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Re: Andrew Browne
« Reply #195 on: May 29, 2011, 05:57:27 PM »
Apologies to big Andrew.
He gave his all again and should hold his head high....sort of....half mast
I was pretty peeed off up until about 30 minutes ago.
He's just a kid...bla bla.

Was a woeful performance and im sure he's doing head miles today.

We have the list we have this year and i have been trying hard to not go mental on the kids.

.....still not happy tho

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Re: Andrew Browne
« Reply #196 on: May 29, 2011, 06:06:52 PM »
 :rollin @ brownE  :rollin @ Graham  :rollin at rucks in general! Let them dominate just learn to ruck to the 2 or 3 that are any good in the league.
And Bogan isn't one of them!

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Re: Andrew Browne
« Reply #197 on: May 29, 2011, 07:17:49 PM »
Differences

Graham can mark kick,kick goals,handball and ruck.

Brown is an embarrassment way more than Gus
really  can you point me to those games where this happened.
5 yrs of graham is enough for me. 6 games of browne and 4 yrs younger. personally while both are dinosaurs and both are ordinary i know which one id persevere with.

what is patently clear is the club should have gone out got an extra ruckman or two like some of suggested.

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Re: Andrew Browne
« Reply #198 on: May 29, 2011, 07:41:17 PM »
How many on here think either Graham or Browne are you beut footballers, there wouldnt be many id say.

To me this is whats happening. We took a punt on angus a very very unco and limited player on the rookie list, nothing ventured nothing gained.
We have persevered for 5 seasons and while hes shown some improvement hes shown hes not the answer.

We have drafted a similar type player on the rookie list originally in Browne. Hes younger just as unco but needs to be given a chance to show he can at least be better than Graham. Its unlikely either will be good enough but after 5 yrs of gus with the same glareing deficiencies  enough is enough.

People forget we are in rebuild OR CHOOSE TO IGNORE THIS SIMPLE FACT. Like it or lump it  that is where we are at.
Browny is just one of many kids we will throw in the deep end and likely fail, but hopefully we will throw some in there who will succeed. Cmon people this is the process the club has failed to go thru and importantly stick to for 30 yrs now.

Its simple draft em, look at em, give em a chance to shine, keep those who do and turn the rest over. We have looked at gus he should be turned over we are now going thru the process of giving browny a chance to show he may belong or not. patience is called for.

people yelling for brownes head or helbigs are losing sight of the process we have to go thru.  getting games into these kids and finding out if they have what it takes  is more important than winning for us atm.

i can tell ya all when we have a squad capable of challenging for a flag we wont be having countless  debates about how good or poor so many of our players are. we will know.

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Re: Andrew Browne
« Reply #199 on: May 29, 2011, 08:07:42 PM »
claw - there is no doubt that Graham is not the answer...but neither is Browne. Browne's deficencies are not ones that can be corrected with time. Size, strength, experience and game nouse can be improved with time and development but skills rarely improve. Usually if skills do appear to improve with a player it is more likely an illusion created with players learning how to make better decisions under pressure and this execute desposals more confidently. Browne does not have that skill-set to begin with and neither I would suggest, well at least to a lesser degree, does Graham. Dimma recruited players into the club with an already definite level of desposal capablilty for a reason - you can't develop this.

Browny will give his all, wins a few taps and even take a few grabs from time to time but his speed and desposal will never improve. So while you call for patience and time with the big bluey, the facts remain he is a stop-gap and nothing more. So calls for his and Grahams demise ARE definitely unproductive and completely wasted at present regardless of the legitimacy of these outcries, but until we have ruckmen with the required skill set and potential to improve to AFL level then they are the best we have.

Won't stop people crying out in frustration and pain at both ruckmens obvious flaws but calls for their demise are fruitless non-the-less I give you.....

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Re: Andrew Browne
« Reply #200 on: May 29, 2011, 08:25:08 PM »
Tommy Derickx should get the next opportunity. He mightn't be fully fit, but he can at least take a grab.
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Re: Andrew Browne
« Reply #201 on: May 29, 2011, 08:35:55 PM »
I am curious to watch the replay because obviously how things looked live out on the ground in the Darwin heat & humidity compared to what came through on Foxtel must have been very different going by what I've read so far

really  can you point me to those games where this happened.
5 yrs of graham is enough for me. 6 games of browne and 4 yrs younger. personally while both are dinosaurs and both are ordinary i know which one id persevere with.

what is patently clear is the club should have gone out got an extra ruckman or two like some of suggested.

Good points Claw

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Re: Andrew Browne
« Reply #202 on: May 29, 2011, 08:51:05 PM »
I am curious to watch the replay ....
Are you sure?  :rollin  :lol

I deleted it straight off the HDD recorder as soon as the game finished.
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Re: Andrew Browne
« Reply #203 on: May 29, 2011, 08:57:50 PM »
I am curious to watch the replay ....
Are you sure?  :rollin  :lol

I deleted it straight off the HDD recorder as soon as the game finished.

Every year for my birthday I get the entire season on DVD as a gift - it'll be delivered on Friday

I'll watch it and then probably either turf the DVDs or add them to my coaster collection  :thumbsup
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Re: Andrew Browne
« Reply #204 on: May 29, 2011, 09:06:43 PM »
I am curious to watch the replay because obviously how things looked live out on the ground in the Darwin heat & humidity compared to what came through on Foxtel must have been very different going by what I've read so far


WP, do you honestly think it was humid?  At 8.30pm in Darwin on Sat night the relative humidity was 76%.  In Melbourne at the exact same time (9.00pm) it was 79%.  The temp in Darwin was 21%.  I can't buy into the weather being a factor at all - it's a convenient bullsh1t excuse.

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Re: Andrew Browne
« Reply #205 on: May 29, 2011, 09:16:23 PM »
WP, do you honestly think it was humid?  At 8.30pm in Darwin on Sat night the relative humidity was 76%.  In Melbourne at the exact same time (9.00pm) it was 79%.  The temp in Darwin was 21%.  I can't buy into the weather being a factor at all - it's a convenient bullsh1t excuse.

Personally smokey no I didn't think it was that humid. I did think as the sun was setting that the humidity went up but, no I didn't think it was that bad.

But I can understand why people are saying it though. Especially the way the ball seemed to move in the air and with the extra moisture on the ground surface

Couple with that having left Melb in the morning where it was only 12 degrees and you could notice any humidty at all because of the cold and then getting to Darwin where it was 25-26 and it got hotter as the day went on think people just automatically think hot means humid up there 
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Re: Andrew Browne
« Reply #206 on: May 29, 2011, 10:07:55 PM »

Fact is Browne is a chromosome off female foolation,



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Re: Andrew Browne
« Reply #207 on: May 29, 2011, 10:45:14 PM »

Fact is Browne is a chromosome off female foolation,



 :lol
That could be a Homer quote
got to be close to quote of the yr.
foolation female at that sheesh the possibilities are endless.

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Re: Andrew Browne
« Reply #208 on: May 30, 2011, 12:48:22 PM »
should have had a rookie ruck down at the club when we were canvassing for the last spot

which was really just a north korean election as they were always going to take travis the drug cheat

and how did that go again  :banghead

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Re: Andrew Browne
« Reply #209 on: May 30, 2011, 12:52:25 PM »
Travis  ;D