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Football => Richmond Rant => Topic started by: one-eyed on October 28, 2014, 08:45:34 PM
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Tigers keeping the faith in their tall timber
Jennifer Phelan
afl.com.au
October 28, 2014 6:50 PM
RICHMOND has backed Ty Vickery and Shaun Hampson to respond from their disappointing ends to the 2014 season and keep the competition between the club's big men hot next year.
Vickery's season effectively ended in round 18 the moment he struck West Coast ruckman Dean Cox and earned himself a four-week suspension.
He was emergency for the senior side in round 23 but the Tigers stuck with fellow big man Ben Griffiths to partner ruckman Ivan Maric for the elimination final against Port Adelaide.
The Tigers believe the fact Vickery was overlooked for the 57-point loss to the Power will give him extra motivation over the pre-season to put himself in the frame early next year.
"No player likes missing out on selection but that's good – the challenge is in front of him to become a really important player for us but also a solid, key forward across the comp," football manager Dan Richardson told AFL.com.au.
"He's certainly got the ability to do that.
"We thought Ty prior to being suspended, the form he was starting to show was probably at the level we now expect from him to come back with and demonstrate for a whole year.
"I think he's really determined to do that, which is good."
Richardson said there was no consideration from the Tigers' end about Vickery moving on during the recent NAB AFL Trade Period.
Vickery told AFL.com.au just days after the loss to the Power he harboured no hard feelings towards the coaching staff for going with Griffiths instead.
The 24-year-old, who is contracted until the end of 2016, could play alongside the other two big men in the same side as the Tigers keep looking for their best mix.
"Ty was disappointed he missed out on selection in the last bit of the season but that's a sign hopefully we're getting stronger as a footy club," Richardson said.
"We still think that Ben and Ty and Ivan can play in the same team together.
"Whilst we didn't go with that towards the end, there's no reason why that can't be the case."
As for Hampson, the former Blue played 11 games in his first season as a Tiger but finished the season in the VFL as Vickery and Griffiths were the preferred options.
His VFL form remained strong and he had no trouble getting his hands on the ball in rucking duels but struggled at times around the ground.
Richardson said the Tigers were confident that Hampson would benefit from working with development coach Mark Williams over the summer in a bid to improve his deficiencies.
"Despite a lot of people being critical of him, we got him to the club for that taller ruckman to make sure we could get the ball going our way and he did well with that element early in the year," he said.
"He had some reasonably good days in the ruck.
"His work around the ground and his goal-kicking and marking needs to improve, and we back him in at 26 [years old] with our development program under 'Choco' that will keep developing those players and help them improve.
"We'll keep working with Shaun and help him become a better player."
http://www.afl.com.au/news/2014-10-28/ty-tipped-for-big-year
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Would love to see Hampson turn it around!!!
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Couldn't catch a cold but have seen stranger things happen, we are stuck with him for the time being so we may as well do what we can just to get some small value from him before we boot him out of the club never to be seen again.
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Earliest fluff piece ever?
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Nice to know someone has some sort of faith in Hampson
Real nice
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Nice to know someone has some sort of faith in Hampson
Real nice
late bloomer
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Imbeciles wasting resources.
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lol our tall timber is just dandy.
what freakin tall timber. with just three juniors im asking what proven players and what quality.
cmon people look at what happened when just two talls missed this yr maric, rance , and the quality was then shown up.
locked and loaded we are entirely happy with our lot at tiger land.
rucks kpps and third tall types. the ones we expect to have an impact.
maric ruck 29yo , hampson ruck 27yo , vickery fwd/ruck 24yo , griffiths fwd/ruck 23yo , chaplin kpd 29yo , rance kpd 25yo, riewoldt 26yo astbury kpd 24yo , grimes tall def 23yo ,
juniors
elton kpp 21yo, mcbean 20yo fwd/ruck. the ones we hope can play some senior footy to get some experience no expectations on em just yet.
then theres mcintosh tall def 20yo who is more of a tall running player.
dire is the word when it comes to our talls. there are far too many eggs in too few baskets and too much faith put in blokes who have shown little. to many of the older established ones have questions about them still
we cant mirror the seniors with our resrves and theres just so many missing types of talls.
in pure numbers alone theres 4 too few and while trying to find good talls and develop them imo that number is 5 or 6 too few.
yet the club sits on its hands and tells anyone who will listen that all is fine.
we have nine selections all up, nd rookie draft and imo at least 4 or 5 of them should be talls.im concernerd we arent even looking at talls and that is a mistake imo.
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Hampson was under personal duress last season.
Has allot to make up for this year, watch this space ;)
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Hampson was under personal duress last season.
Has allot to make up for this year, watch this space ;)
has he been under personal duress for all of his 8 yrs. i can tell you now nothing changed from his time at carltank.
8 yrs of a constant that constant has been hampson being a spud.
i will be watching this space with eagerness. if he improves a small amount i can see people singing his praises.
what needs to happen is he improves so much its not likely to happen on 8 yrs of exposed form.
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Nice to know someone has some sort of faith in Hampson
Real nice
Don't you?
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Nice to know someone has some sort of faith in Hampson
Real nice
Don't you?
Nope, he offers very little. He can be a decent tap ruckman but that's it
Certainly cannot hold down a key forward spot. And cannot take a contested mark consistently to save himself.
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Hampson was under personal duress last season.
Has allot to make up for this year, watch this space ;)
Halitosis?
What are we talking here
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Hampson was under personal duress last season.
Has allot to make up for this year, watch this space ;)
yeah the stress of spending 350k a year for doing stuff all
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Death of his father.
Birth of his first child.
Traded away from his original club.
Establishing at new club.
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Death of his father.
Birth of his first child.
Traded away from his original club.
Establishing at new club.
Excuses, excuses - these things all happen 8 years running did they? Fact is he's always been useless.
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Death of his father.
Birth of his first child.
Traded away from his original club.
Establishing at new club.
Excuses, excuses - these things all happen 8 years running did they? Fact is he's always been useless.
The third and fourth ones wouldnt be a factor if he was any stuffing good
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Hopefully we'll be looking to at least rookie another ruck to replace Stephenson - personally, I hope we go for someone young like Darcy Cameron this time - now that we know Griffiths can at least do a serviceable job we wouldn't need to upgrade him.