VFL Past #65: Shaun McKernan 🐴 - Returns to the Dons

[ant555]

Obviously it's all relative. If he came down to my local club he'd walk straight into the ones as a ruckman and dominate, but he's crap at AFL level. It's as simple as that.

Yes but it is a rubbish Bigfooty hero way to say it.It is as simple as that.
How hard is it to say good VFL or Metro ruck. Not up to AFL level ?

 

[DERO]

He certainly wasn't s**t on the weekend! In fact, I'll go as far as saying that he played better than Josh Green!

 

[Lore]

He certainly wasn't s**t on the weekend! In fact, I'll go as far as saying that he played better than Josh Green!

 

[DERO]

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THAT'S RIGHT SISTER, BETTER THAN JOSH GREEN!

 

[Howard Moon]

Eth pushing s**t up hill here , and no reverse gear

 

[Mad Bomber Sean]

. Pick draper as the #1.

Draper? Not sure if serious.

This isn’t playschool. We actually have need players that can win the ball & impact the contest.

 

[yodellinhank]

Draper? Not sure if serious.

This isn’t playschool. We actually have need players that can win the ball & impact the contest.

Its ok we can discuss it after you've seen him play.

 

[Howard Moon]

He's only good on clay

 

[yodellinhank]

He's only good on clay

I get suckered in by the novelty of things like a left handed player, it is true.

 

[Mad Bomber Sean]

Its ok we can discuss it after you've seen him play.

Ok what ever mate.

Drapers a long way from no 1 ruck.
IF he ever makes it to no 1 he will need to leap frog Belly & over take Leuy’s replacement who will be recruited specifically and ideally be elite.

 

[yodellinhank]

Ok what ever mate.

Drapers a long way from no 1 ruck.
IF he ever makes it to no 1 he will need to leap frog Belly & over take Leuy’s replacement who will be recruited specifically and ideally be elite.

No need to leap frog, he just needs to jump well enough to get first hands on it.

 

[Liberator]

Shouldn’t he be called ‘Shamck’, rather than ‘Smack’?

I have this dream, some might say a nightmare vision, of Smack walking to the podium on his rubber ankles to collect a premiers medal... Josh Green is in the background bouncing up and down like a ginger bonobo in a ‘feminist’ cap .... later they array all 22 medals along the capacious real estate of Shamck’s neck. I should stop eating so much cheese.

 

[fairbump_playon]

A crap footballer does not have games where he is one of the top 3 dominant players on the field. He has done this numerous times in both the AFL and the VFL and even the mickey mouse of a game AFLX. His issue is confidence and focus, not talent and certainly not athletic ability.
A crap footballer doesn't last as long as he does in this league with many people vastly more qualified in their opinion then a casual fan giving him chances to string together consistently the good form he has shown he is capable of.
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Loving this thread. Too many corners of the bigfooty bomberverse are full of 300 straight posts about how Aaron Francis is a gun but needs to get fitter. I feel like in Smack we have found a spark, something important to disagree about.. that perfect dividing line between the glass being half full and almost entirely empty.

Like the drug itself, Smack has a long history of delivering brief but super intense highs followed by shaky, listless periods followed by begging for another shot at it.

They say intermittent reinforcement is the strongest kind. The list team gets bored of steady mediocrity (Jackson Merrett excluded) but they can't ever really give up the Smack.

And why would you? I love him. Totally agree with Mercurial89. He's such a weird unit. It's not ability - it's belief. There's hope. Smack really could click and in fact may have already.

Team improvement needs to come from somewhere. Win a ******* final. Bah. Screw the incremental approach. Imagine a year that involved us getting something massive out of someone unexpected. It's not going to be Aaron Francis. It's not going to be Jayden Laverde.

Smack, Stewart, Daniher forward. Hooker back. Yes please.

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. Everyone go out and buy a Smack bumper sticker and poster for the office. Let's make this guy a star.

 

[Ambrosia]

Funny thing is Mckerban would quite easily be the second best KPF on Richmond's list .

Makes you think that even though he was a spud they'd be fairly annoyed at Griffiths leaving .

 

[CBombers17]

Loving this thread. Too many corners of the bigfooty bomberverse are full of 300 straight posts about how Aaron Francis is a gun but needs to get fitter. I feel like in Smack we have found a spark, something important to disagree about.. that perfect dividing line between the glass being half full and almost entirely empty.

Like the drug itself, Smack has a long history of delivering brief but super intense highs followed by shaky, listless periods followed by begging for another shot at it.

They say intermittent reinforcement is the strongest kind. The list team gets bored of steady mediocrity (Jackson Merrett excluded) but they can't ever really give up the Smack.

And why would you? I love him. Totally agree with Mercurial89. He's such a weird unit. It's not ability - it's belief. There's hope. Smack really could click and in fact may have already.

Team improvement needs to come from somewhere. Win a ******* final. Bah. Screw the incremental approach. Imagine a year that involved us getting something massive out of someone unexpected. It's not going to be Aaron Francis. It's not going to be Jayden Laverde.

Smack, Stewart, Daniher forward. Hooker back. Yes please.

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. Everyone go out and buy a Smack bumper sticker and poster for the office. Let's make this guy a star.

Smack bumper sticker ideas - "Nick Nat Paddy wack hit them up with Smack"

 

[ezard15]

I have heard he's been keeping a diary about his incredible ability to survive being delisted.

Apparently he's going to call it "The diary of a young guy" given the remarkable similarity the story of Anne Frank.

It will have a different ending when he storms out of hiding in the VFL and destroys the competition this year.

 

[Liberator]

Loving this thread. Too many corners of the bigfooty bomberverse are full of 300 straight posts about how Aaron Francis is a gun but needs to get fitter. I feel like in Smack we have found a spark, something important to disagree about.. that perfect dividing line between the glass being half full and almost entirely empty.

Like the drug itself, Smack has a long history of delivering brief but super intense highs followed by shaky, listless periods followed by begging for another shot at it.

They say intermittent reinforcement is the strongest kind. The list team gets bored of steady mediocrity (Jackson Merrett excluded) but they can't ever really give up the Smack.

And why would you? I love him. Totally agree with Mercurial89. He's such a weird unit. It's not ability - it's belief. There's hope. Smack really could click and in fact may have already.

Team improvement needs to come from somewhere. Win a ******* final. Bah. Screw the incremental approach. Imagine a year that involved us getting something massive out of someone unexpected. It's not going to be Aaron Francis. It's not going to be Jayden Laverde.

Smack, Stewart, Daniher forward. Hooker back. Yes please.

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. Everyone go out and buy a Smack bumper sticker and poster for the office. Let's make this guy a star.

Good post! May it all weirdly come true. Solid Hunter S. Thompson quote too, I kind of feel that Smack might be the type of unmentionably weird apparition that might stalk your ether nightmares...

 

[Howard Moon]

Out of all the guys at our club, he's the one I'd least like to be tackled by... Jeez he takes no prisoners, hits hard

 

[JayJ20]

He also gives away too many frees

This does it for me. McKernan has teased his whole career. He can take that step, but never ends up doing it consistently.

He gives way too many game changing free kicks away.

 

[JayJ20]

Out of all the guys at our club, he's the one I'd least like to be tackled by... Jeez he takes no prisoners, hits hard

I don't know about that

 

[Howard Moon]

I'm not saying his long neck is an issue, but the other day he had a glass of milk and it expired half way down.

Gastro is not our friend.

 

[Howard Moon]

I don't know about that

 

[Howard Moon]

Poor widdle Sammy got a knee in the thigh ... Not like he'd do that to anyone

 

[Mad Bomber Sean]

He give his all against the Cats & he plays r1..

Let him throw his weight around and do that Mitchell tackle on Laird or a Crouch

 

[ezard15]

Thanks for that. No need for red tube before beddy byes now