Tom Lynch [merged]

[the claw]

Lynchy turns 32 next month.
I have long been in the keep him camp. I still am. My concern is the injuries and i ask myself how many more years will we have him for? and is he just one injury away from the end.

If the answer is one year to q1 and one injury is the answer to q2 then you have to at least ask is it worth our while looking at a  trade if he was up for it. Only if he wanted it. A circumstance of say he is going to a club that will give him a shot at a flag one last hurrah if you like.

Keep Lynch as we need the structure he brings ( it has been sadly missed )

We also need to get him to 100 games. (11 more)

Sadly that structure he brings may only be for one year.

With his age and injuries we do need to find and get games into  two quality key forwards.

Might mean we are a bit tall fwd but it needs to be done imo.

[MintOnLamb]

Lynchy turns 32 next month.
I have long been in the keep him camp. I still am. My concern is the injuries and i ask myself how many more years will we have him for? and is he just one injury away from the end.

If the answer is one year to q1 and one injury is the answer to q2 then you have to at least ask is it worth our while looking at a  trade if he was up for it. Only if he wanted it. A circumstance of say he is going to a club that will give him a shot at a flag one last hurrah if you like.

Keep Lynch as we need the structure he brings ( it has been sadly missed )

We also need to get him to 100 games. (11 more)

Sadly that structure he brings may only be for one year.

With his age and injuries we do need to find and get games into  two quality key forwards.

Might mean we are a bit tall fwd but it needs to be done imo.

If Cumberland Bauer and Fawcett were any good they would be a compelling front structure…..

[RedanTiger]

I've had the idea in my head for a while that a new forward structure may be useful.

In contrast to the usual forward line of only one or two key forwards we could, with our current list, put out a forward line that has two bigs across half-forward - say Fawcett, Armstrong and Bauer, Lefau and one small like Mansell, Clarke or Campbell. Then a full forward line with one big - currently Lynch but later a draft pick like Whitlock and two smalls like Coulthard, Rioli, Green and O'Sullivan.

What would be different is the half forward line plays with the bigs on the outside funneling to the corridor and goals.
The smalls go anywhere including into midfield on turnovers with the hope they can stretch slower backs with endurance and speed.

[the claw]

Lynchy turns 32 next month.
I have long been in the keep him camp. I still am. My concern is the injuries and i ask myself how many more years will we have him for? and is he just one injury away from the end.

If the answer is one year to q1 and one injury is the answer to q2 then you have to at least ask is it worth our while looking at a  trade if he was up for it. Only if he wanted it. A circumstance of say he is going to a club that will give him a shot at a flag one last hurrah if you like.

Keep Lynch as we need the structure he brings ( it has been sadly missed )

We also need to get him to 100 games. (11 more)

Sadly that structure he brings may only be for one year.

With his age and injuries we do need to find and get games into  two quality key forwards.

Might mean we are a bit tall fwd but it needs to be done imo.

If Cumberland Bauer and Fawcett were any good they would be a compelling front structure…..

IF IF IF. If this and if that freakin ifs everywhere.
We might not be so iffy if we actually took some talls earlier in the nd.

What are the odds of a pick after pick 40, or rookie psd or msd drafts.
We could have 8 kpfs on the list taken there and only find if we get lucky two okay types.

Cumberland is 24 and has not done anywhere near enough be retained.

Bauer well he shows some good attributes but like so many draftees we have drafted he hardly touches the ball. It seems that is also the case when in the vfl.

Fawcett who the hell knows what was he pick 43 or something been injured but how many picks in the 40"s make it.

Our list of key/Tall  forwards lets not put our head in the sand about where we have taken them.

Lynch   32 pick 11
Lefau   26 ssp rookie
Kossie  24 pick  52
Ryan    24  pick 40 ruck/fwd
Bauer   22 msd rookie.
Gray    21  msd rookie
Fawcett  19 pick 43

[MintOnLamb]

Lynchy turns 32 next month.
I have long been in the keep him camp. I still am. My concern is the injuries and i ask myself how many more years will we have him for? and is he just one injury away from the end.

If the answer is one year to q1 and one injury is the answer to q2 then you have to at least ask is it worth our while looking at a  trade if he was up for it. Only if he wanted it. A circumstance of say he is going to a club that will give him a shot at a flag one last hurrah if you like.

Keep Lynch as we need the structure he brings ( it has been sadly missed )

We also need to get him to 100 games. (11 more)

Sadly that structure he brings may only be for one year.

With his age and injuries we do need to find and get games into  two quality key forwards.

Might mean we are a bit tall fwd but it needs to be done imo.

If Cumberland Bauer and Fawcett were any good they would be a compelling front structure…..

IF IF IF. If this and if that freakin ifs everywhere.
We might not be so iffy if we actually took some talls earlier in the nd.

What are the odds of a pick after pick 40, or rookie psd or msd drafts.
We could have 8 kpfs on the list taken there and only find if we get lucky two okay types.

Cumberland is 24 and has not done anywhere near enough be retained.

Bauer well he shows some good attributes but like so many draftees we have drafted he hardly touches the ball. It seems that is also the case when in the vfl.

Fawcett who the hell knows what was he pick 43 or something been injured but how many picks in the 40"s make it.

Our list of key/Tall  forwards lets not put our head in the sand about where we have taken them.

Lynch   32 pick 11
Lefau   26 ssp rookie
Kossie  24 pick  52
Ryan    24  pick 40 ruck/fwd
Bauer   22 msd rookie.
Gray    21  msd rookie
Fawcett  19 pick 43

As always you got it.
My major problem is I am a glass half full theorist

[Diocletian]

The glass is half full if it you just poured it and half empty if you just drank it...

[MintOnLamb]

The glass is half full if it you just poured it and half empty if you just drank it...

😂😂

[Hart4Jack]

The glass is half full if it you just poured it and half empty if you just drank it...

😂😂

Or you were a miserable burger & didn't fill the glass.

[TigerLand]

As .much as we miss a fit Lynch as a forward. It's the lead up target that is missing so badly.

Watching the finals. So often Jesse Hogan, Joe Daniher, Jeremy Cameron were high up the ground on the wing, taking a mark and holding up play to allow the flood / cluster / defense to get out of the back 50 and get forward.

Too often did we struggle to get the ball out of the backline and into our forwards with any sort of control because we struggled not having 1 let alone 2 lead up players to take a mark and hold up play on the wings.

[one-eyed]

Lynch told Tom Morris that he'll be at Richmond next year and has already started training.

Go to 1.15 min mark: https://x.com/9NewsMelb/status/1841037748313968926

[Hard Roar Tiger]

Lynch told Tom Morris that he'll be at Richmond next year and has already started training.

Go to 1.15 min mark: https://x.com/9NewsMelb/status/1841037748313968926

I think this is good.

[camboon]

So do I , he would be a great mentor for any new key forwards we recruit, I hope we get one in the 1st round instead of waiting to rookie one , quality is not a subsistence for quality

[one-eyed]

"There's a guy who has played eight games in two years, he's a two time Premiership player and his name is Tom Lynch.

I know he's on $1.4million a year on a back-ended contract, but he is the type of player I would be at least talking about internally if I was Brisbane."

-Damian Barrett on replacing Joe Daniher

https://x.com/traderadio/status/1841711702246883429

Got to love the media making things up just so they have something to say 

[Damo]

"There's a guy who has played eight games in two years, he's a two time Premiership player and his name is Tom Lynch.

I know he's on $1.4million a year on a back-ended contract, but he is the type of player I would be at least talking about internally if I was Brisbane."

-Damian Barrett on replacing Joe Daniher

https://x.com/traderadio/status/1841711702246883429

Got to love the media making things up just so they have something to say 

I agree with him. Brisbane should be discussing him internally and doing their due diligence. Barrett (whom I don't like BTW) paid to provide an opinion and that's all he did.
The media hate can get a little ridiculous at times. You all forget, no media, no AFL.

If he was making outlandish claims, different. But what on Earth has he said here that can be offensive or wrong in any way?

[camboon]

Barrett must know something Tom Lynch doesn’t , as Lynch said he wasn’t going anywhere?