Re: Pick 42 Matt Thomas
Far from our worst, can't believe the calls to have him dropped.
GEDS1 said:
Far from our worst, can't believe the calls to have him dropped.
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Re: Pick 42 Matt Thomas
That's not the point, if he's doing his job he should stay. Reading some of the commentary last week, one would think it was all Thomas' fault.
St Kevin said:
That's not the point, if he's doing his job he should stay. Reading some of the commentary last week, one would think it was all Thomas' fault.
Re: Pick 42 Matt Thomas
His job was to tag Pendles, wouldn't have thought he did it overly well, though Pendles is basically untaggable. The ire towards Thomas, isn't so much that he is an awful player or that any of our losses have been all his fault (from those aren't nuffies). What he is, is a tremendously limited player and at 27 years of age, he isn't going to get any better.
My main issue with him, is that he was upgraded over Miles, who is younger and has proven he can perform the role of tagger and extractor at AFL level and at NEAFL/VFL level. If you've got a 22 year old and 27 year old who do the same job, to a similar degree of effectiveness you pick the 22 year old. No other way about it. 5 years younger, with a far greater ceiling and opportunity to become a better.
That I think is the inherent issue with Thomas. He's not going to improve or overly improve us as a team, irresepctive of whether he does is job or not.
His job was to tag Pendles, wouldn't have thought he did it overly well, though Pendles is basically untaggable. The ire towards Thomas, isn't so much that he is an awful player or that any of our losses have been all his fault (from those aren't nuffies). What he is, is a tremendously limited player and at 27 years of age, he isn't going to get any better.
My main issue with him, is that he was upgraded over Miles, who is younger and has proven he can perform the role of tagger and extractor at AFL level and at NEAFL/VFL level. If you've got a 22 year old and 27 year old who do the same job, to a similar degree of effectiveness you pick the 22 year old. No other way about it. 5 years younger, with a far greater ceiling and opportunity to become a better.
That I think is the inherent issue with Thomas. He's not going to improve or overly improve us as a team, irresepctive of whether he does is job or not.
Re: Pick 42 Matt Thomas
I prefer Miles but Thomas has surprised me, no shame in lowering your colours to Pendles, he was BOG only a couple of weeks ago. It just seems that as soon as a player has a minor dip in form, the lynch mob go into overdrive. Thomas would be pretty close to leading our B&F, I don't think one can level blame at his feet.
St Kevin said:
I prefer Miles but Thomas has surprised me, no shame in lowering your colours to Pendles, he was BOG only a couple of weeks ago. It just seems that as soon as a player has a minor dip in form, the lynch mob go into overdrive. Thomas would be pretty close to leading our B&F, I don't think one can level blame at his feet.
Re: Pick 42 Matt Thomas
He tackled hard again but the moment he was subbed off we started to click into gear. A battler but limited in creativity so maybe we upgraded the wrong person and should have upgraded Miles who has considerably more strings to his bow.
He tackled hard again but the moment he was subbed off we started to click into gear. A battler but limited in creativity so maybe we upgraded the wrong person and should have upgraded Miles who has considerably more strings to his bow.
Re: Pick 42 Matt Thomas
Was thinking the same. We got our run going and quick movement.RUNVS said:
Re: Pick 42 Matt Thomas
Covered Jackson... Jacko is back, time to bring in some younger more creative talent.
Covered Jackson... Jacko is back, time to bring in some younger more creative talent.
Re: Pick 42 Matt Thomas
Yep. Love his endeavour but he's a depth player a best. A wasted pick and elevation onto the list. Dimma calls it moneyball, but in reallity its just another band aid fix.Tiger Pops said:
Re: Pick 42 Matt Thomas
Too slow & poor kick. Not AFL standard. Can see how he won the medal in secondary comp, but not good enough. Why did we upgrade Thomas instead of Miles?
Too slow & poor kick. Not AFL standard. Can see how he won the medal in secondary comp, but not good enough. Why did we upgrade Thomas instead of Miles?
