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If you told me this time last year that TMac would earn a new 3 year deal i would have said you were stark raving mad. I can't think of another player who has ever turned their career around to such a degree. So lucky that no other club showed any interest. With BB and the Weid getting injured like they did in preseason we would have been stuffed without him this year

Kudos to you TMac. You proved me well and truly wrong.

 

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The reason I have enormous respect for Tom isn’t that he turned it around - it’s that he didn’t just think of it as ‘getting his confidence back’, but instead worked on specific attributes that would make him a more valuable player in the modern game. Listening to him talk about training for mobility, and changing the focus of his strength, he makes you realise that he’s a complete professional, who understands what the game requires at the top level. I really wish him well over the coming years.

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Surprised by this.

Maybe it shows that there are not many options around who the club feel could fill his role in this current "window"

Or maybe he is playing exactly the role that is being asked of him.

 

Oh well, good luck TMAC. Hope it's 3 good years to come.


Well done to Tommy. Time to put a steak on the BBQ in celebration. 

I trust the club, but am surprised by this, I would have traded Tmac before Weid, not saying that this happens. but I think we could have got good value for Tom. I worry that after 2022 all our spine is pretty old, lots of youth in the smalls not so much in the KPP. Brown, Tmac, May, Gawn. Can Petty or Tomlinson become a FB? I can't see Petty/Tomlinson as a CHF/FF in 2023 either (but then the FD has well and truly earnt my trust).

I’m pumped, I still remember waking the house up when he kicked the ball over his head against West Coast in 2018. (I think it was 2018….) Some of his performances during the opening rounds of this season were massive and helped pave the way for where we find ourselves next weekend.

 

I was wrong about you TMac and I’m glad you proved me wrong…you’re both real and spectacular!

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Bloody brilliant news. 

TMac is an absolute professional to come back this year and perform given the club wanted to trade him last year. 

Well done TMac now for the big one. 

GO DEES


  On 16/09/2021 at 09:10, DEE fence said:

I trust the club, but am surprised by this, I would have traded Tmac before Weid, not saying that this happens. but I think we could have got good value for Tom. I worry that after 2022 all our spine is pretty old, lots of youth in the smalls not so much in the KPP. Brown, Tmac, May, Gawn. Can Petty or Tomlinson become a FB? I can't see Petty/Tomlinson as a CHF/FF in 2023 either (but then the FD has well and truly earnt my trust).

I think we are fine, our age profile is great across the board. Petty can absolutely be the next May in a couple of years and Lever is only around 25. 

I’m wrapped about this, TMac is a key pillar in our forward line and, as a few have said, this is almost certainly a win/win giving him some certainty and us some salary cap smoothing.

Judging by the good business we've done this year I'm happy to back the club in here. 

  On 16/09/2021 at 09:25, FlashInThePan said:

I think we are fine, our age profile is great across the board. Petty can absolutely be the next May in a couple of years and Lever is only around 25. 

I’m wrapped about this, TMac is a key pillar in our forward line and, as a few have said, this is almost certainly a win/win giving him some certainty and us some salary cap smoothing.

Will admit to being greedy , I want both, and don't get me wrong I love Tmac and have defended him long and hard.

I've admired Tommy since before he was drafted bacause of his absolute desire to play AFL football, he worked his backside off, travelling long distances to train and play.

Good on you Tommy. you showed em.

 

  On 16/09/2021 at 08:27, titan_uranus said:

Jones is the only player on our list to have played 200 games. His 200th was in late-2015.

Bernie Vince played his 200th game for us in 2017, but obviously they weren't all with us. 

I think, prior to Jones, the last MFC player to get to 200 games for the club was Brad Green in 2010.

Melksham is on 197 but may not get there.

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  On 16/09/2021 at 09:21, DemonOX said:

Bloody brilliant news. 

TMac is an absolute professional to come back this year and perform given the club wanted to trade him last year. 

Well done TMac now for the big one. 

GO DEES

I love the reality of these five simple words.  Goodwin and his coaches will have our boys running through brick walls come saturday week.  You little beauty.

Well done MFC And TMac he is back to his 2018 form, very important to our team and will see him reach his 200 and be a one club player. Thanks Tom..!!!!!!!

We've had some decent form this year with players re-signing and then putting in good performances, fingers crossed for Tommy!

  On 16/09/2021 at 08:46, The heart beats true said:

The reason I have enormous respect for Tom isn’t that he turned it around - it’s that he didn’t just think of it as ‘getting his confidence back’, but instead worked on specific attributes that would make him a more valuable player in the modern game. Listening to him talk about training for mobility, and changing the focus of his strength, he makes you realise that he’s a complete professional, who understands what the game requires at the top level. I really wish him well over the coming years.

The MFC might have to take some accountability for that, wasn't he told to bulk up so he could play as a big strong fwd? In doing so lost one of his key skills in his running capacity?

  On 16/09/2021 at 09:25, FlashInThePan said:

I think we are fine, our age profile is great across the board. Petty can absolutely be the next May in a couple of years and Lever is only around 25. 

I’m wrapped about this, TMac is a key pillar in our forward line and, as a few have said, this is almost certainly a win/win giving him some certainty and us some salary cap smoothing.

Each game they play I see Tmac and BBrwon as a natural and complimentary duo. Bot with different characteristics.


  On 16/09/2021 at 09:58, Demon17 said:

Each game they play I see Tmac and BBrwon as a natural and complimentary duo. Bot with different characteristics.

Ben Brown is a bit mechanical in his movements, so that's probably a fair comment.

I was in Fiji for work when he signed his last contract, I think I driving to work listening to a podcast and just so pumped thinking about how good he and OMac and the rest of the team were going places... fast fwd I'm sitting in the home office in the dingy second bedroom/home office pumped for us to win a flag.

Congratulations TMac, now for the big one.

 
  On 16/09/2021 at 09:37, Dante said:

I've admired Tommy since before he was drafted bacause of his absolute desire to play AFL football, he worked his backside off, travelling long distances to train and play.

Good on you Tommy. you showed em.

 

I agree Dante, and for this reason I suspect that TMac has played an important part in building the 'culture' that is so important to where we now sit as a team.


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