Past #26: Tarryn Thomas [Part III] - 18 week suspension confirmed; ineligible to play in '24 season; NMFC has officially sacked Tarryn.

[Jazny]

The Gold Coast knock on him was that he was soft and went missing too often. At North, he was soft and got lots of uncontested possessions, but still managed to torch the footy as much as players whose relatively low DE is due to always being in a contested situation.

If you kick sideways 15m a lot you get high a DE. You go for a lot of high risk/reward kicks and you mess some up, it drops your DE. Colby McKercher, who is one of my new favourites, will mess up big time quite a lot too. He is similar to Hall in how he takes the game on and is prone to do some weird things at times. It won't always be good. Even Sheezel did a couple of weird bad kicks on the weekend, it happens. But the good things outweigh the bad and good teams will be able to cover up mistakes more.

Hall's best was elite and I loved watching him play. When the Devils come into the competition, give me one or two players like Hall please.

 

[koshari]

Remember it was North Melbourne's decision to fire him. They didn't have to.

The fact we didnt have to is the point. For once we were pro active

 

[cybercrab]

Tarryn training on TikTok...

 

[hellas_johnny]

Looks skinny

 

[blackshadow]

Tarryn training on TikTok...

 

[Cyber_punk]

News floating around that the Cats are considering talks with him.

Would be absolutely pissed if he goes somewhere else, turns his life around and becomes a gun footballer...

The rich get richer.

 

[Flawed Genius]

Tarryn training on TikTok...

Seen it all before

 

[Devington]

Seen it all before

Including in a Mitch Cleary piece on the news!
which apparently the club wasn't aware was happening

 

[KangaRooster]

Old video pre-chest tattoo

 

[giantroo]

 

[Twangler]

Is it a 2nd chance though?
More like a 4th or 5th.
NMFC also demonstrated they believe in second chances.

 

[LuvtheKangas]

Well, look at that.

Not just Kane Cornes making a story of a non-story after all.

Geelong move to phase 2 of the "butter up the AFL public" exercise by getting their smarmy coach to put it on the table. Not even a week after phase 1 with Mackie.

 

[Flawed Genius]

Tyson Stengle all over again. Thomas will win a Brownlow sitting off Bruhn, Blicavs and Clark, provided he doesn't buy a residence in Norlane or Corio once he gets signed to the Cats

 

[Devington]

He went through his second and third chances last year, Scotts.

A club really is going to pick him up this offseason aren't they.

I was genuinely hoping they would at least make him put his training and character to the test in a lower level for a year, but apparently not.

 

[Luke72]

Yeah he will and the media will love it.

 

[andana]

smarmy coach

Spot on

 

[Roostorm]

Hahaha…of f&&$# course……Chris Scott

Chris Scott

Age

48

Ht

182cm

Wt

89kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

16.6

4star

K

11.2

4star

HB

5.4

4star

M

5.1

5star

T

1.6

4star

G

0.4

3star

No current season stats available

D

13.2

4star

K

10.2

4star

HB

3.0

3star

M

2.2

3star

T

2.8

5star

G

0.4

3star

…we’re big on giving second chances….just now on seven news..
Yeah….and watch the media pump up the comeback story if they decide to go for it….

 

[Roostorm]

It’s a start..ha….book mark it as a yes…if Mackie mentioned it and now this hypocritical sycophant musing it in his presser….it’s almost odds on they will head down that road at years end …
Wish the AFL HAD more b@@@s to enforce a minimum of a year outta the game

https://www.news.com.au/sport/afl/chris-scott-openminded-on-tarryn-thomas-return/video/d02de25ff5d9434463f0f8aa6b30b69a

 

[Horizons_00]

He went through his second and third chances last year, Scotts.

A club really is going to pick him up this offseason aren't they.

I was genuinely hoping they would at least make him put his training and character to the test in a lower level for a year, but apparently not.

This never happens in the afl

 

[Horizons_00]

Hahaha…of f&&$# course……Chris Scott…we’re big on giving second chances….just now on seven news..
Yeah….and watch the media pump up the comeback story if they decide to go for it….

TT will be a star and will turn his life around at the cats I can just see it now

 

[DarkPhoenix]

Hardly a punishment for TT when he still gets paid to do nothing, then gets picked up for free the next year by a club

 

[Cyber_punk]

Most Cats fans on the fb articles seem to be very supportive of him going there. A lot of 'Our culture will fix him' type posts.

Didn't take long at all for the narrative to start to shift.

 

[Twinkletoes]

The Cats kept Eddie Betts on to mentor and support Stengle. We’d see both at Eddie’s Ashy Redbacks U12 games with Stengle helping with the kids. I bloody hope I’m not seeing TT AND Stengle at future games.

 

[bennymate]

It begins, but anyone with half a brain could see this coming from a mile away.

Gonna hurt seeing him become an All-Australian for the cats.

 

[Its a Process]

Scott was right to point out its a vastly different situation to Stengle, and it's actually rather lazy and potentially racist to draw similarities between the two.

Thomas is extremely tainted and has been suspended by the AFL for 18 weeks for making vile threats to Women, and this is after multiple education sessions.

All AFL teams have an AFLW team attached to them and I can't imagine the Geelong AFLW program will be welcoming Tarryn with open arms. Also, it has the potential to quickly become a circus if it doesn't go well - just look at what is happening now between Sydney Roosters and the NRL with Michael Jennings.