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Bye Bye Jack Higgins!

Harry

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He's limited and will struggle to keep his spot at the saints. Was the right move for him to seek a contract with the saints and was the right move for us to let him go.
 
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bigwow

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He seemed a better set shot kick fot goal last night than he ever was at Richmond. Couldn't kick over a jam tin, but nailed both from outside 40 metres.
 
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wayne

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Not sure if it was just me, but Butler is friendly with the guys, but Higgins seemed like he never played for us.
 
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WesternTiger

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Heh heh heh ....Lego Head Brown gave him a baking after the game.
Yeah thought there were a few ahead of Higgins that warranted a bake....Browns problem was apart from Hill and Higgins he couldnt remember anyone else.
 
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craig

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Agree with all of that. Will add that we saw him through that tough period, and got him back playing senior footy, which would have been enormous for his mental health. Not saying we did it all but I’m sure we as a club did heaps for him.

On that basis I was disappointed he’d want out. No respect.
No doubt his amanger put the feelers out after he got dropped the last time if not before then.
 

kiwitiger

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Not sure if it was just me, but Butler is friendly with the guys, but Higgins seemed like he never played for us.

Yeah I picked up on some unfriendliness, when we have played against other ex tigers , plenty of smiles and jokes ,

With Higgins there was very little of that , if anything our guys seemed to enjoy tackling him hard ,

Very odd
 

TigerForce

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He seemed a better set shot kick fot goal last night than he ever was at Richmond. Couldn't kick over a jam tin, but nailed both from outside 40 metres.
That's what I was amazed at too.

Yeah I picked up on some unfriendliness, when we have played against other ex tigers , plenty of smiles and jokes ,

With Higgins there was very little of that , if anything our guys seemed to enjoy tackling him hard ,

Very odd
All respect to Higgo but I think the club noticed that he probably didn't follow club protocol much (i.e. didn't care where he played as long as he played footy) and was a bit on the immature side.
 

mrposhman

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Yeah I picked up on some unfriendliness, when we have played against other ex tigers , plenty of smiles and jokes ,

With Higgins there was very little of that , if anything our guys seemed to enjoy tackling him hard ,

Very odd
Yeah totally different to the way Ellis was received when we played GC last year, he's still clearly a very good mate to some of our players, not sure Higgo is.
 

Tiger Rob

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Yeah totally different to the way Ellis was received when we played GC last year, he's still clearly a very good mate to some of our players, not sure Higgo is.
He’d done it tough as a kid and was probably honest to the group in wanting to secure his life post footy. Hard to begrudge that after giving it his best for the Tigers. Will always be Tiger to me.

Butts is also one of us, but wasn’t quite up to it. We respect that.

I don’t want to engage further/speculate on Higgo.
 
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seven

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Yeah I picked up on some unfriendliness, when we have played against other ex tigers , plenty of smiles and jokes ,

With Higgins there was very little of that , if anything our guys seemed to enjoy tackling him hard ,

Very odd
Jack R was giving him a mouth full. Thought he was giving some friendly banter until Another saint player started pushing Jack away.
might not have been too friendly
 
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TigerMasochist

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Enjoyed watching the Higlet during his time playing for us. Super happy for him to have worked his way through returning from surgery on his cranium.
Pissed off big time that he couldn't walk away fast enough to play for St. Kiddenme rather than fight his way into a regular place in the reigning premiership side.
Not to sure he's gunna get much of a look at helping his Sainters to play much finals or win a flag in the near furture. Guess he can always look back at playing out his career at his favourite club.
 
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craig

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Yeah I picked up on some unfriendliness, when we have played against other ex tigers , plenty of smiles and jokes ,

With Higgins there was very little of that , if anything our guys seemed to enjoy tackling him hard ,

Very odd

Because he walked out on them they were afronted.

They were into him and noticed a fair few hard attacks on him, no doubt they made a point of letting him know who he was playing against.

Out of the 4 departures he's the one we miss the least and probably the only one that will cop that treatment.

Butler got some lip and some extra body on him but no real malice

Oleg was handy depth and had been a Tiger for a long time.

Bobble 2 Flags and a popular figure at the club.

Butler 1 flag but was traded with blessing.
 
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