Tungatalum Delisted!

[axcellence]

Tunga's been delisted last week...

Source...

http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2009/1 ... sport.html

ST MARYS premiership player and delisted AFL Saint Ross Tungatalum wants to resurrect his AFL career with a stint at the Tiwi Bombers.

[undecided]

in Ross we trust , Lyon that is.

[Bono]

So has Eljay and Kahn. Howard and L. Fisher to stay.

[saintsrus]

L. Fisher to stay.

Amazed this guy stays on the list, lets hope 2010 is his year

[plugger66]

L. Fisher to stay.

Amazed this guy stays on the list, lets hope 2010 is his year

He has a contract but I still think he may be delisted. They have another 3 weeks to negotiate deals.

[Dan Warna]

I've done a 100% turn around on Ross.

people we demanding that baker was finished = outstanding season after a few tune up games.

people said ball was finished when dropped = if your honest he did have a fine final series including a fine grand final.

in fact everything went to plan, including significantly outplaying hte mighty cats = EXCEPT IN FRONT OF GOAL.

Ross makes mistakes, but he is clever, has faith in his players and gets as much out of htem as any coach.

if Leigh Fisher has a future at st kilda then Ross clearly thinks he has.

Its amazing the judgements (myself included - embarrassing retractions about clint jones) we make about players and are proven wrong over and over and over again.

[bigcarl]

Tunga's been delisted last week...

Source...

http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2009/1 ... sport.html

ST MARYS premiership player and delisted AFL Saint Ross Tungatalum wants to resurrect his AFL career with a stint at the Tiwi Bombers.

that's a shame. perhaps an element of homesickness?

[saintspremiers]

shame.

Could've been a regular senior player for Sandy next year.

But I suspect he still weighs about 50 kilos and is nowhere near chunky enough for even senior VFL footy!

Oh well.

We've got some real black magic now in Lovett, so we can drool over him instead!

[saintly]

anyone know why he was delisted?

[Superboot]

I've done a 100% turn around on Ross.

people we demanding that baker was finished = outstanding season after a few tune up games.

people said ball was finished when dropped = if your honest he did have a fine final series including a fine grand final.

in fact everything went to plan, including significantly outplaying hte mighty cats = EXCEPT IN FRONT OF GOAL.
Ross makes mistakes, but he is clever, has faith in his players and gets as much out of htem as any coach.

if Leigh Fisher has a future at st kilda then Ross clearly thinks he has.

Its amazing the judgements (myself included - embarrassing retractions about clint jones) we make about players and are proven wrong over and over and over again.

Absolutely spot on re the GF.

He got it all right. It unravelled late in the game when all the lack of scoreboard pressure hit home.

[fingers]

How nice is it to have faith in your coach

[Gardiner_#1_fan]

They should of kept tungas build him up in the gym and he would of been a great player

[Riewoldt=Gun_09]

I really liked what I saw in Rocko. Disappointing.

[Gardiner_#1_fan]

So has Eljay and Kahn. Howard and L. Fisher to stay.

Howard and fisher very lucky hopefully fisher can get back to his best

[borderbarry]

Eljay, Kahn, and Choo Choo gone. Surely there will be more?

[SainterK]

Don't quote me, but I think Bernard Shakey highlighted a couple of weeks back that there was an element of home sickness in this case?

[SaintWodonga]

He's a rookie.. I am not too worried, but good luck to him!

[jonesy]

Always going to be a big punt plucking a kid from the Tiwi's. Long long way away from home and a massive cultural change,not forgetting the winter...

[JABBER]

ive seen no delistings yet on afl websites about us but we will probally lose 4 to 5 players from our senior list

[Ralphy]

There was a bit of homesick ness in this decision,
i remember the topic or newspaper article a few months back, sucks really but i guess when ya missin home ya gotta go back.

[St Fidelius]

ive seen no delistings yet on afl websites about us but we will probally lose 4 to 5 players from our senior list

If you include Luke Ball we have lost 4 already

[chook23]

He was a rookie

Played vitually all year in VFL RESERVES

A long long long way away from regular AFL seniors

Mentioned he was homesick as well somtime back

his development was coming from way to far back.

Many rookies are overated by their own supporters including many on here

Had some talent.......developement gap required too big...........

[Thinline]

Yeah Bernard S soothsaid this one many moons back...

Too light, too far from home.

A shame. The one time I saw him I was dazzled by his zip.

Agree with whoever said heavy frames is the RL go. It's all about out Catting the Cats. Bigger, faster, stronger, more skill, more disciplined.

[GrumpyOne]

Choo Choo will be able to take his experiences back, and relay them to others in the Tiwis. The experiment will do much to improve the standard of footy up there. Would like to see us draft one tiwi guy a year as a rookie, just to encourage the development of footy on the islands. Not so long ago recruiting from Darwin was an experiment.... in twenty years we could see a steady stream of guys from up there recruited into AFL.

[Bernard Shakey]

Don't quote me, but I think Bernard Shakey highlighted a couple of weeks back that there was an element of home sickness in this case?

I had heard he was to be delisted. Not sure why, but the OP seems to indicate he wanted to go back home.