Shane Kersten

[David the Cat]

Gee…CHF is recognized as the most difficult position on the ground and Kersten has yet to play a senior game….

I know the kids good, but thats one hell of an ask.

I still like the idea of a mobile forward line…Bartel playing a role with maybe Murdoch stationed up there for height and pace. Mitch is also an option I guess, and while there will be howls of protest, they will consider Harry as an option….I hope not for too long.

There are options…..the coaching staff have their work cut out for them now.

 

[Jon Douglas]

I never saw the VFL GF.
One game wouldn't bother me anyway after what I've seen.

We all know some players dont make the transition to AFL level.
But he has as much promise as any VFL player.

Let's wait.
Gee Browns getting knocked down a peg after 10 AFL games, and Kersten is creating doubts after playing zero.

The biggest over estimation of any player at any club is thinking they will come in their first season and be a consistently good footy player. Extremely few players ever do this. Maybe 1 in a 100 - if that.

I am not saying that Kersten will not be a good footy player - I am saying to expect him to be a good footy player in his first season is expecting him to be one of the very, very few who actually do this - and therefore is against all odds really. Please remember that Enright and Ablett Jnr. were not that good in their first seasons - and they turned out to be greats of the game.

And people expect Kersten, after two seasons, that have interrupted by injuries, to come out and play the hardest position on the field in his first senior year and do a job good enough to make us competitive for me is really asking too much. Nearly delusional.

Promise means jackshit when you want to win games. You need results - consistent input from your CHF to win enough games to be top 4 and have a shot at a Premiership.

And for some one game does seem to 'bother them'. Look how many people wrote that GHS would be a gun midfielder after his one excellent effort against the Swans.

For me if are thinking that Kersten, yet to debut, is going to be the white knight that will come in and play CHF and do so well enough to get us a top 4 possie at season's end - you re hoping a 100 to 1 shot comes in. I for one do not like those odds. How many 100 to 1 shots get up ?

I really do not like to write this but some Cats fans need to get real - and realise that Kersten may become really good footy player for us down the track - but to think it will be this season at CHF - is a pipe dream.

I hope that I read at season's end how wrong I was on this call - but right now to expect a 191 cm VFL player yet to play a senior game to come in and play the hardest possie on the ground against experienced and hard bodied KPBs based on one good season in the VFL against sub standard VFL KPBs - is surely close to as delusional as you can get. He would need be a freak to pull this off in his first season in the AFL.

 

[vinum coupe]

I hope that I read at season's end how wrong I was on this call - but right now to expect a 191 cm VFL player yet to play a senior game to come in and play the hardest possie on the ground against experienced and hard bodied KPBs based on one good season in the VFL against sub standard VFL KPBs - is surely close to as delusional as you can get. He would need be a freak to pull this off in his first season in the AFL.

I don't know why you quoted my post.

 

[AM]

Gee…CHF is recognized as the most difficult position on the ground and Kersten has yet to play a senior game….

I know the kids good, but thats one hell of an ask.

I still like the idea of a mobile forward line…Bartel playing a role with maybe Murdoch stationed up there for height and pace. Mitch is also an option I guess, and while there will be howls of protest, they will consider Harry as an option….I hope not for too long.

There are options…..the coaching staff have their work cut out for them now.

The kid didn't regularly play key position in the twos from my observation. To throw an undersized kid with no AFL experience into a key role is a good way to irreparably damage his confidence.

According to Balmy in the Addy, the load is likely to be shared. Still hope they give Brown a decent crack at it. Couldn't be a better time to do it.

 

[BlitzenTrapper]

Shane O'Bree said today that he's been off the track again this week with what seems to be a knee problem of some sort.

Mentioned 'grumbling', I think. Which is exactly what I felt like doing after hearing the news.

For f#&@ sakes. How much bad luck can this guy have.

edit: I hope Shane O'Bree is tripping balls. Doubt it though

 

[Beanstalk]

'Still a few weeks away'

 

[El Dubya]

'Still a few weeks away'

Like HMac was all last year?

 

[The rabbi]

'Still a few weeks away'

That's very encouraging Nic.

 

[Beanstalk]

That's very encouraging Nic.

Don't shoot the messenger!

 

[dazbroncos]

Don't shoot the messenger!

Click…..

GO Catters

 

[El Dubya]

Don't shoot the messenger!