Player Watch #32: Toby Pink - has triggered an extension for 2025.

[Rod Stroker]

Yeah I hope we sign Pink and Phillips. Two of the best state level KPDs in the country. Hope and pray that one of them becomes a player in Clarksons system.

We really should have picked up Phillips last year. Although you could argue that no other club thought he was AFL list worthy either. But then, almost every other club doesn't have the worst defence in the comp as we do.

 

[Passmore]

194 cm’s? Cant be a key defender at that height, Curtin is 195 and people round here are saying its too short

Someone tell Steven May.....

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[Rod Stroker]

Don't try to second guess Clarko. You'll look foolish.

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I still think he got it wrong with Howe.

Can't win them all.

 

[Rod Stroker]

Correct - will be in the first week of November.

Wednesday, November 1
AFL Delisted Player Free Agency Period (1) Commences (9am)

Wednesday November 8
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So that means other clubs have a month from now to secure him with better offers? or he's already committed to us unofficially?

 

[Orange Peanut]

194 cm’s? Cant be a key defender at that height, Curtin is 195 and people round here are saying its too short

I understood the point you were making here DuckYeah . just for the record

 

[Samsquanch]

Hopefully he works out better than the last mature ager we recruited from Glenelg (Hosie).

Hopefully our current coaches can get the most out of Toby unlike the previous regimen who seemed to waste potential at almost every opportunity.

 

[Passmore]

I still think he got it wrong with Howe.

Can't win them all.

Spud on a one year contract.

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[shimaburnsgrieg]

Someone tell Steven May.....

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I must say Toby Pink and Steven May wasn't the topic of conversation I thought we would be having tonight.

 

[DaveyBoy123]

We really should have picked up Phillips last year. Although you could argue that no other club thought he was AFL list worthy either. But then, almost every other club doesn't have the worst defence in the comp as we do.

I'm still annoyed a couple of years earlier that we didn't pick up Sam Collins when he was playing for Werribee... or even before that! I thought he was extremely unlucky to be delisted by Freo & was very surprised that no team immediately picked him up.

 

[Gumble Frankieton]

Surprising lack of Reservoir Dogs puns so far.

 

[Better Loosen Up]

Just another short term plug.

We need to draft talented key defenders for the future rather than wasting our time with these fringe blokes every 12 months

 

[Chadwiko]

Was rock solid for Glenelg. (Go the bays! Premiers 2023 yewwww).

Good tall depth for us. Really smart signing tbh.

 

[Sphynx]

Hopefully he works out better than the last mature ager we recruited from Glenelg (Hosie).

I touched based with a mate over in SA and he said he is more of a dour stopper rather than an offensive interceptor. Very physical and has good closing speed and while he doesn’t have amazing skill he has good decision making and is a neat/long kick.

Despite not much fanfare both he and Oscar Clavarino (ex St.Kilda key defender) did get some interest in the mid season draft.

His numbers don’t blow you off the page, but he rarely got beaten all year. Was named at full back in the SANFL team of the year.

Averaged 11 disposals and 5 marks per game this year. He also lead the league in contested marks with 37 across 20 games.

I haven’t watched him this year, but as a depth option this looks to be a solid/decent choice.

Still hope we have a look at Ethan Phillips.

I actually think he's been recruited with the view of recruiting Phillips.

Phillips is an intercepting machine, I think he'd be a very good intercepter at AFL level as well. I just don't think he will be more than an average defender though, because of his foot speed.

Recruiting an excellent stopper, might be with the view of releasing Phillips into that intercept role, at VFL level to start.

 

[Ligma]

I have now lost my innocence, thanks tazaa

 

[Rod Stroker]

Spud on a one year contract.

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There were less spudier blokes we could have recruited

 

[BRider]

Just another short term plug.

We need to draft talented key defenders for the future rather than wasting our time with these fringe blokes every 12 months

You don't know this. Plenty of good players have come from state leagues ffs.

 

[andana]

Can any of the keen draft assessor’s advise me what my excitement level should be with this news?

We are

in the pink

 

[roos_fanatic08]

I actually think he's been recruited with the view of recruiting Phillips.

Phillips is an intercepting machine, I think he'd be a very good intercepter at AFL level as well. I just don't think he will be more than an average defender though, because of his foot speed.

Recruiting an excellent stopper, might be with the view of releasing Phillips into that intercept role, at VFL level to start.

I hope that’s the case! Pink can hold his own as a contested mark too.

 

[AnEmptyChair]

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That full forward looks handy too.

wait, Harry Schoenberg is playing SANFL? That passed me by. He looked very promising 12-18 months ago - tore us a new one iirc

 

[kirbonavich]

People saying this spells the end for our borderline defenders but A Bonar might lift with Pink around.

Commentator in the AFLW today "Coming up the middle, Gay, Hore" - shit you not.

 

[Makeshift Park]

Wish I could track the ball as it comes down. I've watched it like 3 times and completely lose it in the air.

 

[rooboy335]

Wish I could track the ball as it comes down. I've watched it like 3 times and completely lose it in the air.

Here's a behind the goals view, really really bad effort to give up a GF like that...

 

[koshari]

Could toby pink play on toby green?

 

[andana]

Posted by giantroo November 20, 2020. Third time's the charm

 

[Zondor]

You don't know this. Plenty of good players have come from state leagues ffs.

Thanks for that Brady Rider. :stern look