Player Watch #2: Finn O’Sullivan - Rd15 AFL Rising Star Nominee - Congrats Fossil

[FootySmartSimpson]

The three big C’s.

Composure, Class & Courage.

Sort of player that is built for finals.

Outside of his onfield efforts it’s really good to see his physique changing across the course of the year, he’d already have put on 2-3kg across the season. Noticeably more solid through the chest and arms

I love how with FOS, Wardlaw and Sheeze, we are actually decent aerially in the midfield.

 

[Caracas]

FOS fulfils a role that has been absent in the team for a generation. Solid, reliable, skilled and disciplined. He’s the type of player that you expect to see in Geelong colours. He could play in nearly any position.

 

[tazaa]

That high ball he didn't take and the fresh airy. Horrible first half.
Then those 2 goals he cost us, he made up for with a spectacular spoil and even better tackle.

Kid is going to be a champion.

 

[Kangaroos4eva]

Love this kid. Sure I bet he would like his time again with that soccer attempt. He didn’t realise how much time and space he actually had. But that spoil going back with flight omg how he did that without giving a free kick away was immense .

And Hardeman with the chase.

 

[CBSlogger]

On the missed soccer goal, Larkey would've seen FOS had more time than he probably thought, enough to pick it up.

Might be wrong but my first thought was that Larkey didn't talk him through it.

 

[chubbspeterson]

That high ball he didn't take and the fresh airy. Horrible first half.
Then those 2 goals he cost us, he made up for with a spectacular spoil and even better tackle.

Kid is going to be a champion.

Young kids are going to make those mistakes. Works hard to correct it.

 

[Caracas]

On the missed soccer goal, Larkey would've seen FOS had more time than he probably thought, enough to pick it up.

Might be wrong but my first thought was that Larkey didn't talk him through it.

I can’t see how Larkey could have influenced that. Impossible to “talk someone through” an instinctive situation like that. FOS just mistimed the oval ball.

 

[the big lebowski]

So if FOS broke arm at training tomoz and didn’t play another game this year he would not be nominated for the rising star.

What a ****ing joke!

Are these selectors serious? I’d assume it was Gerard Healy or some north hater selecting but Gerard, like every commentator that calls a north game is constantly splooging over FOS.

Any nomination from this point should not be accepted by FOS or north. Tell the selectors to shove it and nominate some hack that wouldn’t be fit to shine FOS’s boots.

End rant

 

[zoomba23]

So if FOS broke arm at training tomoz and didn’t play another game this year he would not be nominated for the rising star.

What a ****ing joke!

Are these selectors serious? I’d assume it was Gerard Healy or some north hater selecting but Gerard, like every commentator that calls a north game is constantly splooging over FOS.

Any nomination from this point should not be accepted by FOS or north. Tell the selectors to shove it and nominate some hack that wouldn’t be fit to shine FOS’s boots.

End rant

He'll get his body of work nomination. Probably. Maybe. Well, likely not. But y'know

 

[Possession]

I couldn't care less about Rising Star noms or anything. We have a winner here.

 

[LuvtheKangas]

I couldn't care less about Rising Star noms or anything. We have a winner here.

My betting account balance would much prefer that FOS gets his nomination soon and wins the award.

 

[Karanicolas]

My betting account balance would much prefer that FOS gets his nomination soon and wins the award.

Likewise; although it won’t be enough to retire from BigFooty!!

 

[Frank Thring]

This kid goes alright

 

[The Nostradamus]

Give the lad his well overdue rising star nom

 

[TennisPlayerAndy]

Composure.

 

[blisk]

Unbelievable in the first q

 

[Uncle_Leo]

Bloody hell. Whet a footballer.

Amazing still in his first year.

Could be anything in 4-5 years

 

[Joshen]

Give the lad his well overdue rising star nom

If he'd kicked the goal, it would have been a handy stat-line.

 

[Themanbun]

Has just slotted in seamlessly

 

[jay317]

Definition of a utility

 

[Zondor]

Bloody hell. Whet a footballer.

Amazing still in his first year.

Could be anything in 4-5 years

Yup. Promising signs Hot Dogs. His first quarter today was awesome. He does look a player. :stern look

 

[FlyHigh18]

This thread doesn’t have enough posts and isn’t high enough

 

[Lavy_Panther]

Me watching Finn play.

 

[Gasometer]

Once in a generation player

 

[FootySmartSimpson]

Has just slotted in seamlessly

I think with his skill set, that is his point of difference. The kind of player that can be relied upon to just get the job done nearly anywhere on the field.

Let’s just remember that he is a teenager and in his first year and let that sink in.

The stuff he is doing, all clubs would be happy from a player in his forty year.