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VICTORIAN Metro coach David Dickson has a problem, and it won't go away.
Yes, he has a very talented team with precocious talents such as Caydn Beetham, Ben Johnson, Ezra Poyas and Rhyce Shaw, but his team is due to play South Australia in the opening game.
And South Australia has this wonder kid called Matthew Pavlich who the whole darn carnival is talking about.
Pavlich is more man than boy and, with Josh Fraser from Mansfield, is seen to be a certain top-two pick in the coming draft (Fraser went 1, Pavlich 4 after Paul Hasleby and Aaron Fiora).
So Dickson goes through his team and keeps returning to the same name, that of unfashionable Prahran Dragons defender and occasional ruckman Jason Blake.
Quiet and intelligent, but a long way from being one of the "buzz" players being talked about at the carnival - such as Damian Cupido, Jonathan Brown and Joel Corey - Blake is someone Dickson has come to admire.
He's one of those players who is extremely coachable and one who gives Dickson the impression he will rise to occasions that may initially appear beyond him.
So he puts him on the wonder kid Pavlich and hopes his instincts are right
He'll get a fantastic cheer as he walks up to collect his medal.
Craig Willis' booming voice....
Number 27.....Jaaaason Blake!!!!
"At the end of the day, a coach and a fitness adviser doesn't make a good football team, they're not the only ones who got us to two Grand Finals." Lenny Hayes. 27/9/2011.
Read that pece above and looked a t the names. Damian Cupido...A glimpse of something followed by a descent to the big black hole of nothingness... Eats some up, this game, doesn't it.
"The inches we need are everywhere around us. They're in every break in the game. Every minute, every second. On this team we fight for that inch. On this team we tear ourselves and everyone around us to pieces for that inch. We claw with our fingernails for that inch. Because we know when we add up all those inches that's gonna make the f***in' difference between winning and losing! Between living and dying!'
What number did we take him in the 99 draft. Wherever it was we've got great value out of him. Would love to see him with a premiership medal around his neck.
remboy wrote:What number did we take him in the 99 draft. Wherever it was we've got great value out of him. Would love to see him with a premiership medal around his neck.
We took him with pick 24.
Chapman at #31
David Hille #40
Gilbee #42
Enright #43
O'Keefe #56
Cameron Bruce #64
''I still get really excited, and I've got the '66 thing up on the wall in a frame … You look at it and think: one day, we want to achieve that.''- Arryn Siposs
