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Draft Profile Kane Mitchell

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windbreaker said:
anyone happen to notice Nathan Blee nicely working his way out of a couple of tight spots?
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That's his specialty - manages to find space just when you think he's done for. Unfortunately, you can't base your entire game on this skill, so he still has a long way to go to make it.
 
whiteoak said:
Can't stick a tackle.
Can't kick over a jam tin.
Can't play inside.
Can't play outside at AFL level.

Runs around lots though. And has beautiful hair.
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So the standard in the WAFL has fallen so far that there are blokes winning Sandovers who are worse players than me? I better start training again.
 

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Pretty sure the reason for the hatred of Mitchell was the fact that he openly stated to his teammates that the hair was a means of attracting umpires attention and votes.
 
worstbloke said:
Pretty sure the reason for the hatred of Mitchell was the fact that he openly stated to his teammates that the hair was a means of attracting umpires attention and votes.
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I didn't actually want to bring this up because it might've looked completely absurd, but umpires fall for this kind of thing. It's hard in the WAFL where you don't have blokes who single handedly bust a game open. Being Majak Daw or having long hair can kind of differentiate you, and that can be the difference. Umpires are kind of flawed like that.
 
Good luck to him, he's fooled his way into the AFL system, whatever way you can get there I suppose.
 
Brown Bottle said:
So the standard in the WAFL has fallen so far that there are blokes winning Sandovers who are worse players than me? I better start training again.
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Just because a bloke is a good WAFL player, it doesn't mean their style will translate to AFL. There are a lot of players in any state league who are superior to AFL players when playing WAFL football, but their style does not suit AFL football.

IMO Mitchell is a very limited footballer. He might turn into an OK player but I don't think he has the necessary strengths to make up for his deficiencies.

I reckon at 174cm and 75kg, you need more then to just be able to run all day to be a quality AFL player.
 

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Could be an ok player, racked up a lot of the ball on the weekend but butchered it I thought.

Pretty similar to a Magner type, too good at a lower level.
 
riteo said:
Not surprising considering we've actually watched his WAFL games, they'll find out soon enough though.
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Nobody is talking him up. He is a limited footballer, that is why he went in the rookie draft.

but for a team that has lost its only 3 outside runners (Pearce, Rodan, McCarthy) and still wants to move up the ladder instead of down it, Mitchell will be a good cheap fill in.
 
Schulzenfest said:
I was watching Kane's disposal particularly on the weekend. He had 26 disposals, and only 3 of them were what I would consider to be 'clangers' (I have no idea what his official clanger count was, this is just my subjective opinion). If he can keep running hard and having 20 or so decent disposals every game, he'll still be a handy player for a few years even if he has a few shit disposals every game. He doesn't have to be Shannon Hurn, as long as he restricts himself to handballs, easy short kicks and long kicks to contests.
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How is restricting to yourself to lesser ability somehow a positive attribute? That's absurd.

Plus you've basically just contradicted solid stats. His kicking, for the most part, barely hits a target.

It's not an anti-Port conspiracy. Bigfooty posters tend to disregard negative posts about new players as trolls, when in actual fact, all draftees have plenty of flaws. The WA blokes on here have seen him play a few times, and the guys he trains and plays with say the same: he's just not good enough.

EDIT: Another interesting point is his technique. Just google image his name. Looks awkward with a chest mark, looks awkward running with the ball (holds it like at the sides with his arms right out... uh... not too effective with quick disposals), and has a shit kicking and handballing technique. Nothing about him says footballer. He's just an athlete who likes footy and decided he wanted to play AFL.
 
If you don't want to be called a troll, try not making blanket statements about a guy who excelled at state league level and who hasn't even played an AFL game yet. And definitely try not stating them as fact.

Jesse Laurie and Lewis Stevenson (yes, I realize he's hardly going to say Mitchell isn't good enough to play AFL when they both play for the same AFL club, although I'd be surprised if we made the decision to draft him without at least asking a guy who had played with him for the last 2 years on his opinion) disagree with you, by the way. So not all the 'guys he trains and plays with' at Claremont think that way. Neither does Ken Hinkley, and excuse me if I trust his opinion over yours. If he gets AFL opportunities and fails, then fine, but don't write him off before he's even had those opportunities. Plenty of players who can't kick have made it at AFL level.
 
And just quietly there are still one or two of us around that grew up playing footy in the Claremont area before you had to be a millionaire to live there so we aren't all private schoolboys that support the Tigers.
 

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Will almost certainly spud it up.

It wouldn't surprise me if Port seen that he won a Sandover and thought "Hey he must be good!" without having the resources to check him out properly and actually see how ordinary the bloke is.
 
Really looking forward to the real season begining and the BF plebs start hilighting and critisizing every mistake Kane makes with the obvious "I told you so".
Why is there so much negative focus on a rookie listed player where there a much more appropriate targets to identify, as far as I know he's never played an AFL match yet and the Western Australians are get all hot and sweaty together celebrating his future failure.
 
Schulzenfest said:
Could be worse, we could keep Braddddddddddd Dalziell on our list for 4 years :oops:
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That's just it though, there's a neglible difference between Dalziell and Mitchell, he hasn't made it never looked like it and has been kept on strictly as depth, if that.

So basically you're signing on a bloke who, like Dalziell has a big engine, is a worse kick, and struggles without space.

I just watched the fisrt quarter against Melbourne, the commemntator actually points out that Mitchell kicks his ball so high it might go backward.

I've got nothing against him personally, I don't rate growing your hair to attract attention, but to deny his hard work to get where he is would be foolish, I just think his limitations are too great to have any meaningful contribution at AFL level.

That said, I hope he proves me wrong.
 
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