Toast Mitch Duncan

[SpryCorpse]

David King (yeah I know) ranked his best Cat team a couple of weeks ago. Wasn't in the top 22. The Hutcho wannabe who tries to out our players at half time each week named Duncan around 18th best player in our side. A popular thread naming all the best players under 23 in the comp didn't have Duncan in the top 50 or so. A number of other Geelong kids were named including Blicavs. Yes Blicavs. No one in numerous pages even questioned why Duncan was missing.

These are the only three examples I can think of by the way. I can't think of one example where Duncan is ranked outside the club. Can anyone else?

I hope all the other actual clubs think similarly. That way they might stay away from him when his contract comes to be renewed.
Personally I couldn't give a rodent's rectum what outsiders think. It's the insiders that really pay attention to the detail of the performances of their own.
Duncan still has some improving to do. But it is happening steadily over last year and this.
There is simply no way he could be dropped. Far too valuable. Far too skilful. Far too hard working.

He can look 'unfashionable' - maybe that's why he doesn't get rated by others?

 

[footscore]

Bloody hell!
I must have jinxed Mitch by starting this thread

 

[GeelongFTW]

how is duncan supposed to knock down the elite door when he gets subbed like 5 mins into the first QRT?
faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk!

 

[GeelongFTW]

http://www.geelongcats.com.au/news/2013-08-13/duncan-to-be-tested
I hope for his sake (and my sanity ) he gets up for the match.

 

[FredLeDeux]

Perhaps somebody outside Geelong does rate him.

 

[manboob]

I think Heppel, Prestia and Ward are pretty lucky to be in over someone like Wines.

 

[Nicko29]

Perhaps somebody outside Geelong does rate him.

Where the **** is Christensen??? Would at least have him in the "desperately unlucky" section before Duncan....

 

[manboob]

He's missed 4 games. Probably too many when you consider the others selected.

 

[Vdubs]

I think Heppel, Prestia and Ward are pretty lucky to be in over someone like Wines.

Over the whole of 2013 so far, probably not. Ollie has dropped off. Next year for sure if all goes to plan.

 

[manboob]

Glad to see my supersmokey for the Brownlow in... Mots

 

[meto]

Christensen/Duncan how do you split them, now Motlop has joined them with Guthrie making the quantum leap. Could all be there.

 

[manboob]

What a tragedy

 

[meto]

What a tragedy

Don't get it!

 

[manboob]

I was being ironic/facetious. How many clubs would kill for all the quality youngsters we have just two years after winning our third flag.

 

[meto]

I was being ironic/facetious. How many clubs would kill for all the quality youngsters we have just two years after winning our third flag.

We need a couple of key sized boys to compliment the array of smalls and mediums.
Suppose Dawson certainly has the potential as one very big guy, Vardy? Walker? Kersten?Blitz? They're all a long way off, considering the smaller types are already quality seniors.

 

[manboob]

The bigger boys are always going to take a few years longer to develop. Let's just hope the ones we have now will come good. We should know more next year.

 

[footscore]

terrific yesterday
He's really becoming a super player now, been a steady rise since the halfway mark of the season imo.

27 touches, took more marks than any other player on the ground as well. Seemed to be in the thick of it from the start and then tapered off when the game was a forgone conclusion.

 

[meto]

terrific yesterday
He's really becoming a super player now, been a steady rise since the halfway mark of the season imo.

27 touches, took more marks than any other player on the ground as well. Seemed to be in the thick of it from the start and then tapered off when the game was a forgone conclusion.

I love the guy, but 27 was it?.....had my eye on Stokes, Blitz, Varcoe, seriously I don't have to worry about him (Duncs) you just know he'll stand up every time and so does Bundy.
No worry with the others either, what a night.
Blitz was great, just so involved for a big guy, important going forward.

 

[GeelongFTW]

I love the guy, but 27 was it?.....had my eye on Varcoe, .

That's a surprise...

 

[meto]

That's a surprise...

Touche...right in the heart!...well after the last month and you weren't?

Needs to keep it going though, see if he can continue against serious opposition next week, hey, if he performs I'm all for him as with any of the others. Cheers.

 

[SJ]

Lost some of his polish this year unfortunately. I guess it's a trade-off between that and more inside ball.

 

[Turbocat]

Lost some of his polish this year unfortunately. I guess it's a trade-off between that and more inside ball.

He has been out of form , his kicking has been off. For a while he was just a "write it down" when the ball was in his hand. Feel he is close to being back at it SJ , and as you say more inside efforts. Someone else steps up that like Caddy and he may be used a bit more on the outer.

 

[Senatorguesty]

I like to think of this year for Duncan as a new term in school, this year they are teaching him a more inside role and/or coming off half back.
Yep his disposal is slightly down (it really is only slightly) but he is winning it in close and under immense pressure whereas previous he was almost entirely a running receiver.
So far I reckon he is passing with flying colours and will enable Mitch to really evolve his game in years to come.
Like Turbocat said, guys like Caddy and GHS will allow Duncan to go back to that kind of role he played in 2011/12 where he was deadly with the ball in hand but he can still look back at 2013 and know he can do both now.
Still a damn good player for us....

 

[GeelongFTW]

MITCH Duncan was 20 years old and in just his 29th game when he became a premiership player in 2011.

At the time, the thrill and excitement of it all on a personal level was what carried him through.
But two years, another 44 games, and now firmly entrenched in both the team and the club, the 2013 finals series and the possibility of another premiership means a whole lot more to the boy from Perth.
"I'm definitely a lot more excited now than I was the last time it happened," Duncan said.
"Just being that year or two older and having more love for the club, when you're younger I think you're just out there playing games.
"But you fall in love with the club and the people at the club so you just want to make them proud.""So a lot to work on at training. I missed a lot of tackles today, which I was disappointed about ,so I'll be doing a lot of tackle practice with the likes of James Kelly, Joel Corey and Nigel Lappin, so that's what I'll be doing this week and resting on my legs."What Geelong will have this finals series in Duncan compared with other years is a more rounded player, having spent time all over the field this season.
He says he feels like he can "play in most positions on the ground" but is still brutally honest about his own form, both throughout the year and on Saturday against Brisbane.
"A bit up and down. I probably started to string a few consistent games together just recently and today probably wasn't great," he said.

http://www.geelongadvertiser.com.au/article/2013/09/02/371959_gfc.html

 

[SJ]

Still surprises me how many targets he is missing by foot these days. Not sure if that happened much at all in his first two years.