VFL Past #65: Shaun McKernan šŸ“ - Returns to the Dons

RearNaked

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TEAM MIR!!!!!!!!!
Feel like we should just move this to the past player's thread worse league footballer I've seen since steinberg and on par with Courtney johns too
 

DHepp21

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Delist. Let's face it, he's not up to AFL standard. He'a a horrible decision maker and he has average skills.
 

scanlon

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Hope we bring in Michael for him next week. I think theres a lot of potential for him
 

BrunoV

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His skills are up to it but he just doesn't try hard enough


It's extraordinary for a guy who is playing for his career.

The intensity that was such a feature of his 2015 has disappeared.

It's so disappointing. He has a lot more to work with than Mitch Brown, for example, but he doesn't apply himself.
 

Thebisc

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Might be suffering from the Malthouse theory of spending too much time in the VFL and that standard has become his limit. Showed glimpses last year but has been putrid this year. Has to go...
 

Paul_Barnard

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Recruiters should have read the thread on the Adelaide board before picking him up.

I'm sure they all said the same thing.

Saved me from writing an essay. 100% agree.
The inconsistencies we are seeing are exactly the same issues the Crows complained of.
Watch him get dropped this week and be the best on ground by a country mile in the VFL..
Very frustrating..
 

Paul_Barnard

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He's a confidence player, and right now he is playing almost completely devoid of it.

Great shame.

I think its more aggression rather than confidence with Smack..
If he has something to prove, which then encourages him to play with a chip on his shoulder type aggression he is very capable.
His form has almost seemed to deteriorate the longer he has spent in the senior side..
 
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I think its more aggression rather than confidence with Smack..
If he has something to prove, which then encourages him to play aggressively with a chip on his shoulder he is very capable.
His form has almost seemed to deteriorate the longer he has spent in the senior side..

The old too good for VFL but not quite good enough for AFL.
 
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