List Mgmt. Welcome Tim Kelly (Traded in 2019 Megatrade)

[ChampRevesby]

Kelly, who grew up a "mad" West Coast supporter and switched to Carlton when hero Chris Judd left in 2007

'Tears of joy': The moment a new Eagle was made official

Tim Kelly's partner Caitlin cried tears of joy when his trade from Geelong to West Coast became official

www.afl.com.au

Then he wasn't a mad West Coast supporter to begin with?

 

[dewcefault]

Welcome to West Coast TK, happy to welcome you to the family club! Time to make some friends and win some flags.


PS: Couldn't you have tanked a little during the season and come a little cheaper. You treated Geelong far better than they treated you.

 

[Matera92]

Needed.

Gun.

All the whinging about what we had to give up for him his pretty pathetic, we're getting a ready made AA midfielder ready to go who's in his absolute prime.

 

[Dazzler9]

Wow. What a midfield. Asking this as a serious question. Are the 2020 Eagles the best WCE team ever?

They have to acheive a fair bit to reach that status.

 

[InnocentBystandr]

You've done well - you have a 'bird in the hand', you've given us 'three in the bush'.

 

[Quinz]

Needed.

Oh yeah, I forgot that Dwayne actually said "kicks a goal against the team that didn't want him!" when he kicked a goal against us in his first season.

 

[ChampRevesby]

 

[Spoon_Man]

Was sure he'd end up at Freo. Welcome to West Coast.

lol at parfitt..

 

[woosha24]

Wow. What a midfield. Asking this as a serious question. Are the 2020 Eagles the best WCE team ever?

Need to put another premiership on the board first for the conversation to even begin. That 92-94 side was something else.

 

[KBLT]

Wow. What a midfield. Asking this as a serious question. Are the 2020 Eagles the best WCE team ever?

It will be when we figure out how to de-age Josh Kennedy and give Nicnat robotic legs.

 

[FKASC]

One thing you immediately notice is how good he is at breaking away from the congestion when he knows a team mate will win possession. Runs into such dangerous spots. I don’t see our other blokes doing that much.

I can see NN in a pack dishing it out to kelly happening a lot.

 

[Cuzz09]

Gone all in on winning flags.

I reckon we can do it with Tim on deck.

Up the ****** Coasters!

Need some arrogance back.

I liked Simmos speech at the B & F... He said the boys are not happy with the end to this year.

Bring it on

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[HoneyBadger35]

 

[ChampRevesby]

If you aren't pumped then I dont know what to say.

 

[squashface]

If you aren't pumped then I dont know what to say.

bUt wHaT ABouT PiCk 33!!!!1!!!!

 

[Bleedblueandgold]

Then he wasn't a mad West Coast supporter to begin with?

Probably just like Oscar Judd being a NN fan above all else.

 

[mick06]

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Reckon Simmo is pretty chuffed!

This is what Simmo visioned in the 2017 draft
Pick 13....
Pick 21....
pick 26.....well now

Pick 13.
Pick 21
26 picks

 

[joeyavalanche]

One thing you immediately notice is how good he is at breaking away from the congestion when he knows a team mate will win possession. Runs into such dangerous spots. I don’t see our other blokes doing that much.

I can see NN in a pack dishing it out to kelly happening a lot.

This is my concern also.
He has always had Danger and Selwood there. Will he get the same support from our guys and how do they sync up with him?
Coming off an AA season if has a lull in form the pressure will come quick.

Hope it’s all smooth sailing

 

[kranky al]

It was obvious that he saw Geelong as nothing more than a stepping stone for his own ambitions of playing AFL footy and that was confirmed when word got out that he had no intention in extending his 2 year contract back in May of 2018. It was bizarre stance to take since 99.9999% of rookies would jump at the chance of adding a couple of more years to their first contract. Yet a guy who hadn't even finished one year at AFL level was incredibly resistant to that idea; so early in the piece alarm bells were ringing that Kelly was busy making plans that did not involve the club that gave him the chance he had been waiting for for half a decade. And it's that ingratitude that has left a bad taste in my mouth.

The fact that he played well in his 2 years at Geelong doesn't mean he was 'professional' and fulfilling his end of the bargain to the GFC. He HAD to play good footy or else the weagles wouldn't have had any interest in luring him over back to Perth. I can guarantee you that had he played at a fairly average level in his time at Geelong, only managing to get a few games here and there in his first season and not really making an impression, this nonsense about needing to return back home because he needed his family to help out with his kids medical condition would never have surfaced. Kelly and his partner would be on their knees kissing the hallowed Kardinia Park ground and begging for Tim to remain on the Geelong list for as many years as possible.

And that's another thing that soured my opinion of the Kelly gang, using the family health card when it's clear this was more about Caitlin being homesick and demanding they go back to Perth like the princess Tim has led her to think she is than them genuinely needing assistance to take care of his kids. With a salary nearing a million dollars a year, they can comfortably afford the best medical care that money can buy in Australia. Certainly quality professional medical care that their kids supposedly need and not the non-medical attention, albeit well-intentioned, family members are only capable of providing. I don't think anyone switched on can deny that it was a mere condescending ruse/charade to appease his homesick high maintenance partner and that secondhand car dealer agent of his who probably has some sort of secret handshake with the weagles.


Can't say I wish him the best, players who've just been drafted in the league have no business contemplating, let alone asking, for a trade before they've even completed 1 season with the club that's showed faith in them and given them an opportunity to demonstrate what they're capable of. If it all turns to sh*t at the weagles I won't be shedding any tears for him.

 

[Dazzler9]

This is my concern also.
He has always had Danger and Selwood there. Will he get the same support from our guys and how do they sync up with him?
Coming off an AA season if has a lull in form the pressure will come quick.

Hope it’s all smooth sailing

The issue for the past two years for other clubs has been, who do we tag, Yeo or Shuey? Now it's Yeo, Shuey or Kelly.

 

[ChampRevesby]

The issue for the past two years for other clubs has been, who do we tag, Yeo or Shuey? Now it's Yeo, Shuey or Kelly.

Much of the midfield drive was from Kelly. So oppositions are going to have a huge headache now.

 

[ChampRevesby]

Surely takes Pridda’s #11 right?

Tim Priddis

 

[Jupes]

My ban expires and it's already done and dusted
Ah well, welcome TK!

 

[HoneyBadger35]

Shameless plug of the podcast account, but also those numbers.

 

[ChampRevesby]

Shameless plug of the podcast account, but also those numbers.

So hes already our best mids