Gees the Tigers must have a long injury list, what happened to all the guns they recruited in 2024. Smilie and Hotten etc?

I hope for Yze's sake they start to come on as they looked poor

5 minutes ago, DubDee said:

Gees the Tigers must have a long injury list, what happened to all the guns they recruited in 2024. Smilie and Hotten etc?

I hope for Yze's sake they start to come on as they looked poor

Hotton will be out for a decent stint with stress fractures in his hip

49 minutes ago, GawnOfTheDead said:

I’d take a bag of Smiths chips over Petty.

Hnmm I have been critical of Petty as a forward but I thought he was pretty good in defence last night!

10 minutes ago, picket fence said:

Hnmm I have been critical of Petty as a forward but I thought he was pretty good in defence last night!

Idk mate. I wasn’t there but Lynch out ran and our muscled him a few times. His efforts are weak. Regularly gets out bodied and tackles slip. I honestly don’t think he uses the gym.

1 hour ago, GawnOfTheDead said:

Idk mate. I wasn’t there but Lynch out ran and our muscled him a few times. His efforts are weak. Regularly gets out bodied and tackles slip. I honestly don’t think he uses the gym.

Name me one defender who would out body Lynch ..he is huge . When our defence worked as a unit we could contain him …one on one Lynch will outbody

most defenders .

15 minutes ago, Deestar9 said:

Name me one defender who would out body Lynch ..he is huge . When our defence worked as a unit we could contain him …one on one Lynch will outbody

most defenders .

Can’t tell if you’re joking. Lynch is frail and broken bodied.

Josh Battle, Lachie Whitford, Sam Taylor, Steven May, and Harris Andrews, and probably Tom Stewart to name just a couple.

Unfortunately, Petty is not strong enough or competitive enough.

36 minutes ago, Deestar9 said:

Name me one defender who would out body Lynch ..he is huge . When our defence worked as a unit we could contain him …one on one Lynch will outbody

most defenders .

Maybe May?

7 hours ago, Deestar9 said:

So you’re writing off these players on the basis of 2 practice games. I’ve been at both. CJ has played over the 2 matches ..1 game. New club..new game plan ..let’s give him some more time. I liked a lot of his game. There were a few supporters around us who were going to the three games (ho figure) & it was interesting to hear their comments…a lot more flattering than some of our supporters. Tholstrup was more than serviceable as was Laurie. Not everyone is a Windsor ..Langford etc but they were ok. Our game is a work in progress…some fantastic signs but def a lot to work on. Let’s be a bit more forgiving.,,

who said i was writing them off from 2 practice games?

cj has 76 afl games and i'd hope he plays in at least 5 more seasons with us, so could get up close to 200 games as he clearly has attributes to his game that are very good - they're just not his kicking, clearly, but he reads the play well and has speed and seems to have some strength in the contest

laurie has been on our list since before we won the premiership; i don't see an afl-level player whatsoever

tholstrup is a lovely long kick, a terrible short one, is not quick, doesn't seem to have much 'smarts' around him and is entering his third year

at the start of 2021 i probably said the same of sparrow; at the end of the year he was a premiership player

i hope to say the same of tholstrup at the conclusion of his third season too - like sparrow he's got a great attitude to his game, wants to bring his teammates into the game, but it think probably lacks the gut-running of sparrow at this point in time