Would You Take Brendan Fevola Back

[Blues_FC]

I wish we had never traded Fev, but now that he's gone there's no point in trying to get him back. But it's funny that the thing we've been sorely missing this year has been a good key position forward. It's also funny that the spuds at Carlton decided to go all out for midfielders in the draft.

At least if we'd kept Fevola, we might at least have been interesting to watch this year. The last month +, we have looked like a D-grade local football team, not an AFL standard side. There have been very few highlights.

 

[jakson68]

He got 1 kick last night and has done not much all year.
Why would you want him back. Believe in the players you have, the best thing Carlton has done is let him go.
Maybe not this season but for the clubs future, your club is better off without him. IMO

 

[Cazbah]

Nope, we should have gotten rid of him years ago.

 

[Kades_Dad]

Dropping Fevola was the only good move that the Blues coaching staff has made in the past 12 months.

They can make another good move by dropping Ratten.

 

[ESKIE]

He got 1 kick last night and has done not much all year.
Why would you want him back. Believe in the players you have, the best thing Carlton has done is let him go.
Maybe not this season but for the clubs future, your club is better off without him. IMO

I agree

Henderson will develop, Fev is not the solution...our problem is between the ears

 

[JuddFevGoal]

No matter what happens, I don't want the cancer back at our club.

Once again - stupid reference to Fevola being a 'cancer'.

A cancer spreads and damages the body. At least that's the point of this charming metaphor.

I think it's pretty obvious to all now that the 'body' is damaged all on its own.

Time to find a new perspective.

 

[JuddFevGoal]

Dropping Fevola was the only good move that the Blues coaching staff has made in the past 12 months.

They can make another good move by dropping Ratten.

Dumb ass comment.

In no way has it been borne out that dropping an elite forward has benefited our team, either culturally or on field.

Furthermore, it's not surprising that Fev is not performing in Brisbane. Firstly, he clearly doesn't want to be there. And secondly, their coaching strategy and game plan has gone pear shaped.

Carlton were on track last year.

Then they gave away their second most talented player because he was a 'personality' (can't have them in modern football) and most ironically, the exact same team who was touted as 'best midfield of the league', who came nowhere near the shambles of our last 6 weeks, are now being excused by posters here as being statistically 'young'.

Well, for starters, the team was young last year but much more consistent. They had off games last year, not off 6 weeks stints.

Secondly, I thought everyone was excited about the cultural improvement and lack of predictability of not having Fevola there. Well, right now we are the most predictable and easy team to beat in the league. Get numbers back on us, and play congested footy and we have no answers.

What's more, we don't even look like scoring...

Ratts was a champion player, but 2 more games as coach in this vein and he'll be out the door.

The wrong man left the club last year.

 

[blue gunslinger]

Once again - stupid reference to Fevola being a 'cancer'.

A cancer spreads and damages the body. At least that's the point of this charming metaphor.

I think it's pretty obvious to all now that the 'body' is damaged all on its own.

Time to find a new perspective.

not necessarily
An abnormal growth of cells which tend to proliferate in an uncontrolled way and, in some cases, to metastasize (spread).

 

[Alpha1]

Good example Brisbane, but still don't want him back no matter what.

 

[JuddFevGoal]

not necessarily
An abnormal growth of cells which tend to proliferate in an uncontrolled way and, in some cases, to metastasize (spread).

I'm not sure if you realise this, but your post appears to be in exact agreement with mine.

 

[JuddFevGoal]

Once again, time to change your user name.

Fevola has been referred to may things through and after our tenure.
Let's just go and see what ther Brisbane boys are thinking about Fevola, right now.

Fev brought many things to our club in an Akermanis sort of way, and for all the overt good that was there, the covert bad was worse.

Sure H, heard it a million times, but back it up with FACTS.

Why should we all take as given that 'the covert bad was worse' has any substance to it whatsoever?

By the way at the start of this season I contacted TODN about changing my handle to move on with the times, and he said it wasn't technically possible for him to help me. So here I am.

 

[gbatman]

a broken down old trouble maker, he's not been doing great, would not take him, too old.

 

[JuddFevGoal]

We've all been through the Fev deal a hundred times over and 6 weeks back he was furthest thing from our minds, yet after some ordinary results we come clutching at straws and bring Fev out back onto the table.

The Fev story is done and dusted and doesn't do anything more than for us to deflect the truth of our current status:
We have a good group of players that for one reason or another are collectively performing below their abilities, irrespective of the age of the group.
Tap into the reasons for this and we will go some way to correct this ship.

Re. your user name?: I am so sorry

Hmmm, let me see...

- No leading forward target.
- Poor coaching and poor structures.
- Midfield continually delivering to a shambles forward structure.

All adversarial stuff aside though, perhaps the point here is, that if the club can realise and dare I say it admit that they made a poor decision, it might actually help them not to avoid another "mistake" (Jeanne Pratt's description in her Herald Sun interview) in the future.

Sure, getting him back is almost certainly pointless now. The horse has bolted.

But to say it's the best decision that the current management of Carlton has ever made is, in my opinion, ridiculous. It's the sort of thinking that will keep us in the realm of mediocrity for a long time.

 

[watchful eye]

No! Fev's best days are behind him. Let's look forward, not back.

 

[blue gunslinger]

I'm not sure if you realise this, but your post appears to be in exact agreement with mine.

not all cancers spread to the rest of the body
Fev risked doing so
Certainly if we had acted more vigorously and earlier it would have helped prevent this
Fev showed a lot of unprofessionalism on/off the park and still does
Since he left have the remaining unit shown the professionalism we demand?

 

[Stig O'Hara]

He was a bighead when he was with us.

You can add fat and lazy since he departed.

Nope.

 

[Silvagnis]

I'd rather bring Cam Mooney in for two years to teach our forwards about team play, second efforts and hardness.

Would be a better role model for Henderson than a lazy drunk.

 

[CrippsonBlue]

I would love Fev back at our club.

Not because I think we're falling to pieces, and not because I think we need him.

I just love him - always have, always will. I'm not interested in what image the media tries and sells to me.

However, adding Fev to our side would be detrimental to our future success (and no, I am not referring to any pathetic reference of him being a 'cancer')

I would like to believe we could incorporate a talented player like Fev into a new forward structure, however I know we would just revert back to targeting him all the time.

Obviously this would hinder the development of our other forwards, and hinder any chance to build a forward structure that could work.

Won't happen, but if we're dreaming - in a perfect world for me, Fev would come back in 2 years, play for 1 year, and win a premiership with us.

 

[JuddFevGoal]

I would love Fev back at our club.

Not because I think we're falling to pieces, and not because I think we need him.

I just love him - always have, always will. I'm not interested in what image the media tries and sells to me.

However, adding Fev to our side would be detrimental to our future success (and no, I am not referring to any pathetic reference of him being a 'cancer')

I would like to believe we could incorporate a talented player like Fev into a new forward structure, however I know we would just revert back to targeting him all the time.

Obviously this would hinder the development of our other forwards, and hinder any chance to build a forward structure that could work.

Won't happen, but if we're dreaming - in a perfect world for me, Fev would come back in 2 years, play for 1 year, and win a premiership with us.

Well said! Finally - a real point of view and not just 'spin'.

Alas I fear you are right, that your final sentiment is just a dream.

However one point. I maintain that if a club can't build a structure around a forward that demands the ball, that is an indictment on the coach and other players rather than the forward. We are seeing now how lacklustre the leads are.

My involvement with club insiders has suggested that the players loved Fev, borne out by the warm interactions following our first Brisbane match and I wouldn't be surprised if his departure has contributed to the current morale slump.

A team without champions has no one to look up to and show what is possible.

 

[JuddFevGoal]

Some may want to call this "spin" also, but makes for a lot more sense than any notions of Fev holding up a cup in The Navy Blue.
He's played a couple of reasonable games for Brisbane, pulled out 2 show stopper goals, got himself horribly fat and terribly uninterested and now injured.

Yep, Fevs our man.

You've completely ignored the point made by posters here that Fev doesn't want to be Brisbane and has said himself that he didn't want to go. Throw in that his family is back in Melbourne, his current team is imploding.

Even in the midst of all that he managed to single handedly destroy the Pies earlier this year.

Environment has a huge impact on the results of individual players, particularly one's who play on emotion. Case in point - Barry Hall's amazing resurrection with the Bulldogs. And Barry Hall was often described as a (yawn) cancer also.

Not disagreeing about Mooney either, but good to remember that the Cats individuals exist in a very well judged structure.

 

[BLue_Bloys]

I love the sentimental aspect of having Fev back but....We don't need him.

Henderson will be good, cannot believe the amount of people rubbishing him on this forum. Probably the same people that give it to Jack Watts for not dominating straight away, or Josh Kennedy and Ben Reid etc.

Our biggest problem is our structure and attitude. We don't work nearly hard enough, have a look at the good sides and when they are in a rut you see half a dozen leads, trying to create space. Our players are content to stand still which will never work against good defensive sides.

 

[Madblue]

Nearly 50 goals in almost half a season when injured. How many has our FF kicked whoever he is ?

 

[CrippsonBlue]

Some may want to call this "spin" also

His post had nothing to do with spin. It was a cheap shot.

Don't you love the irony you're so willing to follow?

 

[Mister Carlton]

OP is a spud and Fevola is a spud. No thanks.

 

[JuddFevGoal]

OP is a spud and Fevola is a spud. No thanks.

You make some cogent points there.

And I thought your argument was moronic and over-simplistic.

How could I have been so short sighted?