Spangher gets a call up

[Big Al]

Should we not give him more than half a game before completely writing him off?

Even stranger is that half was quite good.

[Sauce]

seen better debuts. meh another middle of the road player with injuries.

[Plugger1300]

Another postitive post from Big sauce
cheer cheer

[Peace]

Hey man, take a walk on the brighter side...

seen better debuts. meh another middle of the road player with injuries.

I've seen worse debuts, showed some positive signs in the first half for his first game playing with the seniors, hope the injury isn't too serious...

[giant]

Our expectations have got very low. What I saw was a player with the footy smarts of a lamington. His recruitment has not strengthened the quality of our list.

[wolftone57]

OK, so how many of us ressie watchers are feeling justifiably smug at present?
We called for Spank to be included in the seniors, as a forward, and it looks like we are right on the money. Smug and Superior all at once!

I agree he is going to be good once he gets the pace back & he leads well to a good posie.

[Sauce]

Our expectations have got very low. What I saw was a player with the footy smarts of a lamington. His recruitment has not strengthened the quality of our list.

How true this is.

2010 was a good year for our discards from other clubs i guess we are hoping our luck continues.

[Big Al]

Our expectations have got very low. What I saw was a player with the footy smarts of a lamington. His recruitment has not strengthened the quality of our list.

What passages of play in that game demonstrated his lack of footy smarts???

[wolftone57]

Our expectations have got very low. What I saw was a player with the footy smarts of a lamington. His recruitment has not strengthened the quality of our list.

I think you must have watched another game, he lead well to crap delivery, he moved to posi well until he pulled up sore. It is quite normal for a player who has had a long lay off to pull up sore. He contributed to the team effort & hit the packs a couple of times which brought the ball to ground & gave the smalls an opportunity. We have in recent years had problems with getting enough height on the field & if Jesse can come good & this bloke deliver a whole game look forward to a great year next year.

We are in developmental stage this year & I am willing to wait at least three or four games to make a judgement as to where Matt Spangher is at but at least I will give him those games unlike you who haven't said anything constructive. Just negative criticism (TWICE)!!!

[wolftone57]

How true this is.

2010 was a good year for our discards from other clubs i guess we are hoping our luck continues.

The same I said to Giant applies to you nothing but negativity. How about being constructive for a change & if you think there is good reason to be deconstructive please make salient points. Come forward with some reasons for your criticism that will actually hold water.

[Melbournehammer]

Honestly this board veers between the wildly negative and the bizarrely positive. Spangher played ok against a team of kids who have clearly hit the wall and can't wait for the end of the season.

It was neither a positive nor a negative return - it was simply adequate in a seventy point win.

As usual we are picking at the positions 19-22 on the field as though this will change the teams performance. Let's look instead at the fumbling half backs who are our first choice defensive team and how frequently they missed each other by hand and foot - and these are all in our best 15.

There was one occasion where Grundy, richards, Tadgh and smith were four on three and still coughed it up after hand balling to each others feet, backs and over their heads. I can only assume this was done to get a sense of what the game might be like if there was actual pressure on the field.

Accept spangher and Jesse for what they are big bodies who can play a kp but will not be world beaters and rely on the rest of the team to actually be that - and I'm looking at goodes and mcveigh as the startingpoints there as players who need to convert when they have taken marks inside fifty.

[Dosser]

Honestly this board veers between the wildly negative and the bizarrely positive. Spangher played ok against a team of kids who have clearly hit the wall and can't wait for the end of the season.

It was neither a positive nor a negative return - it was simply adequate in a seventy point win.

As usual we are picking at the positions 19-22 on the field as though this will change the teams performance. Let's look instead at the fumbling half backs who are our first choice defensive team and how frequently they missed each other by hand and foot - and these are all in our best 15.

There was one occasion where Grundy, richards, Tadgh and smith were four on three and still coughed it up after hand balling to each others feet, backs and over their heads. I can only assume this was done to get a sense of what the game might be like if there was actual pressure on the field.

Accept spangher and Jesse for what they are big bodies who can play a kp but will not be world beaters and rely on the rest of the team to actually be that - and I'm looking at goodes and mcveigh as the startingpoints there as players who need to convert when they have taken marks inside fifty.

I'm inclined to agree as that is what Geelong did for a few years. Mooney was a good KPP without being sensational. His big strength was his presence and ability to split packs. I will settle for that with either of these two.

[Primmy]

Actually started this thread because the ressie watchers were all for Spang playing up Forward instead of Down Back, where he usually struts, because we noted he was doing so in his ressie games, and it was working surprisingly well.

Strange how all your minds work. Still, nice to know we had a bit of inside observation and that it was genuine and we can sit smugly and say "we called that he was going to play up forward". That's about it really. He did his job, he helped the kid, he worked well with his team mates, he played his first senior game this season in a club that picked him up after he was delisted on the other side of the country, he looked like he was enjoying himself, he contributed to the setup without getting in anyones way, he had a bit of a strut. That's about as much as I was interested in.