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

[hilly]

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

I suspect more the latter.

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[Karanicolas]

Hopefully does better than that other Glenelg player we recruited once, Graham Cornes ...

 

[FromThePocketx]

Toby>Toby

 

[disco_cowboy]

i like this a lot

 

[Hojuman]

Toby Pink - The Batts

 

[New_Roo]

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

May and Murphy say hello!


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[New_Roo]

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

This doesn't mean we won't be drafting a kpd, mutually exclusive.... just need the mature guys in to allow the draftees to develop and not rushing them in


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[hsquid]

Toby Pink = The or not Toby.

 

[SunnyBoner]

I didn’t realise he was from Millicent. Same place as Redman from ***. They’re a bit rough and ready down there.

 

[Samsquanch]

Toby Pink - The Batts

That is the difference between you and your niece.

 

[shintemaster]

Someone needs to tell Brady that 5x KPS (key position shitmen) does not = 1 good KPD.

Firstly, I suspect he knows.
Secondly, time will tell.

 

[Overitalready]

A lot of negative posters on here. FFS at least give the guy a go.

 

[Sheezel2Wardlaw]

Is it official?

 

[Skarrz]

I still think he got it wrong with Howe.

Can't win them all.

Brought over for training standards and culture I think. Banged the door down in the VFl but was just not up to it for AFL level

 

[roos_fanatic08]

Be interesting if they put him on the senior list or on the rookie list.

 

[Zondor]

A lot of negative posters on here. FFS at least give the guy a go.

The negativity stems from the fact that we lack recognised key defenders on our list. A product of poor list management over the last number of years. McKay all but gone. Logue out injured for a large part of 2024 and Corr who is more suited in the third tall roll are arguably our only recognised key position players. Dawson is anything but recognised. If say McKay had stayed and Pink was being brought in as a back up, I dare say the negativity in this thread wouldn’t be as pronounced as it currently is. :stern look

 

[Passmore]

Probably best to wait to see how he goes before labelling him a shitmen or depth only.

Not every KP has to be a first round pick like Logue and Corr.

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[hellas_johnny]

Don't mind this however we still need to draft a good young developing kpd in the draft whether it be Murphy, sulli or Curtin

 

[ferball]

I have now lost my innocence, thanks tazaa

There you are...

 

[ferball]

The negativity stems from the fact that we lack recognised key defenders on our list. A product of poor list management over the last number of years. McKay all but gone. Logue out injured for a large part of 2024 and Corr who is more suited in the third tall roll are arguably our only recognised key position players. Dawson is anything but recognised. If say McKay had stayed and Pink was being brought in as a back up, I dare say the negativity in this thread wouldn’t be as pronounced as it currently is. :stern look

nah.

There's a certain amount of negativity here just for the sake of it. It would exist anyway. Even if we just signed Harris Andrews to replace McKay.

Its fair enough to a point given how shit we've been for so long.

Good defenders can be developed from lower comps. There is a list of AA defenders upthread from exactly that pathway and this guy is one of the best performed over the season in the SANFL. He doesn't look that much worse than McKay this season imo. Showed more urgency and commitment at the contest than MCKay (and some others) in his highlights.

If we have one big, ugly bastard who can compete a bit then we should be looking to build off that using intercepting defenders who can move the ball on quickly and effectively. That's the direction we want our backline to be going in.

 

[r_boy]

A lot of negative posters on here. FFS at least give the guy a go.

Adelaide did very well with rookie KPDs this year.

You don't need a top 5 pick for every position

 

[Shinboner1]

Richmond plucked Tyler young out of the state leagues and played him all year.
Reckon Pink is a better player than him already.
We aren't going to stop at him either, expecting 3-4 new additions to the backline this year.
Stuff the naysayers

 

[Zondor]

nah.

There's a certain amount of negativity here just for the sake of it. It would exist anyway. Even if we just signed Harris Andrews to replace McKay.

Its fair enough to a point given how s**t we've been for so long.

Good defenders can be developed from lower comps. There is a list of AA defenders upthread from exactly that pathway and this guy is one of the best performed over the season in the SANFL. He doesn't look that much worse than McKay this season imo. Showed more urgency and commitment at the contest than MCKay (and some others) in his highlights.

If we have one big, ugly bastard who can compete a bit then we should be looking to build off that using intercepting defenders who can move the ball on quickly and effectively. That's the direction we want our backline to be going in.

I'll give you nah. What part of "I dare say the negativity in this thread wouldn’t be as pronounced as it currently is." don't you comprehend? Did I say there wouldn't be no negativity? :stern look

 

[nelroo]

The comp is littered with them.. guys that were picked up from lower leagues and or drafted with high picks!
Some of them the very best performed backmen in the league.
It’s a good move to give him a go !

 

[Horizons_00]

never heard of him lol

We need a actual KPD that can replace Mckay, louge etc