i like to think of it as more of a controlling your own destiny
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AFLW 2024 - Round 10 - Chat, game threads, injury lists, team lineups and more.
Welcome to Richmond Troy Chaplin (Port decides not to pursue offer)
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peejay
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Shit - there goes the coffee in the keyboard again !
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At least having the payments from Centerlink for 9 kids would be more than the average Port player receives each week.Not all that happy then? You really like having 9 kids following you around to the Centrelink office all with different Dads?? Each to their own I spose! All the best though!
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Be more than most people make in a year! Baby bonus FTW!!!
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Great points, many an average player, not saying he is, have looked like world beaters in the right environment and team structures.
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Nope - will stay at CHB but will allow one of the forwards to drag him down to the leadings edge of the square with the press, suddenly turning him into a weapon - will make oppositions change the way they apply the press against us and open things up. Tried it this year but we never had enough on the park to cover him so he had to float a bit further behind to cover fast breaks and it wasn't as effective.
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SUSHHHHH !!!!! andy d might be reading.lol
I assume it's the years he was after and not the cash, ie he comes relatively cheap?
I'm with most Port supporters here, even against us the last few years we've looked the most like causing a turnover against Port when the balls been in his hands. And for a guy his size, he should be crunching guys. So let's not start carrying on like he's the messiah. He's been recruited to fill a roll. Let's hope he can do that.
And I don't think there's been a lot animosity shown from Port supporters at all. Sort of liken it to us trading Jackson to a team after a tagger. They'd probably be happy with the result, where the majority of us would be "meh, whatever". No need to start ripping in.
I'm with most Port supporters here, even against us the last few years we've looked the most like causing a turnover against Port when the balls been in his hands. And for a guy his size, he should be crunching guys. So let's not start carrying on like he's the messiah. He's been recruited to fill a roll. Let's hope he can do that.
And I don't think there's been a lot animosity shown from Port supporters at all. Sort of liken it to us trading Jackson to a team after a tagger. They'd probably be happy with the result, where the majority of us would be "meh, whatever". No need to start ripping in.
Exactly! We win a few games and showe some promise and how quick some forget the three decades of largely mediocrity.
Port have been premiers, grand finalists and even regular finalists over the last 10 years ... a bit of respect!
Of course we did. We didn't hear anything about this knee until now, whoever runs the Power is attempting to justify to their supporters why they let another senior player go. They were able to use the money as an excuse for letting go of Pearce. Clearly our offer for Chaplin was appropriate (thus ultimately 'matchable'), so they've gone with a medical reason as their excuse this time.
for all the smack the port board has been talking about Troy since we made our bid, very little if anything was said about him being any kind of injury risk...
That club is a rabble. good luck Kochy
Go tiges
Well you cant win them all, but if we don't try we wouldn't win any, I don't think we would have committed too much to him so it is certainly worth a try to bolster our backline.
i sort of like what Jackson brings to our team, had a much better year this time round and protects our young guns
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Another great pickup by the Tiges. I was so sick of hearing opposition Port supporter trashing him as a player so I looked up his stats. The number one thing Port supporters were give it to him about is his disposal and decision making.
Last year he went at 78.4% disposal efficiency. Now to put that into perspective the Port team disposal efficiency was A LEAGUE WORST 70.5%. Port averaged 48.9 clangers of while Troy averaged ONLY 1.7 of which placing him 25th on their list for clangers.
The most interesting of his stats was that he averaged only 0.4 free kicks against a game. Compare that with Carlile’s 0.9 free kicks a game. Troy also had .9 more tackles a game and .5 more contested possessions a game compared to that of Carlile making his free kick against count even more impressive.
He ranked 4th in the league in Time on Ground at 97.9% in 2012.
And ranked 11th in the league at rebound 50’s at 3.9 which signals that Port WANTED the ball in his hands coming out of defence.
Port supporters can trash him all they want must rest assured we have ourselves a player that will make an Ivan type impact.
Last year he went at 78.4% disposal efficiency. Now to put that into perspective the Port team disposal efficiency was A LEAGUE WORST 70.5%. Port averaged 48.9 clangers of while Troy averaged ONLY 1.7 of which placing him 25th on their list for clangers.
The most interesting of his stats was that he averaged only 0.4 free kicks against a game. Compare that with Carlile’s 0.9 free kicks a game. Troy also had .9 more tackles a game and .5 more contested possessions a game compared to that of Carlile making his free kick against count even more impressive.
He ranked 4th in the league in Time on Ground at 97.9% in 2012.
And ranked 11th in the league at rebound 50’s at 3.9 which signals that Port WANTED the ball in his hands coming out of defence.
Port supporters can trash him all they want must rest assured we have ourselves a player that will make an Ivan type impact.
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I genuinely like Port and it gives me no joy to see them in the position they currently are.
RandB
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Very important pick up for you guys. Well done.
3rdManUp
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Yay, go Chappy. Welcome to Tigerland!!
InB4 calls of "Spud, delist" by tiger ferals in round 2
InB4 calls of "Spud, delist" by tiger ferals in round 2
Riskingheadandshin
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Is that Takashi off revenge of the nerds?!?
Alright I'll try analyse those stats a little for you....
Firstly with efficiency its a crap stat for defenders because they do a lot of chip chip kicks that raise their efficiency a lot. And as for the clangers its not so much the amount he does but the basic mistakes that they are and the position of the field they are in. Also Carlile always takes the best forward and is often left in 1on1's which is why he often gives away more frees whereas Chaplin often doesn't really have a direct opponent. As for rebound 50's if the ball is in your backline so often its no surprise its going to come out a lot hence the high amount of rebounds.
We are just being honest in our assessments and if you look back throughout the entire year its been a running theme. Its not like we are saying this all now that he has been traded. He can play good games though and he could possibly become the defender we thought he could be back in 07, 08 but he could also just provide more of the same for you guys.
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Sank you very much!!! HahaOh Hair pie! Hair pie!
His tricycle race for the tri lams still cracks me up!
