Sean Dempster - Defence or Tagging?

[Solar]

So to summarize: Soft and slow, deserves another go.

add "used to play at the swans" and you will have lyons selection process

[mad saint guy]

Useless. Physically weak, no footy brain, no composure, crap in the air, crap at ground level. We already have Raph, Gwilt, Ferguson and Allen in the reserves who could all play the same role and do a better job. Dempster was definitely a forced add-on to the Schneider trade for cap reasons.

[saintsRrising]

His height is listed at 192 and 191cm..on various sites

He did not look it today....
more like 189 ish..

[maverick]

So to summarize: Soft and slow, deserves another go.

So who are you talking here?

Dal
X
Fiora
Gram
G
Dempster
Blake


There's a few to choose from........

[vacuous space]

I've been trying to keep a lid on Dempstermania, but I'll stick up for the guy: he wasn't that bad and deserves another run. He played a fair chunk of the game on Steve Johnson and while Johnson definitely got the better of him, I thought he showed some promise. He showed much more of a nose for the ball than he ever did at Sydney. His disposal was pretty ordinary, but it was really more his decisions than his excecution that let him down. It was his first AFL game in a long time and I'll cut the guy a little slack given his first task was shutting down an AA level forward. Next week he should get a less stellar opponent and should be better for a game under his belt.

[mad saint guy]

Probably the worst thing I saw from him was at one stage his opponent made a lead (starting about 20m from goal directly in front) and Dempster didn't even realise it and start chasing until he was 15m clear and his opponent was allowed to take an uncontested mark inside 50. That is a far worse concerntration lapse than anything I have ever seen from Raph Clarke.

[Otiman]

He played a fair chunk of the game on Steve Johnson

The chunk in the first half where he was held goalless? Or the second half where he kicked 3 and set up another 2 or 3.

[Apu]

Probably the worst thing I saw from him was at one stage his opponent made a lead (starting about 20m from goal directly in front) and Dempster didn't even realise it and start chasing until he was 15m clear and his opponent was allowed to take an uncontested mark inside 50. That is a far worse concerntration lapse than anything I have ever seen from Raph Clarke.

The worst thing I saw was in the last qtr when Dempster had the ball just outside of the a flooded saints Forward 50, Tried to handball over a geelong players head but ended up passing it straight to him instead. Geelong ran the ball down the empty field a kicked a goal within 10 seconds of the original turnover

[CURLY]

His height is listed at 192 and 191cm..on various sites

He did not look it today....
more like 189 ish..

I take it your joking right?

Dempster and Goose have come into the side against the best side in the AFL thats a massive jump from were theyve been.

[maverick]

His height is listed at 192 and 191cm..on various sites

He did not look it today....
more like 189 ish..

I take it your joking right?

Dempster and Goose have come into the side against the best side in the AFL thats a massive jump from were theyve been.

No problems, we will give them a few weeks, meanwhile we will slip down to the bottom of the ladder.

Dempster always looked to pass the ball across the ground never forward, slow in mind, would want to improve 100% on that effort.

[CURLY]

Get the games into them now rather than at the buisness end of the year. Remember we havent really let the handbrake off yet as Lyon likes to build his season up to peak at the end.

[vacuous space]

He played a fair chunk of the game on Steve Johnson

The chunk in the first half where he was held goalless? Or the second half where he kicked 3 and set up another 2 or 3.

Most of both. There were a few times he seemed to have a different opponent, but those were probably times Dempster was off for a rest.

[avid]

I watched him as best I could. But all I saw was very poor footy.
Raph, without the grace.
I'm sure he's capable of much better, and I hope he proves it.
But I would drop him instantly, and let him work up his form at Casey.