Matthew Parker | PUNT ROAD END | Richmond Tigers Forum
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Matthew Parker

He looks like the diet coke Dusty. The margarine Dusty. Just one calorie, not quite Dusty enough.
 
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Think he can play half forward. George and Dan are struggling.
We have no one else in their places and he is better overhead and a tough nut.
Ideal player to keep Lever or Salem busy, or Rich or Stewart. Could be quite a win if that frees up one of our talls
and means we don't have to play 3 talls all the time at the expense of run and pressure.
I agree he is a Townsend choice and just what we are missing.
If you look at the losses to the top 3 sides you can see that what he brings up forward would make us goals better and opposition goals weaker.
Inspired choice.
 
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Think he can play half forward. George and Dan are struggling.
We have no one else in their places and he is better overhead and a tough nut.
Ideal player to keep Lever or Salem busy, or Rich or Stewart. Could be quite a win if that frees up one of our talls
and means we don't have to play 3 talls all the time at the expense of run and pressure.
I agree he is a Townsend choice and just what we are missing.
If you look at the losses to the top 3 sides you can see that what he brings up forward would make us goals better and opposition goals weaker.
Inspired choice.
I hope so.
 
Don't mind this pick. From brief memories watching him for the Saints seemed the hybrid type that our forward line lacks.

Has a leap on him & can tackle. Pretty fiery as well.

When I saw the draft order selections I was expecting Freeman, then saw his name & thought if that's the one from the Saints, not bad at all.

Good luck Matthew & welcome to the mighty Tigers.
 
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Strikes me as a classic role player pick. Clearly the club is looking for the key to unlock our forward line limitations this year.
 
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I do hope he takes a leaf out of Dusty's book and starts celebrating with team mates before the crowd, i'm not a big fan or big celebrations with the crowd.

But if he's kicking goals for us i guess i could live with it!
 
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Richmond have identified a need. Parker fits that need. our forward line has been disfuncional. I thought it was an astute choice tbh
 
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Would be kind of funny if he ended up playing better football with us compared to Higgins and Butler at StKilda.
 
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Would be kind of funny if he ended up playing better football with us compared to Higgins and Butler at StKilda.
Wouldn't be hard. Butler has gone off the boil this year compared to last year. Higgins has struggled just as much at St Kilda as the prior year or two with us. Well off the numbers he was producing in 2018 and 2019.
 
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