Unrestricted Free Agent Tarryn Thomas - Cleared to return by the AFL

[CatToTheFuture]

We can hold two thoughts at once: what Thomas did was serious and unacceptable; and a club with proven appetite for oversight might be the safest place for the long, unglamorous work of reform.

And that club is Geelong.

Only their environment - stable, insular, relentlessly adult - is built to absorb the performative noise this recruit will no doubt attract.

If the AFL is serious about supervised redemption rather than theatre, it should do more than merely “allow” Geelong; it should prefer them. The Cats have a documented knack for turning the discarded into the functional - even the exceptional (see: Stengle, delisted to All-Australian) - because they pair duty of care with duty of consequence.

This is not absolution. It is probation with a football attached. Let Geelong set the terms: education, reporting, zero-tolerance tripwires. Which is why the mooted AFL-funded additional rookie spot could prove to be the perfect containment vessel - a sealed crucible where Thomas' progress is measured, not presumed, and where the steady hand of Andrew Mackie rests on the kill-switch.

This was sensational.

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[CatToTheFuture]

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One of is four posts is aggressively talking up TT going to Geelong.

Obviously an alt and not a real Geelong supporter.....

And a very entertaining one i might add.

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Brilliant haha. Couldn't help but read that in Gerard's nerdling voice.

I read most of it in Bane's voice. Magnificent.

This is not Gotham's absolution!

 

[Wild Bill]

I stated what he was charged with.

You do know he pleaded guilty? It’s not that we think he might be guilty - he admitted he was guilty.

 

[sydney_gws]

I thought he was arrested recently on drugs charges? Or was he just a witness.

 

[CatToTheFuture]

I thought he was arrested recently on drugs charges? Or was he just a witness.

I think it's academic. No club is signing him

 

[Elixuh]

I’m a believer in second chances but he’s on about chance 17 now.

I wonder how people would feel if he said he would donate 25% of his salary for the rest of his AFL career to a local DV charity and volunteer etc. That would show a sufficient degree of remorse and contribution towards addressing the harm he’s caused imo. But if hes the same guy as before, you’d hope no club takes him on.

 

[bzparkes]

We can hold two thoughts at once: what Thomas did was serious and unacceptable; and a club with proven appetite for oversight might be the safest place for the long, unglamorous work of reform.

And that club is Geelong.

Only their environment - stable, insular, relentlessly adult - is built to absorb the performative noise this recruit will no doubt attract.

If the AFL is serious about supervised redemption rather than theatre, it should do more than merely “allow” Geelong; it should prefer them. The Cats have a documented knack for turning the discarded into the functional - even the exceptional (see: Stengle, delisted to All-Australian) - because they pair duty of care with duty of consequence.

This is not absolution. It is probation with a football attached. Let Geelong set the terms: education, reporting, zero-tolerance tripwires. Which is why the mooted AFL-funded additional rookie spot could prove to be the perfect containment vessel - a sealed crucible where Thomas' progress is measured, not presumed, and where the steady hand of Andrew Mackie rests on the kill-switch.

Great idea.

He can have Chris Scott and Bailey Smith as mentors to teach him how to treat women.

 

[Ash1337]

Heard that he visited the hanger today...

 

[Upgrayedd]

It’s really none of their business. He has not been convicted for a start, even if you decide that he is guilty it’s a pretty easy one don’t be in an intimate relationship with him.

Don't have to, He said so himself in court.

 

[Upgrayedd]

I thought he was arrested recently on drugs charges? Or was he just a witness.

Im starting to think there was something more to the story of him selling his car at 9pm behind a pub to 2 men who then kidnapped him and forced him to sign the papers and rob him over several hours.

 

[McKuursma]

Heard that he visited the hanger today...

He's been there before prior to his exile. Bard knows him, Saints still have an open tab, Cats and Pies hungry to take his talent so long as they can balance the risk. Richmond in with a sniff via Mansell if they want the risk

 

[Happy_Neale]

 

[Horaceg]

Does any club not have an AFLW team?

I don’t think he qualifies

 

[MisterMarcus]

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Needs a screenshot of a text message beginning "Hey mate, keep this to yourself but..." to be believable.

 

[Sqotty from office works]

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No way cripper is a 14 handicap.
Can't kick under pressure
Can't chip kick
Can't goal kick.
What hope can he hit straight, chip and putt to be off 14 handicap?

 

[boncer34]

Heard that he visited the hanger today...

No you didn't.

 

[Chip Scab1]

No way cripper is a 14 handicap.
Can't kick under pressure
Can't chip kick
Can't goal kick.
What hope can he hit straight, chip and putt to be off 14 handicap?

None. Has the leverage but not the talent. I reckon he could bomb a 4iron 215 (off a tee) but would struggle around the greens.

 

[SSSSSS]

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Handicap of 19.5

Pass.

 

[MarcMaverick]

Handicap of 19.5

Pass.

You'd think with that time off, that it would be at a handicap of 5, or at worse, a 9.

 

[SSSSSS]

You'd think with that time off, that it would be at a handicap of 5, or at worse, a 9.

Yeh it's a bit disappointing to be honest.

I mean Mitch Lewis has spent half his career on the recovery bed and he's playing off scratch now.

Now that's a bonafide superstar.

 

[MarcMaverick]

Yeh it's a bit disappointing to be honest.

I mean Mitch Lewis has spent half his career on the recovery bed and he's playing off scratch now.

Now that's a bonafide superstar.

PGA or LIV?

 

[SSSSSS]

PGA or LIV?

Hopefully AFL.

 

[MarcMaverick]

Hopefully AFL.

No I mean post-AFL. Then again, he could be doing it at St. Andrews as we speek.

 

[Mindfury]

I can't wait for someone cool like Ben Long

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Ben Long

Age

28

Ht

186cm

Wt

81kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

10.9

3star

K

6.2

2star

HB

4.7

3star

M

3.3

3star

T

2.7

4star

G

0.7

4star

D

12.8

3star

K

6.7

3star

HB

6.2

4star

M

3.3

3star

T

2.3

3star

G

0.0

1star

D

13.4

4star

K

6.8

3star

HB

6.6

4star

M

3.2

4star

T

3.2

5star

G

0.6

3star

to kick him in the ****in head lmao