Free Danny Stanley!

[Snag Breac]

disengagement! this is neccessary with dissenters, do not recognise their cause. any engagement should result in expulsion from la revolucion and instant death ofcourse.

Kneecapping is another option.

Not that the Duchess of Dudgeon would advocate mayhem or violence - not yet anyway.

Hey lads, t-shirts won't go with anything in my wardrobe. Can't we get the chosen image on some stationery or in a paperweight? Or what about FDS wristbands? Or Flags?

Wouldn't it be excellent if Danny looked up mid passage-of-play to see a dozen barrackers hanging over the fence, sporting the FDS t-shirts and yelling, "Free Danny Stanley!"

 

[Hells K1tch3n]

Send a memo to lexus with a link to Danny's draft video, where they talk to Malthouse about our draftees. "We feel we have a good find in Danny, he's an absolute bull of a player and hope he can take over from burnsey one day"... Well if he's going to take over from burnsey, how bout you play him in the ****ing middle!!!!

 

[Snag Breac]

Just noticed this post by Makeshift in the Danny Stanley Buddy thread - a real tribute.

Stanners seems to be such a nice young man so focused and determined. I can not imagine how tough and heart breaking it has been over the past few years not breaking into the side. Yet he seems not to spit the dummy, he keeps his head up and every week he goes out there and tries even harder. I went past training the other day and everyone had gone except Stanners and Gavan Brown and they were still running around. Boy he a is determined big bugger. Hats off to you Stanners keep it up !!!!!!

 

[cowsnutz]

Send a memo to lexus with a link to Danny's draft video, where they talk to Malthouse about our draftees. "We feel we have a good find in Danny, he's an absolute bull of a player and hope he can take over from burnsey one day"... Well if he's going to take over from burnsey, how bout you play him in the ****ing middle!!!!

Agree fully with all pro-Danny comments in this thread. Just give him a decent crack, Sam Mitchell took a while to get going as a clearance specialist in his first few AFL games after winning the VFL B&F. He is now a premiership captain. To all the nay-sayers, i'm more than happy for the Hawks to pick him up next year.

 

[morgoth]

I've been with the majority of posters on this one for a while and this thread is both humourus and well deserved.

He seems to be what we need. Now he might not be able to replicate that form at AFL level - many haven't - but I feel he deserves a chance, and by chance I mean 2-4 games in a row to adjust and see what he can do.

Maybe morgoth (and it seems the coaching staff) is right and he is no good but I'd like the opportunity to see that with my own eyes....

Watch the Freo game last year, then get the NAB cup game he played in and you will see that he cannot make decisions and/or execute decisions effectively. He freezes like a rabbit in the head-lights. That is why he only played a half in the NAB, the coaching staff would have seen that it had not improved.

Yeah he goes hard at it, problem is when he gets it.

 

[well left]

Watch the Freo game last year, then get the NAB cup game he played in and you will see that he cannot make decisions and/or execute decisions effectively. He freezes like a rabbit in the head-lights. That is why he only played a half in the NAB, the coaching staff would have seen that it had not improved.

Yeah he goes hard at it, problem is when he gets it.

I did not see the Freo game but understand that he was woeful that night. Not sure he was the only one though.

I thought his NAB Cup game was OK without being brilliant and that he was deserving of another chance. He did not play much and got his hands on it a bit which is at least a start.

I just reckon he needs more than a half a game here and there to adjust to the tempo. As I said you may be right (some of his decision making at AFL level has been questionable) but a lot of other players seem to get a lot longer to prove themselves. I'd just like to see him get that same opportunity.

 

[well left]

Just noticed this post by Makeshift in the Danny Stanley Buddy thread - a real tribute.

Stanners seems to be such a nice young man so focused and determined. I can not imagine how tough and heart breaking it has been over the past few years not breaking into the side. Yet he seems not to spit the dummy, he keeps his head up and every week he goes out there and tries even harder. I went past training the other day and everyone had gone except Stanners and Gavan Brown and they were still running around. Boy he a is determined big bugger. Hats off to you Stanners keep it up !!!!!!

They must think he has something to offer Snag otherwise they would or should have delisted him and Rowdy would not be wasting his time on additional training with him.

Let's hope his persistence pays off and he gets his opportunity.

 

[Old Spice]

Oh boy, you put someone who has an Lenin avatar in a tough spot. Viva the revolution and t-shirts, but...

It's all very well to extract, and to be fair Stanley hasn't been given a chance there a la O'Bree, but you also need to have vision and skill around the ground also once that contest is over. The game is not suited anymore to one dimensional pinch hitters who play a bit part and can then rest on your laurels. You need to be multi-dimensional.

Stanley's peripheral vision, speed and decision making at AFL level has been ordinary in my opinion - he is all to easily mown down. I don't doubt that the selectors are aware of Stanleys dominance at VFL level and his capacity to extract the ball there. The question before them is surely can Stanley play a role outside of that - presuming that his extraction at AFL level would be good.

I assume the coaching staff have played him in other positions to see if he could be servicable around the ground before he steps up to the preferred position on this thread. He hasn't managed any convincing performances around the ground so why would you put game time into someone who has not showed any versatility?

Game time is at a premium and works like dog years to really condense a players development. I suspect the coaching staff see more value in developing players like Beams and working with an O'Bree, Davis etc who have so much around the ground skills than persevering with Danny.

 

[mdc]

I suspect the coaching staff see more value in developing players like Beams and working with an O'Bree, Davis etc who have so much around the ground skills than persevering with Danny.

My dear Comrade!
Why this is precisely why I always urge you to drink your vodka neat, and warn you about the dangers of mixing in non-Soviet concoctions. No doubt some impure cocktail has gone straight to your galova.

Our "cheeseful" O'Bree has skills around the ground like Stalin had warm heart. By which I mean that O'Bree has not skills around the ground, and Stalin not have warm heart. I hope that is clear.

Perhaps if the great man was given just one game in position of the cheeseful one, he would, as you say, "shit it in".

 

[Old Spice]

My dear Comrade!
Why this is precisely why I always urge you to drink your vodka neat, and warn you about the dangers of mixing in non-Soviet concoctions. No doubt some impure cocktail has gone straight to your galova.

Our "cheeseful" O'Bree has skills around the ground like Stalin had warm heart. By which I mean that O'Bree has not skills around the ground, and Stalin not have warm heart. I hope that is clear.

Perhaps if the great man was given just one game in position of the cheeseful one, he would, as you say, "shit it in".

FOR INTERNAL POLITBUREAU USE ONLY

Comrade MDC,

I warmly recieve your fraternal greetings and return them.

On the question of Comrade's Cheesey and Stanley, while I acknowledge the occassional problems with comrade Cheesey's skills, we must acknowledge that comrade Stanley has the awareness of a stuffed herring and we must understand he can have but a limited role in the revolution.

In the interim I suggest we develop the skills of young comrade Beams, while working with the skills of comrades Cheesey, Davis, Swan and Didak to produce a trully revolutionary symphony.

Comradely, OS.

 

[Ickirus]

While Stanley wasn't great in the Freo game last season, if you go by that game every single one of our players are hopeless and have terrible disposal, every player that night was shocking and butchered the ball repeatedly. The BF love child McCarthy has had quite a few out of bounds on the full yet no one says anything about his disposal.

Stanley had 9 disposals and 100% disposal efficiency in the WCE game with half a game of football, the only mistake he really made on that night was when he was running forward with the flight of the ball and missed the mark, normally people would admire the courage of the player doing such an act, but people will only remember Stanley missing the mark.

All this talk about too slow is bulldust, he is no slower then O'bree, Pendlebury, Lockyer, etc. This perception I believe stems from the Carlton game earlier in last season when he injured his ankle in the 1st quarter yet played on and got caught on a couple of occassions after, yet he was still able to run down Gibbs for holding the ball as well.

He deserves a chance after dominating the VFL level, the supporters who think Sidebottom, Beams, McCarthy, etc are ready to fill the clearance role are delusional, they are still a few seasons away and we have right now an immediate need for a clearance player, in case some of our supporters havn't noticed we have been getting smashed in the centre.

 

[Old Spice]

Let's see some footage of Stanley's AFL games so we can judge. MDC, as Stanley commisar par excellence, can you wangle it?

 

[shawthing09]

To add to the around the ground skills his strong overhead for his size and a neat dual sided kick with good penetration on his kicking. When he wins the ball in tight his vision and handballing are first class (at least at VFL level and I don't see how anyone can judge otherwise when he hasn't had much of an oppertunity to do this at any other level.)

 

[mdc]

...to produce a trully revolutionary symphony.

I care not for music, comrade Spice. It serves no pragmatic purpose - it acts but as a source of procrastination for the masses.

I would have had Chopin, Rachmaninov, Stravinsky and all the other pansies quartered in our Krasnaya Ploshad.

post-scriptum: You are not wrong about Comrade Beams. But two owls in field is worth more than one owl and one swallow. By which I mean, Comrade Stanley too may one day fly along field like Comrade Beams. You must remember, Comrade Spice, the worm appears immediately but the butterfly sleeps through the winter, only to appear as the most beautiful of creatures.

 

[mdc]

Let's see some footage of Stanley's AFL games so we can judge. MDC, as Stanley commisar par excellence, can you wangle it?

The man who runs our vidik tells me we have recently lost most of our intelligence due to an unforseen hard-drive crash. The pigs at Western Digital will pay.

 

[Optimax]

Hey if we are going all stalinist reds i want no part of it.

Unless of course i am part of the NKVD then i have no qualms at all my dear comrades

 

[Snag Breac]

Just emailed this thread to the Lexus Centre, and got this back from General Secretary Maguire:

Do not imagine, barrackers, that leadership is a pleasure. On the contrary, it is a deep and heavy responsibility. No one believes more firmly than Chairman Malthouse that all players are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be?

I've always preferred the Romanovs.

 

[Snag Breac]

Hey if we are going all stalinist reds i want no part of it.

Unless of course i am part of the SS then i have no qualms at all my dear comrades

You just fancy the outfit.

 

[Optimax]

You just fancy the outfit.

True that, girls love a guy in uniform too

 

[MAKESHIFT]

Gavan Browns report on the game on Sat.
28. Danny Stanley (13k, 12h, 7m, 1g, 6t): Whether it is wet or dry his impact on games is absolutely fantastic. He is ready to go when he gets his opportunity at the senior level.

 

[mdc]

True that, girls love a guy in uniform too

Indeed, nothing says "sexy" quite as well as a bit of fascist garb.

 

[well left]

Gavan Browns report on the game on Sat.
28. Danny Stanley (13k, 12h, 7m, 1g, 6t): Whether it is wet or dry his impact on games is absolutely fantastic. He is ready to go when he gets his opportunity at the senior level.

Let's hope there is a when!

 

[Old Spice]

To add to the around the ground skills his strong overhead for his size and a neat dual sided kick with good penetration on his kicking. When he wins the ball in tight his vision and handballing are first class (at least at VFL level and I don't see how anyone can judge otherwise when he hasn't had much of an oppertunity to do this at any other level.)

While I'm certainly with the threaders who have said that Stanley should have been given a chance in the midfield during the NAB Cup to prove his wares as a midfield extractor, we can surely also understand why Stanley has not been given a shot, despite his VFL prowess.

While Stanley's VFL form deserves consideration in its' own right, there are no doubt other factors working against his inclusion.

Firstly, we are in a period where the premiership is imagined to be in grasp. As an extractor, O'Bree has problems, but they are nowhere near those of Stanley. Leon Davis has shown also that he is capable of crisply picking up a clean disposal from the centre bounce. As far as our experienced brigade are concerned, I'd place a fair few players ahead of Stanley in the role and would develop players like Beams to replace them.

Secondly, as I said above, Stanley has not proved his value aroud the ground like an O'Bree or Davis. If Stanley can't perform a role around the ground after the bounce down (which is still unproven at AFL level) then why would you pick him? Burns was an extractor, but we also know he had the wherewithal around the ground too.

 

[Optimax]

Indeed, nothing says "sexy" quite as well as a bit of fascist garb.

Especially when its crossed with a stanners T shirt

 

[Old Spice]

Hey if we are going all stalinist reds i want no part of it.

Unless of course i am part of the SS then i have no qualms at all my dear comrades

I wan't no part of the Stalinst tradition either, but the idea of the SS just makes me want to spew unended. The nazi's were pieces of human filth and still are.