Chalk and cheese Dow and Sonsie, both in player type and how much they're showing. Sonsie has to pull his finger out pronto.
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Thomson Dow
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Sonsie has shown little at AFL or VFL level that demonstartes he can play mid IMO. Dow is showing incremental improvement.
Sonsie has barely been given any midfield time. When they both played midfield a few weeks ago, Sonsie outperformed Dow.
the prospect of sonsie midfield gives me nightmares.
cue the band, they will waltz in a straight line thru him.
sign him up for ju jitsu & body pump, come back next year.
bad influence as is.
What game? Sonsie is mostly invisible when he plays, IMO no way he has more upside in the middle than Dow.
Dow has agility and ability to win his own ball. He needs to build some size. He needs to work on his left side disposal. Sonsie is slow and pretty timid at the contest.
There is a reason for that don't you think given we were missing Hopper/Taranto/Prestia/Ross....
Bolton, Taranto, Hopper, Prestia, Martin, Ross, Mcauliffe, Dow. Yep there's room for Thommy in a full strength mid field rotation. Poor bugger's been learning his craft the hard way this year often trying to play as a top 2 or 3 mid instead of building in a support role. Hopefully this year is the one that builds him into a genuine player not just a helper.
The Dogs game. Won the ball well at the contest, 6 clearances that game, didn't kick it well that game but was good other than that. Puts on way more pressure than Dow, check out the pressure acts. Not saying that Sonsie is going to be better than Taranto, Prestia, Hopper etc, but he has more upside than Dow. Whilst people say he's getting better, I just don't see it. His kicking is really poor, check out his 2 inside 50 kicks yesterday, high up and unders to no-one in particular. I have more faith that Sonsie could be a long term midfielder than Dow, but seems like because he has some level of flexibility (unlike Dows zero flexibility) he gets pushed to a HFF.
Muppet Arms.... 
.....geez. He has got the right muscly body frame but empty guns. Needs to hit the gym with Samson daily and get some KFC into him.
.....geez. He has got the right muscly body frame but empty guns. Needs to hit the gym with Samson daily and get some KFC into him.If there's no chance of reforming Sonsie as a mid then it's half back or delist.
Yep hes a busted flush.
Seen enough yet he's playing every F@#$^@ week yet Steely and Coulthard get 5 minutes then get the arse.
Just replace him with McAuliffe in the middle with Prestia, Baker and Graham playing alongside and bring in a small fleet forward forward like Coulthard or Green who can hit the @$^#@^@% scoreboard and chase and spread.
