and to this thread:

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dane's trolling again

Ease up

HAHAHAHA - The big fella's gone skitz

Lets delist him. One bad NAB cup should ruin a guys career.

Coming to a new club, he should of learnt how his new team mates play during the game and their roles and also learn a new game plan by round 1 of the nab cup



I forgot Diesel Williams won 3 brownlows and was slow as a snail and before you say the game is quicker now, Sam Mitchel isn't very quick at all.

If you don't read the ball and you don't know the game plan, as to know the right positions to be in, you will always look slow.

Calm down people. Rate him Round 10 of the H&A not round 1 of NAB.

St Kilda took 2 years under ross lyon to gel to a new gameplan, unless your Chris Judd, you can't expect a new player from a new club just to fit in to a game plan and be in the right positions game 1 of NAB.

gameplan

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Yeah but whatabout your whataboutism.

Well l think we got one somewhere

He was in the guts.
It starts there...nothing really to do with the rest of the game plan.

Bounce of ball.
Tap.
Down to mids.
Mids contest.
One wins, the other loses.
Winning midfielder dishes it out.

Brock won the first contested bounce of the game in the middle and handballed it out to a fumbling Browne.
Good start...easy.

Didn't happen again....nothing to do with the game plan.

There was a lack of respect of his opponent who won his fair share of disputed ball.
He really wasn't switched on.
Drop the game plan bullshit when it comes to Brock's performance last week.
I'm sure Brock would look at himself as the failure rather than Ratts and his game plan.

We move forward.
Come the real season there will be no excuses and no where to hide.

Just remember, Brock was recruited for the hard ball gets in the midfield. That's his primary role.
HE, yes HE, has to get the hard ball and dish it out. That's what he's suppose to be good at.

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Everyone looks good in Navy Blue

Whatever. Different strokes... Don't get pulled into the media hype about this. There are a large number of players that don't shake hands before a game - big deal.

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Can't see him playing that poorly again...fingers crossed anyway

I doubt he will play that poorly again.

He will be much better then the likes of Hulme, McCormick, Brett Johnson, Bentick and Bentley whom we have all tried in the "grunt" inside midfielder role over the last 8 years with little success.

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WOuld it be ok to believe the club have identified that he hasnt completed a preseason for a few years and has missed big chunks of the last couple of seasons so they are really loading him with work so he gets his fitness base back. This would explain him being unable to lift his legs after the first quarter.

I think they will taper him off and he will explode once the season begins.

Thats my theory and i am running with it.

re: Mclean , looked good and focussed before the game but Kirk doesnt give you much breathing space.
If anyone thinks we recruited Mclean for his pace then they were wrong, he is there for his in and under skills and being able to feed the ball out to our quicker movers. Problem was Mclean couldnt get the footy and no one was moving anyway, I was dissapointed but its one game and he was part of a very ordinary overall team performance.
I'll wait until the real stuff starts and then judge him......

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Agree Elwood
He played well yesterday
Disposal a bit ragged but was certainly in and under -took the knocks and fed it out
Will be a good acquisition when he plays more with the team
He and Hadley will push each other in this role
Disappointing after all these years that we recruit a guy and after one pre-season game we have such threads
Come round one without the Juddste. rhe may just get us across the line

He should fit in perfectly

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Apart from Hulme, who was a very good player until he got injured in 2002, that list is fairly horrific and easy explanation as to how we were so bad in that period.