Apex36
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Everyone loves an underdog Dave, and this bloke is the very definition of one.
Bumped Brenden Abbott
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Agree it was a punt worth taking. Just don't agree with the sacking of guys like now Shaw though.Brenden Abbott epitomises what the rookie draft is all about ...
... taking a highly speculative punt on a player who - through lack of opportunity or other mitigating factors - isn't AFL ready, but has shown enough that he might become so if given an opportunity to train in an AFL system.
Everybody loves a good fairy tale, and we all hope Brenden Abbott becomes one
How are Abbot and Shaw's circumstances even remotely similar?
jmac70
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Your like a dog with a bone. Give the kid a chance FFS and stop giving us all the shits.
The Mad Monk will be a good'un. I am so confident I will rest easy on this one.
Bring_Back_Brad
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This guy will be best 22 without a doubt.
Just needs the tank and the experience in an elite system.
He's an animal.
Just needs the tank and the experience in an elite system.
He's an animal.
Agree, its going to be great to see what a professional organisation like our great club can turn him into.
ladderleader
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Not sure why his highlights remind me of Martin Pike
Copeland
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Jeez I hope you're right mate, but he was picked up where he was for reason.
76woodenspooners
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Brenden Abbott, pick 26, 2014 rookie draft
Sam Dwyer, pick 27, 2013 rookie draft, 34 games (and counting)
Marley Williams, pick 35, 2012 rookie draft, 37 games (and counting)
Jack Frost, pick 41, 2013 rookie draft, 24 games (and counting)
Copeland
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I acknowledge that, and I also know there were 14 promoted rookies paying in the 2010 GF. But it would surely be a fact that a rookie has less chance of making it than someone picked in the earlier draft. Look I want these big hard cnuts to make it too, but the chances are less that they will.
wicksy
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To be fair, I've never seen him hold back though.
You've never seen him skirt packs??
It's his signature move, along with running the ball after being spoon fed, then kicking blindly generally towards the opposition's best intercept mark.
wicksy
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He's no Didak.... Put it that way.
He'll go when he needs to....
Disposal is another story.
Might be brave but his body doesn't allow him to be any good.
wicksy
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EFA
johncitizen
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Like his bio here.
Brenden abbott
@BrendenAbbott
In a world where everyone is exposed, the best thing one can do is maintain there mystery. Just a young man with the world at his feet, I'm coming for you...
Melbourne · twitter.com/brendenabbott
Brenden abbott
@BrendenAbbott
In a world where everyone is exposed, the best thing one can do is maintain there mystery. Just a young man with the world at his feet, I'm coming for you...
Melbourne · twitter.com/brendenabbott
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Surely someone should let him know about this one.
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Their's bound to be someone that will.
TradeDraft
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He was just walking Laps today with Caff
wicksy
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Up, down, front and back side.
wicksy
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How do you know?
TradeDraft
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I was at Training this Morning
TradeDraft
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How was Coxy, is he still going to win a brownlow?
