#11 Daniel McStay

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To paraphrase something I read elsewhere, Dan has gone from Please McStay in Brisbane, to 11 uninspiring games for Collingwood, missing the GF and now has suddenly with our injuries become the reincarnation of Gordon Coventry with DNA from Ron Todd, Peter McKenna and Phil Carmen thrown in.

I wish him all the best but please folks, temper your expectations.
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^Played well in the Qualifying and Prelim before getting injured.
So to say uninspiring is just wrong.
Can’t wait to have him back!!
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Dark Beanie wrote:VFL Pies are playing on Saturday @ 1.05pm at Vic Park for anyone interested in going along to have a look.
Might take a look if I have time on my side.

Great to see McStay back playing football.
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Hope it works out but sounds risky listening to Doc Larkins last night on radio
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stui magpie wrote: I wish him all the best but please folks, temper your expectations.
Yep we should. I don’t expect him to kick less than 5 goals for a start
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The clubs approach to McStays perfect and professional rehab is a tricky one. You can’t ask a player to be 100% focussed and committed to an alcohol free, gruelling and boring rehabilitation and then say to him, thanks but even though you’re medically cleared, we’re not going to play you in 2024. Players want to play, they don’t want to be put in cotton wool after doing everything perfectly as the club has asked you to do.
If he’s passed as medically fit to play and he has confidence in his own body, then he needs to be rewarded for all that hard work. It’s going to be a nervous few weeks everytime he goes for the ball but I can guarantee he would rather be playing than churning out more kilometres on an exercise bike.
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UPDATE:

VFL game venue has been changed to AIA Centre.
Same start time.
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No point risking him for this wasted season. Get him 110% right.

Our focus must now be on finishing as low as possible this year and rebooting in 2025. Season's over.
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Spot on Shawthing Couldn’t agree more !!
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Post by Raw Hammer »

Put him in cotton wool.
Will be a horrific decision to still play him after tonight’s loss. But of course that would admit defeat on the season and we can’t have that.

Just pull him out due to ‘illness’.
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Well, thats the decision isnt it.

Do we give him a game or 2 late? Do we bring him in now? Do we hold off until 2025?

Are we resigned to missing out on the 8, or are we still going to try and win as much as we can with 6 games to go? Is it over now? Is it over after 1 more loss? What if we win the next 2 and results go our way?

Do we play him against Hawthorn, or do we stick with Reef/Kreueger?
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Don’t play him
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Post by Presti35 »

What if he kicks 15 goals in the VFL tomorrow?
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I’d just play him in the VFL for a month to build him up for 2025, maybe give him a couple of games at the end.
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