na the real worry is a bloke who refuses to acknowledge when a player is better performed than his own favorites.
understand this. matt thomas has earnt his spot unlike most. if you think thomas has underperfrmed so far you are deluded.yes he has his limitations and weaknesses. but if players stood up in the first half of the yr thomas was one of em.
fair dinkum ive read some out and out driblle oin this forum and to be honest i expected if not better from you at least more objectivity.
oh and seeing as hes come off a shocker against essendon i will get in first and say yes hes had a howler.
for me we should aim for more well rounded players than thomas but he most certainly has outperformed most of the hacks.
id go as far to say he given us everything and more that we should have expected from a mature aged rookie selection. what the hell were you after gary ablett.
Nah what's a worry is people either refusing to read entire posts or latching onto only part of a post to try and back up their argument. Refuse to read any further debate between posters on the subject. And then for good measure throwing in a cheap little snipe because someone dares to disagree to with them.
And just on your last comment re Ablett. Er no I wasn't expecting Ablett but what I was expecting is that they would reward people on the rookie list who showed good form in the entire pre-season. The fact they promoted Thomas ahead of Miles was and still is a staggering decision. Why? because I think Miles offers more a lot more than Thomas both short term and more importantly long term. And despite the Clubs stubbornness to admit it; it was pretty clear pre-season
So finally we will agree to disagree, nothing more nothing less
your a fine one to complain about people only reading what they want. pot kettle black. IVE SAID EXACTLY WHAT YOU HAVE on a lot of points but you have clearly not bothered reading posts.
we sure as hell disagree on thomas and his contribution to the side rdpecially early on.
you know you have on plenty of occasions given me short shrift. im offended you can complain about not reading entire posts when you clearly dont yourself.and take your own cheap little snipes.
i can handle you not liking me as a poster i just wish you would come out and say it.
just for the record like most i wanted miles promoted asap. i also had no problem with thomas being promoted. they both earnt a crack at it and im prepared to admit that unlike some eh.
so im not overly dirty on the club in this regard as both players were worthy upgrades.
the club obviously went with the bigger bodied more experienced player. which is exactly what they said they would do and recruited accordingly. so no there was nothing staggering about the thomas promotion he earnt it. so did miles and he also should have been upgraded or at the worst upgraded a lot quicker than we did. ive never said otherwise and if you took the time to read a persons posts you would know that.
im staggered you cant even acknowledge thomas contribution in the early part of the season or fail to see it.
my stance on thomas is like a few on here.
didnt want him recruited in the first place and was very vocal about that,if you read peoples posts ypou would know that. but once they took him we had to give him a chance.
i thought his preseason was good enough and he did enough to be promoted. like most i wanted miles upgraded in front of thomas but i could see why thomas got the nod. i will say again where we differ i suppose is both should have been promoted and thomas did earn a crack at it. imo our handling of the lti list was very poor.
i also differ on the fact that while thomas has weaknesses as you rightly point out. he was easily one of our better players in the first 10 games not that he played every game and not that every game was great.. and yes i agree in games he has turned the ball over far too much.but hes off set that to a good degree imo.
is matt thomas a long term keeper. no not imo but for now hes a better inside mid than just about every inside mid we have bar miles. so we will agree to disagree. it also says a bit about our player stocks.
look im not too keen to get into a slanging match with the bloke who runs the site there can only be one winner in that sort of exchange. so while you say we will have to agree to disagree we arent that far apart in reality with many points.
oh just to finish i dont rerad all posts on threads ive replied to the ones you have made to me. nothing more. so i dont get the anger at not reading the whole thread or your exchanges with other posters.
