TRIPLE Brisbane great Jonathan Brown has called for North Melbourne to make a bold statement at the selection table and send Todd Goldstein to the VFL for a week.

Goldstein was one of the game’s most valuable players only a couple of years, averaging 44 hit-outs and a whopping 128.8 Champion Data ranking points per game on his way to All-Australian honours.

But the 28-year-old, who is contracted to the Kangaroos until the end of 2019, has been well down on his high standards in 2017 to date, dipping to an average of 98.2 ranking points — the first time he has averaged less than 100 since 2012.

And with emerging ruckman Braydon Preuss in promising form at VFL level, Goldstein’s spot in the senior Kangaroos side is in jeopardy for the first time since cementing his spot in the best 22.

Speaking on Fox Footy’s On The Couch, Brown encouraged the Kangaroos to drop the 201cm big man.

“I’d drop him, shake him up,” Brown said.

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“I don’t think his form warrants his selection, unlike what he’s done in the past — he was an All-Australian ruckman a couple of years ago. But you’d love to see him show a lot more ferocity around the contest.”

Brown said Goldstein wasn’t “doing enough around the ground” this year.

“He doesn’t show enough presence for a big man at the moment,” Brown said.

“He needs to get up there and start to crack in, otherwise you bring a bloke like Preuss in, who has plenty of presence about him.”

Hawthorn goalkicking great Jason Dunstall agreed with Brown’s call, saying it would benefit Goldstein’s teammates just as much as the man in question.

“Sometimes you just need a shake up and sometimes I think a club and all the other players need to see that shake up,” Dunstall said.

Goldstein has been the subject of ample trade chatter this year, with former teammate Nick Dal Santo suggesting he could be put on the trade table as the Kangaroos look to land a big fish recruit.

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