I'm hoping Tassie gets a team, not sure they'll have one by 2025. Unless Benny gets the Head Job with the AFL
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Welcome to the Tigers Jacob Hopper
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I was huge on JVR and wanted him at the Brown pick and when we passed was disappointed, He had some knocks on him but think he will still be a player.
Lets see what eventuates
With all due respect, there's a lot of horse *smile* stories out there about AFL players.
Bomber Thompson sleeping with someone's wife, Hird fleeing to Paris yo be a dad over there, etc. Rumours get spread about lots of people. There's someone who's related to my best friend, left a club because he'd "cheated with a club official". That was particularly hurtful as he'd been with his now wife since the early days of high school and she had been told of the rumour getting a coffee. She felt humiliated.
What happened in reality was they felt disrespected by being excluded from a leadership group, after the club praising him for years about his leadership.
The point? Rumours and reality are rarely on the same field, nor playing the same sport, let along being in the same ball park.
If clubs listened to rumours from coffee shops to decide on who to recruit, they'd never recruit anyone.
Just my opinion.
Taranto is an aerobic beast. In soccer parlance he is box to box. Not sure on how fast he is but from what I’ve seen he’s fast enough.
Hopper looks powerful over 5-10m. He does get to plenty of contests so must have solid endurance.
Regardless if they aren’t the fastest mids going, I wouldn’t be concerned
Two knee surgeries??? Blokes obviously a gimp, Gee Whizz should be paying us to take him off their hands.
Not sure if it’s been mentioned but our favourite journo Tom Browne reported on TripleM that Dusty was part of the pitch to Hopper.
Can expect Browne to come out and say that he said all along that Dusty wasn't going anywhere.
It’s the clubs job to decipher the rubbish from truth if they are investing millions.
It’s a better run place now but there’s nothing wrong with saying the club was lazy with its research on Yarran.
Unmitigated failure.
With all due respect it was fact beyond my coffee shop experience and as I mentioned they had close links with Carlton footy club, not sure why you are bringing other unrelated stories into the Yarran argument.
Everything that has played out since just verified it.
Yaz was a flop. An unmitigated disaster. But at the time I kind of liked it.
Funny thing is we won 3 of the next 4 flags , sliding doors etc.
In theory Yarran the footballer was perfect for us
I thought the emphasis was on disposal and speed and that our recruiters were focused on building a team which would better cope with the stand rule.
Taranto was also on the cards even then.
