Welcome to the Tiggers - Daniel Butler

[Harry]

Yep, keeping our speed up front has to be non negotiable.

A real point of difference we need to continue exploiting.

Drummond in for Lennon?

 

[TOT70]

Yep, keeping our speed up front has to be non negotiable.

A real point of difference we need to continue exploiting.

Yep.

I'd be adding to it over the course of the season. We need to find places for Menadue, Markov and Chol.

 

[Leysy Days]

Drummond in for Lennon?

Maybe Menadue. Not sure on Drummond.

 

[Scoop]

Maybe Menadue. Not sure on Drummond.

Not Menadue, look disinterested and running twice as fast when we had the ball. But four times as slow without it.

 

[Col.E.Kurtz]

Not Menadue, look disinterested and running twice as fast when we had the ball. But four times as slow without it.

:headscratch

 

[evo]

Its only a small thing, but one thing I love about Dan, apart from the obvious, is that he never shows when he's fatigued. After a big effort looks exactly like he did before it, chest out, head up. No hands on knees sucking in the big ones, no head wobble running to the bench or back to posi, no 'look at me I just put in'. Good thousand-yard stare along with it too.

My son and I have been calling Bellis 'bobblehead' for the last 2 years.

 

[17]

My son and I have been calling Bellis 'bobblehead' for the last 2 years.

Apparently the head-wobbling is due to BEllis' part Indian heritage.

 

[shad]

Apparently the head-wobbling is due to BEllis' part Indian heritage.

What bout the jaw jutting?

 

[tigersnake]

My son and I have been calling Bellis 'bobblehead' for the last 2 years.

didn't want to name names with our hot form, but yeah. He reminds of one of the old bobblehead tigers you used to see on the back parcel shelves of kingswoods and valiants when we were stuck in traffic as kids on Flemington Rd heading home after the game.

 

[tigertim]

It's a very Francis Bourke type wobble.

 

[tigermike]

Its only a small thing, but one thing I love about Dan, apart from the obvious, is that he never shows when he's fatigued. After a big effort looks exactly like he did before it, chest out, head up. No hands on knees sucking in the big ones, no head wobble running to the bench or back to posi, no 'look at me I just put in'. Good thousand-yard stare along with it too.

Noticed that too, reckon he's just very fit so those 80m sprints while bouncing the ball are nothing to him. He could easily turn around the goal post and go again...back to the wing. Probably why he was kept on the list, footy skills plus fast with speed endurance. Been a revelation. He realised he needed to either work harder or get lost, especially after Shai and Tyson were recruited.

 

[Midsy]

Its only a small thing, but one thing I love about Dan, apart from the obvious, is that he never shows when he's fatigued. After a big effort looks exactly like he did before it, chest out, head up. No hands on knees sucking in the big ones, no head wobble running to the bench or back to posi, no 'look at me I just put in'. Good thousand-yard stare along with it too.

Robert Harvey used to hold his shorts and hunch over deliberately. He wanted his opponent to think he'd finally cracked him. Then he'd go again. Mental disintegration.

Michael Voss copped it first hand.

 

[Tigertough1974]

From memory, only RFC listed player who wasn't injured who didn't get a AFL game last year, pretty damning and i thought was going to lose his place.

Has improved out of sight and looks to belong at AFL, well don't Dan no doubt he would have worked his backside off to catch up and overtake a few players!

 

[Dyer'ere]

From memory, only RFC listed player who wasn't injured who didn't get a AFL game last year, pretty damning and i thought was going to lose his place.

I think he was going to be delisted, Tt. Very late in the season he finally cracked twenty touches (after swarming like a champ but not getting the ball for a month) and then Fly wrote him up as a darling. His work rate, improvement and, I'm certain, the coach's recognition got him over the line.

 

[tigersnake]

I think he was going to be delisted, Tt. Very late in the season he finally cracked twenty touches (after swarming like a champ but not getting the ball for a month) and then Fly wrote him up as a darling. His work rate, improvement and, I'm certain, the coach's recognition got him over the line.

You are the sole poster who called there was something there I think Dyer'ere. Maybe Taz as well, ? I tips my hat.

I was always keen to learn how he was going because he's a fellow Ballarat boy ;D

 

[Smoking Aces]

We are on the lookout for that quick small forward. Maybe we already have one in Alfred.

Saw snippets of him in the game against Box Hill. Didn't get much of it but he definitely has some speed. Has been hit hard by injury. It will be interesting to see how he goes for the rest of the year.

You are the sole poster who called there was something there I think Dyer'ere. Maybe Taz as well, ? I tips my hat.

I was always keen to learn how he was going because he's a fellow Ballarat boy ;D

;D

 

[tigersnake]

;D

Nice, I tips my hat Smokin'

 

[saigon tiger]

Danny boy still doing his job adds pace, energy and has skill. A big test coming up against the crows. My only concern could easily be brushed aside against the bigger bodies.

 

[MB78]

Danny boy still doing his job adds pace, energy and has skill. A big test coming up against the crows. My only concern could easily be brushed aside against the bigger bodies.

Agreed.

Must be still played regardless of size. The more footy he plays the better he will get. I'm of the understanding of reading this thread he has played a lot less footy matches through juniors than most.

 

[Letsroar]

While he still fumbled a couple he should have taken cleanly this week it was an improvement from his first game. I would rest him for a week soon. Hopes are high we just need to manage his development for future years. Plenty of games but not when his body needs a rest