Mate, Dave Tyrrell repeatedly had the least hit ups, metres and post contact metres of any front rower in the comp (while making a below average amount of tackles).
There's a reason not one single club made him an offer when his deal with us expired.
He was f**king lazy.
Sorry if you're sentimental about him, but he's one of the worst players to have worn our colours in the last 20+ years.
He wasn't "underappreciated", nor did he " do his job".
He was rightly criticised for coasting.
Mate ,
your comments are very disrespectful , you are an imbecile.
For starters , Dave T , was a member of the grand final winning team....so go stick it.
for second , get your facts on Dave T. just some information below..........to say he was LAZY , what a twerp you are.......he was a battler , who was not the best in his later years but gave his best as part of a TEAM.
"Rabbitoh Dave Tyrrell with Peter Holmes a Court after signing as an 18-year-old.
He was diagnosed with compartment syndrome in his legs, a painful condition where his muscles swell too big and force constant cramping.
Surgery to cut the sleeve of his calf muscle solved the problem, but ruined his career as a winger.
Immediately he lost two seconds of speed from his 100m sprint time. He’d lost his greatest asset. You could excuse the Rabbitohs if they’d cut him loose, just another 20s kid on the scrapheap.
Tyrrell refused to give up. After a five week recovery he played out the season as a backrower and convinced club owner Russell Crowe that he deserved a NRL contract.
He did it all while waking at 4.30am every day to drive from Mascot to Penrith to start work as an apprentice electrician at 7am and then finish training every night at 8pm.
“He was a speedy winger and he went back and wasn’t that speedy anymore,” Tyrrell’s dad Kevin said.
“With the compartment syndrome he lost roughly two seconds over 100m.
“He reinvented himself to go back into the forwards. He had to change the way he played football, he had to change his body shape and he had to change everything. But that is part of David’s drive and determination to get to where he wants.”
Even after his NRL debut in 2009 it hasn’t been easy. In 2010 he missed most of the season with a severe facial fracture and he still has the steel plate in his head as a lasting memory."
