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Senior 18. Sam Walsh

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thylacine60 said:
AA selectors play pretty conservative as a rule.
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True though consistency through the season would be hard to ignore - Given how quickly Walsh has settled in and improved (DE, on track to increase previous week's tally of 28 touches, starting to kick goals), I can see Walsh finishing the season averaging a tick over 30 touches, a bunch of tackles and approx 0.5-1 goal/game. That gets him quite close to the squad
 

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CONGRATULATIONS SAM WALSH!!
The Carlton midfielder is the winner of this week's "Recruit of the Round" sponsored by Victoria Police.
Marngrook are doing this everyweek. The public vote each week for the top recruit of the round.
Congratulations Sam Walsh, you deserve it.

What do you think of Sam Walsh's start at the club?
 
The Marngrook Footy Show said:
CONGRATULATIONS SAM WALSH!!
The Carlton midfielder is the winner of this week's "Recruit of the Round" sponsored by Victoria Police.
Marngrook are doing this everyweek. The public vote each week for the top recruit of the round.
Congratulations Sam Walsh, you deserve it.

What do you think of Sam Walsh's start at the club?
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From memory i don't think we've had a better player 4 games in imho..
 
windows1 said:
Ok I have to admit I’m stunned. In amongst all the doom and gloom that we lost a (most likely) backup player in Pickett and McGovern will miss a week of training.....

My view is everyone missed an amazing moment Thursday. You just don’t see 18 year olds do what Walsh did. He’s not just a good runner. He’s absolutely elite already. He’s determined as hell. His body is already strong enough. He reads the game amazingly.

Only injury stops him winning the Rising Star and being top 5 in the B+F. He is a MILE ahead of any of our previous number 1’s at the same stage.

I’m really stunned to have come on here these past couple of days and not seen people exploding with praise for him.

WAKE UP. I suggest you get back down to training in Jan and pay bloody close attention. Watch how determined he is to keep up with/beat Ed Curnow. Watch how he gets to more contests than all the seasoned players on the list. Watch his clean hands and terrific judgement.

So much love should be being sent his way yet people are sooking about injuries.

It’s a joke. I’ll say it again....

WAKE UP.
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Some things are just worth repeating.
 

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RudyBlue said:
Antony Green called it on the ABC last night
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if only we could get antony green to assess the club..........no-one takes the pulse of the place quite like him.........he'd tell us if bolts is gone or not....
 

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We might be watching something quite special develop, here's Mr. Walsh's explosion into the big leagues in a visual chart through his first 5 games.

I expect him to hold onto #1 rank for first year players after Round 5. AFL Player Rank and weekly Score against the right hand side. Five straight games 24+ disposals and increasing his effectiveness each week.


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is there actually anyone looking like they are going to take the rising star away from him? I'm aware it's only round 5 but there hasnt been any consistent first year players besides walsh, maybe rozee? absolute gun when on, but has only managed to do it for 2 games so far...
 
I don't know how anyone could have doubted how well Walsh would adapt to AFL level. Watching his TAC Cup & National Champs games demonstrated that he was a player who would easily lift his game to the next level. His work rate & mindset was superior to anyone else running around at Under 18 level.

He just has a natural drive to be the best. I so look forward to what he will be achieving in 2-3 years' time.
 
mediumsizered said:
I don't know how anyone could have doubted how well Walsh would adapt to AFL level. Watching his TAC Cup & National Champs games demonstrated that he was a player who would easily lift his game to the next level. His work rate & mindset was superior to anyone else running around at Under 18 level.

He just has a natural drive to be the best. I so look forward to what he will be achieving in 2-3 years' time.
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I don't think anyone doubted the talent so much, but just didn't take other non-statistical attributes into calculation.
As I put forward after a couple of training sessions, the love respect for Walsh was palpable. I'd never seen anything like that before.

This 18 year old is already a 'standard driver' and unless he finds meth to be a good idea, it's likely to continue for some time to come.
 

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