News Mackay signs for 4 years

[AFC979810]

I've always questioned his pace and stated that I reckon he's weak-willed. I saw an example of both on the weekend in the one play and if one very good game is enough to see photo's of egg on face, then I'm going to reciprocate.

Weak willed in the Melbourne game?

 

[Red mist]

Mackay needs to be more consistant. Full stop. The haters should stop obsessing.

 

[1970crow]

Weak willed in the Melbourne game?

One of his two for the 22 game season. You know he's a cooler now? The coach has ruled a line through his elite pace and disposal wingman career. He'll be fighting with Kerridge soon enough.

Actually the thing about wet games is that it slows things down. It actually makes sense that he came into his own because you don't have to work anywhere near as hard to keep yourself in the contest. Was a great game though, I will not deny him that. Nor will I deny the fact that after chasing Murphy for about 15 metres he gave up.

 

[FR0GGY]

Nor will I deny the fact that after chasing Murphy for about 15 metres he gave up.

Atleast he chased though, thats more than most of the rest of the team did.

 

[1970crow]

Atleast he chased though, thats more than most of the rest of the team did.

You can train to chase, but you can't train them to not give up when they're in pursuit and have had enough. And let's not forget, he was cooling Murphy at the time. It was his job to keep the pressure on.

 

[Sanders]

WTF does cooling even mean?

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

It's when a player hasn't been sighted for a quarter and a half so you assume they must have been doing a job on someone

 

[Wright Away]

It's when a player hasn't been sighted for a quarter and a half so you assume they must have been doing a job on someone

Yeah and then to find the player that is being cooled you look for the player with the highest stats in that particular quarter.

 

[AFC979810]

Yeah and then to find the player that is being cooled you look for the player with the highest stats in that particular quarter.

Incorrect again.

Murphy already had 19 of his 24 disposals 10 minutes into the 3rd quarter. Thats when Mackay was moved onto him. He had 5 possessions after this and was effectively 'cooled off'.

 

[AFC979810]

One of his two for the 22 game season. You know he's a cooler now? The coach has ruled a line through his elite pace and disposal wingman career. He'll be fighting with Kerridge soon enough.

One of his brilliant games out of 4.

Actually the thing about wet games is that it slows things down. It actually makes sense that he came into his own because you don't have to work anywhere near as hard to keep yourself in the contest. Was a great game though, I will not deny him that. Nor will I deny the fact that after chasing Murphy for about 15 metres he gave up.

Lets see how he goes on Sunday. I think he will go to Pittard and 'cool' him.

 

[AFC979810]

WTF does cooling even mean?

It means tagging. But you can't say tagging anymore because everyone knows good teams don't tag.

 

[AFC979810]

It's when a player hasn't been sighted for a quarter and a half so you assume they must have been doing a job on someone

So you think Phil Walsh was lying in his press conference to protect Mackay?

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

So you think Phil Walsh was lying in his press conference to protect Mackay?

To a degree

In general coaches are always going to be supportive of their players, especially when their form/place in the team is under question. As they should.

I think the reasoning is that after two and a half quarters we may as well put him on someone because he's giving us stuff all, so we're not losing anything

As it was he slightly 'cooled' Murphy after the game was completely over and the Bulldogs were cruising to the line.

More Melbourne game please D Mac

 

[AFC979810]

To a degree

In general coaches are always going to be supportive of their players, especially when their form/place in the team is under question. As they should.

Fair enough. But it seems to me he has come out and spoken glowingly about Mackay. Massive praise after the Melbourne game (and said he liked him in the Collingwood game). Then in the press conference noted how he was effective in stopping Bob Murphy.

I don't think that in general Mackays position is under scrutiny from the media. Plenty of other more important cogs to worry about and plenty of other players who had absolute howlers (Hartigan).

I think Walsh genuinely likes what Mackay provides. Think he has given up on that dashing 2009 full time wingman. Instead he looks to use him as a small rebounding defender. He is in the group with Smith, Hendo and Jaensch and I think the combination of them have worked really well in 3/4 of our games this year.

I think the reasoning is that after two and a half quarters we may as well put him on someone because he's giving us stuff all, so we're not losing anything

As it was he slightly 'cooled' Murphy after the game was completely over and the Bulldogs were cruising to the line.

More Melbourne game please D Mac

Thats a fair assessment. But he certainly wasn't alone against the Doggies. Looking forward to seeing him hopefully blanket Pittard on Sunday.

 

[Mike Smyth]

Incorrect again.

Murphy already had 19 of his 24 disposals 10 minutes into the 3rd quarter. Thats when Mackay was moved onto him. He had 5 possessions after this and was effectively 'cooled off'.

So we gave a tagger a generous 4 year contract? Brilliant.

We must have alot of taggers.

I don't doubt Dave McKay isn't giving a 110% he's just not very good. If he was in my industry, IT, he would be hidden away in the special projects team until his contract expires.

 

[1970crow]

Given Roo said DMack needed to lift, I think even if Walsh was unhappy with DMack he wouldn't publicly bag him. Haven't heard him say one negative word about our players yet, don't think that's part of the plan. Keep it all in house.

Coaches don't publicly bag players, it simply doesn't happen. We all starkly remember Blights 'pathetic' comment directed at Pittman. Even then he had to re-explain it as being directed at the team as a whole for thinking that type of ruck performance was acceptable. It's the AFL, players don't get dropped because they're going poorly. They go to the 2's for positive reasons, to work on certain aspects of their game and they'll be back soon bigger and better.

 

[Elite Crow]

Coaches don't publicly bag players, it simply doesn't happen. We all starkly remember Blights 'pathetic' comment directed at Pittman. Even then he had to re-explain it as being directed at the team as a whole for thinking that type of ruck performance was acceptable. It's the AFL, players don't get dropped because they're going poorly. They go to the 2's for positive reasons, to work on certain aspects of their game and they'll be back soon bigger and better.

Walsh said yesterday he won't criticise individual players, we win as a team we lose as a team. So when he praises DMack we know it's code for "* we have him for four more years"

 

[1970crow]

Walsh said yesterday he won't criticise individual players, we win as a team we lose as a team. So when he praises DMack we know it's code for "**** we have him for four more years"

What's going to happen when Kerridge returns and VB needs to return to cooling because he's failed at getting his own ball. How many coolers do we need.

 

[CrowinNT]

How many coolers do we need.

Depends on how many beer drinkers there are. !

 

[AFC979810]

What's going to happen when Kerridge returns and VB needs to return to cooling because he's failed at getting his own ball. How many coolers do we need.

We bring in Martin?

 

[skoobydoo]

I think this new label is just so cool.

 

[AFC979810]

So when he praises DMack we know it's code for "**** we have him for four more years"

Interesting. I am not so sure he was thinking that when he publicly praised him after the Melbourne game. But i guess you see what you want to.

 

[1970crow]

Interesting. I am not so sure he was thinking that when he publicly praised him after the Melbourne game. But i guess you see what you want to.

We all praised him after the Melbourne game, it was a non-unpraisable game. You must be a little surprised that so soon after that performance we find him cooling. He has elite pace and disposal and we've got him racking up zero touches cooling. You know you've lost the last resort of Dmac selection rationale, "who's going to provide his trademark run and carry". It's off the table, he's doing Robert Shirley's old job. No run and carry required.

 

[AFC979810]

We all praised him after the Melbourne game, it was a non-unpraisable game. You must be a little surprised that so soon after that performance we find him cooling. He has elite pace and disposal and we've got him racking up zero touches cooling. You know you've lost the last resort of Dmac selection rationale, "who's going to provide his trademark run and carry". It's off the table, he's doing Robert Shirley's old job. No run and carry required.

Not really. Game was already gone when we switched him. Sure he didn't have a good game leading up to that, but neither did 18 of our 22.

 

[Elite Crow]

Interesting. I am not so sure he was thinking that when he publicly praised him after the Melbourne game. But i guess you see what you want to.

I wonder how long you will be hanging your hat on the Melbourne game? I'm betting you might see another 2 games from DMack for the year that might go close.