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The one thing Gollant does better than TT is attack the aerial contest
Sorry have to disagree here .....Thilthorpe has vice like hands with his marks ....really is elite, just hasn't been consistent "yet"

He was so much better last season though, than the year B4 .....and you can tell Thilthorpe is really working hard on his marking

Gollant flies for a lot of marks, his hands though are no-where near as good as Thilthorpes .....as he spills more marks than he should take ......IF he can turn that around, he'll be a real threat .....IF
 
Sorry have to disagree here .....Thilthorpe has vice like hands with his marks ....really is elite, just hasn't been consistent "yet"

He was so much better last season though, than the year B4 .....and you can tell Thilthorpe is really working hard on his marking

Gollant flies for a lot of marks, his hands though are no-where near as good as Thilthorpes .....as he spills more marks than he should take ......IF he can turn that around, he'll be a real threat .....IF
I think Gollant has pretty good hands and a decent mark from the few games that I can remember seeing him. He might get spoilt more during contests due to his relative lack of weight and height compared with TT.
Both players now entering their 4th season, so hopefully their core strength is up to standard and can compete better with their body positioning for marks.
 

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Sorry have to disagree here .....Thilthorpe has vice like hands with his marks ....really is elite, just hasn't been consistent "yet"

He was so much better last season though, than the year B4 .....and you can tell Thilthorpe is really working hard on his marking

Gollant flies for a lot of marks, his hands though are no-where near as good as Thilthorpes .....as he spills more marks than he should take ......IF he can turn that around, he'll be a real threat .....IF
Strongly disagree. I am not a big Gollant fan, but he’s one of the strongest marks we’ve had in a long time. Great hands, holds many that most would drop. Reminds me of peak Porps in that way.

Thilthorpe on the other hand is a good mark on a good day, which is about 1 in 5 games at the moment. He’s at his best when he gets an unimpeded run at it.
 
Sorry have to disagree here .....Thilthorpe has vice like hands with his marks ....really is elite, just hasn't been consistent "yet"

He was so much better last season though, than the year B4 .....and you can tell Thilthorpe is really working hard on his marking

Gollant flies for a lot of marks, his hands though are no-where near as good as Thilthorpes .....as he spills more marks than he should take ......IF he can turn that around, he'll be a real threat .....IF

I don’t think people are questioning Thilthorpe’s hands, it’s his attack on the footy in the air that is inconsistent at this stage in his career

No pony having hood hands if you don’t jump up and attack the footy strongly in the air


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By that measure Matthew Pavlich was never a forward based on his first 5 or so years. Players change and move positions all the time. Harry Taylor and Cale Hooker both showed they could do it but we're pigeon holes early in their careers. Just cause they haven't doesn't mean they can't.

Also you have alot more faith in Gollang than I do. Will be an interesting year for him cause he does have some.decent runs on the board.

If your first example to this is Pavlich, that's not a great example. Pavlich spent his first two years as a forward before being shuffled for a few years - not too dissimilar to how we treated Fogarty with us outsmarting ourselves, well except Pavlich could do it. Taylor was seen as a potential swing man from his first year in the bigs. You'd have been better off going for Rutten as an example then those two, but that was only two years before we pulled the trigger on that switch. That said, Cale Hooker is also good example alongside McDonald from Melbourne, but there is a lot of desperation in both moves as neither side had a pretty awful run with KPFs in the last decade - and to be fair to Melbourne, it worked when it needed to.

Players may change and move positions a lot, but usually it follows a progression of low value positions/role to high value. Very rarely you might get a starter switch roles out of that progression. Even rarer for a lad who has failed to nail down one position over a long time is able to come in and find success in another, usually they're just ditched.

Eh, Gollant is an ok third tall. Would do a solid job for us for a few years whilst Welsh comes on. We clearly rate him seeing we've retained him for another two years. We'll give him games long before we consider moving any defenders into the forward line.
 
Sorry have to disagree here .....Thilthorpe has vice like hands with his marks ....really is elite, just hasn't been consistent "yet"

He was so much better last season though, than the year B4 .....and you can tell Thilthorpe is really working hard on his marking

Gollant flies for a lot of marks, his hands though are no-where near as good as Thilthorpes .....as he spills more marks than he should take ......IF he can turn that around, he'll be a real threat .....IF
Wouldn’t elite hands be consistent
 

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Not necessarily. I can remember Stewart Lowe was a pretty elite mark but his game was inconsistent.
Loewe wasn't inconsistent at marking!

Kicking was another matter...
 
And aligns his body with the ball, he needs to improve that also not drift to the side of packs
Hopefully the extra strength he has been working on gives him the confidence to get the right positioning, including out bodying his opponent when needed.
 
Stewart Loewe inconsistent??
His attack on the ball in air was definitely not inconsistent nor was his contested marking, ffs his nickname was "buckets" because of the size of his hands and his ability to stick his marks. Inconsistent he was not!!
I explained it before when I was talking about elite marking but inconsistent game.
 

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