For all the historian types out there, is this the first time a player has signed with the same club as their father, grandfather and great grandfather?
edit: @Irons beat me to it.
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Love this news!
Have it on good authority he is just like his father.
Often falls off his bike.
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An Essendon 6 footer, should slot into our midfield as a typical big bodied brusier.
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And with that news Blitz track watchers are suddenly out of a job.
From now on we’ll all be relying on Tania Hird’s notes.
That’ll bring a tear to your eye
Apparently both the AFL and The Age have called emergency meetings for tonight.
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Sorry…but the poor success rate with these father sons leaves me pretty meh about this…if they haven’t performed at U18 level, they rarely work out.
Tommy Hird!
Tommy Hird!
Tommy, Tommy Hird!
He gets the ball
He kicks a goal
Tommy, Tommy Hird!
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Caro “it’s not a good lookth”
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We’ve got no small defender cover
Whilst not blessed for height he’s athletic, hard at it, got good skills.
He’s played footy growing up and then the soccer background would think would help with defensive structures also.
Small defender might be easiest path
Good luck to him
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That video looks like he’s a Darcy Parish clone!
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You saying he looks like a girl?
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Fair to say seeing this news had a fair bit of WTF about it. Amazing that no one here was onto it.
I follow the Dutch soccer league, and I saw a tweet about two months ago talking about him being over there, so I was shocked to see this
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The Spargo family was the first to have 4 successive direct line descendants play games in the V/
AFL competition.
Bob snr father of Bob jnr father of Paul father of Charlie.
With Tom signing at ESS there is the possibility that the Hirds will be the second.
Stolen from SirSwampThing on twitter.
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Who was he trialling with?
That is really cool.
I’ve been lid on in this preseason.
For tonight only, there is NO LID.
Fantastic news.
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