#6 The Joe Dan Thread - the bit between Diggers trolling us and THE RETURN

[Pevster]

Stage 1: Breezer
Stage 2: Beer
Stage 3: Vodka
Stage 4: Rudy Giuliani’s cellar

[samwoods]

Stage 3 : bring out the curtain
Stage 4 : profit

[Rhino-D]

Remember when he torched Carlisle in that game against the saints?

Those were the days…

[Zimmer]

You need a click bait headline.
And don’t be afraid to repeat yourself in slightly different ways to pad it out to the required story length.
But it’s a promising start.
Your new career beckons.

AFL (AFL)

[wimmera1]

Without putting a whole lot of credence into information from either, I find the club more believable than the media on this.
I low key expect Daniher to be playing around round ten or so.
How well he plays is anyone’s, and I use the word specifically, guess.

[Fairybread]

Without going through your own comprehensive medical assessment of someone you can hardly comment on someone else’s management plan.

Unless you are on Blitz then you are automatically a qualified medical practitioner who can diagnose from a blurry picture.

[Mackster]

People need to accept that he’s cooked

Browne might be a fckwit but if true that the surgery hasn’t worked and Joe still struggling then it is a concern.

I hope Joe can over come this and get back to his best believe me but i have my doubts

So first of all you’re telling people to accept the fact that he’s cooked and then you go on to post that you hold on to hope.

Perhaps this thread needs to be divided into one for actual information and one for speculative bullshit.

[Deckham]

Without putting a whole lot of credence into information from either, I find the club more believable than the media on this.
I low key expect Daniher to be playing around round ten or so.
How well he plays is anyone’s, and I use the word specifically, guess.

Yep, odds are that there will be at worst, one more stab at it.

[wannabe]

To fill in the time between Daniher’s return one can but speculate how his recovery will play out and what the risks are of his OP reoccurring. So just thinking out loud and prompt discussion, I wonder if he/the club should consider whether he needs to reinvent himself and plays a less physically demanding game to minimise the risk of his OP reoccurring? This is assuming the level of activity and wear and tear from how he typically plays/trains can promote his OP.

So, no rucking or playing the highly mobile role.

Instead he plays a more stay at home forward - sticks to a 40m arc of the goal square as a marking target. This may mean he will have a greater chance of playing over a number of years, rather than roll the dice of playing his natural game and the risk of breaking down.

My only problem with that is his kicking inside 40m is atrocious.

[Houli_Dooley]

When did we do that?

Just over 3 months ago and it has been explained ad nauseam. Most pertinently by Dodoro.

[Bomb_Doe]

What about from 41-55m?

[bringbackzantuck]

He’s cooked

[bringbackzantuck]

He’s fine

[bringbackzantuck]

Close thread

[oliver09]

He kicked a goal against North from almost 60m in his first game back and another from 65m on Anzac Day. I’m not a doctor but maybe that wasn’t the brightest thing to do on both occasions but how good was it to see? If he plays you can’t say don’t jump too high or kick too far otherwise he’s not the player he can be. It would be like telling Pat Cummins or James Pattinson after their 800th back injury not to bowl so fast or you will hurt yourself. Do that and they’re not going to be the players we want them to be.

[bringbackzantuck]

I said close thread

[Jake_Brady_10]

And laverde + mcgrath

[Diggers]

But is a potential 5% benefit worth flying a guy who is almost 7 feet tall back n forth across the planet?

I’d want a 6% benefit guarantee as a minimum.

[wannabe]

We he’s usually good from that distance, but he has to run a lot more to get those opportunities which goals against the ethos of your plan.

[Bomb_Doe]

sorry - I was just joking with that 41-55m reply.

The serious response is: agree he can struggle with those shorter distance shots - feels he runs more cold than hot with them. If he were to re-invent how he plays then he’d have to sort out his goal kicking to make it more reliable to suit his new approach.

On that note, I recall how his first set shot for the season ( I think it was the season before last, so coming off his excellent 2017 season ) he was about 30 m out on a so-so angle and he decided to kick it across his body. He missed. It struck me as being a very odd thing to do given how he’d gotten his goal kicking together in 2017.

His short distance goal kicking is to Essendon fans what a box of chocolates are to Forrest Gump.