Like I said, playing a majority of games in the SANFL last year and not being selected in Round 1 this year might have changed his application.
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Southerntakeover
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Oh yeah totally. It failed for an entire year because he was still lazy and soft in week one, but then it miraculously worked.
It couldn't be that the entire thing was stupid and pointless, that he was always extremely talented but would need time to develop and would best do that at AFL level, and that the slurs that people keep directing at young players every time we don't select them are entirely figments of their demented 'club-defence as the priority even if it means pouring a bucket of shit over our best prospects' imaginations, could it?
But it wasn’t my point though. Read it again. I’m not comparing JJ to Franklin directly. That would be fuc&n stupid. Which I am not. I was using Franklin to make the point that you dont have to be good at everything to be an effective forward. of course Franklin was more effective than JJ. But even the best players aren’t great at everything.
Southerntakeover
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The magic curative powers of a week in the SANFL. It will change your entire life perspective. You will go from being indifferent about your life long career path to dominating AFL level because of it. The miracle at work.
There wasn't a SANFL game that week, he played in a preseason match against Glenelg and Nicks mentioned Thilthorpe was selected as they saw something change when he trained that week, unless you got insider information this didn't happened?
I didn't say he was soft.
Southerntakeover
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Just lazy and basically didnt give a shit about trying?
Southerntakeover
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Coach pretends obvious mistake actually masterstroke. Rube buys it.
I bet he can't wait for his retirement plan: selling you the harbour bridge.
Application, hence he was able to play very well in a different role against Fremantle compared to Port Power
So you do have insider information, please spill them lol.
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Southerntakeover
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I've got sources that gave me this high quality insider information: the guy we selected at pick 2 is probably a better prospect than Himmelberg.
The last I say anything about JJ v Tippett other than it’s so this board to jump on someone for even implying that JJ can’t be compared to Tippett despite averaging more goals per game over his career. It’s symptomatic of a supporter base that loves to jump on players until they are driven away. No wonder so many ex players talk about how crappy it is playing footy in SA. We are ruthless. To our detriment.
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Don’t think so - confidence, over thinking the game instead of just attacking the ball
TT works his backside off to be good - that hasn’t been in question
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Agree, Thilthorpe by a mile if they both applied the same application.
Southerntakeover
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Yep, your inability to properly judge the quality of football players is totally the reason our club loses players.
Also he's only 20
Which is why I said application and not him being lazy.
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Thilthorpe too hard on himself - a bit like Rachele and JHF - and not aggressive enough. Nothing to do with work rate
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Southerntakeover
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Oh right, Riley wouldn't apply himself. That was the problem. Bit of a no hoper?
Thank god for the divine intervention of Coach Nicks's tough love.
Southerntakeover
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I reckon the best way to teach him to move on for his mistakes was to drop him for half a season after a mistake in week one last year.
Luckily Rahily and Nicks are the coach so they were able to identified what Thilthorpe needed to work on and you aren't.
Southerntakeover
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You've been claiming to know what his problems were for the last few pages. Lazy, wouldn't put in, poor application. Now it's all a mystery that only the coaches could unravel?
Stick to your guns, and try to justify why you're casting entirely baseless character aspersions on our highest ever draft pick.
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Worked for Fog too...
