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WELCOME TO THE MELBOURNE FOOTBALL CLUB - JIMMY TOUMPAS

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21 minutes ago, Sir Why You Little said:

I never rated him. I didn't know anything about him. I backed the club that they had made a good decision with a number 4 pick that was going to be better than Ollie Wines, who i had some knowledge of. 

But as i said from Round 1 against Port Adelaide it was a fail and nothing has changed. 

Toumpas was given multiple opportunities to prove himself and failed. 

Baaaaaahahahaha. Seriously man, just leave it right there. Any cred you had with me has gone flying right out the window. Not that it was much to begin with. Enjoy your relentless "tough" man attitude with a VB on the couch brother.... 

 
7 minutes ago, MrReims said:

Baaaaaahahahaha. Seriously man, just leave it right there. Any cred you had with me has gone flying right out the window. Not that it was much to begin with. Enjoy your relentless "tough" man attitude with a VB on the couch brother.... 

Haven't had a VB for years mate

lift your game please. Shocking Beer..

6 hours ago, Sir Why You Little said:

It was a wasted 3 years and proved Neeld was clueless...

Neeld was not in charge of recruiting however, whatever other failings he had.

This horse is dead so why keep flogging the corpse?

Many thought that captaining his state at junior level, AND playing in a senior finals series, and apparently acquitting himself well in this, meant we had snagged a good one.    We didn't.   Move on and enjoy what we have snagged since.

 
3 minutes ago, monoccular said:

Neeld was not in charge of recruiting however, whatever other failings he had.

This horse is dead so why keep flogging the corpse?

Many thought that captaining his state at junior level, AND playing in a senior finals series, and apparently acquitting himself well in this, meant we had snagged a good one.    We didn't.   Move on and enjoy what we have snagged since.

Absolutely. I was reacting to the damming stats put up this morning which tell the tale of his career. 

 

22 minutes ago, Sir Why You Little said:

Haven't had a VB for years mate

lift your game please. Shocking Beer..

Now THAT we can both agree on .........


Based on nothing particularly solid, I think Toumpas will eventually get there - to at least being a decent, reliable player. Look how long it has taken Scully. It was interesting reading Viney's interview re going up a notch after he was able to change his mental approach mid-way through last season. That's a switch that Jimmy hasn't been able to flick - or even find - up until now, but perhaps over the next season or two, it could start to fall into place for him. Yes, it will have taken a while!

I don't know that he's doing anything at Port that he wouldn't have at Melbourne, though it's hard to see him getting a game at Melbourne on his current form.

One positive out of picking Jimmy is that it seems to have toughened up our subsequent drafting - which has been very good. I get the feeling that they're a lot more critical and harder on the potential draftees, more focused on what's needed to be an AFL player. Perhaps he's the dud pick we had to have?

1 hour ago, Sir Why You Little said:

Haven't had a VB for years mate

lift your game please. Shocking Beer..

If you're going to support the club, support the beer as well - Melbourne Bitter

If I were a mod (god help you all), this thread would be so locked.

My rear view mirror has been discarded. No need for it anymore.

 

has something happened re: Toumpas, why is this thread active at the moment.. serious question?

27 minutes ago, bing181 said:

Based on nothing particularly solid, I think Toumpas will eventually get there - to at least being a decent, reliable player. Look how long it has taken Scully. It was interesting reading Viney's interview re going up a notch after he was able to change his mental approach mid-way through last season. That's a switch that Jimmy hasn't been able to flick - or even find - up until now, but perhaps over the next season or two, it could start to fall into place for him. Yes, it will have taken a while!

I don't know that he's doing anything at Port that he wouldn't have at Melbourne, though it's hard to see him getting a game at Melbourne on his current form.

One positive out of picking Jimmy is that it seems to have toughened up our subsequent drafting - which has been very good. I get the feeling that they're a lot more critical and harder on the potential draftees, more focused on what's needed to be an AFL player. Perhaps he's the dud pick we had to have?

a neeld was the recession we had to have


3 minutes ago, small but forward said:

If you're going to support the club, support the beer as well - Melbourne Bitter

Yes but MB is Brewed by Carlscum & United so i really can't drink that one either!!

Hieneken?

2 minutes ago, Sir Why You Little said:

Yes but MB is Brewed by Carlscum & United so i really can't drink that one either!!

Hieneken?

Fair point. Whilst being far from a VB fan myself, I did have to have a giggle when they entered themselves in the Sydney Craft Beer Awards as Vaucluse Bitter and won. Just shows the hipsters aren't as smart as they think they are 

1 minute ago, MrReims said:

Fair point. Whilst being far from a VB fan myself, I did have to have a giggle when they entered themselves in the Sydney Craft Beer Awards as Vaucluse Bitter and won. Just shows the hipsters aren't as smart as they think they are 

Didn't know that. What a classic

so Sydney! :)

1 hour ago, bing181 said:

One positive out of picking Jimmy is that it seems to have toughened up our subsequent drafting - which has been very good. I get the feeling that they're a lot more critical and harder on the potential draftees, more focused on what's needed to be an AFL player. Perhaps he's the dud pick we had to have?

So what your saying is that the Melbourne FC is Paul Keating and Jimmy Toumpas was our recession?


Just now, AngryAtCasey said:

So what your saying is that the Melbourne FC is Paul Keating and Jimmy Toumpas was our recession?

No wait that doesn't work.

Todd Viney/Jason Taylor/Paul Roos are Paul Keating. The members are Australia and Toumpas was the recession?

1 hour ago, Sir Why You Little said:

Haven't had a VB for years mate

lift your game please. Shocking Beer..

 

1 hour ago, nutbean said:

Now THAT we can both agree on .........

 

46 minutes ago, small but forward said:

If you're going to support the club, support the beer as well - Melbourne Bitter

 

36 minutes ago, Sir Why You Little said:

Yes but MB is Brewed by Carlscum & United so i really can't drink that one either!!

Hieneken?

 

31 minutes ago, MrReims said:

Fair point. Whilst being far from a VB fan myself, I did have to have a giggle when they entered themselves in the Sydney Craft Beer Awards as Vaucluse Bitter and won. Just shows the hipsters aren't as smart as they think they are 

A good Melbourne craft beer then try Kaiju beer. Have a brewery in Dandenong South only about 15min from Casey Fields.

28 minutes ago, AngryAtCasey said:

 

 

 

 

A good Melbourne craft beer then try Kaiju beer. Have a brewery in Dandenong South only about 15min from Casey Fields.

CEO Angry!! :)

2 hours ago, Sir Why You Little said:

Didn't know that. What a classic

so Sydney! :)

Urban legend I'm afraid.

1 hour ago, Sir Why You Little said:

CEO Angry!! :)

Any chance we can get some free beers out of this from the free advertising? (a la the Nixon?)


Hnmm I really cannot fathom why people on this site can't move on!

Jimmy Who?????

12 minutes ago, picket fence said:

Hnmm I really cannot fathom why people on this site can't move on!

Jimmy Who?????

jimmy newton????

21 minutes ago, picket fence said:

Hnmm I really cannot fathom why people on this site can't move on!

Because there's a low-level discussion of an ex-player from time to time, it doesn't mean people haven't "moved on"?

In any case, most of the discussion isn't about Jimmy per se, but about our draft history, and drafting in general.

 
29 minutes ago, picket fence said:

Hnmm I really cannot fathom why people on this site can't move on!

Jimmy Who?????

Yet you open a thread about him, type a couple of lines about it, click reply. 

Someone that's moved on wouldn't put in that effort. 

1 hour ago, demoniac said:

Urban legend I'm afraid.

Aah what a pity

Vaucluse Bitter has such a cheap ring to it!!


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