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Isn't it because the list management hasn't managed key defensive stocks well enough?
Past #23: Ben McKay - gone to * as RFA - NMFC awarded Band 1 pick #3 compo
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Halleluia!!!!
there's a reason we was playing with the gulls in defense when he left the gippsland power, again he had a good year there.
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There's nothing wrong with Ben, he just made way because the moron in charge had to completely rejig his game plan.
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His twin brother can't kick either. Had 4.3 from 20 touches, 11 marks 5 of them contested. Not a great set shot though, Carlton should play him full back
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Carltons forward stocks are barer than ours, they don't have a frosty miller medalist running round in the magoos and Casboult is hardly the webster dictionary definition of accurate. ( today withstanding).
Do people realise that just because he has a twin brother it doesn't mean that they play in identical ways and have identical physical attributes?
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Yes Spider. But given Ben Brown needs help, Larkey weighs 30kg dripping wet, and we have a lump of a kid whose twin is lighting it up forward, I dunno didn't think it was too much of a stretch to suggest that maybe, I dunno, we could trial Ben McKay forward. Ridiculous notion I know.
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its all good, i suspected that, but seriously, the best thing about BBB is that he goes generally 78% plus so given that efficiency he dont need to clunk as many, and yes i agree, the co stars in the script are pretty minimal atm.
EDIT, come to think of it, could prolly do a lot worse than giving zurhaar a run down fwd, he can snag a goal, is pretty big and would make defenders nervous, but that would place JZ in the wilderness because we would need some tall, short balance,
What does anything this have to do with his brother, totally irrelevant to the conversation.
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At this point in time I’d like to see him spend some time in the forward line
Let’s see if he has something , nothing to lose
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Let’s see if he has something , nothing to lose
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After he towels up his brother in 2 weeks time. Might be the only thing we have to look forward to in a while: McKay vs McKay!
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Don’t care where he plays I just want us to see us pump games into him.
Same goes for Durdin once he is fit. Back them in and reap the benefits ina. Few years time once they physically mature.
Same goes for Durdin once he is fit. Back them in and reap the benefits ina. Few years time once they physically mature.
Ben plays down back because the tail wags the dog at Arden Street.
Ben is comfortable and in his happy place at FB... Bard doesn't want to upset his serenity...
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Ben is comfortable and in his happy place at FB... Bard doesn't want to upset his serenity...
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I have been saying this from half way through last season. They moved Majak from attack to defence why can't they do the opposite with McKay.
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It’s ******* crazy playing a bloke in defence to learn the game instead of just playing him as a forward. I can’t think of any Coleman medalists who have ever played in the backline.
not to many either that cant seal a set shot.
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Johnny Longmire played a year in the backline and went on to win a Coleman soon after...but have to agree that young McKay is just too tall and slow to be a kpd.
I posted after the Freo game that he moves like a second ruckman who can pinch hit playing forward. He can take a mark so that is his strength. He should be working on his leap, timing for marks and general kicking skills. He should have been tried in the ruck (and spent months with the ruck coach training for this) as part of his general development.
If the rumours are true that he has told the club he only wants to play as a defender then that is just extraordinary and tells us where the club is at if we have agreed to this.
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I'm sure you'll agree that when Daniel Motlop was going out with Wanganeens cousin, it was hard not to get excited.
Our wonderful coaching team took 8 years to work out that Maj was a backman and not a forward. Blind Freddy could see it 5 years ago.
I just don’t think McKay will get the 8 years grace that Maj was afforded.
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