Past #50: Ben Brown - Traded to Melbourne with 2020 #28 + 2021 R4 for 2020 #26 #33 + 2021 R4(Bris) - 130 gms / 287 gls - thanks Ben

[LuvtheKangas]

Not good from Browny tonight, but I really wish Curtis let him take that late mark.

 

[The Nostradamus]

Physically weakest key forward in the game atm?

 

[tazaa]

Bitterly disappointing.
Time and time again outbodied by McEvoy ffs

He’s officially in a form slump and opposition defences have figured him out.

He needs to work on his core. The shorter quarters have worked against him as his endurance is ineffectual now basically

 

[hellas_johnny]

get some meat into you browny. Sick of players going vegan and losing their quality.

 

[Go_Roos!]

Can someone buy this bloke a decent steak dinner? He is turning into a caricature of his old self

 

[gokangas]

BBB will get back to form. He is number one target for the opposition now so we also have to learn how to open up the game to suit him. Terrible tonight but not sure the rest of the team did anything to help.

 

[Dan]

He got s**t service tonight.

Not his fault.

 

[Reagan Smash]

Service was abysmal, but he needs to be harder than a limp pice of celery.

 

[Snake_Baker]

Terrible delivery and 2-3 outed all night in an orchestrated assault.

Could have easily received 8 free kicks, he got 1.

 

[showusyacunningt]

He gets a rough deal no doubt, but he's got to hold his space. Some of his efforts tonight were piss weak. He's almost a distraction and detrimental for the team at this stage. Tough to talk this way about a guy who's kicked 200 goals over the last 4 seasons.

I'm curious at what we'd look like and how we'd function without him.

 

[LB2Snake]

Terrible delivery and 2-3 outed all night in an orchestrated assault.

Could have easily received 8 free kicks, he got 1.

He’s never gunna get those frees though mate if he’s note on the move. When BBB ain’t moving it’s easy to block him and get in his way.

 

[big_e]

Outsmarted today, I thought.

Had no space, outnumbered and we kept bombing it in there anyway. Having Larkey would have helped, The Bull had a stinker, too.

Needs to be stronger in the contest, too. Got some genuine shoves but some others weren't that hard.

Still one of our most important players, but need him to fire up next week.

 

[tazaa]

Imagine the disrespect that Clarko plotted to send McEvoy to Brown at FB.
And it worked. Not worked but McEvoy gave him a bath.
* me

 

[Devil Fish]

3 years ago, Browns biggest deficiency was being too easily bumped off his line or being bumped under the ball.
Today, Browns biggest deficiency is - see above.

Very disappointed that the issue has not been addressed. Very disappointed.

 

[Horizons_00]

Triple teamed all day
Some of the worst inside 50s I have seen in a long time
He is missing Larkey

Brown is our superstar. I don’t think it’s fair with the pitch forks out

 

[Roosurgence]

He got sh*t service tonight.

Not his fault.

The service was disgusting, but FFS sometimes you just need to grit the teeth and compete. Tonight I thought he waved the white flag on a few occasions and was more interested in trying to draw a free than win the contest.

He is too good a player to be down for too long, but he needs to start bridging the gap between his best and worst, because when he is bad, he can be horrible. He needs to channel a bit of Drew Petrie, because as bad as he got on some occasions, you could still see him busting his arse to do something, even if it was a block to help his teamate.

 

[TennisPlayerAndy]

The weakest 100kg bloke in the game.

 

[Snake_Baker]

Clarkson had a plan and it worked.

 

[the flying ham]

s**t service. And his partner in crime was a 1st gamer who led to the same spots. Needs Larkey or even Majak to split the defenders and get him one on one.

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[scottywiper]

Way too early to write him off.
His last two years have been fantastic and he usually plays to his strengths.
However I thought by now he would have added the strength to hold his ground in marking contests and stand one on one with an opponent, but it hasn't really happened and he still relies on an unimpeded run at ball.

 

[Snake_Baker]

However I thought by now he would have added the strength to hold his ground in marking contests and stand one on one with an opponent, but it hasn't really happened and he still relies on an unimpeded run at ball.

He had Ben McEvoy pushing him around mate.

 

[GarnerSmash]

get some meat into you browny. Sick of players going vegan and losing their quality.

Vegan for all of 2018 and 2019, with 61 and 64 goals in each if those seasons.

I assume he as an 80+ goal kicker prior to that?

 

[GarnerSmash]

Slow ball movement, and high bombing to Brown is not a recipe for success. He has a high centre of gravity so is more easily pushed off the ball than other players his size and is at his best when its out in front. We all know this.

 

[Pykie]

Outnumbered, triple teamed, s**t service, s**t delivery, killed by the umpires... cry me a river.

All of you please watch the game again.

He got his hands to at least 6-7 contests, with a variety of one handed attempts, flailed arms and running under the ball drop completely. He got bodied out of half a dozen more, quite fairly.

He would of never kicked a ******* goal in the 90's if all it takes to make him completely invisible is a little body contact.

Carey and McKernan got legitimately bear hugged for most of their careers..

He doesn't fight hard enough to regain position once he loses it and a forward shouldn't need silver service to be effective, he needs it on a platter at the moment, which is bullshit.

Some people are saying not strong enough, but I'll happily say it, he's ******* soft at the moment.

He's just not hard and aggressive enough at the moment.


Absolutely fuming with his 2020 to date.

My biggest fear is he actually isn't out of form but oppo coaches have completely figured him out.

He needs to lift just as much as Ziebell at the moment.

 

[Aberration]

Think it all comes down to the ball movement. When we moved it quickly, he looked a lot better and was able to get out on the lead. Bombing it down the line on his head does him no favors, the Hawks defenders set up for it and bodied him off the line of the ball.

He put 5m on Frawley when Marley won a hard ball at half back and went straight down the middle to Jed (who got a resulting 50m penalty) and again late in the game when he and Curtis raffled one.

Didn't like the one handed efforts though, needs to offer a bit more presence in the air and back himself to clunk a few grabs, rather than just bring it to ground.