Are you both referencing the suggestion or that the post doesn’t take in the length of an essay?
Both
Good idea
And I love brevity
Yet you asked for 100 quotes of tigers fans calling Chaplin soft shyte rubbish
Just enjoyed wasting your time and energy (trolling)
Fear not it was rather therapeutic reading those 100 posts
Almost forgot what a useless list blocking squib he was
Who was he blocking/holding out of the side at the time though?
Anyone who had an ounce of ability to defend 1v1 and a heart.
We did have a few in the system
Rance entering year 6 and really hitting his straps
Darrou a rookie in his second year i think, a long shot that didn't work out.
McGuane always for me a third tall who we would delist end of 2013. Another in a line of ordinary players we would get to 100 games
Astbury was drafted as a key forward and can't remember if he was being tried as a defender in 2013.
Grimes who imo replaced McGuane ultimately. He had injury woes as we all know early on.
So it was a bit dicey but We had our premiership talls in place we just didn't know it.
Imo as far as list goes getting Chaplin for experience and making up decent tall defensive numbers for depth was correct.
I always had a problem with it actually being him though.
We would basically fail in taking or adding good depth and young kpds to the list until 2016 when we drafted Garthwaite really a third tall type given his height and size and it was a token pick at 72.
Balta would come in 2017 pretty sure he was a kpf though and Miller who was definately taken as a kpf.
Biggie Nyuon in 2019 at 54.
Until Finally Gibcus at pick 9 in 2021 and Tarrant as a trade.. At this point in time i think they started to wake up about our talls in general the need to add depth and numbers and go for some quality as well.
