Strategy Bring Back Home Mattaes Phillipou

[GROTTO]

28th November 2022 Day 1: Bring back home Mattaes Phillipou

I started the Rankine thread 4 years ago in 2018 and we got him home, lets get another.

 

[All_In]

Not exactly the Big Club he was after. Definite flight risk for the Saints.

 

[CrowsB4hoes]

No thanks

 

[adelaidecrows]

End up at Port.

 

[growly]

He was a port fan, so if he did come home it will be port but I hear he is a loyal lad so thinking he will do his time at the saints and maybe come back as a free agent 8 years from now.

 

[pjcrows]

He was a port fan, so if he did come home it will be port but I hear he is a loyal lad so thinking he will do his time at the saints and maybe come back as a free agent 8 years from now.

Got the Powerball numbers?

 

[Golumless]

I mean, if there was ever a Melbourne club you wanted a SA kid to end up at...

And of course, we're starting to go on a bit of a run with attracting high end talent.

 

[FR0GGY]

Would st kilda take Laird?
He’s as close to a dwarf as you can get.

 

[Jcpdragonx]

gone, forget it

 

[Sanders]

Maybe wait until you see if he makes it at all

 

[Tex Milera]

Will end back at Port within 4 years. They will already be planning their moves to bring him home


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[ams4crows]

Big lol at "I wanna play for a Big Vic club in front of Big Crowds I'm made for that kind of stuff" ...... Ends up at the Saints who sell home games to Cairns

 

[Sanders]

What’s he meant to have done wrong to have attracted this ire??

 

[UcantCme]

The kid was a slider in not a very strong draft

Keen to see his developmental before joining in the chorus


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[Mutineer]

The kid was a slider in not a very strong draft

Keen to see his developmental before joining in the chorus


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Youngest player in the draft, born 4 days later he's in next years draft.

 

[ABAB]

Youngest player in the draft, born 4 days later he's in next years draft.

And there lies the risk with some underage slide in their draft year.

 

[CrowsB4hoes]

What’s he meant to have done wrong to have attracted this ire??

I want to see him fail because Rowey blew his chops at the Crows for not risking letting Rankine walk to keep our first round pick to draft him with.

 

[Crow till I die]

Got the Powerball numbers?

Yeah

119
2007
165
83
1997

 

[Mutineer]

I want to see him fail because Rowey blew his chops at the Crows for not risking letting Rankine walk to keep our first round pick to draft him with.

Strange reason for wanting a kid to fail...Rowley is a tool end of story.

 

[Crow till I die]

Tbh..i'll be watching hollands at GC and hoping we are right in his ear. He offers a point of difference for our midfield. To me, phillipou is more likely to land at port if he wants home down the track..port supporter and dad played there. Could be wrong but i'd be prioritising hollands if he is ever at all gettable

 

[Sanders]

Youngest player in the draft, born 4 days later he's in next years draft.

That has no bearing on what he said though

His age is public knowledge so it’s not a secret factor that would affect overall perceptions

It is a factor that might have been too much credence - too much credit in his favour or not enough credit based on forward projections. In any case that is all to be seen - which is what TSR’s point (and mine)

His young age is interesting but it’s not necessarily true that it only has one way to be interpreted

 

[King Elvis]

Disappointed we didn't get him, sounds like just what we need.

 

[CrowsB4hoes]

Strange reason for wanting a kid to fail...Rowley is a tool end of story.

I never said it was a good reason

 

[glengowan]

The Crows simply didn't rate him high enough, as they had him if they wanted him. I don't think they have rated him higher than the top dozen or so prospects next year. Time will tell if it was the right decision. By this time next year we'll have the player on our list the Crows rated higher.

 

[AFC979810]

What’s he meant to have done wrong to have attracted this ire??

Weren't there attitude questions about him?

And there lies the risk with some underage slide in their draft year.

I thought its the opposite.

For a kid to perform at that level despite being a year younger than his competition would surely be a positive?