Player Watch #38 Tom Sims

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Welcome Thomas Sims



Video courtesy noobermensch

 

[Bojangles17]

Recruiting an emerging ruck is a sound plan , nank has 2y left I’d say and we haven’t exactly got another ruck belting the door down , right now kozi is best reserve , Ryan would need to improve 250% just to compete . This kid looks to have a great skill set as both genuine ruck forward

 

[Danog]

Welcome Johnny

 

[Jim Irwins Heart]

Insurance for Samson “baby giraffe” Ryan. I would’ve preferred an outside “run and carry” player to compliment our current wrecking-ball midfield, yet this pick is fine in the end.

 

[captain blood 17]

Not sure about this one. There were better ruck options available.

 

[mcuzzy]

When I say ‘Hello Mr Tom Sims’ and press down on your foot, you smile and nod.

 

[captain blood 17]

More footage.

 

[T4P]

Big. Clearly too valuable to us for any trades that were in front of us. Hopefully our spine is set up for the next dynasty!

 

[Frustrated Tiger]

Welcome to Richmond big boy....

 

["The Roar Is Back"]

Is he any good at marathon running ?

 

[jthanos]

Our version of Tom Hawkins

26

Tom Hawkins

Age

36

Ht

197cm

Wt

105kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

12.2

3star

K

7.9

3star

HB

4.4

3star

M

5.5

5star

T

1.9

4star

G

2.1

5star

D

12.7

3star

K

8.6

3star

HB

4.1

3star

M

5.1

5star

T

2.1

3star

G

1.6

5star

D

7.8

2star

K

5.6

3star

HB

2.2

2star

M

4.2

4star

T

1.0

3star

G

2.2

5star

!

 

[Dr Tigris]

Welcome Tom. Not quite what I expected. But a heap of talent.

We are going tall. Mids/smalls next year

 

[Delediodamage]

Got some rude agility for a big lad. Don’t mind playing an undersized ruck provided they have the ability to block, belt and pressure the oppo mids. Can clearly take a mark too. Bit to work with

 

[richard parker]

Can clunk it

 

[lizard man]

Could be the second best of the lot after smillie

 

[RockJobster0312]

I really like Sims, but suddenly our developing talls are Ryan, OHB, Colina, LeFau, Grey, Faull, Armstrong, Bauer Fawcett and Sims.

Some will play ruck, some will be in the Seniors and some (e.g. Grey) probably get shifted back; but I still wonder if that’s too many talls?

I suspect that the lack of additional draft capital made it difficult to facilitate a move for an F1 (teams would want something back) and the club always wanted to trade back; but looking at the selections available there wasn’t an obvious partner.

 

[Morro]

Is he any good at marathon running ?View attachment 2172008

Dead set shittest attempt at being humorous on BF in years. Stop this shit.

 

[THE_GUN]

Glimpses of TDK in his highlights

If only he was 6-7cm taller

 

[tiger_tough]

I like the pick in isolation. List balance is way off though.

Not sure why we'd re sign Colina with all these talls coming in.

 

["The Roar Is Back"]

Dead set shittest attempt at being humorous on BF in years. Stop this shit.

Pull ya head in ******* .

 

[tiger_tough]

Glimpses of TDK in his highlights

If only he was 6-7cm taller

Yeah he was the first player that came to mind for me.

 

[Morro]

Pull ya head in ******* .

You have been warned mud guts, last chance.

 

[Joey longshadow]

Seems like we are trying to draft a spine ..makes sense , traditionally they do take longer ..betting next year we take best available mids with an emphasis on speed agility and foot skills ..
Do we have a Kellaway coming through next year as a father son ? Gonna need a later pick for that ..
And I think Brian Leys kid is in 2026 ..supposedly pretty highly rated at this stage as a 16 year old

 

[SleepingGiant]

Very uneasy picking a speculative tall with very little runs on the board as a junior and question mark over his best position. Hope it works out.

I like his hands and leap. Kicking looks bad

Yeah I hear you. Only way to win dynasty’s is with good talks and we need them early on in the rebuild to be ready. Pick three forwards and maybe 1-2 make it and another from our current list.

 

[juss]

199cm is undersized for a ruck these days, to take 2 KPFs and a KPF/ruck in one draft is a bit odd.

Would have liked maybe a medium defender to come in and balance the draft.