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It was interesting talking to a player that left the club last year. Said Tyson played well beyond himself in 2014. "He's just not that good" were his words.

I'd trust implicitly the word of a player who has recently left the club.

I'm also pretty interested in the idea that you can play at a level beyond your natural capability. Sounds like something out of a bad 80s SciFi movie.

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+ vandenBerg, Trengove, Salem, Kent, ANB, Stretch and Hunt.

Yes. Please.

Not sure that I would be quite ready to put Hunt in with our other emerging midfielders! Despite less time in the system, I would be more inclined to nominate Harmes (and I still think that Toumpas will make it)!

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Hugely disappointing year from Tyson, considering how good he looked last year, many of us thought he might step up to an elite level this year

Getting very very sick of seeing our players fail to take the next step

Yeah. What a lazy bastard......feigning injury to avoid hard work. Another failure of recruiting, development, injury prevention.

C&B = [censored].

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It was interesting talking to a player that left the club last year. Said Tyson played well beyond himself in 2014. "He's just not that good" were his words.

Well, if they left in 2014 then there are only so many options:

James Frawley

Mitch Clark

Shannon Byrnes

Sam Blease

Mitch Clisby

Michael Evans

Alex Georgiou

Dan Nicholson

James Strauss

Luke Tapscott

Dom Barry

Maia Westrupp

Who is still around the club? Byrnes is coaching at Casey, so it could be him. He's one of the few there who would also have a reasonable frame of reference to judge by. Evans and Strauss are both playing with Old Scotch, so that might be a place to connect.

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I think blaming injury alone is a bit naive. Clubs also figured Tyson out and have put more time into him after a great 2014. He is so one-sided. Has no right side at all. Clubs played on his left side and took that away and he was caught so many times trying to get back onto it.

It was interesting talking to a player that left the club last year. Said Tyson played well beyond himself in 2014. "He's just not that good" were his words.

I hope Tyson proves him wrong. I'd love a big pre-season focused on Tyson's running and becoming more comfortable with his right side.

Give me Tyson playing above himself over Watts playing beneath himself any day.

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That pass to Billy Stretch in the final term at Geelong to set up a goal I could have sworn was delivered by Pendles....

Oh sorry I'm mistaken, one of his passes did hit a target this year.

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Sometimes he tries to do too much. He was like that last year too but he had 30 possies most games so it wasn't so bad. Just noticed it more this year I think. He's amazing when he's just being an extractor. Quick hands to a runner in traffic. I'd like to see him develop that game as his focus. Take the first option.

He'll be right though, clearly seemed injured for most of the year.

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I'd trust implicitly the word of a player who has recently left the club.

I'm also pretty interested in the idea that you can play at a level beyond your natural capability. Sounds like something out of a bad 80s SciFi movie.

If he can play above his capability for the next decade he'll have a good career and I'll be happy

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Sometimes he tries to do too much. He was like that last year too but he had 30 possies most games so it wasn't so bad. Just noticed it more this year I think. He's amazing when he's just being an extractor. Quick hands to a runner in traffic. I'd like to see him develop that game as his focus. Take the first option.

He'll be right though, clearly seemed injured for most of the year.

Is always very good in close - this is where he needs to be. Quick hands and quick, correct decision making. By foot, he's less reliable but always works hard to find the ball.

When he strung together a few games in the later part of the year, he was beginning to look himself again.

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I think blaming injury alone is a bit naive. Clubs also figured Tyson out and have put more time into him after a great 2014. He is so one-sided. Has no right side at all. Clubs played on his left side and took that away and he was caught so many times trying to get back onto it.

It was interesting talking to a player that left the club last year. Said Tyson played well beyond himself in 2014. "He's just not that good" were his words.

I hope Tyson proves him wrong. I'd love a big pre-season focused on Tyson's running and becoming more comfortable with his right side.

Meh, I had an ex-MFC player tell me Stretch was at least 2 to 3 years away.

Just goes to show even players don't always get the crystal balling right.

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Dom is super talented and was unlucky wiyh injury this year, i have every confidence he will be a good player for us

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Didn't like his year. Not sure what injuries he had, but looked slow by hand and foot.

Yeah did seem like he got that knee very early and had to push through for most of the year, tough ask for the young fella and I reckon he acquitted himself well!

Had a wretched year. The knee injury has been with him a while (I think he had it when he first came) and they try to manage it.

That said his impact in games was a lot less this year and his disposal and decision making was pretty poor. He plays in heavy traffic so I can forgive him while he is still learning and building. I have high hopes he can be a very damaging player because he can get the ball. If he can improve the disposal and decision making by a small amount he will be well on the way to having a really strong impact regularly.

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He's a good young midfielder who played injured and batted through it.

When are excuses simply reasons and when do we stop devouring people based on our own neuroses?

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11 minutes ago, P-man said:

He's on 360 tomorrow night, along with some bloke named Treloar.

I guess there's a chance they would play on each other?

Posted
On 09/09/2015 at 9:55 AM, Abe said:

Dom is super talented and was unlucky wiyh injury this year, i have every confidence he will be a good player for us

Liking your work Abe :)


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2 hours ago, The Song Formerly Known As said:

Doing just fine.

turned 23 today, so young still but a big part of our future.

 

Only just turned 23!

We are indeed a young team, we put so much expectation on young players. I feel like his position in the team makes him about 27. Oh, to be like a side that has an average age of 25 with 100 games!

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8 hours ago, P-man said:

He's on 360 tomorrow night, along with some bloke named Treloar.

I wouldn't mind he accidentally reversed into Treloar. Just a one week injury would be fine. :)

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On 6/9/2016 at 9:05 AM, Bring-Back-Powell said:

Is it possible that he plays better without Viney?

Seemed to relish the role as our number 1 inside ball winner V's the Hawks..

He definitely played a great game, for me though the biggest difference i saw was just how clean he was with the ball, on a wet day that really stood out with everyone else fumbling and Dom being a one touch class player he just looked a level above everyone else on the ground

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Loved his game on Saturday. It was interesting how well he, Jones and Vince played. Their pace was very suited to the wet day. He may well be a wet weather gun. His hands were great and his kicking looked great in the conditions. I am critical of his kicking on a dry day sometimes, but he and Vince were awesome.

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32 minutes ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

Is it possible that he plays better without Viney?

Seemed to relish the role as our number 1 inside ball winner V's the Hawks..

I hope not, i hope he can reporduce that with Viney in the team, what i like is that it looked like he took it upon himself to step up with Viney out. Signs of a strong and mature leader. 

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