The knock on him at the Swans was that he plays like a KPF but is too short and as a half forward didn't have the tank to be able to run deep into the backline and back as you do nowadays. He said this year it pretty much took until the end of last season for the penny to drop how hard he had to work on building his tank. I have a feeling he must have been given the hard word after his first year at the Saints that if he didnt work harder on improving his tank his career was about to be over. He did that over the summer and is now the player he could have been at the Swans if he had worked hard enough in the beginning. 

Still has terrible tatts.

I'm just glad Jack Fitzpatrick didn't go to Hawthorn and miraculously make us look really silly for letting him go.

ST Kilda deserve all the luck they can get. a lucky bounce 50 years ago won them their first flag. an unlucky bounce a few years ago cruelly denied them their second. this time they strike it lucky. a win for the little guy.

5 hours ago, It's Time said:

The knock on him at the Swans was that he plays like a KPF but is too short and as a half forward didn't have the tank to be able to run deep into the backline and back as you do nowadays. He said this year it pretty much took until the end of last season for the penny to drop how hard he had to work on building his tank. I have a feeling he must have been given the hard word after his first year at the Saints that if he didnt work harder on improving his tank his career was about to be over. He did that over the summer and is now the player he could have been at the Swans if he had worked hard enough in the beginning. 

Reminds me of the conversation Cam Pedersen apparently had with Todd Viney after the first year of his three year contract, where the intimation was that his contract wouldn't save him if his second year looked like his first.

3 hours ago, bush demon said:

ST Kilda deserve all the luck they can get. a lucky bounce 50 years ago won them their first flag. an unlucky bounce a few years ago cruelly denied them their second. this time they strike it lucky. a win for the little guy.

Meh. I can't stand them.