Our best small forward ever!?
And @Humble_Minion.
In all fairness I think @Reboot mainly questioned his fitness when he was playing vfl.
The crowd went so nuts when he kicked his 6th goal you wouldāve thought that it was the match winner. Thatās how popular he is.
I like this thread better. Dont think I called him VFL standard in this one
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Massively over-rating our list. Tippa is nowhere near elite, not even decent
Raz and Conor and Saad are not elite either
You looking for this chestnut from the Lid Off thread??
Well owned though @rossoneri
No, because itās in the lid on thread for a reason, you need to get up to speed with that thread and the lid off thread.
Pretty sure in the other Tippa thread (?) I said he was VFL standard at best
Those goals in the last quarter you just knew he would win the one on one and goal. He is my favourite Essendon player. What a legend.
His 5th goal was incredible. Got the ball on the HBF and kept running all the way and ended up with the free kick. Great kick too
Best kick in the team, at goal or in general play. Just doesnāt waste it. After 12 possessions and 0 goals across the first 2 games he has responded superbly. The way we play we get a lot of āover the backā goals and Walla is going to get a lot of those. He just makes you smile when he gets the ball, the reception he gets whenever he goes anywhere near it is at Longy levels.
He had point assists . Not his fault others canāt kick straight .
His kicking both field and goal never seems to go out of touch. Thats been consistent with him since day one.
Just needed to find a way to get his hands on enough footy.
Did that today and wow.
Heās amazing.
43 is the perfect number for him
I donāt think I have seen a player execute the drop punt on the run as good as this bloke.
He just doesnāt miss when kicking for goal.
It was like shelling peas to him.
I have not seen a more complete performance from a small forward in my lifetime.
Itās seriously so damn good to be watching him playing AFL so well. Iād legit given up on him ever getting a gig as soon as we drafted Eades. Iām sure Benās in the same boat, but itās kinda strange, it feels like Iāve been watching him for an entire career already, but heās really only just begun.
Heās always been one of my favourites. I watched this little fat bloke play under Heppell in the 2010 Gippy Powerās incredible finals run, which could be the most amazing and inspirational streak of games Iāve ever seen and it sucks that thereās so few other people who remember it for me to reminisce with, and I saw him add spark and creativity to a side that sometimes lacked it, even if he only got 13 touches a game. I was so glad when he got another go as an overager for Gippy the next year, and he alternated between kicking 3 a game in the forward line and running off half back taking multiple bounces in the slush and howling gales at Oakleigh or wherever, and you could just see the talent but it was trapped in a body that could only play 50% game time before running out of puff. And I read the stuff Emma Q wrote about him and realised he moved to Gippsland without even speaking English, and it just blew my mind about how hard heād worked for his chance.
I argued for years with people on here and bf that yeah sure he was short (but he was talented enough that it didnāt matter) and fat (but he was incredibly dedicated to footy and would blossom in a professional environment). I was so damn rapt when EFC gave him a VFL gig, by that point Iād have been hapopy for him to get a game anywhere, but to see hima bomber was just awesome. Then I saw him do some amazing things at VFL level and I had hopes going into the 2014 season heād be drafted, but he got clotheslined by Ben ā ā ā ā ā ā Hudson and missed most of the year, and I thought his chance had nearly gone. He got his chance last preseason when playing as a top-up, but didnāt really show what he was capable of. Iād given up hope on him last year, he played some good footy and had some unbelievable highlights but I figured the club had basically put him in the āgood VFL playerā basket, especially when we drafted Eades ahead of him last year. When we finally picked him, I didnāt really believe it. and to see him playing so well now, itās incredible. A bloke dealing with the sort of culture shock he did coming down from Tiwi - Iām not sure any other club could have done it. Hawthorn tried and failed with Frank. Everyone knows about Melbourne and Jurrah. Richmond has tried many, many times and only left a trail of alienated kids and shattered dreams in their wake. And we did it in the worst possible circumstances. Makes you pretty proud of the club, and incredible proud of the kid himself. And I have to keep reminding myself this is only the beginning.
Iāve been draftwatching for quite a few years now. You get your favourites, and itās awesome when they go well but sucks when they end up at another club. And thereās the blokes who everyone knows are going to go early and be guns (Heppell), but the ones that really get stuck in your head are the blokes who go later, the guys who have everything against them. Theyāre just better stories. But they donāt always have happy endings. Poor ā ā ā ā ā ā Michael Mascoulis was a favourite of mine, got rookied by WCE and then killed in a car crash. Alex Johnson, whoās done knee after knee (but has a flag to go with it, so probably canāt complain), and Alex Woodward, whoās done knee after knee WITHOUT any flags. Lin Jongās another one whoās had to earn every chance heās gotten. Glen Grgic and Courtney Hylton and many others who never got drafted at all. Tippaās always been right up there on my list of favourites. To see him take the long road to the AFL, to see him play for the bombers, and to see him play so well in such cruddy circumstances - itās pretty damn special and pretty damn personal.
May this be only the beginning.
A highlight from a few years back.
A gut running Wallaā¦ somebody hold me.
Poetry today.
I wonder if mentoring Mossie has helped him step it up to this new level. Iām really looking forward to watching those 2 boys play a game together.
Itās amazing to think back and whenever he lines up on those tight angles, I donāt get stressed out at all, he just gives you confidence he will kick the goal every time.
I havenāt felt that sure about an EFC player kicking goals from anywhere for a long time.
I think this is our biggest since Carlisle kicked 8 against the Bulldogs in 2014.
Has kicked 11 goals 1 behind from set shots this year.
On triple m they were saying he goes at 70% for his career which is better than Lockett
Wallaās leading patterns were superb today.