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We delisted him. Can find the footy but butchered it way too often for our liking.

Getting a regular gig at the Pies won't last though. Although he may end up as another player we moved on who ended up with a Premiership medallion...
 

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AFL is Number One said:
Can someone just remind me why he is at Collingwood? Did we delist him and move him on.... or did he want to go elsewhere?
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Cos we love VFL heroes! They should of pissed of Miller but didn't. A lot easier to get rid of an injury prone player than a leader under 30.

I can see why we got rid of him because we have so many gun running half backs like um...................um.............................yeah.

Well done Dees, our list management is a joke!
 
THE STING2 said:
Cos we love VFL heroes! They should of pissed of Miller but didn't. A lot easier to get rid of an injury prone player than a leader under 30.

I can see why we got rid of him because we have so many gun running half backs like um...................um.............................yeah.

Well done Dees, our list management is a joke!
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He's rubbish and you know it. Your attempts to "stir the pot" are poor at best.
 
Whats next, a thread on Chris Johnson?

Apparently hes doing well. :rolleyes:

Buckley can be covered by the ability of the players around him. He had good run & was quick but would turn the ball over a lot & wasn't good enough to make the team when we were dead last which says a lot.
 
Crimson Azure said:
Whats next, a thread on Chris Johnson?
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He's not a squib like Chris Johnson, for that alone he should of kept on the list.

I'd have him ahead of any squib and VFL hero on this list which would be more than half the side.
 
THE STING2 said:
He's not a squib like Chris Johnson, for that alone he should of kept on the list.

I'd have him ahead of any squib and VFL hero on this list which would be more than half the side.
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Such as? Name someone who plays the role Buckley did at Melbourne who you have him ahead of.
 
AFL is Number One said:
Can someone just remind me why he is at Collingwood? Did we delist him and move him on.... or did he want to go elsewhere?
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So why do you ask, is there a point to this? It's not like he's setting the world on fire down at the Pies.

No need for a thread like this if there's not a point.
 
THE STING2 said:
We don't have any running half backs besides that squib Davey. That was why we should of kept him.
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Jack Grimes, Luke Tapscott, Jamie Bennell ring any bells? Sam Blease has been playing off half back and we get plenty of run out of Frawley and Garland as well. Rohan Bail played down there before his shift in to the midfield and Nathan Jones has shown an ability to play down there as well.

That's plenty and I'd have all of them before Simon Buckley.
 
Crimson Azure said:
So why do you ask, is there a point to this? It's not like he's setting the world on fire down at the Pies.

No need for a thread like this if there's not a point.
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He's still playing better than most of our players. Why get rid of him when we have no running half backs? That would be a point wouldn't it?
 

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Passenger in a shit car, all the best for him to get on another team. Zero trade value and has done well to get where he is.
 
was thinking about this today been playing well 4 the pies just shows how good collingwoods development is but thats what happens when you have money 2 burn
 
CowboyFromHell said:
Jack Grimes, Luke Tapscott, Jamie Bennell ring any bells? Sam Blease has been playing off half back and we get plenty of run out of Frawley and Garland as well. Rohan Bail played down there before his shift in to the midfield and Nathan Jones has shown an ability to play down there as well.

That's plenty and I'd have all of them before Simon Buckley.
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That's where your wrong! Grimes is a midfielder playing off half back, he doesn't give the run that I would like and after his first game Tapscott hasn't given a lot of run either.

Bennell is a squib, he needs a whole new change of attitude to even be consided, he's shown more off half forward. We should play Blease and Strauss to show that we don't need Buckley, a bit hard to say we don't need Buckley cos we got these 2 when they are playing in the 2's.

Frawley and Garland shouldn't even be consided, they are key position players and if they are our main runners then we are in trouble.

Bail can't play in 2 positions, he's been used as a tagger and a defensive half forward to greater effect and Jones, you really shouldn't have mentioned his name, when you typed that you must have been thinking to yourself "We really are struggling for running half backs".
 
THE STING2 said:
That's where your wrong! Grimes is a midfielder playing off half back, he doesn't give the run that I would like and after his first game Tapscott hasn't given a lot of run either.

Bennell is a squib, he needs a whole new change of attitude to even be consided, he's shown more off half forward. We should play Blease and Strauss to show that we don't need Buckley, a bit hard to say we don't need Buckley cos we got these 2 when they are playing in the 2's.

Frawley and Garland shouldn't even be consided, they are key position players and if they are our main runners then we are in trouble.

Bail can't play in 2 positions, he's been used as a tagger and a defensive half forward to greater effect and Jones, you really shouldn't have mentioned his name, when you typed that you must have been thinking to yourself "We really are struggling for running half backs".
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Grimes was drafted as a mid, no argument there... but then, so was Buckley, so what's your point? Tapscott can find the footy, mark it AND hit a target which puts him ahead of Buckley. Blease and Strauss are young and need time... but they can hit targets. Again, ahead of Buckley.

I mentioned Frawley and Garland as you wanted to talk about all this run off half back. For talls they are excellent at it. Bail can play off half back, that's why I mentioned it. I also said Jones CAN play there as well, not that he was necessarily good at it.

You moan about Buckley because you want to. He would give us nothing at the moment.
 
CowboyFromHell said:
Grimes was drafted as a mid, no argument there... but then, so was Buckley, so what's your point? Tapscott can find the footy, mark it AND hit a target which puts him ahead of Buckley. Blease and Strauss are young and need time... but they can hit targets. Again, ahead of Buckley.

I mentioned Frawley and Garland as you wanted to talk about all this run off half back. For talls they are excellent at it. Bail can play off half back, that's why I mentioned it. I also said Jones CAN play there as well, not that he was necessarily good at it.

You moan about Buckley because you want to. He would give us nothing at the moment.
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What was your point? Buckley clearly breaks lines, Grimes and Tapscott don't do it enough. How do we know that Blease and Strauss can hit targets AFL level?

Frawley and Garland are assets because they can play a key post and give run but they shouldn't be the go to men when it comes to running the ball out of defence and Bail hasn't played off half back all year although he would be the closest we have to a running half back.

I don't know why people just can't accept that the club has stuffed up.
They didn't have anywhere near enough running half backs at the start of the year and letting go McDonald and Bruce you would of thought that they would go for midfielders but no they went for all talls when 1 or 2 at the most would of been enough. Crazy recruiting, they recruited like they were a top 4 team.
 
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What was your point? Buckley clearly breaks lines, Grimes and Tapscott don't do it enough. How do we know that Blease and Strauss can hit targets AFL level?

Frawley and Garland are assets because they can play a key post and give run but they shouldn't be the go to men when it comes to running the ball out of defence and Bail hasn't played off half back all year although he would be the closest we have to a running half back.

I don't know why people just can't accept that the club has stuffed up.
They didn't have anywhere near enough running half backs at the start of the year and letting go McDonald and Bruce you would of thought that they would go for midfielders but no they went for all talls when 1 or 2 at the most would of been enough. Crazy recruiting, they recruited like they were a top 4 team.
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I don't think I particularly like the way you refer to our club as they.

And I suppose you think we're a bunch of fools for letting a superstar in Steven Armstrong go because he won a flag with West Coast? Pffft.

But I'm not going to sit here and snipe you. That's not the point. We didn't need somebody like Buckley on our list. I think what you've got to realise is that Buckley is a depth player, which is what he is for Collingwood as well.

Grimes, Tapscott, Blease and Strauss were always going to be playing ahead of Buckley and in order for them to develop, we had to cut space on our list. Same with Bruce and McDonald, and to a lesser extent Miller. Those players were not in our future plans. We're not going to be contenders for another 2-3 years, so why would you bother giving a game to a player when you have the opportunity to give a youngster the chance to develop at AFL level?

It really, really does shit me no end the types of expectations people place on this club given the mire we've been through. Fluctuation and inconsistency in form and development is always the case with any rebuilding team. Is it really that hard to understand?
 

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Wow, this thread must be part of some bizzaro world.

Buckley for Brownlow in 2011 it seems.:rolleyes:

This thread is done.

* Thread has been closed as it is an irreverent subject that has just caused arguments.
 
THE STING2 said:
He's still playing better than most of our players. Why get rid of him when we have no running half backs? That would be a point wouldn't it?
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I'm slowly starting to realise that you are the biggest troll the BF Melbourne board has seen in the entire time I've been around here.
 
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