2025 Whipping boy

Vote for your 2025 whipping boy

  • Sampson Van Ryan

  • Jacob Jazinski

  • Tom thumb Dow

  • Jayden Shorts

  • Jake the Cob Hopper

  • Tonsils Sonsie

  • Ben it's time Miller

  • Tyler Notso Young

  • Other


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Hopper was our best mid while fit, cant be a whipping boy because you're injured all the time. Whipping boy's have to be in genuinely shit form and bafflingly getting games. If Short doesn't cut out the short steps and start directing kicks to targets instead of for distance he's number one in the gun.
Best mid while fit? I can only recall him playing 1 or 2 decent games where he was top 3 to 5 for us.
 
Best mid while fit? I can only recall him playing 1 or 2 decent games where he was top 3 to 5 for us.
He only had Tarranto to contend with for the title really and Tarranto did a lot of hack kicking to nowhere. When Hopper was up and about he was hitting targets inside 50 and actually damaging. Just don't reckon he's in whipping boy conversations until he's had a non-****ed Serpell pre-season and can actually put together a fair body of work.
 

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Hopper was our best mid while fit, cant be a whipping boy because you're injured all the time. Whipping boy's have to be in genuinely shit form and bafflingly getting games. If Short doesn't cut out the short steps and start directing kicks to targets instead of for distance he's number one in the gun.
he has been in shit form half his time at tigers.
 
It is going to be Sonsie and Ryan in the preseason and then Short, Macca, Broad or Hopper during the season.

If Short plays every game like he did this year then he is going to have his billboard at Punt Road defaced. Macca getting a game will be a whipping boy.

Controversial one, but I am going to throw in Brown as a whipping boy. Started to see it at the end of the year and think it will continue into 2025.
 

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He only had Tarranto to contend with for the title really and Tarranto did a lot of hack kicking to nowhere. When Hopper was up and about he was hitting targets inside 50 and actually damaging. Just don't reckon he's in whipping boy conversations until he's had a non-****ed Serpell pre-season and can actually put together a fair body of work.
Would have him bottom 20-30% of mids whilst playing. At his worst I'd prefer to play Dow.

Besides the best ability is avail-ability.
 
A reminder Hopp-errors will turn 28 in February. And he averages 11 games per season over the past 3 seasons.

At 11 games per season on 800k per year, availability wise he is on as much as a player who plays 22 games on 1.6 million a year.

And he has 5 more years left on his contract.
 
I’ll throw Prestia into consideration. Has been an absolute gun but if he runs around this coming season like he did in the back half of last season then he will not escape criticism.
 
Young and Miller have been too good as inexperienced KPDs in a shit team to be whipping boys.

Short should turn it around if he moves into his B&F position at half back.

It would be hard for Hopper to be the whipping boy because I doubt he plays a whole season. If he does, he probably plays well enough to not be our whipping boy.

For me the below 4 players are our whipping boys until they prove us wrong.

1. Ryan has no excuses now; old enough and experienced enough to have a genuine impact.

2. Kozi has been a genuine under achiever. He’s shown signs but that’s it. Has experience and maturity so no excuses for kicking ~ a goal a game and barely touching the ball.

3. Dow has had his chance to prove his midfield worth and he didn’t. If he could improve a bit he might be decent but his brother didn’t. This handball happy light weight is going to have the whips on him as hard as anyone.

4. Sonsie the soft. For a player rated top 5 in U16s he’s nothing more than an outside pretend elite user. I hope they play him inside mid and force him to harden up, or it’s career over.
 

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