#15 Jayden Laverde - π‹π’π―πžπ“›π“ͺ𝓾𝓰𝓱 𝕃𝔸𝕍 (Part 2)

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No please

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Hope Lav is OK to go soon - better than 2 or 3 in our backline at the moment…!!

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It’s so dire people are craving Laverde back into the side, we’re headed for the No. 1 pick this year.

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It just goes to prove, 'ya dunno what you’ve got, β€˜till it’s gone’.

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Save us Obi Wan Laverne, you’re our only hope…

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Nope, he stays in the VFL all year

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Be great to have such a punishing kicker and elite decision maker back in the side.

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Yeah I’d get him back in. A message needs to be sent to McKay. You might be on the big dollars, but your efforts are unacceptable. Lav is not a long-term solution, but you need some senior experience down there to support Reid. McKay clearly is not providing anything at all in that regard.

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Let’s be honest. He’d be an automatic in if he’d been available as we didn’t have enough height against Fogarty, Thillithorpe and Tex.

Since Scott wouldn’t give Hayes a go.

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Easy choice as a replacement for Prior

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Lav comes in, has a crack, decent one on one player. Yes he’s a terrible kick but Reid and the other defenders turn it over anyway and don’t win one on ones. He’s also a leader down there, something we are seriously lacking.

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I miss him

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He is so much better then any other bloke in the backline right now.

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He’s also 28 with a failing body on the background of just being AFL standard in his prime.
Given where we are at as a list and a club we would be better off playing the likes of Reid, Hayes, Ridley etc to work out if they’re any good, rather than playing a guy that we know is ok but only going to get worse.

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Did you go to the last 2 games and watch our pathetic uncompetitive backline? I don’t care how old a bloke is, I want a team of competitive players. McKay and Reid β– β– β– β–  themselves anytime a ball is in the air within 100 metres of them.

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Wowsers. You know thinks are dire when people think Laverde will make us a better team.

Agree McKay should be on notice - but we’d be crazy to not keep pumping games into the kids.

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Let’s not fall victim to revisionist history and think Laverde is a solution.

Tank, and tank properly.

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(1) no one actually gives a β– β– β– β–  what you want
(2) for the long term on-field success of the club there is absolutely no benefit in playing Laverde, irrespective of how you feel about the rest of the list

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Point (1) We are on a public forum buddy. Stop being a little β– β– β– β– β– .
Point (2) Age and skill flaws aside, he brings the one thing this team desperately needsβ€”competitiveness. You can’t teach hunger. If we keep selecting players who go through the motions, we’ll keep getting the same soft results. Competitive edge needs to be the non-negotiable standard for building a stronger future.

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Stop arguing and bring the bloke straight IN

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