Tom Hislop [merged]

[TigerLand]

I reckon a huge part of whether players make it or not, is obviously fitness.
Lack of stamina makes fast footballers slow and good kicks sloppy ones.

You may be fast... but if you don't have the motor... then each sprint gets slower, kicks shorten, targets get missed and you come back to the pack.
To be consistently fast... all day, you have to be extremely fit.
Same with disposal, decision making and of course the ability to gut run and make 2nd and 3rd efforts (1%ers), link up play and so on.

The reason why Robbie Nahas has improved so much is because he can now run hard and fast all day.... and be involved more than once in a passage of play.
It's the key to Dane Swan's rise to elite level.... his incredible fitness. It makes the good players great and the great players the best players.

I know when I played as a midfielder.... my mantra was to run hard all day and I would get into the flow of the game.If I didn't run hard enough... I played like crap.
Same when I boxed.... when unfit I looked great for about the first five combinations i threw... after 2 minutes, I looked more like a drunken bum than a boxer.
Until I was fit enough, then I could throw punches all day and do what i wanted my body to do.
When you are at peak fitness, you are mentally strong and you can push your body to it's limits trusting it to be able to serve your will.
Then you talent and skills can come to the fore.

Footy isn't just getting to where the ball is.... it's knowing where it's going to be and getting there as well.... fitness.
Fitness builds confidence, then skills and decision making improve and a player can then reach their true potential.

The key with Tom is fitness... and if he can get the fittest he can possibly be... then I believe he can surprise and become a very good player for us.
He has the ability.

Great post this.

[Tigeritis™©®]

Call me crazy but I actually think Hislop will make it.

If he can stay fit I just think he could be a gun tagger or inside mid or even defensive forward.

Call me crazy, I dunno I just have a feeling.

yep. I'm calling you crazy. He's not up to it. He's a girl.

[TigerLand]

Call me crazy but I actually think Hislop will make it.

If he can stay fit I just think he could be a gun tagger or inside mid or even defensive forward.

Call me crazy, I dunno I just have a feeling.

yep. I'm calling you crazy. He's not up to it. He's a girl.

Bit rough, thought he was OK yesterday.

Team make up went out of whack and played a bits part role when I bet he was going to be put into the middle for an Edwards or forward for White.

He went in hard though and didn't really notice him which was good. Lets judge him after 5-6 games

[cub]

Better than Farmer or Miller and the poo man

[Penelope]

Call me crazy but I actually think Hislop will make it.

If he can stay fit I just think he could be a gun tagger or inside mid or even defensive forward.

Call me crazy, I dunno I just have a feeling.

yep. I'm calling you crazy. He's not up to it. He's a girl.

Hislop is a girl?

you been into JC's blood heavily this weekend?

[Tigeritis™©®]

Call me crazy but I actually think Hislop will make it.

If he can stay fit I just think he could be a gun tagger or inside mid or even defensive forward.

Call me crazy, I dunno I just have a feeling.

yep. I'm calling you crazy. He's not up to it. He's a girl.

Hislop is a girl?

you been into JC's blood heavily this weekend?

I don't know what you mean? 
Hislop is barely a VFL standard player. He had his chance at Essendon and failed. Had a second chance at a bottom team and couldn't string games together got delisted and now has a third chance thanks to the kindness of this club. He plays his first game as a sub and has little or no impact when he comes on. Unlike Jack for swans who made an immediate impact as soon as he came on the field. You'd think after all his waiting he would have been busting to come out and make a major statement to the club and thank them for keeping faith in him. What did he give. 8 disposals.!
We didn't notice him because he wasn't where the ball was.  Come off it he's not a kid he's not a teenager trying to make his way. He's not good enough!!!!! 
.... Yes he's a girly girl girl.!!! 

[tiger101]

He did knock his knee and had to come off for abit because of it.
I'd like to see a couple more full games from him to see where his at before judging. I would say he does need to perform well to give me confidence in wanting him to stay on next year though

[Tigeritis™©®]

He did knock his knee and had to come off for abit because of it.
I'd like to see a couple more full games from him to see where his at before judging. I would say he does need to perform well to give me confidence in wanting him to stay on next year though

he knocked his knee. 
he would struggle to get on the bench on my daughters netball team.

[WilliamPowell]

I don't know what you mean? 
Hislop is barely a VFL standard player. He had his chance at Essendon and failed. Had a second chance at a bottom team and couldn't string games together got delisted and now has a third chance thanks to the kindness of this club. He plays his first game as a sub and has little or no impact when he comes on. Unlike Jack for swans who made an immediate impact as soon as he came on the field. You'd think after all his waiting he would have been busting to come out and make a major statement to the club and thank them for keeping faith in him. What did he give. 8 disposals.!
We didn't notice him because he wasn't where the ball was.  Come off it he's not a kid he's not a teenager trying to make his way. He's not good enough!!!!! 
.... Yes he's a girly girl girl.!!! 

So you just judge players by how many possessions they get then?

Every thought for just a second that he played the role the coaches wanted him to play as a defensive small forward

[Penelope]

most normal people, if calling a footballer a girl are referring to how they the play the game.

Whatever critisims there are about hislop, his attack on the ball/player is not a problem.

If he is a girl then most players in the league are too.

[Francois Jackson]

if Dimma is not the man to take us to where we want its because he gave guys like Hilsop continual game time.

He has proved he cannot play that much is clear so why play him. His form is rubbish, is not part of our future yet gets a game ahead of Tuck.

[Dubstep Dookie]

Hislop HAS to go

And please don't tell me he is contracted next year 

[Hellenic Tiger]

if Dimma is not the man to take us to where we want its because he gave guys like Hilsop continual game time.

He has proved he cannot play that much is clear so why play him. His form is rubbish, is not part of our future yet gets a game ahead of Tuck.

Forget it Dan he will more than likely be scrubbed from the list at the end of the year. The meat of our on field issues essentially do not lie in him being in or out of the side. It's our so called more serviceable players who have been in the system in their fifth season plus that aren't holding up their end and kill the side with their skills decision making when they have the ball and their absence when they don't.

[The Big Richo]

Hislop HAS to go

And please don't tell me he is contracted next year 

Pretty sure Craig Cameron has signed him for a further 3.

Thinks he will turn into an elite player in the competition.

[Tigeritis™©®]

Herslops. Put your dress back on and go back to Essendon!!