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Re: Pick 17: Tom Brown
« Reply #15 on: November 24, 2021, 09:25:32 PM »
Draft call and Fox Footy summary & highlights of Tom Brown:


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https://www.richmondfc.com.au/video/1033263/2021-afl-draft-pick-17-tom-brown

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Re: Pick 17: Tom Brown
« Reply #16 on: November 24, 2021, 09:53:07 PM »
Red flags go up when they rate him a outside player.
Bad feeling about this but I have to trust the panel on this one.

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Re: Pick 17: Tom Brown
« Reply #17 on: November 24, 2021, 09:56:26 PM »
Here's a red flag for ya
IMPROVEMENTS:

- Contested work
- Strength

In our backline? Sounds like a taller Naish.

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Re: Pick 17: Tom Brown
« Reply #18 on: November 24, 2021, 10:01:57 PM »
Good luck to him you bunch of naysayer haters

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Re: Pick 17: Tom Brown
« Reply #19 on: November 24, 2021, 10:04:11 PM »
Here's a red flag for ya
IMPROVEMENTS:

- Contested work
- Strength

In our backline? Sounds like a taller Naish.


Some advice- go and watch the kid play footy in the VFL next year and watch for yourself. Actually, don't bother as you've made you mind up which is sad...

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Re: Pick 17: Tom Brown
« Reply #20 on: November 24, 2021, 10:05:10 PM »
Some of the commentary about a player you probably haven't seen other than in a 2 min clip is pretty rank. 

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Re: Pick 17: Tom Brown
« Reply #21 on: November 24, 2021, 10:05:48 PM »
Welcome aboard Tom. 

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Re: Pick 17: Tom Brown
« Reply #22 on: November 24, 2021, 10:09:52 PM »
Here's a red flag for ya
IMPROVEMENTS:

- Contested work
- Strength

In our backline? Sounds like a taller Naish.

Don’t go off the Foxfooty feed, kid is as hard as nails.

Not who I would have taken but have very few concerns about his ability to play at the top level.

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Re: Pick 17: Tom Brown
« Reply #23 on: November 24, 2021, 10:16:21 PM »
Range 20-40.

What the hell mate. Johnson, JVR and Sonsie all still up for grabs. Who is this dude?

Gee I hope the club knows something every other draft enthusiast doesn't

I'm a draft enthusiast and he is a great pick

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Re: Pick 17: Tom Brown
« Reply #24 on: November 24, 2021, 10:27:31 PM »
Quote from: Scooter
The first Tom Brown who actually knows about football
https://twitter.com/scootersbcc/status/1463446939769344002

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Re: Pick 17: Tom Brown
« Reply #25 on: November 24, 2021, 11:09:56 PM »
Here's a red flag for ya
IMPROVEMENTS:

- Contested work
- Strength

In our backline? Sounds like a taller Naish.
Areal worry and when you think about the severe needs we overlooked here with great options available.

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Re: Pick 17: Tom Brown
« Reply #26 on: November 24, 2021, 11:41:51 PM »
Here's a red flag for ya
IMPROVEMENTS:

- Contested work
- Strength

In our backline? Sounds like a taller Naish.
Areal worry and when you think about the severe needs we overlooked here with great options available.
Claw, personally thought Hobbs was a better call ….?

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Re: Pick 17: Tom Brown
« Reply #27 on: November 25, 2021, 12:26:53 AM »
From Geelong footy factory. Not many kids go through here and rated top 30 picks without having a fair bit of hardness to them. I'm not concerned. Fact is he wouldn't have been available next pick as Geelong would have taken him. We've rolled the dice in hope that a Johnson, Sonsie or Goater will be there for pick 26.
Go Tigers!

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Re: Pick 17: Tom Brown
« Reply #28 on: November 25, 2021, 01:28:40 AM »
Pack of whingers kid hasn't played a game yet which young players don't have flaws lol.

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Re: Pick 17: Tom Brown
« Reply #29 on: November 25, 2021, 05:13:20 AM »
Articles about Tom Brown:


'I always thought Dad was invincible': The frightening moment that rocked son of former Cat

Draft hopeful Tom Brown opens up about his father Paul's serious injuries stemming from an unprovoked attack in 2015

By Callum Twomey
afl.com.au
Nov 8, 2021


TOM BROWN remembers his mum bursting through his bedroom door with the news.

"I was in grade six and was in bed and Mum said 'Dad's been king hit'. I thought 'Oh yeah, Dad will be fine'. I always thought Dad was invincible," Brown told AFL.com.au.

Brown's father Paul, who played 84 games for Geelong from 1988-95, had been punched unprovoked outside a shop in Shepparton in country Victoria in 2015. He was left lying on the footpath unconscious for several minutes after the attack, before being taken to a local hospital with a skull fracture and bleeding to his brain. He was later airlifted to the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne for further treatment.

Tom, now 18 and a potential top-25 pick at this month's NAB AFL Draft, recalls being shaken when the seriousness of the incident dawned on him.

"It's almost bittersweet because he got king hit and they scanned his brain and found a tumour, which they wouldn't have found if he didn't get hit. I was young and didn't really understand what was going on but I knew it was a pretty tough time for the family," he said.

"After a week we went down to the hospital to see him and I remember seeing him in bed and he was so out of it, it wasn't Dad. I was shocked by that. Then after his surgery we'd go and visit when he was doing his rehab and struggling to walk as he got back into it."

Paul had the tumour removed and was off work for some time as he recovered from the punch, which saw the perpetrator jailed for six years in 2016.

"I'll always be proud of my dad. I'm proud of how he is now and how he's still going well and hasn't changed," Brown said.

"It's probably made me appreciate family a lot more than I used to, because you never know, he could've hit his head and died. He could've been taken away like that. It's made me appreciate my family a lot more and want to spend more time with them."

Paul is back healthy and playing a big role in shaping Tom's ambitions to make it to the top level. Paul played in the 1994-95 Grand Finals for the Cats and would have played in more games if not for injuries, but the Cats won't get priority call over Tom, an attacking and athletic half-back with speed and smarts, as a father-son option.

"If I go to him for advice he'll be helpful but he's also great at going to the coaches because they know best," Brown said. "He sits me down every now and then and forces me to watch his highlights. There's not many of them! They don't go too long, so I stay and watch. I would have liked to see him play."

Brown's draft season was interrupted by a syndesmosis ankle injury that saw him miss 10 weeks in the middle of the year, but he was able to bookend that with some solid games that showed his run and composure and capacity to get in the air and take a mark.

He is one of four siblings, with older sister Millie already in the AFLW system having been a father-daughter selection at the 2019 draft (unlike the father-son rule, the father only needs to have played one game for a club to have priority access over his daughter).

"Millie and I have been best friends forever. We used to do everything together. When we were younger we were mad Geelong supporters and we used to play the Geelong theme song in the laundry and then run out with the cup in our hands. We thought we were playing a Grand Final and at half-time would come out with the oranges. She's two years older than me but I joined in with her footy, which has been a part of our lives forever," he said.

"She definitely always had me covered until I hit puberty and got a bit stronger and started growing and I haven't looked back. I'd say up until 14 she smacked me. I am really proud of what she's achieved and she's a really good role model for me in a sort of similar path."

Geelong holds four picks between No.22 and 34, with Brown looming as a possible option for the Cats in that range. The idea of following his dad and his sister in the blue and white hoops sits well with Brown, although anywhere will do. 

"If I get selected by the Cats I reckon that would be unreal. I've gone for them my whole life and to go to a club you've barracked for would be unreal, I'd love that. But also if I was to go anywhere else I'd be just as rapt as well," Brown said.

https://www.afl.com.au/news/686675/i-always-thought-dad-was-invincible-the-frightening-moment-that-rocked-son-of-former-cat-paul-brown