Asking Demon fans whether the likely loss of young Kane Goodwin is any great loss. Seems as if he is heading off to East Perth.

Royalblood - 05 February 2010 09:00 PM

Asking Demon fans whether the likely loss of young Kane Goodwin is any great loss. Seems as if he is heading off to East Perth.

I think he was in the 2008 State 18’s squad at one stage but not sure whether he played State 18’s.

He did play 1 game, custodian, but was suffering from glandular fever.

Just want to know why his excellent reserves form of 2009 wasn’t rewarded with League appearances. Is he a bit soft or doesn’t train hard enough. What’s the story . . and is he any great loss ?

Royalblood - 05 February 2010 11:17 PM

He did play 1 game, custodian, but was suffering from glandular fever.

Just want to know why his excellent reserves form of 2009 wasn’t rewarded with League appearances. Is he a bit soft or doesn’t train hard enough. What’s the story . . and is he any great loss ?

Royalblood macs has asked about him on Waflonline, you might find a bit more Royal discussion going on there mate or are you macs?  Sorry but i can’t recall Kane Goodwin being considered for league selection but that’s not to say he might not have come into calculations this year but there probably would have been a few others in front of him.

http://www.waflonline.com.au/forum/index.php/topic,930.msg6531.html#new

Thanks demons_den. If you can’t recall him pushing for a League spot, then I guess he won’t be missed much.

Have to say I’m surprised a bit as he racked up high possession numbers in a bundle of reserves games . . in a team that finished near last. He and Scheuwenaght (???) were constantly in the high 20’s in possessions. One made his League debut . . the other seems as if he’s got the hump and wants out. 

Will visit the site you’ve linked.

No Demons_den, I’m not Royalblood! I’m macs on here and waflonline!

Yeah, mac and I are different people.

I visited waflonline and read that Goodwin sprays his kicks. That’s not a serious problem unless Micale puts him alongside Tim Noakes. You’ll know what I mean mac. Timmy is one gutsy player but his kicking is no better than an exhibition of how to kick a flour bag.

Still, I’ve got a sneaking feeling that Goodwin might come up trumps for us . . and do so without any PFC supporter getting upset about his departure. In these days where poaching raises the hackles of more than a few supporters, it seems Goodwin’s move isn’t considered much of a loss; hence no angry response from demon fans.

Really suprised to hear Goodwin moving on to East Perth. Good player, very good player in fact. And what, only 20yo. Would have some improvement surely left in him.

He’s only 19 gogovo. Not 20 until June this year.

You seem to be pretty much alone in rating him ‘a very good’ player. . . with improvement in him.

From an East Perth supporter’s perspective, that sounds good to me.

But from a demons viewpoint, surely, in a season where almost no recruiting has been done, some important losses have occurred, I would have thought the team could ill afford to lose a young player with potential.

Must be disappointing to Perth fans to watch on as young players on the brink of League careers move on to another club. What reasons for the move, I wonder ??

Kane has plenty to work on before he gets a game at league level in my opinion. I thought he was close midway in the season but he was still making the same errors that at the next level are nothing short of fatal. That is the only reason he wasnt playing league - hopefully he can eradicate this but its not an easy hurdle to get over at this age in a semi professional comp - you need to do the hard work yourself to improve your weaknesses and sometimes that just doesnt happen

His strengths are clearly he running ability and he beeps in the 16’s. Has definite talent as a run with stopper. Knows where to go and find the footy and he runs games out well his fitness being the key here.

Clear weakness is his disposal and he panics when under pressure. His kicking is all over the place - his best is very good but his worst leads to goals back the other way

Obviously its his decision to leave and he has a chance to make it if he works hard enough and therein lies the conundrum - i still dont understand the approach of leaving when you have been on the brink of league with Perth in your first year out of colts - i expect to see him playing reserves at East Perth this year but sometimes the father in the ear telling you how good you are has that affect

I hate to see young players bale out of a club too soon. It seems that they get disillusioned at missing the AFL draft and then become impatient or just too lazy to work hard at the transition to league level and giving themselves another chance at being drafted to the elite level.
They see some of their mates get opportunities and think that the club is not giving them a fair go, and yes, parents often push them too hard to the point of influencing them to change clubs, perhaps prematurely. Many who do change clubs rarely make it to league ranks and simply drift off to amateurs or the country.
I’m sure it happens at all clubs.

Seems like a Fair Summary Prunster,having a Fair view of the players on a weekly basis.

Good luck to him.But I can’t see much point him moving to a club,he may find difficult to break into the League side.

Thanks for your input Prunster and Shadow2. All sensible comments and reasonable explanations for why young Goodwin might want a change of Club.

Efficiency of disposal is vital these days of ‘keepings off’, and yes, so many players who have hopes of an AFL call up but are not selected fall away in attitude or have an unhealthy high opinion of themselves. All of these factors seem to be at issue with Goodwin.

But, could there be more to it? If the young guy was, as one Demons fan stated elsewhere, named as an emergency in each of the last 5 weeks of the season, but was not given a debut, isn’t this enough to get his hackles up? Its not as if PFC were in with a real chance of finals footy; so why not give him a start rather than raise his hopes as an emergency and then week in week out saying, sorry young guy, not yet. Maybe next week. No sorry, maybe next week; etc. Seems a bit short sighted or at least confusing to me. Either include him the 22 or not name him each week as an emergency. One or the other,

Still, the deal is not yet finalised, so perhaps Goodwin is a ‘required player’ t PFC. We’ll find out soon, I guess.

If the young guy was, as one Demons fan stated elsewhere, named as an emergency in each of the last 5 weeks of the season, but was not given a debut, isn’t this enough to get his hackles up? Its not as if PFC were in with a real chance of finals footy; so why not give him a start rather than raise his hopes as an emergency and then week in week out saying, sorry young guy, not yet. Maybe next week. No sorry, maybe next week; etc. Seems a bit short sighted or at least confusing to me. Either include him the 22 or not name him each week as an emergency. One or the other,

He was an emergency from my memory a few times but saying he was for the last 5 weeks is very misleading - i can think of two times that he was but it coincided with the time that West Perth started to struggle and gave Perth an outside chance of playing finals if results went their way, which of course ended against East Perth. The following week after that he got banned from playing for a week for an off field indiscretion before playing the last game of the year. I think given that Perth were completely out of contention that he might have got a shot in the run in but alas where there was hope, AJ picked his best side which he was not a part of. I would have thought given improvement he was more of a chance this year of proving himself which makes a decision to move clubs even more bewildering.