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Well done for showing your commitment & belief in the club..  This must put pressure on a particular forward who hasn't extended his contract ... Rest of his teammates are committed so what's holding him up??? I think as a footy club that this is the message he needs to hear .. Either commit or let the club know so they can plan their list choices going fwd ..

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On 29/09/2016 at 8:19 AM, Luther said:

Definitely yet to hit his best footy. Can you imagine when Tyson, Viney, Brayshaw, Stretch, Petracca etc are around the 25-27 mark?

Now that gets me extremely excited.

A lot could go wrong between now and then. I'm more excited about what they can achieve between 20-24. Look at the Dogs and you can see key mids don't have to be of that age

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As I've posted somewhere else recently, Dom reminds me a bit of a young Joey Kennedy the way he goes about it.

Very strong over the ball, no fuss, a goal kicking mid...not particularly quick.

Kennedy is a gun and again stood up when his teammates fell away. Kept them in the game.

Dom has the tools to make a similar impact for us, but hopefully as part of a winning team.

 

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Heard from someone close to Dom that he was disgruntled at the start of the season & the way his knee injury happened at the training camp & how he was rehabbed & would be looking for a trade a seasons end.. Not sure what the current situation is but the way we have been going you'd think it would help get over any concerns plus he's contracted until 2019 so he's going nowhere unless the club agrees.. 

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15 minutes ago, JV7 said:

Heard from someone close to Dom that he was disgruntled at the start of the season & the way his knee injury happened at the training camp & how he was rehabbed & would be looking for a trade a seasons end.. Not sure what the current situation is but the way we have been going you'd think it would help get over any concerns plus he's contracted until 2019 so he's going nowhere unless the club agrees.. 

This doesn't leave much in doubt I wouldn't have thought......

http://www.melbournefc.com.au/video/2017-06-25/rd-14-dom-tyson-postmatch

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36 minutes ago, JV7 said:

Heard from someone close to Dom that he was disgruntled at the start of the season & the way his knee injury happened at the training camp & how he was rehabbed & would be looking for a trade a seasons end.

Please be true. 

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^ I too think he's surplus to our needs, even though he seems embedded in the 22 atm. I mean his numbers are thanks to our high possession game but he is just so vanilla. 

He's not damaging, is a guaranteed holding the ball perpetrator at least twice a game and he runs around at one pace. None of these things are ideal given the outside role he seems to play. 

 

 


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56 minutes ago, JV7 said:

Heard from someone close to Dom that he was disgruntled at the start of the season & the way his knee injury happened at the training camp & how he was rehabbed & would be looking for a trade a seasons end.. Not sure what the current situation is but the way we have been going you'd think it would help get over any concerns plus he's contracted until 2019 so he's going nowhere unless the club agrees.. 

Funny time to bring this up 'JV'...

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1 hour ago, JV7 said:

Heard from someone close to Dom that he was disgruntled at the start of the season & the way his knee injury happened at the training camp & how he was rehabbed & would be looking for a trade a seasons end..

I said this at the time (the disgruntled part not the trade part) but my post was deleted by the mods, it is 100% true.

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Seems like he has a close group at the dees, not out of our 22, part of an up n coming team and is a local boy.

Tell me again why he'd wanna leave?

Training camp was too hard? Spare me..

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We need a depth of at least 10 midfielders. 

Just turned 24 and hasn't even played 100 games.

Are these the same posters who wanted to get rid of watts a couple of years back? 

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Would find it difficult to believe the handling of this preseason injury would be the trigger for him to leave a club on the brink of success. Surely we are now professionally run that Mac and Goody would sit down with him and work it out. Or at least do 10 rounds in the ring and slug it out.

IF he were to want out I have no doubt that we would get good value for him. But if I were a recruiter at an oppo club I'd first ask myself why a high draft pick would leave the 2 clubs likely to be the most successful over the next decade. What would that say of him?

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Sat next to his tiger supporting uncle a couple of weeks ago at the tigers v swans game.

he said that Dom was loving where the club was at and completely invested in Goodwins coaching and game-plan - which includes having "squads" of midfielders on rotations (Dom tends to spend more time in the middle in the second half), as it is too hard and physical for a smaller number of players to play totally in the middle. 

I think this is a real strength for us. It will be interesting to see how it plays out on Friday - where they probably have more A graders but we have more depth. 

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I would suggest that keeping quality players like Tyson is absolutely essential to our progress.  While he's not in our top six players, he's accounting for the spread of talent that you need to be a top team in modern football.  His stock game is good, his better games are exceptional.  

There's also been several games this year alone where he's been one of our better players when we're playing poorly; he doesn't drop his head and he keeps plugging away.  This was a feature of Nathan Jones in his developing years- when Melbourne lost, he always seemed to be in our best players.  When everything was going our way, he didn't seem to be noticed.

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3 hours ago, JV7 said:

Heard from someone close to Dom that he was disgruntled at the start of the season & the way his knee injury happened at the training camp & how he was rehabbed & would be looking for a trade a seasons end.. Not sure what the current situation is but the way we have been going you'd think it would help get over any concerns plus he's contracted until 2019 so he's going nowhere unless the club agrees.. 

Can't tell you how I know, but this is rubbish at Trump-levels.

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Dom isn't going anywhere, I work in the fitness industry and have connections to multiple clubs and I have never heard anyone say anything bad about that area of our club beyond that we are frustratingly cautious. 

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The way I see it Dom is behind Jones, Viney and Oliver as our in and under mid  - makes him our 4th tier mid. If Petracca become a full time mid then then Dom is 5th tier. Do I like someone of his quality as our 4th or 5th best mid ? you bet.

As long as all our players are playing well i am more than happy for a player to surpass another because of form and ability. If we get another mid that offers more than Tyson then great. At this stage we don't.

 

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3 hours ago, spalding said:

Sat next to his tiger supporting uncle a couple of weeks ago at the tigers v swans game.

he said that Dom was loving where the club was at and completely invested in Goodwins coaching and game-plan - which includes having "squads" of midfielders on rotations (Dom tends to spend more time in the middle in the second half), as it is too hard and physical for a smaller number of players to play totally in the middle. 

I think this is a real strength for us. It will be interesting to see how it plays out on Friday - where they probably have more A graders but we have more depth. 

Sounds like a similar way of managing rotations to how basketball coaches manage lineup rotations.  2nd units have become almost (repeat almost) as critical as starting line-ups. As talent laden as Golden States starting five is, they have unbelievable depth, and don't drop off too much when the second unit is on court.

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1 hour ago, The heart beats true said:

I can't tell you how I know this...

But I heard you should only believe about 6% of all Demonland rumours.

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Dom is a very good player, hes too maligned around these parts.

Id like him to kick more goals though, as he showed he was capable of that in his first season with us.

He should be like Stephen  Powell circa 2000, if I recall correctly he averaged something like 25 possies and kicked 30 goals in our Grand FInal season.  Like Dom, he wasnt the most polished with his foot skills but he was a  lefty who loved a goal and was a weapon for us.

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Tyson is absolutely integral to our side and is very underrated here.  He is a slow starter because he lacks a yard but he finishes games better than just about anyone else in red and blue.  His body strength on the inside is a real asset and he is a great decision maker despite the fact that the execution is sometimes lacking.

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Tyson is a star. Some of you have unrealistically high expectations for this group.

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