Past #23: Ben McKay - gone to * as RFA - NMFC awarded Band 1 pick #3 compo

Looks imposing

Like the photo of Michael Hurley from the preseason where they all got on the gear imposing

Side note does anyone remember the thread where Bomber fans posted about how sick and grouse and large their players looked with the aforementioned Hurley photo front and centre

Then it later came out they'd been banging up the whole time and it was actually PED enhanced

The internet is so good
 
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Will Brad select him to play AFL this year? I honestly can’t see him making the move and I reckon another year in the VFL and he will be looking elsewhere

And where does he play or who does he replace?
 

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Will Brad select him to play AFL this year? I honestly can’t see him making the move and I reckon another year in the VFL and he will be looking elsewhere

And where does he play or who does he replace?
If he's good enough he'll play and he'll take his chance when it comes.

Over the 10 years that Scott has been coach generally players who don't get a game are no good.

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Three letters.

CHF.
 

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I would play him at CHF also

Between Tarrant, Daw and EVW we can handle the opposition forwards
Does he have the tank for the modern CHF? Doesn't look slim enough, must be edging 100 kegs now. That's a lot to be lugging around. I'd prefer to position him deep and have him and brown twin prong at FF. Waite had just enough run in him to do the yards up the field. That's OK though.
 

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If he's good enough he'll play and he'll take his chance when it comes.

Over the 10 years that Scott has been coach generally players who don't get a game are no good.

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The great thing about AFL coaching is that you can seriously undermine a young player's development and even bury his career by refusing to give him a game in an underperforming team because you don't believe in him and you can never be proven wrong.
 
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Play him in backline in place of daw.

The question you have to ask between him and daw is what they’ll bring to each part of the ground.
Think there wouldn’t be much of a difference in ability in the backline but think daw would be much better than McKay up forward.
 

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The great thing about AFL coaching is that you can seriously undermine a young player's development and even bury his career by refusing to give him a game in an underperforming team because you don't believe in him and you can never be proven wrong.

There’s generally reasons why a coach doesn’t believe in a player.
 
McKay is a pack busting, contested mark beast.

He's everything we need, now and in 5 years too.

Just make it happen.

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The great thing about AFL coaching is that you can seriously undermine a young player's development and even bury his career by refusing to give him a game in an underperforming team because you don't believe in him and you can never be proven wrong.

Yeah you can. Personally I think that's why BS and the match committee are 'slow' to drop players, unlike the gung-ho brigade on big footy who would take them out and shoot them for being 's**t.'
 

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Of all the bizarre thing on this board, i think the strangest is this obsession with playing forwards back and backs forward. Like Daw, he’s showed his best in defence and no demonstrable ability as a forward, yet that seems to be the cue for many posters to suggest the opposite.

Scotty T at full forward in 2019, anyone?
 
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Of all the bizarre thing on this board, i think the strangest is this obsession with playing forwards back and backs forward. Like Daw, he’s showed his best in defence and no demonstrable ability as a forward, yet that seems to be the cue for many posters to suggest the opposite.

Scotty T at full forward in 2019, anyone?
Hmmm, Scotty’s kicking has improved. :think:
 
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Of all the bizarre thing on this board, i think the strangest is this obsession with playing forwards back and backs forward. Like Daw, he’s showed his best in defence and no demonstrable ability as a forward, yet that seems to be the cue for many posters to suggest the opposite.

Scotty T at full forward in 2019, anyone?

In about 6 quarters over 2 games he kicked 8 goals - he has forward ability.
If brown is getting mauled early in the season - daw should go forward
 
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Play him in backline in place of daw.

The question you have to ask between him and daw is what they’ll bring to each part of the ground.
Think there wouldn’t be much of a difference in ability in the backline but think daw would be much better than McKay up forward.

I don’t mind the idea of playing both.

One up forward, one down back.

Gives a bit of flexibility because they can both play either end. The coaches can swap them during a game without losing structure
 
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In about 6 quarters over 2 games he kicked 8 goals - he has forward ability.
If brown is getting mauled early in the season - daw should go forward
Yep...played very well forward with limited opportunities to do so.
We should not be writing off his forward abilities.
 
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I don’t mind the idea of playing both.

One up forward, one down back.

Gives a bit of flexibility because they can both play either end. The coaches can swap them during a game without losing structure


They could switch about without any real imbalance in structure.

Majak has a touch more X factor & that's why I would throw him forward.
 
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I don’t mind the idea of playing both.

One up forward, one down back.

Gives a bit of flexibility because they can both play either end. The coaches can swap them during a game without losing structure

They could switch about without any real imbalance in structure.

Majak has a touch more X factor & that's why I would throw him forward.

It’s what other teams have over us - flexibility to move their players around.
Our strength is our KPPs and we should use this to mix it up if we can.
 

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Will Brad select him to play AFL this year? I honestly can’t see him making the move and I reckon another year in the VFL and he will be looking elsewhere

And where does he play or who does he replace?
Here is the problem. He's not even been the best forward in his VFL team, and not better than those ahead of him in the seniors. As a defender, is he better than a returning EVW or is he even better as a defender than durds?

We have problems at small forward, not huge ass forward.

That said, if he had a tank then there are lots of potential spots he could play... At the end of the day you are not getting a gig in this 2019 team for just doing OK in the VFL. You have to make a huge statement in the VFL.

If he's thinking of leaving, I'd suggest that he needs to have someone that wants him first. There are a lot of VFL players without AFL experience, and only a tiny amount get picked up by non-affiliate teams. There might be some other teams with less KP player depth. Who knows.
 
Looks imposing

Like the photo of Michael Hurley from the preseason where they all got on the gear imposing

Side note does anyone remember the thread where Bomber fans posted about how sick and grouse and large their players looked with the aforementioned Hurley photo front and centre

Then it later came out they'd been banging up the whole time and it was actually PED enhanced

The internet is so good

"Weaponised"
 
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