Player Watch Brayden Maynard

[Soaring Magpie]

Very lucky not to give a 50 away in the last few minutes when he kicked the ball back over the guys head, needs to be more disciplined, those sort of things can cost you

Wasn't him who kicked it back

 

[DT_fanatic]

Thought that was Goldy?

Yep definitely Goldy.

How can anyone continue to keep the faith with Maynard when he directly costs us goals every week. He's always playing catch up. We're not in a position to be giving up easy goals like he does every week. In fairness he was much better in the second half and that smother was very good but jesus christ he makes me nervous whenever he is around the ball.

 

[Nicco_jj]

He was great this week

 

[ottoman]

He is a frustrating type.
Can do things which make you beam with pride.
Can do things which make you throw your coffee cup at the TV.

 

[doodles98]

Goldsack and Aish only laid one tackle as well and they also both play off half back. It might be a positional thing. Maynard makes the occasional mistakes but he gives us plenty that makes up for his errors and I think he's got a lot of potential too.

I don't see how any running type player should ever return just the 1 tackle per game. Don't understand how that happens without it being an effort\desire thing. We have a gameplan of numbers at the ball.. we aim to out tackle teams but we consistently don't. An issue that seems to have slipped under the radar a bit with all the focus on our ball use/movement. If we were say 5th for tackling rather than 11th.. I reckon we would be 5 and 4 or better. Fixing the tackling is easier than ball use and movement.

 

[doodles98]

Delist?

brilliant ! PK. Or he could tackle more.... Maybe

 

[Soups]

Yep definitely Goldy.

How can anyone continue to keep the faith with Maynard when he directly costs us goals every week. He's always playing catch up. We're not in a position to be giving up easy goals like he does every week. In fairness he was much better in the second half and that smother was very good but jesus christ he makes me nervous whenever he is around the ball.

Continue the faith because not every player starts out a super star. I would rather see a stupid mistake from Maynard than someone like Smith, Phillips etc because there is something most games that Maynard does that to me just says yep with some more games this kid will just click. Hundreds of players have had it happen to them where the penny has dropped a little later and they have gone on to be very good players. This kid will be one of them.

 

[The Plowking]

brilliant ! PK. Or he could tackle more.... Maybe

A few shocking clangers certainly too.

 

[The Plowking]

Continue the faith because not every player starts out a super star. I would rather see a stupid mistake from Maynard than someone like Smith, Phillips etc because there is something most games that Maynard does that to me just says yep with some more games this kid will just click. Hundreds of players have had it happen to them where the penny has dropped a little later and they have gone on to be very good players. This kid will be one of them.

This, this, this and this.

 

[76woodenspooners]

I thought Maynard had a great game.

He's basically where Marley Williams was in 2015, but a much much better kick.

 

[Brent24]

I don't see how any running type player should ever return just the 1 tackle per game. Don't understand how that happens without it being an effort\desire thing. We have a gameplan of numbers at the ball.. we aim to out tackle teams but we consistently don't. An issue that seems to have slipped under the radar a bit with all the focus on our ball use/movement. If we were say 5th for tackling rather than 11th.. I reckon we would be 5 and 4 or better. Fixing the tackling is easier than ball use and movement.

1 thing that you cannot question Maynard over is effort/desire.
I think you're taking too much out of 1 recorded tackle.

 

[CFC2010]

I think he is being played out of position.........I don't think he is a defender.

He was good tonight..........the kid still has brain farts but once he cleans that up he will be a good player.

 

[Schraderbrau]

I thought Maynard had a great game.

He's basically where Marley Williams was in 2015, but a much much better kick.

except much bigger and perhaps even faster

 

[doodles98]

1 thing that you cannot question Maynard over is effort/desire.
I think you're taking too much out of 1 recorded tackle.

Yeah Maynard always has a crack but if you are only getting 1 tackle you are doing something wrong. Our tackling is down this year and the players need to be held accountable.

 

[The Plowking]

I thought Maynard had a great game.

He's basically where Marley Williams was in 2015, but a much much better kick**

**most of the time
1 out of... say 5-7 is an absolute shocker.
The rest perfect.
Look forward to see his progression.
Don't think he will ever be elite but love the way he goes about it.
Should only get cleaner and better.

 

[SuperSteele22]

Played well. You look silly.

Yep, my post was at qtr time and I was livid. He cracked in after qtr time and did pretty well.

However that doesn't mean his weekly turnovers hurt us any less.

Scharenberg a far better option going forward imo

 

[Soups]

Yep, my post was at qtr time and I was livid. He cracked in after qtr time and did pretty well.

However that doesn't mean his weekly turnovers hurt us any less.

Scharenberg a far better option going forward imo

Yeah I think you're just going to have to accept it's going to happen. But I gaurentee you'll forget about it when he's one of our important players in a couple years time.

 

[DT_fanatic]

Continue the faith because not every player starts out a super star. I would rather see a stupid mistake from Maynard than someone like Smith, Phillips etc because there is something most games that Maynard does that to me just says yep with some more games this kid will just click. Hundreds of players have had it happen to them where the penny has dropped a little later and they have gone on to be very good players. This kid will be one of them.

There's also players who go the other way from this position. He's definitely a 50/50 for me atm. Has the weapons but also very poor composure and execution sometimes. I want nothing more than for it all to click for him but the jury's still out for me.

 

[Lockyer24]

He really is the good and the bad
, but I'm confident he will minimise the bad in time

 

[Soups]

There's also players who go the other way from this position. He's definitely a 50/50 for me atm. Has the weapons but also very poor composure and execution sometimes. I want nothing more than for it all to click for him but the jury's still out for me.

Yeah that's fair enough I'm obviously the other side of the coin and I believe he will be ok. To me all it is down to is experience. Like other have said, and I probably agree with, defence won't be this blokes career position. He will end up further up the field but I think it's good for him getting the experience in the backline. He needs to hone in his defensive skills and that's obviously the only way it's going to happen.

 

[Maggie5]

Yep definitely Goldy.

How can anyone continue to keep the faith with Maynard when he directly costs us goals every week. He's always playing catch up. We're not in a position to be giving up easy goals like he does every week. In fairness he was much better in the second half and that smother was very good but jesus christ he makes me nervous whenever he is around the ball.

Me too, I was ready to jump the fence in the first quarter but at the end all was forgiven.
Think he will come good at least he doesn't seem the type to ever give up.

 

[THATSGOLD]

Still think he's a spud. He'll lose us more games in the future than we win playing the way he does. He's a very dumb player.

 

[Mkcaptain]

He got the 1 vote in ABC Grandstand's votes from tonight's match.

Sure he made a couple of bad blues, but he definitely made up for them.

 

[soreplums]

Play him on a wing

 

[mike123]

Needs a stint in the middle .

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