I am thrilled that we got dawes, unlike byrnes and rodan he has youth, he is very bright and he and clark along with hogan could be a very dangerous forward line for a long time, a gun midfield and mcdonald developing further and the dees will be back up where they belong
I understand that he hasn't been doing the defensive stuff well enough, but i would love to see him play as a sub, just unleash him and tell him to play his game, good chance he will do plenty of damage in a one quarter burst and his opponent will be abit more tired so less likely to have as much of an impact the other way.
Who does Mckenzie go to assuming he plays? Rich, rockliff, moloney, zorko, black? not sure which other mids they have.
James frawley has a huge job with jonothan brown
It's a huge call, but i honestly think of our current group of players at the end of their careers wherever that may be, howe will be the best player of them. or maybe the player who wins the most matches off his own influence
Terlich won't miss, he has been a huge find and works as hard as anyone,
clark injury may be a blessing if it means jack watts can be thrown forward and have another run as out tall target with pedo and sellar
Grimes - another strong showing
Byrnes - showed good composure
Evans - future demons star
Trengove - underrated defencive influence
Jamar - much improved game
M.Jones - good solid effort
N.Jones - absolute super star
Sylvia - consistancy equals superstardom
Bail - worked really hard
Howe - oozing with talent
Garland - very good performance
Gawn - next dean cox
Frawley - kept cameron quiet
Pederson - played a role
Terlich - worked really hard
Watts - needs some confidence
McDonald - still very young
Tapscott - loads of courage
Jetta - solid not brilliant
Clark - hope he's okay
Davey - turned clock back
Viney - may need rest
for a player who has played 2-3 games he seems to have an old head on his shoulders, which is nice!
and i'm sure he has alot of improvement left in him as he finds his feet at AFL level
If he played for Collingwood he'd be talked about as one of the best mids going around, he has very little help alot of the time and is so often the only shining light we have
He is everything Melbourne football club needs to go forward, trains as hard as anyone, great leader, super talented and happy to not get the big stats and play his role,
today just showed how important he really is to this club.
He's got no confidence at all and it's really not surprising.
Drop him to the VFL and don't even bring his name up at team meetings until he is Dominating games,
No more mismanaging the poor bloke.
6. Byrnes- stood up when the game was in the balance
5. trengove- 10 tackles 22 touches and a captains goal
4. jones - most underrated player in the comp
3. grimes - heart on his sleeve leader played another good game
2. evans - super impressive again
1. Gawn - great game, just reward for effort
howe was also great