Danyle Pearce

[brad the brain]

Hi Dockers I come in peace.
Bad luck about last night .We should have been 10 goals down at half time but you have to take your chances.
Anyway I was wondering your thoughts on former port player Danyle Pearce?
I certainly watched out for him and noticed he was caught continually and turned the ball over all the time.
Apart from that late snap I reckon he thought he was still at Port.
Glad we got rid of him by the way.

 

[calaisking]

Was great in the first half of the year, shocking in the second half. Would've rathered that to be switched and having him play better in the second half of the year.

Bit of a front runner when you look at it and i hope he pulls his head in next year because as of late I've been dreading seeing the ball in his hands

 

[Jezzitizle]

piss off back to your own board

 

[clogged]

Hi Dockers I come in peace.
Bad luck about last night .We should have been 10 goals down at half time but you have to take your chances.
Anyway I was wondering your thoughts on former port player Danyle Pearce?
I certainly watched out for him and noticed he was caught continually and turned the ball over all the time.
Apart from that late snap I reckon he thought he was still at Port.
Glad we got rid of him by the way.

You probably won't get a lot of love posting on here, but I said this about him against Melbourne and GWS respectively

My worry is that come a big final he'll be a liability again. Like he was in his two grand finals so far. When the heat is on, he turns it over.

I have real concerns about Danyle Pearce come finals.

Against the weakest clubs in the comp he played "well" but made numerous execution errors doing so. But apparently he leads the comp for inside 50s, so what do I know?

 

[masai]

In Danyle's defence, I think he was playing pretty sore after he appeared to injure his shoulder in a tough tackle ( 1st quarter ? ).

Overall his form has been a bit hot & cold.

 

[electricfeel]

He has been ok during the season. when the game is on the line he just turns everything over. His role was to help out Hill which he has done to some extent but he turns to butter way too often. That kick across defense that resulted in a Wingard goal I think... FFS. fumbles fumbles fumbles. Then he celebrates his goals like a bit of a turkey.

 

[Kunna17]

if he had clean hands, he'd be goood. ALL players, ESPECIALLY mids, need to be one-touch players.
Also not as quick as people like to think he is.

 

[Rob]

Disposal quality is what lets him down. Pure and simple.

He leads the competition in inside 50's, both in total and average per game. Which is remarkable as he is only 1 of 2 players in the top 25 in inside 50's that average less than 20 disposals a game. So when he gets it, he's in a position to hurt the opposition.
But that probably also tends to indicate that he's a front runner.

In any case, if he was hitting targets lace out then he'd be amongst the competition's elite.

 

[hotchips81]

In Danyle's defence, I think he was playing pretty sore after he appeared to injure his shoulder in a tough tackle ( 1st quarter ? ).

Overall his form has been a bit hot & cold.

Yep...hot on the flat tracks and cold any where else.

 

[brad the brain]

Thanks lads for your thoughts.

 

[Nickos66]

No awareness, doesn't like being pressured. I thought becoming the player in a pressure act team would see him get better with these deficiencies over time, apparently not.

 

[Changaneen]

Have no hard feelings toward Pearce. I really thought he was going to be a lifer and a gun for Port. Chaplin, well don't get me started.

 

[peppy la pew]

Clay was right he had another shocker in a final. A real liability, slow and inaccurate.

 

[Righteo]

When he plays as he did last night I try and comfort myself by thinking that he's just been a placeholder for Mora. A seat warmer if you will.

Has very little composure at the best of times and it evaporates completely during a final, tries his heart out but he activates 'liability mode' come September and I have defended him quite a bit in the past.

 

[Collins-Langford-Ayres]

Thought he struggled with the intensity of the last two finals. He's very 'outside' for an outside player.

 

[The Black Sheep]

When he plays as he did last night I try and comfort myself by thinking that he's just been a placeholder for Mora. A seat warmer if you will.

Has very little composure at the best of times and it evaporates completely during a final, tries his heart out but he activates 'liability mode' come September and I have defended him quite a bit in the past.

He'll do well for Peel at some stage next year, no doubt.

 

[Docker Alyssa]

Yeah after being so-so on him for his time here, backing him in, trusting he'd improve in our system - he is just a Sylvia type recruit for me. I literally didn't know who Pearce was and some guy showed me his highlight reel from 7 years worth of games that lasted 1:45?

I felt like that was a troubling indication but erred on slack footage hunting. Walters has only been a gun for 2 seasons and has more than 5 minutes of exciting highlights.

The difference between the quality of recruitment with Sylvia is he's been injured so hasn't shown the same level of under-achievement as Pearce (yet)

 

[Wizard]

For a front runner he's a very good tackler & really enjoys laying a tackle.

With ball in hand I hav not so much confidence.

 

[Midnite65]

Isn't it amazing, Danyle Pearce is taking all the pressure of people bagging Zac Dawson like they have for the last 2 years.

 

[DOCKERZ]

Glad we got rid of him by the way.

We got him for free, so we can hardly complain.
The dollars we signed him for haven't stopped us re-signing any guns either.
A couple of brain fades were really costly yesterday.

 

[Stronzo]

There's no shortage of opinion of Pearce if you look for it.