Pick 72: Ryan Garthwaite

[asian tetley]

A club that constantly drafts footballers lacking the basics requirements to play the game

Yep.
Kicking skills should be the first requirement.
Clearly a mistake to recruit players with questionable kicking.

 

[tigerman]

24 possys and 9 marks as a backman in the TAC granny.

I love those type of numbers on those types of occasions.

So do i easy, 2 of those marks were contested. He took 4 contested marks in the prelim final, so he can take a grab.

 

[MurrayValleyTiger]

This kid can play tall and small in defence! ungainly but effective kick! He'll be ok!

 

[mrposhman]

What about Dylan Grimes ?

Reckon Grimes is best on the smalls.

I like this pick, we know we need a 3rd tall to release Vlas to the midfield. This guy looks like an upgrade on Butchelor.

 

[Leysy Days]

Pass for leysy.

Regardless of his other attributes that kicking style will forever let his team down when hounded by 6 angry forwards that all teams deploy now.

Can see him being number 1 whipping boy by 2019.

Pass.

 

[ThePercies]

Yep.
Kicking skills should be the first requirement.
Clearly a mistake to recruit players with questionable kicking.

Rance couldn't kick when he was drafted to us. Look at him now...

 

[Hello Newman]

Don't know anything about this bloke but watched his highlights on the Richmond website and looks ok to me. Sure, he has an unorthodox kicking style but it seems to be effective and if anything, he minimises the margin for error by almost placing the ball on his boot rather than dropping it. God knows we need key position players and certainly didn't address this in tonight's draft but I'm happy with this one. Looks like he could be a player.

 

[Bill James]

Horrible looking action and I know its a highlight reel, but go and have a look at Cotchin and Martins draft highlight reels, they missed a lot more kicks than Garthwaite. I only saw one missed kick.

 

[Leysy Days]

How many were forward to a leading target TBH?

Surely we've had enough of, and the games moved by these types.

 

[thejinx]

:-\ Kicks like my girlfriend when I force her to have a kick with me.

That ball drop won't do him any favours, under pressure, in an AFL backline.

 

[tigerdave]

Funny kicking style but KE very good.Very good one on one defender!

 

[TigerForce]

Bloody hell....visions of a McGun and Taylor Hunt hybrid. Must be an expert chip kicker.

 

[asian tetley]

:-\ Kicks like my girlfriend when I force her to have a kick with me.

That ball drop won't do him any favours, under pressure, in an AFL backline.

Yep.
No matter how much we need a key defender, no matter how good one on one,no matter what stats in a TAC game.
Players who have questionable kicking are a liability.

 

[Tigerfan]

DOB 30 June 98

 

[zippadeee]

DOB 30 June 98

In his entire life we have only one final :rofl

 

[tigerman]

Draft combine.

Goal kicking 25 out of 30, clean hands 28 out of 30, how about we give the kid a chance.

 

[easy_tiger]

Horrible looking action and I know its a highlight reel, but go and have a look at Cotchin and Martins draft highlight reels, they missed a lot more kicks than Garthwaite. I only saw one missed kick.

inneresting

Draft combine.

Goal kicking 25 out of 30, clean hands 28 out of 30, how about we give the kid a chance.

3rd forward?

:-\ Kicks like my girlfriend when I force her to have a kick with me.

domestic violence?

 

[zippadeee]

Draft combine.

Goal kicking 25 out of 30, clean hands 28 out of 30, how about we give the kid a chance.

We are the opposite. We bag the *smile* out them and if they turn out to be any good we all jump on the back wagon, otherwise we say "we all knew he was *smile*"

 

[easy_tiger]

We are the opposite. We bag the sh!t out them and if they turn out to be any good we all jump on the back wagon, otherwise we say "we all knew he was sh!t"

Id prefer you spoke in singular, please zips

 

[craig]

when I force her to have a kick with me.

:hihi :hihi