I was wondering which WA club Bondo supported.
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I was wondering which WA club Bondo supported.
So he wanted to get back to WA so bad he walked out on GWS. Now he likely wont be offered a contract from a WA team, will he retire? Or will he suddenly be ok to play outside WA now?
He's walked out on 2 clubs within a few years, and hasn't even played well. Zero chance of every getting on another AFL list
A club desperate for a forward might be able to get him for nothing. He's 25. To get a strong marking forward with a man's body is hard.. Take The Pies - our forward line is our weakness. If we go to the draft for a tall forward, it will take years for him to develop and a chunk of our star players will be retired by the time he is effective. So our only hope to use this current team to try to win a flag is to find some mature aged forwards to fill that gap. Getting Mcarthy on the cheap wouldn't be the worst thing we have done.
when a person knows it's their final chance too, they can change.. Think Mayne, from his first year to Grand Final year.
I wanted to add that I'm not suggesting we chase him or make some ridiculous offer. But if nobody else is interested and he's available, why not throw some money at him. We currently only score 50 odd points a game. At this point, I'd be happy to take any human that can kick a goal a game, and put them in our forward line.
A club desperate for a forward might be able to get him for nothing. He's 25. To get a strong marking forward with a man's body is hard.. Take The Pies - our forward line is our weakness. If we go to the draft for a tall forward, it will take years for him to develop and a chunk of our star players will be retired by the time he is effective. So our only hope to use this current team to try to win a flag is to find some mature aged forwards to fill that gap. Getting Mcarthy on the cheap wouldn't be the worst thing we have done.
when a person knows it's their final chance too, they can change.. Think Mayne, from his first year to Grand Final year.
I wanted to add that I'm not suggesting we chase him or make some ridiculous offer. But if nobody else is interested and he's available, why not throw some money at him. We currently only score 50 odd points a game. At this point, I'd be happy to take any human that can kick a goal a game, and put them in our forward line.
Theres more to the story as to why he took a year offMy favourite bit about the whole Cam McCarthy shemozzie was when whoever the journo was went with the story of him walking out on GWS. Within minutes, he and GWS players were posting photos of themselves on social media at the pub having beers with a 'doesn't look like he's going anywhere haha' thing going on. The journo was roundly criticised and the pile on was immense.
A day or two later McCarthy requests a trade and then when it doesn't happen he just takes a year off! How much must he have hated it at GWS?!
Also, I saw him emerging from the pool with his teammates after recovery in Brisbane (he was at Freo by this time) a few years ago and he looked like he hadn't gone near a gym in his whole life. Extraordinarily sloppy rig for a professional athlete.
The kid has been given some very bad advice by someone along the way. Walking out on GWS and sitting out of footy was a ridiculous thing to do and to me that was the end of him
Theres more to the story as to why he took a year off
Damian Barrett had an absolute crush on this bloke when he was at GWS & tipped him to be the best KPF in the league, be interesting to see what he comes out with now his AFL career is all but over
I don’t know.I think that's the first time I've ever heard anyone describe what Barrett says as "interesting"
Theres more to the story as to why he took a year off
PaintGood photoshop brah
looks more like an Native American headdress than a cap these days.I heard Peter Bell put another feather in his cap when McCarthy left.
No worse than recruiting Vickery, right?All these people saying nobody will take him are kidding themselves. He will have several clubs interested.
Don't get me wrong, he will be playing for relative peanuts. But Collingwood is playing an American sideshow as a key forward, Essendon is playing a rotating cadre of VFL-level players, Hawthorn is trying to hold Patton together with duct tape, Sydney is still reliant on an old man and a cripple for its forward options etc.
Several teams will want him on their list for backup depth if nothing else. He won't be recruited because teams will be thrilled to have him, but out of necessity.
I think it's just more so that he doesn't really want to be an AFL footballer. Some people are blessed with talents that they don't really want to have - it doesn't mean that they have a terrible attitude as such, it just means that they don't love what they do.Once he refused to play for GWS and sat out a year of Footy from a dummy spit, Fremantle WAS his last chance... and from all reports couldn't be bothered working hard or training during the break and came back in poor shape. Not surprised Fremantle have cut him so early, terrible attitude.