Liam Jones' First Outing In Carton Colours

[Ghost Dog]

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He has a three year contract on good money. He will see out the three years at least.

Yep - was referring to Mick, in terms of stay or not. But for Jones, he may end up a very good VFL player.
When he went for his set shot, I said to my Dad, ' Watch this' and sure enough, sprayed. A player at that level
must be able to record a score. The only thing he does well in the forward line is create a contest, but never really looks like marking it.
That whole 'flying cat' leap under the ball looked very familiar to me last night. Is he being pushed under the ball or just flailing about with a mistimed leap?

[Twodogs]

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Yep - was referring to Mick, in terms of stay or not. But for Jones, he may end up a very good VFL player.
When he went for his set shot, I said to my Dad, ' Watch this' and sure enough, sprayed. A player at that level
must be able to record a score. The only thing he does well in the forward line is create a contest, but never really looks like marking it.
That whole 'flying cat' leap under the ball looked very familiar to me last night. Is he being pushed under the ball or just flailing about with a mistimed leap?

My bad. Mick has the mark of Cain on his forehead for sure. He's at war with his own administration over what the direction of the team is and the team obviously have no direction. Mick is trying to manufacture an "us against the rest of the world" mentality with his players but his players couldn't care less. And that leaves Mick against the rest of the world.

[Ghost Dog]

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My bad. Mick has the mark of Cain on his forehead for sure. He's at war with his own administration over what the direction of the team is and the team obviously have no direction. Mick is trying to manufacture an "us against the rest of the world" mentality with his players but his players couldn't care less. And that leaves Mick against the rest of the world.

I'm not so sure about that. I watched the game really carefully last night. Cameron Wood did a good job I thought and certainly put his heart into it. Curnow was massive. Was fun watching Selwood have a good sulk. They had plenty of 50 entries but don't have much of a forward line. They were wasteful, so woeful with set shots and tackles. Jones certainly tries and wants to be involved but lacks self belief.

[ledge]

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I watched and thought Simpson is a dead set goer and good mark.

[LostDoggy]

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Jones can be guaranteed 9 possies per game, must be his average surely.

[LostDoggy]

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Tutt's doing alright..

[G-Mo77]

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I watched and thought Simpson is a dead set goer and good mark.

Really underrated player.

On Jones you don't want to get burned by a player going to another club but I really feel for him. I do have a soft spot for him especially after being one of our VFL GF heroes but he is playing for Carlton and I still can't help feeling a little sorry for him and hope he does start playing good footy. What confidence he had seems completely gone. It'd take a huge job to dig himself out of this hole he's in.

I'll admit I was one who thought losing Jones would hurt us. I was waaaaay off the mark there.

[Twodogs]

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Really underrated player.

On Jones you don't want to get burned by a player going to another club but I really feel for him. I do have a soft spot for him especially after being one of our VFL GF heroes but he is playing for Carlton and I still can't help feeling a little sorry for him and hope he does start playing good footy. What confidence he had seems completely gone. It'd take a huge job to dig himself out of this hole he's in.

I'll admit I was one who thought losing Jones would hurt us. I was waaaaay off the mark there.

He will always be one of those. And one of the players who really changed the momentum of the game.

Like a few others maybe he might have been playing better footy with us this season. He would have been another player the opposition had to worry about and who might get of the leash if not manned up.

But he 3 got years on good money and that sort of security is gold to a player. Good luck to him.

[Ozza]

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Was really pleased to see Tutt go alright on Friday night. He's one of our 'exes' that I'd like to see succeed somewhat.

Poor old Jonesy....I feel nervous watching him. I don't think it would be great fun to be him on a footy field at the moment.

[Bornadog]

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Jones said it was Malthouse who convinced him to go to Carlton and he wanted to play under his coaching.

[Bulldog Joe]

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Jones said it was Malthouse who convinced him to go to Carlton and he wanted to play under his coaching.

That seems to have worked well for everyone

[Mofra]

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Jones said it was Malthouse who convinced him to go to Carlton and he wanted to play under his coaching.

Ditto Daisy Thomas. He was shattered Mick's gone by all accounts.

[LostDoggy]

Re: Liam Jones' First Outing In Carton Colours

Think a major reason Crameri came to us was Macca. He has handled his departure very well. Done some stuff on the website that makes me feel that he is happy at the kennel.

[comrade]

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Think a major reason Crameri came to us was Macca. He has handled his departure very well. Done some stuff on the website that makes me feel that he is happy at the kennel.

I reckon he'd love playing for Bevo. They all do it seems.

[jeemak]

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I reckon he'd love playing for Bevo. They all do it seems.

I don't know about that. There's probably a few players on the list that have been dropped when they probably didn't think they should have, with Crameri possibly one of them.

Not saying they don't like him (how would I know), more so they are potentially reserving their judgement until some more water goes under the bridge.

We have a lot of winnable games coming our way over the next 8 to ten rounds, games that could also see us found wanting against competitors we see in our bracket of teams. If we only manage to win a small amount of those it will be a testing time for our supporter base and probably some players who might be fighting for a spot in the team and in some cases their careers.

Interesting period of the season coming up, and it would be fantastic if we can meet it head on with a win tomorrow against a very talented and quick side, that will be around the pointy end if we climb how we all hope we will.