Lindsay Thomas dropped

[TheWeapon]

Good on North for making this call. His influence on games in the past few weeks has been non-existent since the umpires have shut him out of getting frees from staging.

 

[HBFlanker]

Needs a run i the twos to get his confidence up. Still easily in the best half dozen small forwards in the game

 

[Keyser_Soze]

Good on North for making this call. His influence on games in the past few weeks has been non-existent since the umpires have shut him out of getting frees from staging.

Agreed, well overdue! About time Brad Scott starting making the senior plays accountable instead of just dropping kids/fringe players after bad losses

 

[Ned_Flanders]

Needs a run i the twos to get his confidence up. Still easily in the best half dozen small forwards in the game

How can he be one of the best half dozen small forwards in the league right now, if he's not even good enough to hold his spot in your side?

 

[Kram]

Massive, I will always remember where I was the day this happened.

 

[billy fragos]

Needs a run i the twos to get his confidence up. Still easily in the best half dozen small forwards in the game

Yet he's dropped by the team in 12th place

 

[HBFlanker]

How can he be one of the best half dozen small forwards in the league right now, if he's not even good enough to hold his spot in your side?

Did Tony lockett kick a bag every game?

Its called form

 

[Stratton_Gun]

Needs a run i the twos to get his confidence up. Still easily in the best half dozen small forwards in the game

A good player but not "easily in the best dozen small forwards"

Off the top of my head I would rather
Rioli, Breust, Walters, Elliot, Ballantyne, Betts, Wingard, and probably othes I'm not remembering

 

[Beutbrute]

A good player but not "easily in the best dozen small forwards"

Off the top of my head I would rather
Rioli, Breust, Walters, Elliot, Ballantyne, Betts, Wingard, and probably othes I'm not remembering

If you were an AFL coach you would need to include Shane Edwards too

 

[daffo]

Has to shift his mindset from 'playing for free kicks' to 'attacking the ball'. he'll be fine if he does that..

 

[DontArgue4]

If you were an AFL coach you would need to include Shane Edwards too

Well yeah, why not? He's a gun.

 

[Ned_Flanders]

Did Tony lockett kick a bag every game?

Its called form

Was Lockett dropped for Sziller?

 

[L_W_P]

A good player but not "easily in the best dozen small forwards"

Off the top of my head I would rather
Rioli, Breust, Walters, Elliot, Ballantyne, Betts, Wingard, and probably othes I'm not remembering

Jack Lonie too

 

[Ron The Bear]

When things are running his way, North can appear unstoppable. It's almost like Richmond/Richo of the late 90's/early 00's.

 

[Jak!x]

Nahas has been the in form small up forward for them as of late. However, you can't afford to carry two if only one is firing. A spell in the twos will be good for Thomas, he'll come back from this

 

[LeverPuller]

A good player but not "easily in the best dozen small forwards"

Off the top of my head I would rather
Rioli, Breust, Walters, Elliot, Ballantyne, Betts, Wingard, and probably othes I'm not remembering

Garlett!

 

[Astro Bomber]

Did Tony lockett kick a bag every game?

Its called form

Tony Lockett - Brownlow medalist and 4 times coleman medalist.
Lindsay Tomas - Staging for frees expert.

However, they do both have gender neutral names

 

[clogged]

A blight on footy.

 

[living_in_syd]

yeap pretty much loses some of the cheapy goals to get the confidence going.

 

[King_Steele]

Overrated.

 

[MotleyLemon]

Glad he's out, usually does alright against us, seems to kick 3 just about every time apart from the game this year...

What I am more worried about now though is the potential for big games from Waite/Petrie/Brown now that they don't have a clueless small forward running into their space thinking he's 6 foot 5.

 

[csnody]

Play the ball, don't go for the frees every time you get around the ball and you may get a game!

 

[Collingw2010d]

Has he been dropped before?

 

[mondaynight]

One of the biggest flogs in the AFL hopefully we never see that waste of space again

 

[Mr_Moogle]

For a while I thought the people complaining about Thomas just had sour grapes but the way his form has dropped off a cliff since the rule changes we're brought in makes me think they we're right after all.