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come off it, dont make me laugh, varcoe and wojak, what about ablett winning core contested footy, batel locking down on hayes, selwood sticking his head over it, corey winning the ball continuously, chapman making them pay.
wojak and varcoe, fricken hell, varcoe almost lost it for them. We dont need speed we need blokes who can win their own ball, inside and out. Look what happened when pendles went down, we just couldn't get it, therefore the didak and davis were quiet.
 
Are you joking aflag4me, travis varcoe was woeful yesterday, i went to last years grand final and he was rubbish the geelong supporters could not believe how weak some of his efforts were, Varcoe cant handle the heat and contested situations. Again yesterday he has proved he is a downhill skier. To an extent i agree with your post but your example of varcoe is a poor one. He dominated against us when they were 10 goals up, yesterday he was embarrassing and was one of their worst. Hes a squib and always will be and is one of the luckiest premiership players in recent times and definetly did not stand up when it counted for mine when the 21 other Geelong players did.
 
Depends what they want for him.

IMO he is an instant replacement for the Tarko man. A good link player that tackles his butt off and has very good foot skills.
 

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Aaron Davey had a great year and would be even better player in a good side that could get him the footy forward of the center.

But if we can get pick 11 for Brock McLean then anything less than a top 10 pick would be laughed at.

Flash isn't going anywhere!
 
aflag4me said:
But yeah why would we want a speedster that delivers with the precision of a surgical instrument :rolleyes:
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It's about priorities and what they cost, you muppet. We need ball winners and a gun kpf, davey is neither and he'll cost a first round draft choice.

Have you ever really wacthed him play, passes 1.5m off the deck look nice at training but in a match there are people in the way. Not as good a user and decision maker as many are lead to believe.

A hanball receiver when we need ball winners, if walsh and malthouse are interested they're even more stupid than i thought
 
He is the cream, we just have to make sure we make a decent cake first.

Our first round selection, Dawes, Reid N. Brown should all be off the table however.
 
Geelong won because St Kilda could not kick straight, not because Varcoe and Wojak outpaced them.

If anything some of the quicker guys for the Saints like Montagna and Ray let the Saints down yesterday when it counted. Not as much as Raph Clarke did by being pantsed by the worst Geelong player on the field but at the end of the day Varcoe and Wojak where hardly key players in the cats win.

Back on topic I think we deffinately could use an outside finisher. It is something looking out our list of young guys that we actually lack. Guys like Beams, Sidebottom, McCarthy aswell as Pendles as a core young midfield are all good inside and use the ball well but there isn't a real line breaker in there. Thomas could play the role but he doesn't have the best finishing skills by foot.

That said I don't think we need to trade a first round pick for that kind of player, especially Davey. Chance Bateman would be ideal but I highly we'd be able to get him.
 
bratatak said:
At the death the pace was crucial... one team had it, the other didn't!
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ray, dawson, milne, dempster being useless douches all day had just as much if not more to do with it
 
shawthing09 said:
Back on topic I think we deffinately could use an outside finisher. It is something looking out our list of young guys that we actually lack. Guys like Beams, Sidebottom, McCarthy aswell as Pendles as a core young midfield are all good inside and use the ball well but there isn't a real line breaker in there. Thomas could play the role but he doesn't have the best finishing skills by foot.

That said I don't think we need to trade a first round pick for that kind of player, especially Davey.
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Spot on ShawThing! We will be able to address our ability to win the hard ball in the clinches through internal development by giving Sidebottom, Beams and J-Mac plenty of opportunities. What we don't have waiting in the wings in VFL is a lot of electric runners who are good users of the ball. That is where Davey comes in.

You'd imagine that it would cost at least our first round pick, but Davey will make us a MUCH better side.
 
I'd be very happy if we could pick up Davey. He is a quality player.
 

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Just Kick It said:
Spot on ShawThing! We will be able to address our ability to win the hard ball in the clinches through internal development by giving Sidebottom, Beams and J-Mac plenty of opportunities. What we don't have waiting in the wings in VFL is a lot of electric runners who are good users of the ball. That is where Davey comes in.

You'd imagine that it would cost at least our first round pick, but Davey will make us a MUCH better side.
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Agreed, Davey is a very very good player, anyone who thinks he wouldnt help our side a fair bit is in fantasy land.
I also love how players of Daveys ilk are pidgeon holed as just hanball receiving down hill skiers, Davey played in a side that got smashed most weeks and yet he stood up in most of them.
We could use a good clearance player yes but top shelf clearance players dont drop in to your lap and we may have to settle for a Tuck who is no mug IMO.
If the Dees wanted our 1st pick for Davey i would not hesitate in giving it up.
 
Axl the great said:
Agreed, Davey is a very very good player, anyone who thinks he wouldnt help our side a fair bit is in fantasy land.
I also love how players of Daveys ilk are pidgeon holed as just hanball receiving down hill skiers, Davey played in a side that got smashed most weeks and yet he stood up in most of them.
We could use a good clearance player yes but top shelf clearance players dont drop in to your lap and we may have to settle for a Tuck who is no mug IMO.
If the Dees wanted our 1st pick for Davey i would not hesitate in giving it up.
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pidgeon holed.......give me a break, i watch alot of football, too much probably but thats what happens when you're an MCC member and you can come and go as you please. Davey took the handball receive/designated kicker play to a whole new level this year, even to the point it was highlighted by the tactical genius that is rob walls on one week at a time, i think his words may have been start winning your own ball aaron, after didak gave it to him after he stuffed up one of his trade mark queue up sideways and receive from the staionary player.
i just dont know why we'd chase this kind of player, and i hope he re-signs.

i'd love to have the stats, becaue i think they'd back me up. And also i've got nothing against handball receivers, but only if they're on the move, too often davey got the ball standing still beside the stationary player, purely just to kick the ball for them, he often did this without already summing up the options thus putting melbourne under pressure and leading eventually to a turnover.

give me sylvia, bate, morton, grimes et al in a heartbeat over davey.
 
gifted1 said:
Have you ever really wacthed him play, passes 1.5m off the deck look nice at training but in a match there are people in the way. Not as good a user and decision maker as many are lead to believe.
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Judging by your post i would say that you have never seen him play. He is the best disposer of the ball in the competition in my opinion. Whether it be short passing or 55m bullet passes he is lethal and very rarely misses a target. I watched him go 8 games without missing a target this season. Me and my mates were actually taking bets on when he would miss a target, thats how good a kick he is.
 
IMO Aaron Davey is an elite user of the ball when he has no pressure on him.

He basically did have the ball on a string early in the year but as soon as opposition coaches started making him more accountable he went missing. We have enough players who go missing when things arent going their way so i'm not really keen on getting another, and by the sounds of it he's not available anyway.

We have more concerns on the inside part of the game so why would we target another player who wants the ball fed to him with no pressure on him ever.

We need more givers not receivers:eek:
 

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watswiththehooha said:
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,26120725-5012432,00.html

Already re-signed sealed and already delivered. Old news
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Mate... Read it carefully, it says they agreed to offer him 3 years, nowhere did it say he accepted.

The Demons ended a dispute over the length of an initial contract offer to Davey, who was coming out of contract next month, by agreeing to a new three-year deal. Melbourne had previously offered Davey a two-year contract, which was unacceptable to the player.
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I was wondering if there is any updates today via media sources if Davey is entertaining a move elesewhere.
 
The Iceman said:
I was wondering if there is any updates today via media sources if Davey is entertaining a move elesewhere.
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nope, nothing yet. But he clearly is considering all his options, this has been going on for way to long to think otherwise.
 
His pace, skill and run down ability wold be an asset. If he was available we should have a real crack. I'd rather have Burgoyne for his clearance power but Davey would be a good get.
 
collingwood1992 said:
Mate... Read it carefully, it says they agreed to offer him 3 years, nowhere did it say he accepted.
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Mate.....read it carefully without the blinkers on and it basically says he's closer to signing a deal with Melbourne then he is with Collingwood.

Anyway, what is the point of having a soft outside receiver in Davey if we have no-one to give him the ball........He'll end up being a witches hat at the G.

He is not what we need. He is a good player, but not what we need.

Why cant people see this, i think the majority of people here are getting caught up in the hype of securing a 'big name' for the club and in that are forgetting the needs of the club.
 
NT.Thunder said:
He is not what we need. He is a good player, but not what we need.

Why cant people see this, i think the majority of people here are getting caught up in the hype of securing a 'big name' for the club and in that are forgetting the needs of the club.
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I think your looking a little short term. Beams, Sidebottom, McCarthy, Pendles are all very inside and will be big parts of our future going foward. Swan is more then handy inside too. Going foward what is more absent is a complete finisher on the outside.

Didak has the skills but lacks the pace to break the lines.

Davis probably has both but is 29 and only just starting to play consistant midfield football.

Thomas has the pace but lacks the finishing skills.
 

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