Would you believe, Zips, it's quite hard to play AFL sides ... at VFL level.
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Pick 63, 2017 Ben Miller - Welcome to Tigerland.
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I never seen Coburg in the AFL doofusWould you believe, Zips, it's quite hard to play AFL sides ... at VFL level.
Let's see him when he plays against AFL teams
Keep hearing clubs are looking for key defenders for 2023.
Tarrant just starting to become a solid player.
Gibcus needs a break.
Getting to the pointy end where the team needs to be settled.
Think we may regret not giving Miller more opportunity.
Tarrant just starting to become a solid player.
Gibcus needs a break.
Getting to the pointy end where the team needs to be settled.
Think we may regret not giving Miller more opportunity.
Sort of agree and don't agree, realistically it's only been the last month or so that Ben has deserved to come under serious consideration.
I do agree that this week would have been a good opportunity to give Gibcus a spell and Ben a game.
Has put in a serviceable game in all but one, Adelaide. Still doubt on Tarrant's speed, and if that becomes an issue over the next few months who knows.
Miller should be getting games while he is in career best form and particularly now for that reason, and because Gibbo at 18, is beginning to struggle.
Other posters have said he had another good game in the twos today so has to be pushing for promotion to take tired and aging first teamer places. We have put years into him and now he is hitting his straps we don't want our hard work benefiting another club come season end
Chill, zips, chill.
Miller has had to contend with COVID where there was very little VFL, sometimes it takes a few years, like it did with Rance and Astbury.
His marking has improved (it will be tested on Saturday in greasy conditions) and his kicking is elite, I'm not saying he will be anywhere near as good as them, but I think he has the attributes to have a decent AFL career.
Good selection IMHO Every tall on the ground will face the same conditions. Miller doesn't have to mark the ball at all. He has been playing a rebounding role in the VFL. Miller will just have to man Chol up. Easy assignment.
The team is training at Metricon late today so they get a feel for the conditions.
I haven't seen us lose at that ground since Ty Vickery/Steve Morris were in the team. A lot of night games. Slippery ball is nowhere near as bad in an early evening game with new balls every qtr.
Aarts selection is the annoying one
I am liking Miller's progress this season. has really stepped up at VFL level to be a consistent defender that is also winning plenty of ball and using it well. It's all we can ask of our fringe players as they push for senior selection. If he gets a regular run at AFL, and starts to believe he belongs at the level, then I think we have our Tarrant/Grimes replacement in years to come to compliment Balta and Gibcus. A 198cm defender is needed in this modern age against the string of tall forwards coming through the competition.
Way less bullish than most on our 5th year, 198cm back flanker. For all his considerable physical attributes, he rarely if ever shows them in a game and while he’s started finding much more of the ball at VFL level, I would still describe his contested work as tentative at best.
As 22 y.o. tall I'll cut him some slack. I thought his debut was good but didn't play with much confidence after that. I only watch a bit of VFL but he's getting a lot of the ball. His role in the AFL is probably more traditional defender. See how he goes
