Everyone knew he was very agile and can kick both feet but I wasn't aware of his elite handball and vision at stoppage ability while in ruck. This is probably what our recruiters saw and set him apart from McDonald.
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This was noted many times in the two years leading to the draft and was evident watching him play.
Can't recall who said it last year, but had their been a national 18s TT would have played ruck, dominated along with high possession numbers and everyone would have been frothing over him.
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Most compare him in the ruck and stoppage to Grundy as he is agile enough to be the 4th midfielder but I've never seen Grundy doing any of those handball leading to clean clearance.
Just watching the Bulldogs play North. Very lucky we dodged the Jugle-Hagan bullet. Dud!
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We'd have been just as capable of not playing him
I wouldn't write him off as a player yet but I do think it's funny how the Vic commentators wank off every time he gets near the ball. Dude could slip over and face plant and they'd be pitching a tent.
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He got by in juniors on talent alone.
The workrate should come, but he'll take more time.
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Who on earth is even considering writing off Thilthorpe at this point? Insanity.
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I don't think I've seen anyone do that.
The comment was about JUH and even then no one's writing him off
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Ah right, don't mind me, my reading comprehension a bit off there.
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He who have no FAITH
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Time to stop ****ing about, he needs to be in the team.
Went alright in the SANFL today against Glenelg. Kicked 4.0, a couple care of frees. Went missing a bit in the second half but so did everybody else. Glenelg smashed the reserves after half time. Fog had a shocker, was basically unsighted.
Surely that has to get him back in the team? Not much more you can do than kick four goals straight.
He also contested in the air (I believe what he was sent back to work on) and worked up and down the ground.
He should be back in 1's soon, but we can't have Walker, Easy, Gollant AND Thilthorpe in the team. Easy is probably contributing more than Gollant at the moment, but Gollant could be anything.
At least we now have tougher choices to make about our forwards.
4. Only Newchurch (who would have thought) and Pedlar had more for crows.
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And the other three quarters when he was virtual non entity?
He had 1 outstanding quarter if you actually watched the game.
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So if he'd kicked one goal in each quarter that would have been better?
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When the team was flying he looked good when the pressure came on he went missing like most of them.
