Andrew Browne [merged]

[Infamy]

Browne not ready yet but would rather have him than Gus any day.

If not now then when is he ready???

He's only in his 2nd year FFS
Shouldn't be expected to play a major role for another 2-3 years.

[WA Tiger]

Browne not ready yet but would rather have him than Gus any day.

If not now then when is he ready???

He's only in his 2nd year FFS
Shouldn't be expected to play a major role for another 2-3 years.

Big call Inf FFS, when are our players going to ever come on mate, really, we seem to try and develop players more then any club. Why can't we actually draft players that are AFL ready??? Every other club seems to do it regularly, we don't, we always have developing players that never actually make it.

Acid on time, who else have we got???? This guy and Gus were are our apparent future, when the hell is this future coming please????

[Infamy]

Browne not ready yet but would rather have him than Gus any day.

If not now then when is he ready???

He's only in his 2nd year FFS
Shouldn't be expected to play a major role for another 2-3 years.

Big call Inf FFS, when are our players going to ever come on mate, really, we seem to try and develop players more then any club. Why can't we actually draft players that are AFL ready??? Every other club seems to do it regularly, we don't, we always have developing players that never actually make it.

Acid on time, who else have we got???? This guy and Gus were are our apparent future, when the hell is this future coming please????

It's not a big call at all. The kid's a rookie list ruckman for Geez sake. He's miles ahead of schedule. To critisise the club for not developing players quick enough or for not drafting AFL ready players is just ridiculous. We are forced to play kids early before they have been developed properly, it's been one of our biggest problems, yet some on here think there is some magical voodoo that should make our 19-20 year olds to be gun players in our side without any support from more senior bodies.

I don't know how this doesn't get through some of your thick skulls

[Penelope]

Agree about the lack of developing properly WAT, but recruiting more ready made players.?

Considering between 80 odd players are drafted every year, very few are actually ready made footballers.

This year we seem to have, at this stage anyway, found two. Can't ask for much better than that. How many others drafted last year are playing regularly?  6-7?

Also just because they are ready to go straight away, doesn't mean they end up better players than those are not.

I think it's reasonable to not expect any real contribution from Browne for another 2 years, but is it unreasonable to expect to see a bit more from him at Coburg at the moment?

[Smokey]

Saw Browne play in a practice match at Carrara vs Brisbane pre-season 2009 - for a first year, 18 year old 205cm ruckman he was quite good.  Showed a lot of promise - was keen to get around the ground and throw his bulk around, got a bit of possession and made his presence felt.  I would love to have seen him come on quicker to fill the yawning chasm we have in this area but as Infamy says - we have to give him time.  He has shown enough, early enough, to suggest that he has the potential to make it so it would be very remiss of the club to let hem go now.  I have a feeling they are intentionally letting him grow in a lower level so that he develops a superior attitude that he will need when he comes up against the older more experienced senior ruckmen.  Leave him alone for the present - he is not the problem but he could very conceivably be a part of the solution.

[WA Tiger]

Browne not ready yet but would rather have him than Gus any day.

If not now then when is he ready???

He's only in his 2nd year FFS
Shouldn't be expected to play a major role for another 2-3 years.

Big call Inf FFS, when are our players going to ever come on mate, really, we seem to try and develop players more then any club. Why can't we actually draft players that are AFL ready??? Every other club seems to do it regularly, we don't, we always have developing players that never actually make it.

Acid on time, who else have we got???? This guy and Gus were are our apparent future, when the hell is this future coming please????

It's not a big call at all. The kid's a rookie list ruckman for Geez sake. He's miles ahead of schedule. To critisise the club for not developing players quick enough or for not drafting AFL ready players is just ridiculous. We are forced to play kids early before they have been developed properly, it's been one of our biggest problems, yet some on here think there is some magical voodoo that should make our 19-20 year olds to be gun players in our side without any support from more senior bodies.

I don't know how this doesn't get through some of your thick skulls

Mate, I am not having a crack at the club re developing players, I am more frustrated I think with how long our players seem to take developing than other clubs.

I also do not have a thick skull thank you, you seem very worked up today perhaps you should go and get laid, I am off out to dinner soon and then I might do the same...

[Infamy]

That's the thing though, we don't take longer to develop our players, it just seems that it does because we player our kids so soon and rely on them to carry the team. Other sides let their kids develop at lower levels and when they do play have older mature bodies to do the bulk of the work.

To think a rookie listed ruckman in his 2nd year is developing slowly because he hasn't been playing AFL regularly is flat out stupidity.

Granted our lack of development staff has hindered our development of players in the past, however we haven't had a chance to see the results of our increased expenditure in these areas yet.

[TigerLand]

Browne has another 5 years til he hits his peak age.

[TFL]

The Big Fella, played well today and was up against Roughhead from the Bulldogs who is rated pretty highly.

I think he is going ok, we are just in that situation where we become so impatient due to the quality of our list.

[bojangles17]

all good points,seems to get lost on most just how long rucks take to come on, Jamar, Mitch clark...when were they drafted again and Jolly was ordianry for some time before he hit his straps...yet we are impatient after 18mths ...watching this unit train he looks to have good skills and I agree about leaving him build confidence at VFL, nowhere to hide at afl level for the big fellas

[yellowandback]

all good points,seems to get lost on most just how long rucks take to come on, Jamar, Mitch clark...when were they drafted again and Jolly was ordianry for some time before he hit his straps...yet we are impatient after 18mths ...watching this unit train he looks to have good skills and I agree about leaving him build confidence at VFL, nowhere to hide at afl level for the big fellas

Dean Cox anyone? Took 5 years to get going. Bag Gus, leave Browne alone for a couple of years - he may or may not make it. He's big enough.

[tony_montana]

I like this kid

[Tigeritis™©®]

I'm not 100% sure but it would have to be the worst 1st 2 games I've seen from any player ever.

[Infamy]

For a rookie drafted ruckman who only turned 20 a week ago, he wouldn't have got selected in a senior side for another club for about another 2 years. You idiots writing him off fail at life.

[the_boy_jake]

Unfortunately for Browne he's played twice when we just haven't turned up.