Nick Vlastuin | PUNT ROAD END | Richmond Tigers Forum
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Nick Vlastuin

Performance was average turned it over a couple of times and looked tired and off the pace. Some nice hands and physical stuff while not getting a lot of it showed maturity , will be a ripper
 
GEDS1 said:
Performance was average turned it over a couple of times and looked tired and off the pace.

Bloody harsh. Turned a couple over because he tried to take the tacklers on n get through traffic to open us into space, got intercepted a couple of times. Kid sees the outside space and risks to get through to it rather than the cheap half meter give to someone so close they'll trip over him.

Reckon we saw what Flossy should turn into in a few years wearing a Crows jumper yesterday. Tiger version of a Dangerfield
 
He got a lot of the pill yesterday but made a few more mistakes than he has in the past. He was still hard at it as usual and played OK; has had a fantastic start to his career. He's probably the only challenger to O'Meara, who is a gun, for the Rising Star award.

Future captain of the club; give him 17 next year. He has already earnt it.
 
i'm sure most know this by now, but there was talk in the papers about it the other day... correct pronounciation is 'floss-stone'
 
Ridley said:
He got a lot of the pill yesterday but made a few more mistakes than he has in the past. He was still hard at it as usual and played OK; has had a fantastic start to his career. He's probably the only challenger to O'Meara, who is a gun, for the Rising Star award.

Future captain of the club; give him 17 next year. He has already earnt it.

Agree. I thought he was slightly off but still more then serviceable. It's a credit to bloke that 22 touches , 5 marks, 4 tackles is considered par after seven games.
It's shaping as a super draft for sure. The first ten all look like being 200 games player besides O'Rourke.
 
SCOOP said:
Agree. I thought he was slightly off but still more then serviceable. It's a credit to bloke that 22 touches , 5 marks, 4 tackles is considered par after seven games.
It's shaping as a super draft for sure. The first ten all look like being 200 games player besides O'Rourke.

I really don't follow GWS at all. What's going on with O'Rourke? Has he played at all? You don't rate him Scoop?
 
Ridley said:
I really don't follow GWS at all. What's going on with O'Rourke? Has he played at all? You don't rate him Scoop?

I do rate him but he hasn't played yet. I think he hamstring issues early and they are nursing him back. But he can play. Super quick and amazing foot skills on both feet. Still would think he makes the grade and plays 150 +.
 
Baloo said:
Nothing against the kid but I hope Toumpas is a bust too.

Looks okay, bit soft. Will turn out like Fiora if Neeld stays around much longer
 
SCOOP said:
I do rate him but he hasn't played yet. I think he hamstring issues early and they are nursing him back. But he can play. Super quick and amazing foot skills on both feet. Still would think he makes the grade and plays 150 +.
Yep 22 for GWS and 128+ for Richmond.
 
Baloo said:
Nothing against the kid but I hope Toumpas is a bust too.

Melbourne could have 2 out 3 three selections involving Carey, Fiora & shithrope
And they would still miss picking Carey.
Toompass is a typical outside south Australian, Kym Koster, Type. Not worthly of a top 20 pick let alone top 5.
I'm rapt we didn't pick him..
 
TigerMasochist said:
Bloody harsh. Turned a couple over because he tried to take the tacklers on n get through traffic to open us into space, got intercepted a couple of times. Kid sees the outside space and risks to get through to it rather than the cheap half meter give to someone so close they'll trip over him.

Reckon we saw what Flossy should turn into in a few years wearing a Crows jumper yesterday. Tiger version of a Dangerfield

not quick enough to emulate dangerfield.......maybe closer to a voss-like the floss.
 
Probably his worst game so far but he's shown he's going to be much better than Saturdays version.

I think he'll get no.17 next year.
 
TheCan said:
not quick enough to emulate dangerfield.......maybe closer to a voss-like the floss.

Dud delist, simply not good enough these days to be a slow lumbering brick outhouse.
 
Not sure what game you guys were watching but Vlas was terrific.

I actually didn't get to the game and had to watch on the box so perhaps those bagging Vlas were at the game and missed some of his sublime inside work in a number of contested possessions, produced some absolute magic.

22 possies too, Goes OK!
 
lamb22 said:
Not sure what game you guys were watching but Vlas was terrific.

I actually didn't get to the game and had to watch on the box so perhaps those bagging Vlas were at the game and missed some of his sublime inside work in a number of contested possessions, produced some absolute magic.

22 possies too, Goes OK!

His ability to dish off in the tackle is as good as Chimp's IMO.
 
Yep, if that was a bad game from Vlas then the good ones will be awesome.
 
I've just checked the stats and I'd take this every day as a Flossy bad game

Among Richmond players Nick ranked as follows:

Possessions 6th, CP 5th, UP, 5th, DE - 10th (72.7), Marks -6th, CM 5th, Clearances 6th, Rebound50 - 3rd, tackles 7th, 1% - 3rd, Inside 50s - 9th.
 
As we left the ground my old man said admiringly, "he knows when it's time to just throw it on the boot".