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Cranky Franky

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  1. I reckon a lot of Demonlanders have collectively gone mad & lost their objectivity and logical reasoning in their desperate quest for success. What happened to the NO Dickhe@ds policy. Have people forgotten the troubles & dramas this bloke has caused at 2 Clubs !! with regard to drugs and poor discipline. And this is before you even begin to look at his injury problems
  2. Absolute disaster. Has been trouble & a disappointment at 2 Clubs. You start recruiting di#%heads and you reap the result.
  3. The problem with ANB is that his skills are very shaky under any sort of pressure. He also needs more aggression and physical pressure in his makeup. Plus he just has to kick those 50/50 goal opportunities that present to him.
  4. What a load of absolute nonsense - straight out of the Melbourne PR Dpt. Tomlinson might be able to run 3 marathons in a row but he is still an average plodder.
  5. I was flabbergasted to read that our BT rates Frost behind Josh Wagner & Oscar McD because no other sane person who watches football would agree with them. Reminds me that we gave away a Kings ransom to get Lever when we effectively gave away Jeremy Howe who has become one of the top intercept defenders in the competition. And to those who always pipe up that Howe was going to leave anyway - I have never seen evidence of that & recall that we made no effort to keep him & were very happy to trade him away.
  6. You are missing the point - which is - that there are a lot of hidden gems among potential Indigenous recruits. For example we select Johnson & Bedford who at best need years of development whereas Richmond pick up Shai Bolton & Sidney Stack, not to mention Marlion Pickett who are ready to play from day 1. We used to be very good at this - now we are not.
  7. Melbourne used to be very good at recruiting talented Aboriginal players - usually a bit more mature & experienced than raw 18 year olds - we had great success with Matt Whelan, Ozzie Woannemirri, Liam Jurrah & Aaron Davey. In recent years we seemed to have sopped looking. We have picked up Dion Johnstone & Jay Kennedy Harris while Richmond have managed to pick several diamonds out of the rough ie Bolton, Stack & now Pickett. Our recruiters need to wake up.
  8. Are you a dill or just uninformed ? We have a VFL side - its called the Casey Demons & we completely control every aspect of it including player development. Get with the program.
  9. Sorry but I'm still bitter about us recruiting Joel MacDonald over Dylan Grimes. Just cannot get over it. Add that to Paul Roos saying that Toby Green & Shaun Higgins were available to us for loose change a few years ago - what might have been !!???
  10. I thought he was finished last year but 9 goals from 7 games means he was on track for a 30 goal season - even with a dodgy shoulder. He is still a mile ahead of any other small forward we have so I would give him a performance based one year deal. Lets not throw out the baby with the bathwater.
  11. Our current coaching group does not seem to be very good at developing young players. Unless you are an outstanding prospect most young players need to learn the game at VFL level then when they are playing consistent footy at Casey you slowly ease them into first grade. I despair that we have wrecked any chance Oscar McD & Spargo have of being AFL players by playing them when they were not ready & not giving them time to learn the game & develop - now I worry that we will do the same to Dunkley.. Hope I'm wrong.
  12. Spargo's biggest problem is that he has been developed poorly. He should have played 3 or 4 games last year then gone back to Casey to develop & hone his craft not played 15 odd games its really the Club's fault. Also not sure he has the weapons to be a small fwd - I reckon he should go to the mid field to hone his skills.
  13. Give him a break - I know he looks about 40 but he has only played 13 games of senior footy & he came to AFL fairly late. It will be another 3 or 4 years before he becomes an effective player. We probably need a ready made back up while Preuss learns the trade.
  14. All true but a few other facts: Coaches got ahead of themselves we are not as good as we think. Poor planning to lose 3 big forwards - Watts, Pedersen, Hogan without adequate replacements We are slow - other teams have been recruiting fast outside runners & quick small pressure forwards while we have been picking slow plodding mids Some players not up to it & need to be moved on We need better specialist coaches - a forward coach needs to have been a top level forward with lots of experience not a half back flanker who has has done a level 4 accreditation Our injury management has been woeful
  15. This is called being wise after the event. Everyone is a genius in hindsight. Don't forget he was probably our best player over the 3 finals we played. That said I doubt he will play again - 7 games in 3 seasons & 27 years old.
  16. Really disappointed in this bloke & good to see he got a week for headbutting. He used to be one of my favourite non MFC players because of his fearless attack on the ball & unselfish play. Saturday changed that - he was acting up for frees & milking it shamelessly. He was tackled legitimately but went down like he was shot & got paid a free for over the shoulder, later on he again got tackled fairly by Petty I think & milked it again & sucked the umpire in for another free. Spectators at the ground picked it up & he was then booed the next few times he went near the pill. Really poor umpiring.
  17. Virtually from the goal square no less - shanks nearly all his kicks left & has learnt nothing since costing us the Geelong game last year. In an era when most aspects of player training & development are monitored & measured to within a millimetre of their life why on earth don't we put some resources into improving players kicking. Can't we get maybe Brad Green, Yze, Garry Lyon, Neita all of whom were great kicks to spend some time with the likes of Max, Fritsch, Trac, Tim Smith & Hunt to improve their kicking. Develop a routine, consistent ball drop, where to aim and when passing to a team mate learn to hit him on the chest not a metre above the head. Is all this too obvious or what ?
  18. That is a very poor argument. You have made an assertion without providing any evidence at all. You may as well say "98% of those booing were racists because that's what i think". Furthermore you haven't explained why say Michael Long - another "uppity" and outspoken player wasn't booed when he called out racial abuse.
  19. People are forgetting that there was no booing until a 13 year old girl called Goodes an ape. Now I'm not sure if that was a racist comment but I have heard Carl Ditterich, Crackers Keenan & Damian Monkhorst all called apes by opposition supporters. The AFL security goons then dragged the 13 year old away & would not let her see her parents for a period of time. The parents complained about her treatment in the media early on & the crowds unfairly took it out on Goodes by booing him. The AFL made things worse by prevaricating. That's really the start & finish of the affair. Comments by clowns like McGuire & Newman did not help. As far as I know there has never been any booing of other Indigenous players including outspoken or "uppity" one like Gav Wanganeen, Winmar or Michael Long. The critics haven't presented a skerrick of actual evidence that the booing was racially motivated. The public loves a furore about racism - it sells in the media. No racism angle = no documentary.
  20. He was an ex Melbourne player who had some success in coaching in WA. He had a pretty crap playing list & he was a pretty crap coach.
  21. Look Barker was certainly a very good player & a good person but there was a huge amount of public grief & emotion when he passed away at a fairly young age & I think that played into the HOF decision. There is a reasonable case that better footballers than Trevor have not yet made the HOF.
  22. Have you actually got the right player ??? Oskar is not big bodied (82kg) and he's definitely not a mid. He is a pacy outside player & maybe a crumbing forward.
  23. Amateur hour is right. Amateur covering their backsides: Misson said “So he’ll probably need to unload that for a couple of weeks, so if we unload it for two or three weeks it’s probably a similar amount of time to reload him and get him ready to play again. “We’re not putting a time frame on it, he’s feeling a lot better now so he could potentially start loading again at the end of this week, but it’s a little bit open ended.” Goodwin quizzed ............................at a press conference. “Joel had acute awareness of his groin,” Goodwin told reporters. “We certainly respect groin injuries and the load around that so that’s what we’re going to do as a club.” Anyone ever hear such [censored]. At least say "sorry we stuffed up".
  24. Look he was actually one of my favourites in his first 2 years but you have to be a bit hard nosed & objective if you want to be a successful Club. He is ok if he is left on his own but as soon as he has to do anything under any sort of pressure he goes to pieces, falls over, misses his targets & generally panics. The Box Hill smalls (who are VFL standard) destroyed him in the last half of the GF.
  25. Wrong - JKH gets s#1t because he has barely improved after several years on the list and heaps of chances. Have a look at the second half of the 2018 VFL Grand Final - he was woeful & barely got a touch.
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