our captain and coach would have to be the 2 worst in the league.
wallace has changed nothing in his team since he arrived. If he was so hell bent on change and youth, what the hell is tivers, hyde and that pathetic johnson still doing on our list.
allright johnson is not that old but he is useless.
We cannot be taken serious if the younger guys are looking up to a guy who barely speaks out on the field. He is a outright disgrace and i would rather see out pick 80 in the 2001 draft get a game than this guy.
we will go nowhere with this list, the seniors players lack skill and spark and players like raines. well give me a break. the guy is so far up himself its not funny.
see what happens when you get signed up. another schulz in the making that guy
The on-field results haven't changed so far but the list has. It's just very young where the talent is with 22 of our post-2004 recruits aged 21 and under. Not all of these will make it either. Compare that to what Spud left us - just 9 U23's.
Sugar is oldish (29 y.o.) and his body is stuffed. I can't see him going beyond this year. Really he's just there to get crunched instead of a cub whose body isn't ready as yet for the weekly rigours of AFL footy. No point throwing a kid to the wolves in the guts and his body is stuffed by the time we need him (i.e. Luke Ball). Johnson does talk out on the field and encourage if people are willing to look but we as a side are simply not good enough.
As for the 2001 draft. How we wish we had players from that super draft. Guess what we don't have any! It is this 23-27 y.o. group that should be our core now and making up around half our list but we have only 7 Tigers remaining from 2002 - Richo, Bowden, Tivs, Cogs, Newman, Pettifer and Hyde. We are still paying for the disasterous quick-fixes of the past.
As for Wallace he'll probably be the fallguy come 2009 and we will be where Hawthorn was when Clarson arrived with a new coach with a free licence and a list that has a large young group coming through that is 2 years off hitting their prime.
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bold - 15 pre-Wallace Tigers
Games played in brackets
Age at Jan 1, 2008.
32:
Richo (256)29:
Bowden (235), Brown (188), Johnson (202), Simmonds (157)
28:
Tivendale (185)---------------------
27: -
26:
Tuck (69)25:
Coughlan (83), Hyde (82), Newman (111), Pettifer (103)24: McMahon (114)
23:
Moore (24), Polak (95), King (19)
22:
Foley (49), Schulz (49), Howat# (20), Cartledge# (7), Silvester# (-)
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21:
Raines (51), Jackson (36), Meyer (17), Pattison (35), Polo (25), Tambling (53), Thursfield (22)
20: Casserly (-), Deledio (62), Hughes (10), McGuane (16), Morton (12), White (18), Graham (2)
19: Collins (-), Connors (4), Edwards (16), JON (7), Riewoldt (
, Collard# (1)
18: Cotchin (-), Rance (-), Putt (-), Gourdis (-)