He may have actually jumped and waved both arms like he was trying to fly at one point.
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Welcome to the Tigers Jacob Hopper
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We are often just a little off where we stand when the opposition is chipping the ball around. Impossible to know whether that is on the coaches or the players at this stage.
I was close to the bench and I can tell you that he spent a lot of time on the phone, I assume with the coach, and also talking to the young mids and flankers when they were on the bench.
I love Bullus, and would love him back, but sometimes you can keep fighting or just let things rest. I think he needs to just agree to disagree and move on.
Was sceptical about taking both, although prepared to see if it could work.
Still too early to say its a fail for me, but the momentum has clearly gone one direction so far.
I always remember an ABC radio interview with Benny at the end of the 22 season acknowledging there was a risk but justifying it.
It's been far from perfect with Hopper in particular but I'm also willing to give both an extra season. Think they and Prestia will be important for our batch of draftees in the next couple of years.
I was Dancing and singing.
I booked a cabinet maker to come and make me a bigger Glass cabinet to fit in the new cups we were going to win.
How wrong was I?
Tarranto dosent chase and has the urgency of a sloth and Hopper spends more time on all 4's then a 18 month year old.
But let's not cry about losing the draft picks.
We wouldve destroyed them anyway.
We shouldve kept our 1st pick in 2020 and picked Holmes instead of giving it to Geelong.
Why didn't Hartley & Clarke know Holmes??
That's the scary bit,
If another club was interested in taking on the contract would you move him on?
Melbourne are trying to dispatch Oliver because he plays similarly and walks around like 85yo man and constantly gets left in his wake at stoppages. Hopper has poor DE also which was one of his strengths early in his career. I think injuries and rushing under because he’s slowed down due to them has now caught up with him. I still think we may be able to rescue him as he can win a lot of hard footy, but he needs quality and slick ball movers beside him. The bottom line is TT, Prestia , JGTI , Dow and him are all slow and poor with disposal especially by foot which other mids just feast on them. You can carry two of them , but not all five.
Selling the bigger glass cabinet cheaply by any chance? Looking for one to house my 2028 break dancing medals.
If Hopper's role was filling the space it didn't really work. He only had 3 intercepts and Saints, like every game except one of the last 7 or so, kicked very straight for goal (read easy positions to kick goals). Obviously it's not just on him but we just don't have the balance right, too slow to defend in the middle. Hopper is 28 next year, he's at his peak age and it typically goes downhill from there. For me, with Taranto already traded, it was excessive to take Hopper as well. We have him now, have to first and foremost keep him fit.
Possibly. It'd depend what we were replacing him with. Let's say we moved him and brought in someome like Hobbs or Phillips (inside young guy, missing opportunity), or took Jagga. It'd probably mean keeping Dow longer.
I'd take the short term hit for a longer term pay off.
That said, I don't think we'd get value in return and I'd rather we not sell at the bottom after such a premium cost.
As was obvious at the time, Hopper just ain't that good. Extremely limited footballer.
Insane trade. We should look for any club that will take him, even if we have to pay his salary.
Insane trade. We should look for any club that will take him, even if we have to pay his salary.
