Tommy Walsh substitutes (Markworth and Wilkes)
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Tommy Walsh substitutes (Markworth and Wilkes)
I think we have done preety well in this regard. Would you rather Walsh or these two blokes?
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Re: Tommy Walsh substitutes (Markworth and Wilkes)
Good question...time will tell...sainterinsydney wrote:I think we have done preety well in this regard. Would you rather Walsh or these two blokes?
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Very true. I think, in the long run, it might be deemed that Tommy Walsh did us a massive favour.Spinner wrote:That's if Tommy produces....
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Wilkes has played 23 AFL games and then was delisted.Schillaci wrote:Interesting. On the face of it us...odds in our favour 2 players to one. Not one of them played a game.
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If Tommy Walsh was up to it I'm sure he would have been given a chance it seems like he's been built up as the next big thing but has he really delivered any thing ...? Was he demanding a game ..? Or should he have been gifted a game to see what he can do ...? I'm hoping that the the two guys mentioned form part of the club for years to come ..!!
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Wilke's stats say he weigh about the same as Dawson, but he looks much bigger and imposing
The only footage I can find of him is this mark
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqGnCRVOtaM
The only footage I can find of him is this mark
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqGnCRVOtaM
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In practice the club only got Markworth for Walsh.
If another player had been delisted we would still have been able to get Wilkes and Blake late in the draft, because most clubs were only upgrading rookies at that stage of the draft.
If another player had been delisted we would still have been able to get Wilkes and Blake late in the draft, because most clubs were only upgrading rookies at that stage of the draft.
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I think the club knew mid-season that Walsh was going to walk.Middo wrote:If Tommy Walsh was up to it I'm sure he would have been given a chance it seems like he's been built up as the next big thing but has he really delivered any thing ...? Was he demanding a game ..? Or should he have been gifted a game to see what he can do ...? I'm hoping that the the two guys mentioned form part of the club for years to come ..!!
When a player refuses to sign a new contract it means only one thing - he thinks/knows there is another club that will pay more.
He was given a temporary promotion to the senior list but still would not sign.
Once he refused to sign it became a case of no signature, no senior selection.
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if this is true I would like to know who was involved in brokering the deal mid-season - and if it had anything to do with Berbakov.ace wrote:I think the club knew mid-season that Walsh was going to walk.Middo wrote:If Tommy Walsh was up to it I'm sure he would have been given a chance it seems like he's been built up as the next big thing but has he really delivered any thing ...? Was he demanding a game ..? Or should he have been gifted a game to see what he can do ...? I'm hoping that the the two guys mentioned form part of the club for years to come ..!!
When a player refuses to sign a new contract it means only one thing - he thinks/knows there is another club that will pay more.
He was given a temporary promotion to the senior list but still would not sign.
Once he refused to sign it became a case of no signature, no senior selection.
i can't help but wish things go badly for Walsh. after seeing him play a few times I have little doubt he will be a handy and useful presence within a footy team, something I thought we could have trialled last year, but I feel resolved now at least.
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Were Siposs and Ledger and Cripps "demanding a game" when they got picked? It certainly didn't seem so, from memory. Blake also didn't seem to be setting the world on fire when they picked him again, after a run in the VFL I imagine all this would have irked Tommy to a fair degree and contributed to him wanting to leave. He came top 7 or whatever in the Sandy B&F both years and performed perfectly adequately for us in the NAB Cup, yet was never deemed to be doing well enough to be given a try at AFL level? Is this what you're suggesting? Sydney, who have an extremely high success rate of spotting talent in other teams (eg. Mumford, who they got in an almost identical way to Tommy, Kennedy and McGlynn, are three very recent examples) apparently beg to differ with you. I'm sure they do even more now after he dominated in the International Rules games, albeit with a round ball (I'm pretty confident he'll be pretty used to the oval one by now, though.) Sometimes it's just worth throwing someone in there, like Australia did with Pat Cummins in the last cricket test (despite him having taken just 9 wickets in 3 first class games, at a poor average of 46, prior to that and not having played a first class game in months). Sometimes you need to be proactive, not just reactive, in sport (or any other aspect of life).Middo wrote:If Tommy Walsh was up to it I'm sure he would have been given a chance it seems like he's been built up as the next big thing but has he really delivered any thing ...? Was he demanding a game ..? Or should he have been gifted a game to see what he can do ...?
I for one will be surprised if he doesn't do well for Sydney, but I'm also happy with the selection of Wilkes, as he seems almost a like for like replacement for Tommy (maybe without the speed and thumping kick) and Markworth apparently gives us a lot to work with, so we could definitely come out ahead in the long run and I certainly hope we do.
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too early to call. i watched the internal rules games hoping to see big tommy gun dominate. he played well but hardly tore the game to shreds every minute.
one thing i noticed is he was blowing up fairly badly on a smaller ground. i dont think he's going to cope with the bigger grounds. he needs to increase his fitness. he looks like he has shed some weight to do that.
i'd put my money on siposs making it before walsh.
one thing i noticed is he was blowing up fairly badly on a smaller ground. i dont think he's going to cope with the bigger grounds. he needs to increase his fitness. he looks like he has shed some weight to do that.
i'd put my money on siposs making it before walsh.
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