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  • Triple B
    Formerly 'BBB'
    • Feb 2003
    • 6999

    #46
    Originally posted by Legs Akimbo
    Impressives stats
    Yep, not a clanger all season.

    A keeper.
    Driver of the Dan Hannebery bandwagon....all aboard. 4th April 09

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    • Cardinal
      Regular in the Side
      • Sep 2008
      • 932

      #47
      He'll be fresh !

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      • chammond
        • Jan 2003
        • 1368

        #48
        Originally posted by liz
        From there it depends on how many - if any - rookie elevations and how many picks they intend to use. Can't see them drafting fewer than 3. Would be surprised with more than 5 (excluding rookie draft).
        Have I missed something, Liz? Doesn't every team have to take at least 3 picks in the national draft?

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        • top40
          Regular in the Side
          • May 2007
          • 933

          #49
          Originally posted by liz
          How many games have you actually seen Johnston play? Indeed how many games has Johnston even played full stop in the past 12 months?

          He is a gangling 18 year old who has spent most of the past 6 months with his foot in a moonboot.

          Sure, we are all entitled to hope he has the talent and application to eventually become a good senior level AFL forward but at this stage we really don't know whether he will or not. Ditto any other tall teenager we draft next month.

          Playfair isn't rubbish. He has proven he can make a reasonable contribution at senior AFL level. It just comes down to whether his injuries will prevent him ever doing so again on a consistent basis.
          I agree.

          Johnstone might end up the greatest forward since John Coleman, but for heaven's sake, slow down, he hasn't played a game yet and he's bearly out of high school! Gee, I hope he is not reading these messages, what extraordinary pressure that would place on the kid.

          Playfair's 2008 form was solid and reliable. I repeat: if he is fit, there is no need to get rid of him. Right now, (and not in say 2012 when young Johnstone has his 21st birthday), Sydney are short of good tall forwards.

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          • Plugger46
            Senior Player
            • Apr 2003
            • 3674

            #50
            There's a bit of Playfair love around. Not absolutely hopeless but slow, can't kick and is injury prone.

            I'll be spewing if he's retained ahead of Schmidt and/or Laidlaw.
            Bloods

            "Lockett is the best of all time" - Robert Harvey, Darrel Baldock, Nathan Burke, Kevin Bartlett, Bob Skilton

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            • laughingnome
              Amateur Statsman
              • Jul 2006
              • 1624

              #51
              Originally posted by Legs Akimbo
              Impressives stats
              His *actual* stats in the Red and White.

              Yes, he did not play this year due to injury. But he will be 27 in January and that should mean at least one more crack when he gets fit.
              Attached Files
              10100111001 ;-)

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              • shaun..
                Stuck in Reserves
                • Jun 2007
                • 691

                #52
                He played the lead-up role quite well, and if fit can play that role again which will give White an opportunity to play the FF and Goodes to roam more freely between forward and midfield.
                "In some ways we?re less predictable to ourselves and sometimes that can be detrimental because we don?t really know where we?re going" - P.Roos

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                • hammo
                  Veterans List
                  • Jul 2003
                  • 5554

                  #53
                  The issue with Playfair is that he's a crock. He had chronic injury problems long before we recruited him. His body won't stand up to any more AFL footy and it's highly unlikely he'll be retained.
                  "As everyone knows our style of football is defensive and unattractive, and as such I have completely forgotten how to mark or kick over the years" - Brett Kirk

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                  • Justice
                    On the Rookie List
                    • Sep 2004
                    • 157

                    #54
                    Originally posted by chammond
                    Have I missed something, Liz? Doesn't every team have to take at least 3 picks in the national draft?
                    Each team must draft three players at the national draft. However a rule change has been made this year that a rookie elevation can count as 'a pick'. Additionally, a NSW scholarship holder such as Gordon could be pre nominated that would also count as a pick.

                    Cheers

                    Justice
                    "Fredom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one" A.J. Liebling (1960)

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                    • Nico
                      Veterans List
                      • Jan 2003
                      • 11328

                      #55
                      To be perfectly Francis, Playfair is just a footballer. It is amazing how a player's stocks go up when he is not playing.
                      http://www.nostalgiamusic.co.uk/secu...res/srh806.jpg

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                      • rojo
                        Opti-pessi-misti
                        • Mar 2009
                        • 1100

                        #56
                        Maybe Playfair's fate depends on what is planned for Daniel Currie. If he is now injury free and has a good pre-season, he is very unlikely to get a senior game as a ruckman. I think I read somewhere that he has played as a forward in junior football. If they don't plan to find a place for him in the forward line he really has no future at the Swans.

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                        • Nico
                          Veterans List
                          • Jan 2003
                          • 11328

                          #57
                          If Johnno is still in the moonboot I don't like his chances.
                          http://www.nostalgiamusic.co.uk/secu...res/srh806.jpg

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                          • Primmy
                            Proud Tragic Swan
                            • Apr 2008
                            • 5970

                            #58
                            Originally posted by Nico
                            If Johnno is still in the moonboot I don't like his chances.
                            Friend and I came to the intraclub match earlier this year and watched the newbies in action. With Johnno it was a case of "whoa!" rubbing of hands and happy chuckles. If the kid gets to be cured or whatever we have a young bloke who has a great footy build, a great sense of where to be on the ground and a finely tuned radar. there was a good reason he was recruited first up. Now all we have to do is cross fingers and pray to whoever you choose that they know how to fix his problem permanently. He is a definite keeper if he gets there.
                            If you've never jumped from one couch to the other to save yourself from lava then you didn't have a childhood

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                            • hammo
                              Veterans List
                              • Jul 2003
                              • 5554

                              #59
                              Originally posted by Nico
                              If Johnno is still in the moonboot I don't like his chances.
                              According to this article he should have been right to go in round 20 but had shin splints. Sounds positive though.

                              "As everyone knows our style of football is defensive and unattractive, and as such I have completely forgotten how to mark or kick over the years" - Brett Kirk

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                              • Primmy
                                Proud Tragic Swan
                                • Apr 2008
                                • 5970

                                #60
                                Tragedy! HairBear with no Hair!!!!

                                Hammo, where do you FIND these things!

                                Interesting tho. Told yurs he was a keeper.
                                If you've never jumped from one couch to the other to save yourself from lava then you didn't have a childhood

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