The curse of the small forward

[pmac21]

Again a small forward almost single handedly wins the game for the opposition. Again we just dont have the small defender to go with the good ones. Newman and King were so loose in there attempt to win possessions that he was able to run free and obviously kick 7 goals. Bloody not good enough Tigers.
Wallace needs to go back in time to the year of the Dog and spew up for the pats on the back for being close.
Are we any chance of finals?? I dont think we are even though we have improved we are just not good enough.
This is the venting of a long suffering Tiger !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[pahoffm]

The only small back pocket that i've ever seen repeatedly beat Milne was a very young boy called Marcus Greig who played with the North Ballarat Rebels. He handled him in the 2nd half of the 1996 TAC GF, which the NBR won in a great comeback from behind. And Greig kept Milne goalless in the following season's final.

Marcus Greig never played AFL, but had a fine VFL career with North Ballarat.

I remember begging Richmond to rookie Milne back in the late 1990s when he couldn't get a gig. Sheeds gave him a go for a year or two, then passed him onto the Sainters.

It's my belief that Milne has been & still is one of the most under-rated & dangerous players in the AFL. But, at close to 30, he is coming to the end of his career.

Yeh, that was a great TAC Grand Final then.
Milne, Kris Massie, Travis Johnstone, Adam Goodes, Shane O'Bree immediately spring to mind in that game.

 

[bowden4president]

It's a HUGE problem and has been for some time. this year alone 25 goals have come from small/medium forwards