Welcome Welcome to Adelaide - Finnbar Maley

[AFC979810]

If I had to guess, it's probably due to hitting the jackpot on Trembath in the mid season draft.

Even still - Trembath is 193cm and has only 3 AFL games to his name. The Kangaroos believe in him so much they gave him a 1 year deal.

North Melbourne's goal scorers over 195cm in 2025:

Nick Larkey - 17 games - 198cm - 41 goals.
Finnbarr - 7 games - 197cm - 4 goals
Xerri - 20 games - 202cm - 4 goals.

Its a pretty baffling situation considering their list.

 

[Floating Doughnut]

Heard their list manager interviewed in a grab say they were juggling by memory 4 players into 2 list spots or 5 into 3 of which Moose was one when “Adelaide presented him with a contract”
Sounded like he was still being considered despite all their talls.

 

[Carmo]

John Butcher lite

Have you seen our forward entries? We manufacture a million high ball entries to about 20m out. A leaping pack splitting marker would be a major help, lest we use our rolls Royce thilthorpe as a bush bashing car. Then he's only got a get a few of those thru from 20, surely he can luck a few through!

 

[WaynesWorld19]

 

[Greenfinger]

The highlights look good.

Great contested mark and while he hardly has a laser kick, his technique seems adequate. Already miles ahead of the likes of ROB or the worst kick of all time, Paul Northeast.

Plenty of ordinary kicks have improved significantly with time and coaching to become deadeye dicks in front of goal - Scott Welsh, Brett Burton, Jay Schulz to name a few. Worth a shot.

Comparison on the Ian Perrie scale?

 

[FR0GGY]

They have Taylor Goad, Callum Coleman-Jones, the 200cm Will Dawson who is quite capable as a chop out ruck all behind Tristan Xerri probably explains that.

He’s been around for awhile without doing much.

 

[WaynesWorld19]

He’s been around for awhile without doing much.

Callum Coleman-Jones is cooked .....delist material ....another super talented player, who wasted his talent

 

[jackster83]

He’s been around for awhile without doing much.

Played an absolute blinder against us once. Callum Chambers Club card carrying member.

 

[Floating Doughnut]

I hope the home crowd get behind him with the Moooose when flying for a grab, it sounds teriffic
even with the small North crowd.

 

[Apsaalooke]

Comparison on the Ian Perrie scale?

No helicopters

 

[StonesThrow]

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It doesn't look good, but you obviously haven't seen obrien kick the ball. It's never certain that the ball will hit the foot.

 

[dogs105]

Paul Maley was always a classy guy with the public and media.

 

[Crow-eater]

 

[bigman]

“Beautiful history.”

Looks like a borderline typhoon based on those trees behind him. Hope the blokes ok.

 

[DangerSloane]

Good thing kicking isn't that important in football.

We just gave a ruckman a 3 year contract who cant hit his own foot.

 

[1990crow]

When I see this guys surname it reminds me of the roast of Justin Bieber.

 

[FR0GGY]

No one’s told him about the beaches yet

 

[Gtowncrow]

Questionable disposal? At least he'll fit in with ROB. Given we chased Draper as well, we can safely say that's one of the things the recruiting team is looking for in a tall.

Maybe we've found a "leaping ruck" to help out ROB once the rules change.

 

[crowsarethebest]

Got a feeling he'll be a good pick up. Had a taste of AFL with scope to improve. Cheap, low risk high reward. I think his profile fits the modern tall forward that will stand up in finals. One of the issues with our talls is they're unable to impact the game unless they kick a lot of goals and the pressure/follow up work doesn't stand up in finals. It's why we saw Sicily and Moore go on Tex and have a field day going off the chain as he can't provide any sort of forward pressure without the ball, nor provide a decent contest and turn those 30/70's into 50/50's in the air.

It'a why Mason Cox

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Mason Cox

Age

34

Ht

211cm

Wt

110kg

Pos.

F/R

Career

Season

Last 5

D

8.7

2star

K

5.2

2star

HB

3.5

3star

M

4.0

4star

T

1.6

4star

G

1.2

4star

D

6.0

1star

K

3.0

1star

HB

3.0

2star

M

2.3

2star

T

0.3

1star

G

1.0

4star

D

9.0

3star

K

5.4

2star

HB

3.6

3star

M

2.6

3star

T

2.4

4star

G

1.8

5star

, while is a shit player is so effective for collingwood as he halves those contests in the air and brings it to ground level. In finals, the pressure is so high that a lot of forward 50 entries are contested situations and rarely clean ball. It's why the Jez Cameron style forwards are less effective in those big finals in my opinion. Maley seems to fit the modern prototype.

 

[WheresGroomgone]

The comparisons with ROB’s kicking are outrageous- the two kicks in his highlight reel ROB lies awake at night praying he could achieve that level, then he performs quantum mathematics in his head to relax.

 

[lacrow]

Big Nick Gil vibes here

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

With Finnbar's unexpected arrival, can we confirm that no one on this board or in the media in general has a legit source inside the Crows?

 

[hugecannon]

With Finnbar's unexpected arrival, can we confirm that no one on this board or in the media in general has a legit source inside the Crows?

With the obvious exception of Redhorse??

 

[Huntercrow]

I think he is the type of guy who'll fit in really well. Seems like a top bloke on the socials.
Perhaps we can teach him how to kick? didn't work with Obrien. I dunno, what is it with these unco guys??

 

[WaynesWorld19]

I think he is the type of guy who'll fit in really well. Seems like a top bloke on the socials.
Perhaps we can teach him how to kick? didn't work with Obrien. I dunno, what is it with these unco guys??

I know Finbar has worked tirelessly on his kicking .....the guy is a really hard worker

I do think people are overstating his kicking deficiencies .....yeah, it's not great, but it's also nowhere near ROB levels ....it's his goal kicking, which if you look at his highlights, shows it isn't disastrous

His career at NORTH was typical of a bigman .....2 years in VFL, and 7 games in a debut season ....and he improved with each AFL game, as he got the pace of the game