Matthew McDonough [merged]

[Judge Roughneck]

Stupid to drop him

[tigs2011]

you'd think that some you blokes have never seen a kid play their first game and struggle with the increased tempo.

How many times have we heard someone interviewed after their first game and comment on this?

amazing stuff.

Was no worse than Flossy's debut. 

[the claw]

Claw you cant let up.you have to sink the boots in ,on a player who has had a ripper of a year.hes a club favourite for a reason

hes a very average player and we must do better than not just him but several regulars. keeping and playing favorites over development ultimately leads to failure and mediocrity.

we all agree we are a middling team but noone wants to see the neccesary steps taken that will enable us to take the next step. why because poorly skilled players are club favorites.
battlers will only take you so far and by god we have our share of battlers.

[🏅Dooks]

you'd think that some you blokes have never seen a kid play their first game and struggle with the increased tempo.

Yes and no.

By the way some people here were carrying on about how he was beating the proverbial door down to get into the side, its almost as if a Dean Polo-esque debut was expected.

[Ruanaidh]

you'd think that some you blokes have never seen a kid play their first game and struggle with the increased tempo.

Yes and no.

By the way some people here were carrying on about how he was beating the proverbial door down to get into the side, its almost as if a Dean Polo-esque debut was expected.

He was regularly amongst the best at the burgers and will be a good player for us going forward IMO. But yesterday he played against one of Carltons best players so no I didn't expect too much yesterday.

[the claw]

if playing mcdonough is an attempt to improve on the likes of white king edwards then we need to play him and get games into him. he has the skillset and he has ploish he has most of the tools to make it, unlike some who are getting games . hes also earnt a game.
play the kid ffs and give him a decent run at it.

its like the mcbean scenario. why do we keep on playing mcguane. mcguane is another of those battlers like white and king, he can play some servicable footy but you just know they will kill ya when under pressure and cant take us forward.  surely its of greater long term benefit to play mcbean than mcguane we would have 5 - 10 games into this kid now and im sure we would not have lost much in performance if we played him. mcbean is another who as far as i can see has earnt a game.

[Chuck17]

This year we are playing finals and the side will be picked accordingly

[Judge Roughneck]

Mcgaune 

Screw development

[Yeahright]

I would rather see McBean play.

You think he'll do much better in his first game? Chances are very small

[the claw]

I would rather see McBean play.

You think he'll do much better in his first game? Chances are very small

what ever happened to rewarding good seconds form. oh i see it only applies to mature players.
if you overlook development altogether you wont go far in this caper. geez i bet they said thing about brodie grundy and others just like him.
it has to be the same rule for all.

[Penelope]

WTF?

[WilliamPowell]

WTF?

And I thought I was the only one baffled 

[Yeahright]

Thank god I thought I was the only one confused. Think Claw needs to go back and read all of it

[Penelope]

heaven forbid he actually read and comprehend the whole conversation.

[MADTIGER2010]

By the looks of it his kicking isn't one of his assets.

lol. Joking aren't you?
Looks highly skilled on either foot.