What a load of rot. Myers had 19 possessions and 6 clearances. Tippa did nothing, just like he has all year.
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you want Long to get a run in the seniors. Where do you want him to play?
Jackson didnât play any worse than Tippa in the last two games.
Been following Dom Barry since heâs an emergency on my Supercoach bench and would just like to say, No.
The wing, he can hit a target by foot, tackle and chase
I know, and Tippa is hurt, what does that say for Jackson
Tippa shouldnât be playing if heâs hurt. If heâs well enough to take the field, heâs well enough to perform at his best.
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Really?
Send him back to the VFL for a week to play midfield and gather some touch. He needs to get his hands on the footy.
Then bring him back in and play him as a rebounding defender who piles on the pressure - which is and has always been his best role.
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Yes. Tippa has not yet reached the stage where being 3/4 fit is better than someone else 100% fit.
Agree, I really want him rested until he is right
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I reckon itâs a fkn cop out and a excuse for him playing â â â â . He might have a niggle, but a lot of players do. He moves fine throughout the game for the most part. Heâs fumbling everything atm
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A shadow of last year.
He is really costing us in forward pressure.
Opposition teams use to fear him and be rattled if the ball was in our forwardline and they rushed the ball out making mistakes
Now he is the hunted with teams tackling and running him down
Not really. Raz, Tippa and Green were our forward pressure. Hooker, when he didnât mark the ball, bought it to ground. Of those 4 players, one played in the forwardline yesterday.
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I was at the MCG yesterday. Could someone please tell me:
(a) Is Tippa either injured and/or unfit?
(b) why is it that he lacks the explosive pace/closing speed he had at the start of last year?
© why does he not go the ball? Since the middle of last year he has seemed to develop a number of bad habits, including not going for the ball in a contest, rather, hanging back in hope of tackling, but also running to dead spaces where the ball will never go.
I would love to see an isocam from up in the grandstand following Tippi all day to highlight this and show the spaces he doesnât run to, the contests he doesnât get to, etc.
He offers nothing at the moment. With Stringer and Tippi we have two forwards who on a good day might do 2 or 3 electric things, but are next to useless otherwise. You can carry one of those types, but not two.
Whether he is playing forward to in the middle it is no different. Time either for a rest or a spell in the VFL sorry Tippi.
Why does there someone have to be banging down the door to drop Tippa? If heâs not right he needs to be rested until he is. Jackson Merrett can come in as the next best option, or Long. No theyâre not that great but thatâs why theyâre in the 2s. Itâs not an upgrade, itâs getting Tippa right. Itâs the same as Joe. Then they come back when theyâre ready.
âŠOr maybe the reason every single player is seemingly out of form is because theyâre being coached incredibly poorlyâŠ
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âWhy does there have to be someone banging down the door to drop Tippa?â
Simple - look at his performances, they are not up to scratch.
If heâs not right then get him out of the team, but look at his performances across the last 10-15 games and he has given very little. He is a passenger who pops up occasionally with a highlights reel moment then does nothing for the next month.
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Youâre agreeing with me, not disagreeing, youâve misunderstood my point.
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It is almost like we donât want to drop players, with Langford the obvious exception, as we may hurt their feelings or shatter their confidence. Clubs like Sydney and Hawthorn donât seem to hesitate in dropping a player back if needed. Either rest Tippa or play in the VFL for a couple of weeks. Same with JD. Kick a bag then come back. Dell is right
@ Dell: OK, thatâs fair enough! But Tippi he canât be carried in the seniors anymore, he doesnât deserve another charity game, better to blood a kid