see the frustration first hand as he would see our list similar to Geelong back in that golden period between 07 to 2011. Knows exactly how hard we need to work before we reach Mt Everest.

Careful............. ?

Such an overkill of a statement mate. Can you back this bizarre statement up with some form of proof? If Mahoney was so disgruntled about not getting the top gig then i highly doubt he would have stuck around.

The biggest line I have taken out of this is the players feedback around this issue. Changes have been made based on feedback from staff and players. And the big one to come out of that was McCartney now won't be involved with match day commitments on a full time basis but instead will be at Casey working on development on players and coaches. Am I the only who sees this as players not wanting much of McCartney come game day? Apparently Rawlings is highly respected amongst the playing hence why now he has been given a full time role on match day.

Sorry @Demonland I didn't see your thread and went and started my own. Feel free to merge mine in here.

What's happened to Daniel Cross? I thought he was our rehab coach?