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Welcome to the Tiggers - Daniel Butler
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Nice little trick of Dan's I've noticed a couple of times so far this off season is the little shove in the side he's developed to push defenders off the ball in open play. Times it beautifully.
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Tigers of Old said:
I love Butts (no pun intended.. well sort of not), he was the two way game that may have him finishing as the best of our smalls by the end of their career
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Tigers of Old said:
Good get Oldie. Dan's footy smarts are a bit underappreciated on here. He of all our players has mastered the art of stillness. Soccer background helps but just holding and pausing after a sprint can unsettle defenders. The defender then needs to make the play and then options open up. Just in the last quarter of the granny his stillness led to two scores. One when he paused and let the crow dive on the ball which led to the banana goal free and a bit later on when he again stood over the ball rather than grab it and get pinned and it spilled out to Dusty for his open goal shot which he missed
Importantly he also knows when to apply the jets and take the game on plus his tap ons by hand and foot are first class.
Also he is the master of economy of movement. An example was a simple play in the QF when we burying the Cats in the last. Gets a handball from Dusty back to goal, just rolls with it and in two or three strides hits Caddy on the nipple without him having to move. Georgey would have grabbed the ball and taken off and really anything might have happened from there. Defenders though would have had more time to adjust.
I agree, but by that stage we had turned the game into a succession of party tricks. The Roos were well and truly broken.zippadeee said:
zippadeee said:
Exactly, he has the pace to burn opponents off but he prefers to do little dinky banana's , other than that playing well & looking to build from last year
Tigers of Old said:
Not we were saying in the middle of 2016 watching him playing VFL Oldie, think we both had our finger on the delist button. The last few games of that season saved him. What he is starting to produce now is a revelation. Capable of a Lambert like leap in output in the next year or 2.
Wildride said:
Let's not get carried away. Cousins was a Brownlow Medal superstar. Butler a hard working battler. Slight difference
