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    Time to pull the Liam Jones move.

    Schache. VFL. CHB. End of year one way or the other.
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    Re: Time to pull the Liam Jones move.

    Was thinking the same thing.
    The curse is dead.

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    Re: Time to pull the Liam Jones move.

    Quote Originally Posted by chef View Post
    Was thinking the same thing.
    Yep.

    201cm
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    Athletically gifted
    Usually good disposal
    56 games experience

    Worth seeing if he’s that very tall KPD option we need before looking to trade one.
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    Re: Time to pull the Liam Jones move.

    He has nothing else.

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    Re: Time to pull the Liam Jones move.

    The only issue is his lack of intensity and being a bit soft.

    But whats to lose as hes not making it as a forward.
    The curse is dead.

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    Re: Time to pull the Liam Jones move.

    Quote Originally Posted by chef View Post
    The only issue is his lack of intensity and being a bit soft.

    But whats to lose as hes not making it as a forward.
    He rushed a contest near the line in the third (Cordy should watch how that’s done) and just after got an intercept spoil over the line. I just can’t see the MC sticking fat right now, so he plays forward in the vfl as we all look for a trade, or he moves back and we see what happens. I still like the attributes he has in the abstract, but maligned forwards like Prestagiacomo & Jones played/will play 150-200 games more as defenders. Once the JUH hype explodes his 5th in the pecking order. With Gardner still raw, Young out of favour and Cordy putrid, its time.
    Rocket Science: the epitaph for the Beveridge era - whenever it ends - reading 'Here lies a team that could beat anyone on its day, but seldom did when it mattered most'. 15/7/2023

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    Re: Time to pull the Liam Jones move.

    Quote Originally Posted by chef View Post
    The only issue is his lack of intensity and being a bit soft.

    But whats to lose as hes not making it as a forward.
    I don’t think intensity can be Taught. He seems a second too late to the contest or just gets too easily nudged out

    He reminds me a lot of the Rocca brothers when they first came into the scene . At least collingwood had sense to bring in a chf to teach them from brisbane ( can’t remember his name of TOP of my head ) , but they became really good players for the pies
    Even at backline your need to be pest and petulant with your opponents

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    Re: Time to pull the Liam Jones move.

    Quote Originally Posted by macca View Post
    I don’t think intensity can be Taught. He seems a second too late to the contest or just gets too easily nudged out

    He reminds me a lot of the Rocca brothers when they first came into the scene . At least collingwood had sense to bring in a chf to teach them from brisbane ( can’t remember his name of TOP of my head ) , but they became really good players for the pies
    Even at backline your need to be pest and petulant with your opponents
    Jarrad Molloy?

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    Re: Time to pull the Liam Jones move.

    Quote Originally Posted by chef View Post
    The only issue is his lack of intensity and being a bit soft.

    But whats to lose as hes not making it as a forward.
    I'd have said (and surely not been alone) the same about Dale.

    Though I think he also lacks some athletic traits required as a defender. Agree there's not much to lose.

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    Re: Time to pull the Liam Jones move.

    He is way softer than Jones. Doesn’t have upper body strength and doesn’t like the hard stuff. He would make a good golfer.

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    Re: Time to pull the Liam Jones move.

    Been saying it for ages.
    Our 1954 premiership players are our heroes, and it has to be said that Charlie was their hero.

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    Re: Time to pull the Liam Jones move.

    Really can’t see it. He just isn’t AFL standard.

    Cant hurt to try though.

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    Re: Time to pull the Liam Jones move.

    Quote Originally Posted by Grantysghost View Post
    Really can’t see it. He just isn’t AFL standard.
    He's AFL skill standard, but in everything else he's not.

    I had high hopes for him, but it's time to put a line through.
    "It's over. It's all over."

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    Re: Time to pull the Liam Jones move.

    Quote Originally Posted by EasternWest View Post
    He's AFL skill standard, but in everything else he's not.

    I had high hopes for him, but it's time to put a line through.
    Sounds like, reading that, he needs to create a Baseketball type sport. He’d easily be the Joe Cooper, Mason Wood the Doug Remer and Tom ‘Squeak Little Bitch’ Browne7.
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    Re: Time to pull the Liam Jones move.

    It's so far off the radar it's not funny. Has not played at CHB, like, ever.

    He would be horrible there.
    But then again, I'm an Internet poster and Bevo is a premiership coach so draw your own conclusions.

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