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Is Tommy due to play his first game for the Saints?

Yes
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No
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Don't ask me, I'm cheese eating surrender monkey!
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Lend me 10 pounds, I'll buy you a drink and Mother wake me early in the morning
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The Official Tommy Walsh Thread

Post: # 1069347Post Sainternist »

Post everything Tommy Walsh related ITT.

Mods will hopefully make this a sticky until not too long. Afterall, he is possibly the biggest name at the club who has yet to have played a game of AFL football.

How far away is he now? I'm losing patience. We need more height in the forward line, don't we? Or is he a defender? RL used him in the backline in the NAB Cup.

Is he actually a keeper? Is he merely today's version of Dermot McNicholl?
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Post: # 1069349Post SaintWal »

Should see an elevation our St Tommy

Now zac has been stupid, this boy needs to play.


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Post: # 1069350Post saintjake »

I beleive in the Tommy


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Post: # 1069366Post Sainternist »

*snare drum* ratta-tat-tat-ratta-tat-tat...

Tommy gun - he ain't happy less he got one
Tommy gun - he ain't gonna shoot the place up just for fun
Maybe he wants to die - for the money
Maybe he wants to kill - for his country
Whatever he wants, he's gonna get it!


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Let's not get carried away with him just because he's Irish. Play him if he's earned a shot.


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Post: # 1069373Post Sainternist »

dcstkfc wrote:Let's not get carried away with him just because he's Irish. Play him if he's earned a shot.
sean dempster is irish. has he looked like earning his sport in recent time?


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Reckon Willy J should stay in the side, Darch to Sandy FF, Walsh to Sandy CHF and Jacko Ferg to sandy CHB.

He's a forward. A prodigy who would change the Irish game from the runners to the massive men. He risked his steady career and recognition for relative obscurity down under. Let him have it.


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Post: # 1069379Post stevie »

Unleash him

Would love to see him run through Waite, betts and, oh why not...judd


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Pogues option for me ..


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BelfastSaint wrote:Pogues option for me ..
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Post: # 1069397Post Bernard Shakey »

goddardisgod wrote:Reckon Willy J should stay in the side, Darch to Sandy FF, Walsh to Sandy CHF and Jacko Ferg to sandy CHB.

He's a forward. A prodigy who would change the Irish game from the runners to the massive men. He risked his steady career and recognition for relative obscurity down under. Let him have it.
What steady career? They're not paid in Gaelic Football.


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Post: # 1069403Post Sainternist »

Bernard Shakey wrote:
goddardisgod wrote:Reckon Willy J should stay in the side, Darch to Sandy FF, Walsh to Sandy CHF and Jacko Ferg to sandy CHB.

He's a forward. A prodigy who would change the Irish game from the runners to the massive men. He risked his steady career and recognition for relative obscurity down under. Let him have it.
What steady career? They're not paid in Gaelic Football.
really? :shock:


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Bernard Shakey wrote:
goddardisgod wrote:Reckon Willy J should stay in the side, Darch to Sandy FF, Walsh to Sandy CHF and Jacko Ferg to sandy CHB.

He's a forward. A prodigy who would change the Irish game from the runners to the massive men. He risked his steady career and recognition for relative obscurity down under. Let him have it.
What steady career? They're not paid in Gaelic Football.
Rugby Union wasn't professional, until till about 20 years ago.

A boy like him, probably works for some sponsor, or boardperson who ensure he's always available for training, or he's employed by a bank or business who use his persona to gain clients.

It's been like that for decades in "ammature" sport.


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Post: # 1069408Post Enrico_Misso »

Unleash The Tomminator

Saw him against Port.
He looked OK.
Wasn't setting the world on fire.
Would like to see him playing better for Sandy before elevation.
But I think he can make it.


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Post: # 1069411Post Team Tommy »

Now you are talking my kind of footballer. He looked at home in the pre-season games.

Who's to say he won't star in a better competition with classier footballers all around him.

At least he won't look scared, like some I won't mention.


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Post: # 1069422Post desertsaint »

can someone clarify whether or not we can promote him?
otherwise what's the point of farting in the wind.


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Post: # 1069429Post bergholt »

desertsaint wrote:can someone clarify whether or not we can promote him?
otherwise what's the point of farting in the wind.
yup. gardiner went on the long term injured list and archer took his spot. gardy's probably still on the list (nowhere near back) and lenny could go on as well if we wanted, to make another spot for a rookie.


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Sainternist wrote:
dcstkfc wrote:Let's not get carried away with him just because he's Irish. Play him if he's earned a shot.
sean dempster is irish. has he looked like earning his sport in recent time?
I didn't know Dempster was Irish: I thought he was from a far more remote, backward and priest-ridden place...East Gippsland!

In terms of Walsh: he looked all right as a central defender in the NAB Cup, but nothing special. I don't get the sense that AFL is moving in a direction in which players of his size are going to be all that much use: eg, think of the Blues this weekend and the triple threat of Betts, Garlett and Yarran.

I never understood the strategy re Walsh. He was trumpeted by Drain and Nixon (two gentlemen for whom, as you all know, I have always had the utmost respect :wink: ) as being a future superstar: "as good as a first round draft pick". I can't help feeling we'd have done better concentrating using our actual first round pick to recruit a good young player, rather than the train wreck that was Lovett.

Meanwhile Walsh looks like developing into a central defender and nothing more than that, when we already have a pretty good one in Zac.

I hope I'm wrong...


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Post: # 1069451Post karnak »

He learning the game in defence. Will end up playing forward.


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Post: # 1069475Post dcstkfc »

meher baba wrote:
Sainternist wrote:
dcstkfc wrote:Let's not get carried away with him just because he's Irish. Play him if he's earned a shot.
sean dempster is irish. has he looked like earning his sport in recent time?
I didn't know Dempster was Irish: I thought he was from a far more remote, backward and priest-ridden place...East Gippsland!

In terms of Walsh: he looked all right as a central defender in the NAB Cup, but nothing special. I don't get the sense that AFL is moving in a direction in which players of his size are going to be all that much use: eg, think of the Blues this weekend and the triple threat of Betts, Garlett and Yarran.

I never understood the strategy re Walsh. He was trumpeted by Drain and Nixon (two gentlemen for whom, as you all know, I have always had the utmost respect :wink: ) as being a future superstar: "as good as a first round draft pick". I can't help feeling we'd have done better concentrating using our actual first round pick to recruit a good young player, rather than the train wreck that was Lovett.

Meanwhile Walsh looks like developing into a central defender and nothing more than that, when we already have a pretty good one in Zac.

I hope I'm wrong...
We'll end up having a very good bunch of umm... spoiling defenders (Dawson, Walsh and Simpkin) :?


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Post: # 1069476Post Dr Spaceman »

IF Tommy is to be of any benefit to us it will be as an exciting, unconventional, unusual, creative Irish bull.

If he is to be a spoiling defense robot he may as well go back to Ireland, as those types of players can be readily found in our own backyard.

While an apprenticeship up back makes good sense in terms of his Aussie Rules education, now is probably the time to let him loose up forward and see just what he might be capable of.


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Post: # 1069491Post matrix »

we should drop roo and bring tommy in

then roo can get shitty and we can trade him at the end of the season and get a real wicked pick for him

m'kay?


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Post: # 1069508Post villasaint »

in for sure. he will make a league footballer and must get a game!!!!!!!


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Post: # 1069553Post plugger66 »

If he wasnt from Ireland this thread wouldnt exist. He hasnt done anywhere near enough to get a game. If he does get a game very soon then we have given up on the year.


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