Sam Mayes potential?

[acuguy]

Natural forward talent, showed good form there early, so we tried to turn him into a defender. #GOFIGURE

 

[Footballator]

zip - next....

 

[SonnyBoy1]

Jeez this is some sad reading, Imagine this happens with our current players

 

[kylegee28]

Natural forward talent, showed good form there early, so we tried to turn him into a defender. #GOFIGURE

Thanks Leppa

 

[SizeMatters]

Thanks Leppa

Yup. That POS really screwed so many players over. Heard a few stories of late about his coaching and personality.

 

[BuntonRules]

About right.

Posted that a long time ago - 31/03/2018, Not much has changed.

 

[Mr Ripper]

Mayes a victim of the modern obsession of ironing out players’ weaknesses at the expense of utilising their strengths.

I’m not writing him off.

 

[Lace Out]

Geez I'm glad I didn't appear in those early potential posts.Was quite intense scrolling down to see if I had given my two cents.

 

[scoman]

Jeez this is some sad reading, Imagine this happens with our current players

Unfortunately if we cant start winning games we will be in the same situation with Raynor, Clugga, Berry and others in a couple of years.

 

[scoman]

Yup. That POS really screwed so many players over. Heard a few stories of late about his coaching and personality.

Guess what I liked about Leppa?

 

[SizeMatters]

Guess what I liked about Leppa?

That he was the reason the AFL finally came in and cleaned the joint out?

 

[scoman]

That he was the reason the AFL finally came in and cleaned the joint out?

Yeah maybe. I was going to say at least he managed to coach some wins. Although we are still on track to record a similar number this year to the past few years.

He was a gun CHB ..... there is that.
He must be doing a good job at Richmond.... theres another.
He has red hair.....
Ummmm....

 

[lioninthesand]

To be fair.. he needs a few games to find his feet after returning from the NEAFL.

 

[Dodongo]

Dodongo grows lethargic at this attitude by supporters.

Mayes has been a whipping boy here for years. Those righting him off are way premature. He had a great year when he learnt to be a defender. Dodongo points out he is still 23. Dodongo looks today and Mayes played forward and wing predominately. So he is switching what he was doing the last two years so of course he is not going to light it up.

Dodongo knows Mayes is nowhere near a bust and will prove you negative nancies wrong when he starts playing in his rightful position - forward. Just takes patience.

 

[SizeMatters]

Reason he's a whipping boy is because he's not that good... what does he even do half the time? Boring footballer who doesn't go in when it's his turn. Give me a Witherden any day of the week and twice on game day.

 

[jackess]

Should the title be “Sam Mayes, potential?”

 

[acuguy]

I loved seeing Mayes stream forward yesterday. Kicked inside 50 well on occasions. He will find his feet in his natural role.

 

[Nunez]

Amazing how harshly some are judging a 23 year old bloke who has re-signed with us twice in his career despite serious interest in his home state and Victoria and finished top 5 in last year's BnF because he had a bad start to the year. Rockliff had the exact same issue in Port this year and played SANFL and is now back to strong form; there is absolutely no reason Sam won't do the same.

 

[bungalow_bill]

I loved seeing Mayes stream forward yesterday. Kicked inside 50 well on occasions. He will find his feet in his natural role.

Must be frustrating for a natural forward to be stuck in the back line. Ditto McStay

 

[iBeng]

He should never have been made into a backman. Was always meant to be a Wing/HFF, Leppa just decided everyone needs to be able to play somewhere they dont normally. Hell, its probably half the reason why Rich never progressed further as a midfielder.

 

[jackess]

Must be frustrating for a natural forward to be stuck in the back line. Ditto McStay

The story is that Mayes prefers it.

 

[bungalow_bill]

The story is that Mayes prefers it.

Interesting wasn't aware. Do know that McStay prefers to play forward

 

[jackess]

Interesting wasn't aware. Do know that McStay prefers to play forward

Just going off of what other posters have said.

Although from his media work it leads me to believe McStay may prefer playing forward. His kicking for goal would say otherwise

 

[Dalions]

The story is that Mayes prefers it.

I saw an interview where I heard him say that he was happy to play back because of his ball use.
But I honestly felt at the time that it was a team thing to say, not that he absolutely well and truly wanted to play back.
More so, that is where the team (Coach) needs me to play.

 

[Nunez]

I saw an interview where I heard him say that he was happy to play back because of his ball use.
But I honestly felt at the time that it was a team thing to say, not that he absolutely well and truly wanted to play back. More so that, that is where the team (Coach) needs me to play.

Definitely the impression I got.