Pick 63, 2017 Ben Miller - Welcome to Tigerland.

[Long Lost Hernaman]

I think they saw something in him which they liked when putting him in the ruck in the scrimmages.

Separately, seeing as the Goo and Homewood got a run, may I add one time great big man hope Pat Steinfort?

 

[turk-d-tiger]

197cm great athlete with mobility and leap played mostly foward as a junior and getting reprogrammed to become a defender at AFL will take time
was selected in the same draft as Balta/CJ in 2017. He will have a ready body and could play similar role to Chol but we hope to turn him into Astbury replacement but with Soldo going down he is insurance and if he develops further then could have a career.

Rookie list is a great position for Miller

 

[craig]

How is minimum key when you can pay whatever amount you want?

yeah the Blues have put that promising young Goalsneak Betts on their rookie list srs.

 

[DavidSSS]

yeah the Blues have put that promising young Goalsneak Betts on their rookie list srs.

Yeah, potential, but will he ever really make it?

DS

 

[craig]

Yeah, potential, but will he ever really make it?

DS

Laughable it is.

 

[zippadeee]

I think they saw something in him which they liked when putting him in the ruck in the scrimmages.

Separately, seeing as the Goo and Homewood got a run, may I add one time great big man hope Pat Steinfort?

Matty Francis, Brad McGee, Alistair Edwards, Ty Esler, Griffens, Elton, Vickery,
We know how to find quality talls

 

[bigwow]

Matty Francis, Brad McGee, Alistair Edwards, Ty Esler, Griffens, Elton, Vickery,
We know how to find quality talls

I presume you mean Steve McKee & Alistair Scott? But overlooked Tim Barling.

 

[Billy24]

I presume you mean Steve McKee & Alistair Scott? But overlooked Tim Barling.

Stuey Edwards? Kicked a bag (5?) in a night game at Waverley.........thought we were onto the next great forward.....

 

[zippadeee]

I presume you mean Steve McKee & Alistair Scott? But overlooked Tim Barling.

Im over these over hyped kids that never show anything.
We waited for some of them for years and they just ended up getting delisted.
McBean would be close to the most over hyped kid we have ever had. Maybe 2nd was Scotty Homewood in the 90's he was the best kid never to play a game.

 

[bigwow]

Im over these over hyped kids that never show anything.
We waited for some of them for years and they just ended up getting delisted.
McBean would be close to the most over hyped kid we have ever had. Maybe 2nd was Scotty Homewood in the 90's he was the best kid never to play a game.

No, that would be Pat Steinfort, or Simon Eastaugh

 

[UKTiger]

Seems to be a late bloomer. Looking forward to seeing him next year.

Still only 21 so still learning

 

[Scoop]

Smalls get five minutes to prove they can play and talls get five years to prove they can't. Some old basketball saying rehashed.

Eggs vs Miller is the perfect case of this. It’s so true.

 

[Dyer'ere]

Ask any small, Scoop. They're all ready to testify.

 

[glenn downing]

I hope that they play Miller (together with Martyn, Collier-Dawkins and Ralphsmith) in a couple of pre-season practice matches to test him out at senior level. Play him in defense or in the ruck but let us see just what he can do at senior level. Maybe he will surprise us. We need to find out or at least get a decent indication that he can become more than just a back up/depth player. Also, it could improve his confidence that he is worthy of being retained on the list.

 

[yandb]

Can't understand the hatred for Miller from some posters, it is almost like they want him to fail.

 

[Tigers of Old]

Im over these over hyped kids that never show anything.
We waited for some of them for years and they just ended up getting delisted.
McBean would be close to the most over hyped kid we have ever had. Maybe 2nd was Scotty Homewood in the 90's he was the best kid never to play a game.

Special mention David Gourdis.

 

[AngryAnt]

Im over these over hyped kids that never show anything.
We waited for some of them for years and they just ended up getting delisted.
McBean would be close to the most over hyped kid we have ever had. Maybe 2nd was Scotty Homewood in the 90's he was the best kid never to play a game.

To be fair the club never really overhyped McBean. Dimma was always very circumspect about him, and I always remember the VFL coaches struggling to decide if he was a tall or a small, trying him out in the ruck or as KPP. It was the PRE McBean cult that did the hyping, this fed into the "Dimma hates talented players and wants only programmable robots" mythos.

All of which blessedly melted away in late 2017.

 

[zippadeee]

Special mention David Gourdis.

Forgot about him. We rookied him 35 times.
How about Jayden Post?

 

[josey]

I still say McBean would have been a very good player and should have played more than did.

What position should he have played at AFL level?

 

[Tigers of Old]

Key Small forward?

Fixed it for you.