Former #39 Patrick Voss - false messiah

[James98]

Hunter has potential

[No31]

Good decision, wasn’t up to it, time to move on. We should of flicked Weid as well. Investing in Hunter is the right decision.

[EssendonPride1]

Yep.
Investing in the guy that’s barely been on the park for 3 years is the right call. Fits right in. (I actually like Hunter fwiw).

[barnz]

■■■■ club energy

[simmo41]

@JimmyT

Look history says a delisted rookie won’t come back to burn a club

probably not over the course of a career, but i have distinct memories of james podsiadly and josh jenkins rinsing the fk out of us in the early 2010s

[Milanista28]

No one should be surprised at this, I said it mid year that he wasn’t rated by the coaches and he’d likely get mutualed.

If I could pick 1 to keep between Voss and Hunter it’s an easy call, Hunter.

Hope he finds a home elsewhere.

[Alan_Noonan_10]

If only Jenkins was a delisted rookie…a traded rookie, more like.

[The_Ant]

We are basically hoping that one of Jones or Hunter break out. Neither of which are very robust.

Let’s continue to hope.

[Paddy2]

Rather contrasting threads between this one and the Snelling one. Snelling actually played some good games, and was a handy player (albeit with limitations), and did the team thing. Voss on the other hand only showed that he was an ok VFL player

[j_w]

Look. I’d prefer it be Voss that’s chopped over Hunter (who I think has more upside). But the fact that Weiderman is still there (I know he is contracted) over Voss is the ultimate failure in list management.

[alex.f.94]

the greatest player to have never played a game with the EFC

[Saucy]

Should have played a game this year. ■■■■ Brad.

[James98]

Bit disrespectful to the great Austin Lucy

[karmabomber]

Pfft!!!

[paddy29]

@Touchedontheline

@longs93GFgoal

I have a memory as a kid of driving past Windy Hill and seeing graffiti bemoaning the delisting of Glenn Manton - can anyone confirm if there was such graffiti?

Yep, I remember it too. It was something like “Glenn Manton axed, Jill Singer asks why

Only Manton himself would have graffitied that

[PipetoNul]

Turns out he wasn’t the Messiah. He was only a naughty boy.

Couldn’t help myself.

[Fighterbomber]

@paddy29

@Touchedontheline

@longs93GFgoal

I have a memory as a kid of driving past Windy Hill and seeing graffiti bemoaning the delisting of Glenn Manton - can anyone confirm if there was such graffiti?

Yep, I remember it too. It was something like “Glenn Manton axed, Jill Singer asks why

Only Manton himself would have graffitied that

Went to school with Glenn. Can confirm.

[Speedy_Gonzales]

@All-Star_Bomber_18

In reality Voss was only going to be a 3rd tall forward at AFL level, so you have to decide if he has enough skills and tricks to make it in that role and can he develop them?

If not then is it’s not worth time putting more development into him. Plain and simple.

Further to that, maybe he wasn’t living an AFL professional lifestyle (just speculating) so all of that combined results in a delisting.

Exactly.

He had a lot more forward craft to learn to be able to get involved when he wasn’t being the target coming out of goal square.

And even when he was doing that, was not a marking threat

Many an undersized kpf does well at VFL level but can’t transition that to AFL

Maybe they might have persisted with him more if there wasn’t the off field question marks but given there may be he’s left himself at risk of being cut and here we are

Hunter is a genuine kpf option whilst also having a capacity to play fwd/ruck, if decision was between the two glad they went the way we did

[Tbone]

Also probably shows what we want a key forward in the draft

[EssendonPride1]

@Speedy_Gonzales

Maybe they might have persisted with him more if there wasn’t the off field question marks but given there may be he’s left himself at risk of being cut and here we are

Where’s all this nonsense about off field issues coming from? I’ve seen a few people speculate today but don’t recall having ever seen a single thing mentioned about it previously.