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Re: Pick 9: Nick Vlastuin
« Reply #45 on: November 24, 2012, 02:17:45 PM »
Wrapt to have this kid in y&b , tackles like a front rower and is houdini like in his ability to get out of trouble...absolute bloody steal this kid, whoa, talk about midfield depth
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Re: Pick 9: Nick Vlastuin
« Reply #46 on: November 24, 2012, 03:19:36 PM »
yep hes a damn good pick up. had him behind only stringer. placed  him behind only  grundy when grundy slid. as far as the list goes would prefer grundy.
dont think anyone can complain too much about this pick not even me.
welcome to tigerland nick.

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Re: Pick 9: Nick Vlastuin
« Reply #47 on: November 24, 2012, 04:09:35 PM »
suprised to hear thatb from you claw

I see him as a failed midfielder in the u18s

why do you rate him?

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Re: Pick 9: Nick Vlastuin
« Reply #48 on: November 24, 2012, 04:21:14 PM »
yep hes a damn good pick up. had him behind only stringer. placed  him behind only  grundy when grundy slid. as far as the list goes would prefer grundy.
dont think anyone can complain too much about this pick not even me.
welcome to tigerland nick.

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Only one I rated higher on ability was Menzel who I had at one. And it's pretty obvious why he slid.

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Re: Pick 9: Nick Vlastuin
« Reply #49 on: November 25, 2012, 12:40:59 AM »
suprised to hear thatb from you claw

I see him as a failed midfielder in the u18s

why do you rate him?
blaisee its not just about the u18champs. he was injured in the champs and they played him of a hbf.
just my opinion but i reckon he had a super consistent yr as an inside mid.
at the start of the yr i had him at 3 . i just love big bodied hard at it skillful players who get their own ball. hes all of that and more. the only issue i have with him is pace but he reads the play so well and he gets to so many contests that its not an issue. he was imo always a top 5 prospect and ya know he didnt do to much wrong to warrant slipping he was bloody consistent.

im griping a bit because of grundy. i know he slipped down the order but imo and a fair few others mind he was the best big man available in the draft. ihave wanted stringer since the day i first saw him which is over 3 yrs ago but as far as the list goes and talent for a big guy i would maybe have been prepared to forgo stringer for him. nick wasnt far behind either of them.

if i could take a player who was available at all our picks bar 9 it would have been nick graham. i really thought he would go easily top 25. i still think sam lowrie a real good prospect but hey he didnt even get taken so maybe im missing something.
cant remember who got dean kent but i reckon they got a player nm maybe.
finally i still think a lot of  the wa boys  underrated its sort of out of sight out of mind.

finally just a bit of irony.  two players i desperately wanted us to rookie last  yr went at 12 and 39 this draft, yet a player i wanted at 31/33  didnt get drafted go figure.

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Re: Pick 9: Nick Vlastuin
« Reply #50 on: November 25, 2012, 12:58:33 AM »
Melbourne got Dean Kent.

I like Lowrie too. Maybe a rookie? Had a few injuries last few years. Broken leg in 2011 and collarbone 2012.

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Re: Pick 9: Nick Vlastuin
« Reply #51 on: November 25, 2012, 02:52:09 AM »
Emma Quayle's article on Vlastuin prior to the draft....

Thrill of the game helps control Nick's hard edge
By Emma Quayle
The Age
Nov. 20, 2012


NICK Vlastuin had so much excess energy that he once broke $800 worth of glass in a single year. When he did something naughty his brother and sister used to go into ''time out'' rather than him, so they could get a break from their baby brother. When Vlastuin was 15 months old his mother nicknamed him Tigger, after Winnie the Pooh's bouncy buddy. It helped that he had red hair. ''Doesn't complain when he falls over or is pushed, just bounces up again,'' she wrote at the time. ''Unfortunately, he expects others to do likewise.''

Vlastuin is more subdued these days, around home at least. When he was made captain of the Vic Metro team this year he tried to be the sort of leader who spoke through his actions, and hoped he wasn't asked to make too many speeches. But as a kid he was so hard to control his mother, Cecily, became worried.

After Vlastuin bashed a stick against a door made of safety glass so many times that he smashed it, she went to see a paediatrician, wondering what to do. His suggestion: take the kid to Auskick.

That all happened when Vlastuin was four. Fourteen years later the football field is still where he channels his energy, where he still likes to run around, get dirty and push people over. ''I always liked the competitive side of the game, wrestling kids and roughing them up and getting roughed up,'' he said.

Cecily adds: ''He's been in training since he could walk, really. It's all he ever did, push people over.''

Still, football was not an obvious prescription. Vlastuin's parents grew up in New South Wales, his mother on a farm and his father Chris just north of the Hunter Valley after being born in Dutch New Guinea. Chris' parents moved to Australia after World War II, choosing it ahead of South America, Africa and Canada.

Nick's grandfather, Leedert, had fibbed about his age to get into the Dutch army and, after travelling to Indonesia for some adventure, was there when war broke out. He became caught up in it, surviving a prisoner-of-war camp at Changi and a labour camp at the Burma Railway when many of his good friends did not.

Back home in Holland, he and wife Bep struggled to settle, Bep having seen the war from the European side and Leedert from an Indonesian angle. It was something they never spoke about. The pair married by proxy so she could get into Indonesia, then spent a couple of years there, setting up a shop on water to do island hops but eventually losing a fortune after most of what they had was confiscated by the government and they were kicked out.

Almost the same thing happened in Australia, where they migrated despite speaking no English. Leedert helped an army mate establish a tobacco farm, building the house and the sheds. But he was double-crossed, inadvertently signing everything over to his friend, who took it all then turned the electricity off one Christmas Eve and kicked the family out of their home.

After losing everything for a second time, the Vlastuins moved to Taree on the Mid-North Coast where Leedert got a job at a parquetry flooring company, his adventuring done. He was a hard, tough man, qualities Cecily suspects may have continued on to Nick who, as a footballer, works relentlessly, is resilient and never wants to lose. Curiously, his brother, Tim, joined the army earlier this year. ''I took him to the gym before army training and killed him,'' said Nick, smiling. ''I'm hoping that won't change too quickly. We'll see.''
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The Vlastuins found themselves in Melbourne's northern suburbs when Chris got a job transfer, and the game they knew nothing about gave their youngest child an outlet. Before long, the bigger kids wanted Nick in their team and since starting out he has been through the Eltham juniors to the Northern Knights and Metro. He was surprised when asked to be captain, and was almost immediately challenged, with the team unexpectedly dropping its first match to the Northern Territory.

''I had the week off after that game and was sitting home just thinking about it. Being the first captain to lose to a division two team wasn't a good feeling,'' he said.

''I didn't know what had happened and I was annoyed, having waited so long for the nationals, but we came back after that and won the championships, so it worked out all right. It was good. I think that in the long run it helped get me out of my comfort zone. The coaches would call on me a bit and ask me about the games, what we did well and that sort of stuff. It made me think a bit differently.''

Vlastuin is ready to join his new club on Thursday night. That's what happens when you start out so young. He finished school last year, having started when he was four and kept up with the older kids right until the end. For the past few months he has been working as a lifeguard at a local swimming centre, waiting to push people around some more. ''I love the contested side of the game, the contest, the stoppages and all the body-on-body stuff,'' he said. ''It's what I've always loved the most. I can't wait to see what it's like.''

http://www.transcontinental.com.au/story/1132322/thrill-of-the-game-helps-control-nicks-hard-edge/?cs=2375

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Re: Pick 9: Nick Vlastuin
« Reply #52 on: November 25, 2012, 03:26:19 AM »
yes he is tough, but his skills imo dont stack up from what i have seen, i hope im wrong

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Re: Pick 9: Nick Vlastuin
« Reply #53 on: November 25, 2012, 09:20:24 AM »
suprised to hear thatb from you claw

I see him as a failed midfielder in the u18s

why do you rate him?
blaisee its not just about the u18champs. he was injured in the champs and they played him of a hbf.
just my opinion but i reckon he had a super consistent yr as an inside mid.
at the start of the yr i had him at 3 . i just love big bodied hard at it skillful players who get their own ball. hes all of that and more. the only issue i have with him is pace but he reads the play so well and he gets to so many contests that its not an issue. he was imo always a top 5 prospect and ya know he didnt do to much wrong to warrant slipping he was bloody consistent.

im griping a bit because of grundy. i know he slipped down the order but imo and a fair few others mind he was the best big man available in the draft. ihave wanted stringer since the day i first saw him which is over 3 yrs ago but as far as the list goes and talent for a big guy i would maybe have been prepared to forgo stringer for him. nick wasnt far behind either of them.

if i could take a player who was available at all our picks bar 9 it would have been nick graham. i really thought he would go easily top 25. i still think sam lowrie a real good prospect but hey he didnt even get taken so maybe im missing something.
cant remember who got dean kent but i reckon they got a player nm maybe.
finally i still think a lot of  the wa boys  underrated its sort of out of sight out of mind.

finally just a bit of irony.  two players i desperately wanted us to rookie last  yr went at 12 and 39 this draft, yet a player i wanted at 31/33  didnt get drafted go figure.

fair enough claw

he certainly is tough and he is a great leader

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Re: Pick 9: Nick Vlastuin
« Reply #54 on: November 25, 2012, 10:13:22 AM »
One journalist said nick is in the Luke hodge mould.....I'll take that any day of the week

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Re: Pick 9: Nick Vlastuin
« Reply #55 on: November 25, 2012, 10:31:47 AM »
Shack this real hard arse up with Dusty

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Re: Pick 9: Nick Vlastuin
« Reply #56 on: November 25, 2012, 10:38:07 AM »
Vlastuin,martin,morris,conca,kingy,big ivan,jacko..and throw in A edwards..We are are building a team of genuine physcopaths(love it)

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Re: Pick 9: Nick Vlastuin
« Reply #57 on: November 25, 2012, 10:44:24 AM »
The team is certainly getting the Hardwick stamp on it!
Three years of Dimma and we have a much harder edge to our side. Hopefully those small skinny flankers with no skill from the Wallace days are a thing of the past!!
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Re: Pick 9: Nick Vlastuin
« Reply #58 on: November 25, 2012, 10:56:32 AM »
Although all teams need some skinny flankers ,at one point we had them by the truckload.For many Tiger supporters of a certain vintage who grew up with teams which included Balme,Maclean,Bourke,Mcghee,sheedy.it made us cringe

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Re: Pick 9: Nick Vlastuin
« Reply #59 on: November 25, 2012, 11:09:32 AM »
Did you see the stick insect Carlton got at 11?

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