Player Watch #11 Luke Trainor

[Football Tragic]

Seriously, every week its just another excuse to why a player, the team - or Yze did not hit the standards we should be expecting. And you reckon i'm repetitive.

I have lost count of the amount of players i've seen dislocated a finger or thumb, get it popped back in then play on and perform. He ended up playing 80%TOG which was about the same as 90% of the players. We can't be making excuses non stop for 3 ****ing years. If his finger was causing him that much issue then they shouldn't have kept playing him. Surely by now we know not to risk a young player with an injury

How many times do you need Bojangles17 to tell you "The Standards we walk past, are the ones we accept"?

its getting mental here. We can't even say a player who got -9 rating on a game played shit anymore incase we hurt their feelings or some shit. Didn't say he was a shit player or a bust - only that his "-9" game was crap, which it was.

I think some of you should go back and watch the 2019 Prelim and remind yourself was AFL footballers look like. Graham getting openly shat on when referencing that performance is wild. There were so many other posters say he was shithouse on the weekend, yet you are all targeting me.

If you don't want the forum to just be flooded with arguments with me, then just stop replying to my opinions. im not the only one here saying he sucked

You're right - it is getting mental in here. Mental because of how quickly people are piling on a young, developing player, who had a shocker game. He had an injury affected his game but he kept playing on because we couldn't afford to have him off the field.

I agree with the statement -'The standards we ignore are the standard we accept' - which is why I'm calling out posters who believe targeting an injured young player, who had one bad game, is somehow acceptable. Call out the poor game but appreciate it was under extenuating circumstances. Just like Graham, he played because the team needed him to play, but unlike Graham, people are ignoring his injury and calling for him to be dropped or even traded.

This sort of bs has got to stop.

 

[THE_GUN]

Great game last week
Shit this week

 

[sregit]

ok so we agree, he was shit on sunday.

Glad we got there in the end

I never said his game was anything other than ordinary/bad, but your pointless rants don’t change our predicament. Are you advocating dropping him and bring in our gun - Sampson Ryan?

Just accept we need to play him regardless of his form. We need to support our youth and weed out the fringe dwellers. Ryan, Rioli, Ralphsmith, Sonsie etc. We have senior players who are at the end of their careers to be replaced. Not to mention Hopper. Ideally if a young player was struggling he’d be sent back to the VFL, however, our list and injury list does not afford us this luxury.

 

[prodigy]

Ideally if we had the cattle you could make a strong argument to give him a month or so in the VFL just to find some form and confidence

Obviously we don’t really have that luxury right now so it will be interesting how he responds

He hasn't really been out of form though... He had a poor game after dislocating his thumb. Its fine.

 

[cheo]

Once this kid matures, he will be a gun.

He already shows signs, just needed to get some seasons under his belt.

 

[Muddiemoose]

He hasn't really been out of form though... He had a poor game after dislocating his thumb. Its fine.

The game before he got dropped was terrible as well his form his fluctuated a lot this year

 

[prodigy]

What a horrific read this was.
RJK Tiger falling over himself wanting everyone to admit he had a bad game. Not realising that everyone was agreeing with him for the most part but just not wanting to torch the kid for a poor game after dislocating his thumb.

Trainor is the least of our worries. Chill out.

 

[sante]

Yeah the guy who had 10 kicks with his foot & missed the target 7 times. Cant blame a dislocated thumb for that.

Jack Graham played on with a dislocated shoulder & helped get us into a GF. Now we are cuddling shithouse performances over a dislocated thumb.

He is a young player & shit games are part of it - but lying to ourselves that he did well is achieving what exactly?

Someone’s never kicked a footy in their life

 

[prodigy]

The game before he got dropped was terrible as well his form his fluctuated a lot this year

"A lot" is a stretch.

 

[Hounddd]

What a horrific read this was.
RJK Tiger falling over himself wanting everyone to admit he had a bad game. Not realising that everyone was agreeing with him for the most part but just not wanting to torch the kid for a poor game after dislocating his thumb.

Trainor is the least of our worries. Chill out.

That clown is probably just angry, because for the last fortnight he hasn’t been able to squeal about how much better Shanahan has been than Jonty.