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Dale Thomas
- Thread starter tigerjoe
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So we like Pendlebury.
Interesting. An athletic guy with silky skills who runs hard, uses the ball well, is not a natural footballer and not too keen on hard contests.
A basketballer.
I thought the traditionist football fans here despised the basketballers.
For what it is worth, Basketball is a very skilful game where hard running and silky skills are prized above all else. Just like football.
Thomas is very good too. Miller had him under consideration at pick 8 that year. Given who he believed would go before pick 8, he was always going to choose between JON, Thomas, Dempsey and Varcoe.
Pendlebury was pencilled in for pick 24.
When all of these guys are up and running they are going to be outstanding footballers. They will all win the hard ball but won't play the hard, physical game that some seem to want.
Interesting. An athletic guy with silky skills who runs hard, uses the ball well, is not a natural footballer and not too keen on hard contests.
A basketballer.
I thought the traditionist football fans here despised the basketballers.
For what it is worth, Basketball is a very skilful game where hard running and silky skills are prized above all else. Just like football.
Thomas is very good too. Miller had him under consideration at pick 8 that year. Given who he believed would go before pick 8, he was always going to choose between JON, Thomas, Dempsey and Varcoe.
Pendlebury was pencilled in for pick 24.
When all of these guys are up and running they are going to be outstanding footballers. They will all win the hard ball but won't play the hard, physical game that some seem to want.
TOTO
I like 3 of your list in what I have seen, I honestly havent seen enough of JON to make a real assessment.
Thomas is not a basetballer (TOO small :hihi) but i admire his work ethic!
WE could do worse than include players with a bit of polish!
I like 3 of your list in what I have seen, I honestly havent seen enough of JON to make a real assessment.
Thomas is not a basetballer (TOO small :hihi) but i admire his work ethic!
WE could do worse than include players with a bit of polish!
He is still young, but he is too flashy at times.
Every team need a few players like Thomas, but he is still young, dont know what he is like consistancy wise, i havent seen him that much.
But from what I have seen, I dont think we is the same league as Deledio.
Every team need a few players like Thomas, but he is still young, dont know what he is like consistancy wise, i havent seen him that much.
But from what I have seen, I dont think we is the same league as Deledio.
hellenictiger said:
He has been very consistant this year.
I think that flashy stuff is a bit overdone on this bloke, for me he is a guy that has a huge workrate, gets free a lot and has good delivery, and can kick the odd goal and take the odd high mark.
He's a beauty.
Deledio has more natural ability and physical prowess than Dale, if Terry ever puts him in the middle we'll see if he has this kind of workrate! If he does the kid will be a freak.
tigerjoe said:
Malthouse is throwing his kids into the deep end and it's paying off. It's exactly what we should be doing. You listening plough? Get lids and tambling in the guts and stop this rubbish your showing us.
Tigerbob said:
For the untrained eye it appears that Lids is playing in the backline for Richmond, but for the long suffering Tigers supporters, we all know that to play in the Tigers backline is to play "on the ball". Terry is doing the right thing for Delidios developement, playing him where the ball is most, in the Tigers backline.
dale thomas has got a fair bit of talent and flair he will spend a long time in the AFL i think deledio is alot more talent and a better player i just dont understand why he is playing off half-back instead of the midfield where he is much more dangerous player for us
Tigerbob said:
I remember hte pies were bagged at the time for taking Thomas and Pendlebury however. Cant remember who bagged htem though.
Brett Deledio is not playing as a midfielder beacuse he would be attracting the number one tagger from the opposition which, aged 19, he would not able to shake off.
Hence he is playing off a back flank, a very good move for his development.
It is good coaching by Plough and an indicement on our "senior" midfielders.
Hence he is playing off a back flank, a very good move for his development.
It is good coaching by Plough and an indicement on our "senior" midfielders.
I dont think Deledio is playing at HB just to shake off a tag.
Wallace is putting him there to get a feel of things then to gradually pop him in the middle, I see it as getting a cheap kick. Judd, Ball and now Murphy all had to go through the same thing.
He will get tagged again when he goes back in, the more he learns what its liked to be tagged in the AFL the better.
Wallace is putting him there to get a feel of things then to gradually pop him in the middle, I see it as getting a cheap kick. Judd, Ball and now Murphy all had to go through the same thing.
He will get tagged again when he goes back in, the more he learns what its liked to be tagged in the AFL the better.
This is part of the problem. You put Lids in the middle and he will still attract the best opposition tag which is a direct indictment on the rest of our midfield and the lack or respect the get from the opposition. Recently read an article in Inside football where our midfield was rated as 15th or 16th in the AFL which is not to far off with Cogs out IMHO. The others just don't hurt you.
Oppositions know that if you leave Lids to run unchecked he will hurt you.
Pies still have guys like Licuria, O'Bree, Lockyer rotating through the midfield which warrant some attention so guys like Thomas can run free.
Having said that it is time Lids was allowed to be the hunted rather than the hunter. We really don't have to many options right about now do we?
Oppositions know that if you leave Lids to run unchecked he will hurt you.
Pies still have guys like Licuria, O'Bree, Lockyer rotating through the midfield which warrant some attention so guys like Thomas can run free.
Having said that it is time Lids was allowed to be the hunted rather than the hunter. We really don't have to many options right about now do we?
This is where the older players need to stand up and take the pressure off the younger guys.
I feel sorry for the young guys, we are already paying out on them and many are only playing their frist 25 games. We dont have anyone else to bag, but still, players like Coghlan and Brown would have allowed Brett to play in the middle, but still, IMO he needs to be put in there gradually.
Leaving him down back isnt going to develop him, I agree with Wallace at the moment on Deledio, but by seasons end he needs to be put on the ball full time.
I feel sorry for the young guys, we are already paying out on them and many are only playing their frist 25 games. We dont have anyone else to bag, but still, players like Coghlan and Brown would have allowed Brett to play in the middle, but still, IMO he needs to be put in there gradually.
Leaving him down back isnt going to develop him, I agree with Wallace at the moment on Deledio, but by seasons end he needs to be put on the ball full time.
Thomas runs around without an opponent and wastes the football regularly... seemed to think he was some sort of a hard man with that swinging elbow on Wednesday too... to his credit, when he got polaxed a couple of times as pay back he got back up pretty quickly. But even so, he melts down a lot and seems to be a bit of a lair...
BBC said:
Even playing HBF he got a tag in Round One. Agree. Give the kid some space.
He's learning to use his pace on the burst, to carry the ball and to use it in space.
He can already get the ball. Wallet is trying to groom him to become something well out of the ordinary.
There are a few pretty hand HBFs running around the league who could be reasonably compared with the role that Lids has at the moment. Andrew McLeod, Jason Gram and Heath Shaw come immediately to mind.
It gives him the whole ground in front of him, enabling him to use his pace and break the lines.
Our midfield is ordinary, but I like him at HBF at the moment.
It gives him the whole ground in front of him, enabling him to use his pace and break the lines.
Our midfield is ordinary, but I like him at HBF at the moment.
pokey said:
Yeah, you are right, with one problem though. The players you mentioned play for sides that have midfields. Number 1 draft choice midfielders, should be being developed on the ball. Who cares if he is going to get tagged, get used to it, they aren't going to go away.