Spike
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christopherjon said:Its worth having him in the team just to hold the ball on the kicking tee in high winds.
At least if the kicker misses the ball and kicks him in the face, it won't make any difference...
christopherjon said:Its worth having him in the team just to hold the ball on the kicking tee in high winds.
That could be a disaster - Pato could hurt his foot.Spike said:At least if the kicker misses the ball and kicks him in the face, it won't make any difference...
roopy said:Young - what a rollercoaster his career has been.... He started 2006 pre-season as a sickly looking kid with no condition on him at all. If he was a racehorse he would have been sent to the knackery..... To me he looks to be getting bigger and stronger by the game. He will tackle anything that moves and take on any role his coach gives him with gusto.
i swear he has not broken out of a tackle since 2004 - and i have been watching and waiting for it to happen.
KniGhTs BaTTLeR said:Tolar is a champion there is no way he is the Young class or predicanment. Tolar is our only prop that actually has a dig week in week out even against Broncos he was everywhere even put a few good shots on. I doubt Toles will be scrounging for one year contracts, isn't he signed to 09 now anyway?
Oswin said:It's been somewhat of a metamorphisis for Young as a result of his sickness. The competitive nature of contracts had me convinced he would struggle to get back to PL, let alone first grade. Since that sickness he has been in somewhat of a Dan Tolar predicament -- always scraping through for another one year deal it seems, proving just before contract time that he is good enough.
God's game with the Hamilton Hawkes
Doctor said:The references to Reegan Tanner are predictable. Throw Troy Fletcher, Scott Conley, Sean Rudder, Todd Lowrie and Jarrod O'Doherty into the ring too. They're all seemingly talentless players who fell into first grade by default. The difference is: Young hasn't made nearly as many defensive or attacking mistakes as these players. The only criticism you could level at Young is that he's boring. But he's no less effective. The reference to Fletcher is important here: Fletcher did one thing of use in his career, one thing only: the 40 metre break in the 1997 Grand Final that got us within 30 metres of the tryline that Darren Albert would cross minutes later. Regardless of where Michael Young's career takes him, and whether he lives up to the reviews he had four years ago, I know that should circumstances require it, Young will be that sort of player we'll want if we need someone to get stuck in and do some dirty work. He's keen, cool and seems to tackle forwards for breakfast. I've got a lot of time for the bloke.