As someone said earlier, he has a habit of playing a turrd first up after a spell, but many were singing his praises not long back.
Let’s hope that’s his stinker out of the way.
That favt just makes his selection all the more baffling
Well, no it doesn’t, … given the Dogs were the worst performing team thus far this year, … it was ostensibly the best time to get the stinker out of the way, … except almost every other player in the team wound up having one as well.
That unnamed “someone” is clueless. Myers’ best spells over his career - comprised of, say, the top 35% of his games - have been serviceable, and the remaining 65% have been somewhere between “barely serviceable” and “abominable”.
He is kind of symbolic of the last decade - mediocrity, denial and idiocy reign supreme. He isn’t Robinson Crusoe in this category, though - Lonergan, NLM, Dyson, Colyer, Bolton, Slattery, Howlett etc. all were kind of the same story of guys getting close to and in some cases well past 100 AFL games despite being obviously and consistently well off the pace for AFL.
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He can keep playing…as long at its in the VFL. I don’t care if he has 30 touches every week for the rest of the year down there, he should never ever play in the 1s again. We need to move past who have been around for ages and still haven’t been good enough
He is done, cooked,finished.
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Much more obviously
Why are we wasting time playing Myers as a mid/defender - Better to play Langford as a mid/forward who can share this role with Stringer - And Langford will play better as a forward compared to Myers as a defender.
We barely have room for Stringer in our forward line as it is.
I want a guy who can play mid/mid. Having the real Zerrett back would do for now
Whats the point of Myers spending half his time in defence.
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Release Goddard into the midfield? Just a guess because I saw him in some centre squares in the second half.
It gets worse when (if) LAV survives the next couple weeks and has to come in. No one individually matches Mr Hooker, but it may be best to send him back.
(Remember the good ol’ days when you could name all of TDaniher Merrett Salmon Van Der Haar up forward?)
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Excellent game yesterday, I especially liked his time in defence. His aerial work really undervalued.
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Sycophantic horseshit.
He’s not made a consistent contribution since 2014. 2014!!!
Happy for him to come into the side by banging the door down in the VFL - but there’s a clear set of double standards on display here, harkening back to the nasty last few years of Sheeds.
You can say it’s all fine and all good, but fact is there’s 20 young guys outside the “Best 22” ™ who seemingly need to string together a month of best-ons before getting a game - and a few guys who only need to be taken off the injury list before the red carpet gets rolled out.
At a point where the group as a whole seems to have little belief and buy-in to the game plan, a niggling voice in the back of my head is getting harder and harder to ignore.
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Yep agreed. Jackson Merrett has seemingly been in better form than Myers over the last 12 months (at times a pretty decent run of games) and has never got a look in. We all agree Jackson is done but the double standards are palpable.
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Anyone notice how Myers handballs like a civilian? Like just does not look like a league footy player when hand passing the fkn football.
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l shuddered when l saw Dave in defence, knowing it would cost us goals. Stick a fork in him.
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Will play this week for sure. Clubs farked.
It’s one game. But, he is coming off not being right, and given how he played, then getting dropped to the VFL would make a lot of sense. Actually it would help Myers to go off and get himself into form. If he shows excellent form then sure bring him in if there is a spot for him because someone is not playing well. The match committee need to be clear that poor form is poor form, and they won’t pick teams based on hoping player X,Y or Z will come good. The club had a look at Myers and they gave him a go. Fair enough it was worth a try given the queries over Langford. But it didn’t work out. Whether Langford or Clarke or some other-young hopeful is going to bring the intensity and skills we need, well that’s to be seen. But other teams seem to bring in some kids and they fit in and develop. It’s for the coaches to earn their keep and sort this out. It doesn’t mean winning. It’s about being competitive and trying to do the right things.
Leadership Qualities.