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Luke McGuane

Knighta said:
The force is strong with tiger12, but his hate blinds him!
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What blinds me is my unhealthy love for the RFC.

I am of the belief that this club could be on the verge of something very special in a years time and beyond. I am also of the belief that the missing link is a gun CHF. Season 2013 is an opportunity to blood one of our own. We cannot win the flag in 2013. Play Griffiths/Astbury and lets see if they can cut the mustard. McGuane is back to the future stuff. Proven dud. One of the reasons this club has been poor for too long. Playing McGuane robs us of testing one of the others. If neither can step up, then maybe priority should be recruiting a proven CHF via free agency. McGuane is not the answer. The only 40 goals McGuane will be responsible for is the goals he costs us from his ineptitude.
 
Tigers of Old said:
As a defender you'd be correct but plenty of forwards make dud defenders. Seems to me we have been playing him in the wrong position until now.
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Cant think of another club that drafts forwards then tries to develop them as defenders ???
 
btoz_01 said:
Cant think of another club that drafts forwards then tries to develop them as defenders ???
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Justin Leppitech drafted as a forward
Ben Reid drafted as a forward
Colin Garland drafted as a forward.
Lachie Henderson drafted as a Forward
Jack watts drafted as a forward
Ted Richards drafted as a forward


All players I can think of off the top of my head. Players are often drafted in different positions to what the play once they get to AFL.
 
Tigertool said:
All players I can think of off the top of my head. Players are often drafted in different positions to what the play once they get to AFL.
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Some other notable examples include David Neitz, Scott Lucas and Chris Grant.
 
bullus_hit said:
Some other notable examples include David Neitz, Scott Lucas and Chris Grant.
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Alastair Lynch another good one too. I think there's more notable players who played back then became forwards.
 
bullus_hit said:
Some other notable examples include David Neitz, Scott Lucas and Chris Grant.
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David Neitz, Scott Lucas, Chris Grant and Luke McGuane. Spot the odd one out.
 
Streak said:
But more importantly, it will further underline to me that we have the right people running key areas of the club. We could have dished him sometime ago, and many of us on here thought we should have.

But the club stuck by him, and if we reap a reward from that, then I think a lot of us need a rethink about our criticism of the club keeping certain players on the list.
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So we could have dished him years ago but the right people decided to keep him. :spin
These would be the same right people who have us in the position of Luke being our second best forward for years.
It's not as if the lack of a CHF (or even any forward outside of Jack) hasn't been obvious for a decade or two.

After reading your "IF we reap a reward" comment I've decided you're just fishing, since we recruited him in 2004.
 
RedanTiger said:
It's not as if the lack of a CHF (or even any forward outside of Jack) hasn't been obvious for a decade or two.
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Indeed, people have been complaining for a decade or two that Jack needs more help.
 
NZtiger said:
He is not perfect, but given the options we have taking into consideration the coaches preferences (see Griff), who would you play there... A. Edwards, Big X, or young Elton?
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I wouldn't play any of them. Plenty of good teams have played 2 talls over a season. I would play a shorter fwd line and look for an opportunity to promote Elton as soon as he looks capable if I had to have a 3rd 6ft 3+ tall.
 
Smoking Aces said:
At the start of the game I told my nephew that McGuane could be a 40 goal a year forward. He almost fell of his seat laughing. But he bobbed up again for a couple of goals. I don't think I will be to far off the mark.
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BOOKMARK!!!!

No chance, no way. Vickery will kick more than *smile*.
 
Juffaricho said:
Yep. I don't trust McGuane one iota.
He played 9 games last year, 6 of those teams were complete crap and he kicked 14 goals against them.
The other 3 were solid teams but nothing special, an injury depleted Carlton, middle of the range team in North and Freo in Freo. He was crap in all those games kicking 1 goal.
So now because he kicked a few goals against crap teams in low pressure NAB games people think he is the answer.

I'll believe when I see it against genuine top 8 teams, early in the season when they have full squads available, not injury depleted crap teams at the back end of a season when half of them are tanking or sending their injured players off for early operations. Remember, those were the ones that Mitch Morton would get 25 possies against on the wing and convince people on here he was out future attacking wingman.
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This and always this. Super post.
 
He is what he is, a trier. Playing forward means mistakes won't be as costly. Appreciate his effort but will never be the answer long term. Everything about the NAB needs to be taken with a massive amount of salt.
 
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