Traded #32: Travis Colyer - traded to Freo for future 4th rounder

[Rack Watts]

Im not a huge fan

That's not what I hear ^_^

 

[Autobahn]

How do you even get picked up as an AFL player without possessing one of the most fundamental skills required to play football?

Sack Dodoro, or someone.

 

[Dolner]

I feel like given a free run at it Dalgleish has the goods to play the role they want Colyer to. Fast, skillful, reads it well. Haven't seen enough of him to see if he's got stamina

 

[Ashton Agar]

How do you even get picked up as an AFL player without possessing one of the most fundamental skills required to play football?

Sack Dodoro, or someone.

Lol no. Dodoro has been a fantastic recruiter in recent times.

 

[Rack Watts]

Lol no. Dodoro has been a fantastic recruiter in recent times.

Think he was joking >_>

 

[dnbassador]

I absolutely hate putting Essendon players on a pedestal and bagging them, but Colyer is seriously not AFL standard. He kicks like he plays for Yarraville-Seddon U12s.

co sign some tough calls need to be made on a few players

I'm one of his biggest defenders but even I can't defend that. Horrible

Sorry mate but Cale Hooker is the Biggest Defender right now! mans on fire!

 

[Autobahn]

Lol no. Dodoro has been a fantastic recruiter in recent times.

Ha! Just pulling ya leg. Sack Dodoro just rolls off the tongue beautifully.

 

[Keystone agony]

Not only his kicking but his ball handling. Fumbles twice as much as Alwyn Davey. Better off playing a kid. But hes depth at best and only played coz we had 8 or so best 22 players missing today.

 

[srobbo]

Out: Colyer
In: Z.Merret

??

Love to see the Zee man get another trundle v saints...no vest either!

 

[bacon buster]

Certain to be delisted, if out of contract, surely?

Kicking hasn't improved in 5 years.

 

[eth-dog]

Certain to be delisted, if out of contract, surely?

Kicking hasn't improved in 5 years.

re-signed for 2 years last year.

 

[bacon buster]

Bugger. He'd have no trade value whatsoever either.

 

[Ashton Agar]

Bugger. He'd have no trade value whatsoever either.

Melbourne were into him last year.

 

[Ben the Gooner]

Bugger. He'd have no trade value whatsoever either.

Well that's just patently untrue.

 

[Kakkle]

Bugger. He'd have no trade value whatsoever either.

I think he would actually. Not much. But clubs would be interested.

 

[Runk]

Well that's just patently untrue.

He's worth at least a goat. Maybe even two sheep, but I don't want to price him out of the market.

 

[Ben the Gooner]

He's worth more than what the requisite trade for a 3 year deal was from Melbourne, given we knocked it back.

 

[bacon buster]

Well that's just patently untrue.

I suppose clubs can give up more than what a player is worth, so I guess you're right.

I don't think he's AFL standard so I can't see how he'd be worth anything. If Melbourne want to make another bad trade, I wouldn't stop them though.

 

[Ben the Gooner]

Shane Savage, Luke Delaney and Beau Maister will all play against us on Saturday night. Trav is comfortably AFL standard.

 

[BrunoV]

Still think that the focus on Trav's kicking is exaggerated and tends to miss the point.

Biggest concern is physicality. For a speedy little nugget he gets thrown off the ball like an even smaller guy and he doesn't anywhere near apply enough ground level pressure.

Second biggest issue is that for someone with his running capacity he doesn't impact anywhere near enough contests at AFL level. He should be getting the ball 20 times a game even if it is just as a handball link in a chain but he can struggle and turns in sub 10 possession performances in full games of footy.

Think that his kicking is linked with and/or grows out of the second point and that if he was getting his hands on a ball it would remove the confidence element from his kicking (which probably is not more ineffective than some others it is just that we he gets it wrong, he gets it really wrong - but it is still just 1 ineffective kick no matter how much a target is missed by).

 

[Beerfish]

Still think that the focus on Trav's kicking is exaggerated and tends to miss the point.

Unlike Trav's kicking which just tends to miss mirite?

Sorry couldn't resist.

 

[lamaros]

I hope Melbourne doubles down.

 

[The Dustbin]

Still think that the focus on Trav's kicking is exaggerated and tends to miss the point.

Biggest concern is physicality. For a speedy little nugget he gets thrown off the ball like an even smaller guy and he doesn't anywhere near apply enough ground level pressure.

Second biggest issue is that for someone with his running capacity he doesn't impact anywhere near enough contests at AFL level. He should be getting the ball 20 times a game even if it is just as a handball link in a chain but he can struggle and turns in sub 10 possession performances in full games of footy.

Think that his kicking is linked with and/or grows out of the second point and that if he was getting his hands on a ball it would remove the confidence element from his kicking (which probably is not more ineffective than some others it is just that we he gets it wrong, he gets it really wrong - but it is still just 1 ineffective kick no matter how much a target is missed by).

The only time Coyler has had an impact with his superior running capacity, is when he came on as a sub last year. Maybe the other players were just exhausted?

He should be the ultimate run-and-carry, break the lines/link midfielder as mentioned by you.

 

[eth-dog]

The only time Coyler has had an impact with his superior running capacity, is when he came on as a sub last year. Maybe the other players were just exhausted?

He should be the ultimate run-and-carry, break the lines/link midfielder as mentioned by you.

What about the time he basically won a game off his own boot against Port in Hird's first year?

 

[The Dustbin]

Fair call. My point is that apart from that port game and GWS last year, he has more of an impact as a sub.