MVP Tommy Boyd - The Grand Final Enigma

[dergert]

Come on Tommy, be the player we know you can be!!!!

 

[compact72]

Noticed he was getting in front a lot of the time when rucking (apart from the centre bounce)

 

[Zgope1]

It's funny that this thread is currently called Tom Boyd- The Answer, because of where the turnaround began.

I've said this 1 million times on this board, but what our big cash offer represented was so much more than a desperate grab at a good young prospect. It was political. After years of being a feeder team culminating in our skipper and best player demanding a trade, we needed an answer.
Answer in some other languages is the same word as "response". In poaching TB, we gave our response to the endless poaching.

It was bold, full of risk, but it said something to the league. It said if you take our players we will answer, we will respond. As Peter Gordon said we weren't going to accept the status quo.

Thank you Tom, for helping us respond

 

[dogwatch]

It's funny that this thread is currently called Tom Boyd- The Answer, because of where the turnaround began.

I've said this 1 million times on this board, but what our big cash offer represented was so much more than a desperate grab at a good young prospect. It was political. After years of being a feeder team culminating in our skipper and best player demanding a trade, we needed an answer.
Answer in some other languages is the same word as "response". In poaching TB, we gave our response to the endless poaching.

It was bold, full of risk, but it said something to the league. It said if you take our players we will answer, we will respond. As Peter Gordon said we weren't going to accept the status quo.

Thank you Tom, for helping us respond

And it made the PF win (with a dominant Boyd) that much more delectable.

 

[Deadly Darcy]

I'm happy to have paid him $7mill to win that GF for us. Would have paid $20mill if we had been guaranteed to get that monkey off our back in hindsight. Plenty of other contributors but without several moments from Tom I don't think we would have won. Would rather plunk him up forward to learn that craft once roughy returns though. He's a bit harder for the opposition to troll now:

"THERE's your great white hope!"
......

"Who, the bloke with the bloody big premiership medallion around his neck and the amazing hair?"

 

[boydsno1]

Hahahaha. Wonder if Boydy will say anything to Hogan if they cross paths. Makes his comments look shit.

 

[Dannnnnnnnnn]

Regardless of what happened afterwards, I still think that sledge is one of the greatest I've heard. Fair play to Hogan, that's extraordinary.

 

[Del165892]

Regardless of what happened afterwards, I still think that sledge is one of the greatest I've heard. Fair play to Hogan, that's extraordinary.

I'm pretty amazed that people find this to be some brilliant sledge. It didn't exactly require a great deal of wit to come up with.

 

[Sentinel]

I'm pretty amazed that people find this to be some brilliant sledge. It didn't exactly require a great deal of wit to come up with.

I tend to agree. It's decent, but way overblown.

I much prefer Judd's response to his ex-teammates getting into him about his cooked shoulders, responding with "It’s because I’ve been carrying you guys for five years.”

 

[Dogs_R_Us]

Regardless of what happened afterwards, I still think that sledge is one of the greatest I've heard. Fair play to Hogan, that's extraordinary.

What was it?

 

[Del165892]

I tend to agree. It's decent, but way overblown.

I much prefer Judd's response to his ex-teammates getting into him about his cooked shoulders, responding with "It’s because I’ve been carrying you guys for five years.”

Now that is a fantastic sledge.

 

[Del165892]

What was it?

While Hogan was lining up for goal, Murphy (who was on the mark at the time) said "You can't miss this, you're Melbourne's great white hope."
Hogan's retort was "there's your great white hope" while pointing to Tom Boyd, who had been having a stinker and I believe had been subbed off.
I don't know if I'm biased but I just don't think it was the sledge of the century by any stretch. 6/10 for mine.

 

[hutchy31]

Cricket has a few good ones - Ormond to Waugh my favourite.

http://www.smh.com.au/sport/cricket...ting-insults-to-aspire-to-20131125-2y596.html

 

[bresker]

I'd love them to mic up Libba for a game to see what he comes with when he's shuffling around resting his head on a bloke's shoulders.

 

[compact72]

I'd love them to mic up Libba for a game to see what he comes with when he's shuffling around resting his head on a bloke's shoulders.

During the hawthorn final? Everybody around me was going "wtf is Libba doing"

 

[Pannalstaroz]

That mark

 

[The Inbetweener]

Interesting comment from him in post match interview talking about that mark.

Said one of the boys asked if he has ever been that high up.

His response was that he used to do it all the time but now he does so much running its harder.

So when his engine improves his marking might get better? Can his engine improve more? Has now done 4 pre seasons.

 

[Golden_6]

Interesting game from Tom, ended up contributing well with a couple of goals and some good ruckwork.

Watched the game when I got home and he was continually winning the ruck and hitting it down our players throats, albeit often against Sam Reid.

 

[House_of_Dahl]

Sooo not that I was looking but...

At the 30 second mark. Boyd puts the umm 'small hands' rumours to rest

http://bpmultihlsvod5257.ngcdn.tels...-03-31_09-46-14-4554/output_1100kbps_406p.mp4

 

[Fossie 32]

Sooo not that I was looking but...

At the 30 second mark. Boyd puts the umm 'small hands' rumours to rest

http://bpmultihlsvod5257.ngcdn.tels...-03-31_09-46-14-4554/output_1100kbps_406p.mp4

Thanks!! Adding it to my sig [can you do a gif? ] I was just near where he took it and it totally reeked of awesomeness. Will never forget that.

 

[House_of_Dahl]

Thanks!! Adding it to my sig [can you do a gif? ]

Soz Foz, no idea how to make them

 

[VitalDread]

Tom boyd has nice hair

 

[Easton Thighs]

Thanks!! Adding it to my sig [can you do a gif? ] I was just near where he took it and it totally reeked of awesomeness. Will never forget that.

I've cut the video to streamline it. The video converter on sites seems much more efficient in reducing file sizes compared to producing actual gifs (3mb to 24mb). I've included it in a spoiler if you want to load it.

Spoiler: 24mb gif

 

[ThirdLegUp]

Likes to slam the knee into the back of the noggin does Big Tom... I approve.

 

[Clay]

Interesting comment from him in post match interview talking about that mark.

Said one of the boys asked if he has ever been that high up.

His response was that he used to do it all the time but now he does so much running its harder.

So when his engine improves his marking might get better? Can his engine improve more? Has now done 4 pre seasons.

I noticed this as well. It is pretty hard to jump when you're doubled over. Lacking aerobic fitness might explain his lack of aggression (at times). We've seen patches of play like the mark when he's attacked the ball aggressively and looked a million bucks (yep). It seems to make sense, too - a huge boy like him wouldn't necessarily get to AFL aerobic standard within a couple of pre-seasons especially when you take into account his ballooning weight at GWS. Honestly, wtf were GWS doing with him?