Player Watch #19 Tom Lynch - It’s Official - OP Updated with Lynchmond goodness!
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| Player | Old Team | New Team | Premierships (new club) | * |
| Alistair Lynch | Fitzroy | Brisbane | 3 | Defender/Forward |
| Brad Ottens | Richmond | Geelong | 3 | Ruck/Forward |
| Tom Lynch | Gold Coast | Richmond | 1 | Power Forward |
| Tom Boyd | GWS | Western Bulldogs | 1 | Ruck/Forward |
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Jerka Jenkins has a point of diff....Bummers to Crows to Cats...still donuts. But I suppose you're gonna reject him as a forward right ? he's just a joe the goose serial cheater.
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racist.Subtitles plz!
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Yeah but even he is embarrassed by playing for Carlton so he doesn’t count them as AFL level games.
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Ottens to be bell ringer
Triple premiership star Brad Ottens will ring the timekeeper's bell on Friday night
Triple premiership superstar Brad Ottens will be given the honour of ringing the iconic timekeeper’s bell on Friday night at the MCG.
In a public poll, Cats fans overwhelmingly voted for the bell, which has been a part of the Simonds Stadium match day for the past three years, to be taken to the MCG for Friday night’s game.
And with the epic battle between the Cats and Tigers, there was no more fitting past player than the former Cat and Tiger to ring the bell.
Fans are encouraged to arrive early for the game. Ottens will be interviewed on ground at 7.20pm before ringing the bell at 7.40pm when the Cats run out.
Ottens to be bell ringer
Triple premiership star Brad Ottens will ring the timekeeper's bell on Friday night
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classiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiqueOttens to be bell ringer
Triple premiership star Brad Ottens will ring the timekeeper's bell on Friday night
Triple premiership superstar Brad Ottens will be given the honour of ringing the iconic timekeeper’s bell on Friday night at the MCG.
In a public poll, Cats fans overwhelmingly voted for the bell, which has been a part of the Simonds Stadium match day for the past three years, to be taken to the MCG for Friday night’s game.
And with the epic battle between the Cats and Tigers, there was no more fitting past player than the former Cat and Tiger to ring the bell.
Fans are encouraged to arrive early for the game. Ottens will be interviewed on ground at 7.20pm before ringing the bell at 7.40pm when the Cats run out.
Ottens to be bell ringer
Triple premiership star Brad Ottens will ring the timekeeper's bell on Friday nightwww.geelongcats.com.au
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oh lawd...my love juice is flowing now!!!
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I know the first goal of the season is a pretty insignificant thing, but when Lynch kicked the first one against Carlton I had a good feeling it was going to be a good year.
Still struggling to wrap my head around the emerging talent and the fact a few of them will have a proper preseason for next year.
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Success over money
Dan Butler swoops on a loose ball at the Punt Rd end, sidesteps Tom Scully and kicks Richmond into its first Grand Final for 35 years.
Player agent Robbie D’Orazio doesn’t barrack for the Tigers, but he reaches for his phone and dials his client, Gold Coast Suns skipper Tom Lynch, and relays the scenes of yellow and black delirium spilling out over the Melbourne Cricket Ground stands.
“It was the craziest thing I’ve ever been to,” D’Orazio recalls of the 2017 twilight preliminary final between Richmond and Greater Western Sydney. “For crowd noise it was nearly the best game I’ve ever seen and I remember ringing Tom and saying, ‘You deserve to be here’. “When Richmond ran out that day you almost felt sorry for the Giants boys.
“That was when he was first thinking of what he was going to do as a free agent. But at that stage it was probably more me than anything getting caught up in the moment.” Lynch played the next season at Gold Coast, his eighth at the struggling expansion club, but knew he had options as footy’s most sought after free agent.
Surgery to his posterior cruciate ligament in June 2018 ended his season and accelerated the race for his signature.
Lynch, from Sorrento on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula, made the decision to come home two months later. “He gave everything he had to the Gold Coast and I don’t think anyone could begrudge him for leaving, but the club wanted an answer and he gave it to them,” D’Orazio said.
On Thursday, August 2, 2018, Lynch walked into Suns chief executive Mark Evans’ office and told him he was leaving. The club immediately stripped him of the captaincy and banned him from doing rehab in the football department before he was attacked for his lack of loyalty at a players-only meeting led by several younger teammates.
“That was interesting,” D’Orazio said. “Tom is the best bloke you will ever meet. He’s a ripper. I know people say that, but he is legitimate. You ask him to jump and he’ll say, ‘How high?’
“He’s just a gentleman. He’d given the Gold Coast his all and wanted them to succeed, but it was time to come home.” Through a process of elimination, Lynch, D’Orazio and senior player manager Paul Connors narrowed it down to three clubs: Hawthorn, Collingwood and Richmond. “Once he got his mind around coming home it was probably only ever those three,” D’Orazio told the Herald Sun this week.
When the story broke that Lynch wanted out, former Richmond assistant coach Mark Williams declared on Adelaide radio that the star forward had eyes only for the Tigers. “It’s been a 2-3-year process to get Tom Lynch to Richmond. I’m telling you it will happen,” Williams said. But D’Orazio insisted no decision had been made.
Master coach Alastair Clarkson put in a bold pitch best remembered for an episode of levity in which Lynch lost track of his use of nicknames. Clarkson began referring to Connors as “Jake”, the club’s fitness guru Andrew Russell as “Jack” and Hawthorn midfielder and former Sun Jaeger O’Meara as “JOM”. “Paul is called Jake from his school days (named after the wrestler Jake ‘the Snake’ Roberts), so Clarko is going ‘Jake’, ‘JOM’ and ‘Jack’ and after the meeting Tommy walked out and he’s like ‘who the hell is Jake and JOM and Jack?” “It was pretty funny.”
Hawthorn came agonisingly close, but the pending retirement of Jarryd Roughead made a partnership with Richmond spearhead Jack Riewoldt more appealing to Lynch.
Collingwood pushed hard all the way. Coach Nathan Buckley complicated the Pies’ bid in July by admitting on Channel 9 that he had personally met Lynch before the Suns knew of his decision to depart. “It wasn’t anything major — it was just a bit annoying,” D’Orazio said.
The Magpies fluffed their lines again when journalists were tipped off about a secret meeting between Lynch and Pies’ recruiting boss Ned Guy at the Lynch family home in Blairgowrie. Guy narrowly avoided a waiting TV crew by running through bushland at the rear of the house.
“I remember looking out the window and saw a camera — I still don’t know how they knew we were there,” D’Orazio said. Others suspect the source of the leak was a senior football official with strong media connections.
D’Orazio said Richmond was “the right fit” for Lynch. Over coffee in a Toorak Village deli in early October 2018, a Richmond contingency of Neil Balme, Brendon Gale and Blair Hartley got the answer they wanted. Lynch called coach Damien Hardwick an hour later and the deal was done.
Friendships with former Suns teammates turned Tigers Dion Prestia and Josh Caddy didn’t hurt. Nor did Collingwood’s upset win over the Tigers in the 2018 preliminary final.
Lynch felt joining a team on the road to redemption would be easier than one in pursuit of a three-peat. He knocked back far bigger financial offers at other clubs and remains outside Richmond’s top-three earners. “It wasn’t about the money for him at all. He just wanted to win and have some success,” D’Orazio said.
Twelve months later, Lynch played in his first finals series and won a flag in his own MCG romp over the Giants. “I remember trying to squeeze into the rooms. It was hard to get in,” D’Orazio said. “His mum and dad were there, his girlfriend Olivia, who is a star, and I had my wife Sarah there as well. You couldn’t wipe the smile off my face.
“It was pretty cool. It’s not often that it’s a fairytale end to a trade and you win it in your first year. “He made the right call.”
Dan Butler swoops on a loose ball at the Punt Rd end, sidesteps Tom Scully and kicks Richmond into its first Grand Final for 35 years.
Player agent Robbie D’Orazio doesn’t barrack for the Tigers, but he reaches for his phone and dials his client, Gold Coast Suns skipper Tom Lynch, and relays the scenes of yellow and black delirium spilling out over the Melbourne Cricket Ground stands.
“It was the craziest thing I’ve ever been to,” D’Orazio recalls of the 2017 twilight preliminary final between Richmond and Greater Western Sydney. “For crowd noise it was nearly the best game I’ve ever seen and I remember ringing Tom and saying, ‘You deserve to be here’. “When Richmond ran out that day you almost felt sorry for the Giants boys.
“That was when he was first thinking of what he was going to do as a free agent. But at that stage it was probably more me than anything getting caught up in the moment.” Lynch played the next season at Gold Coast, his eighth at the struggling expansion club, but knew he had options as footy’s most sought after free agent.
Surgery to his posterior cruciate ligament in June 2018 ended his season and accelerated the race for his signature.
Lynch, from Sorrento on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula, made the decision to come home two months later. “He gave everything he had to the Gold Coast and I don’t think anyone could begrudge him for leaving, but the club wanted an answer and he gave it to them,” D’Orazio said.
On Thursday, August 2, 2018, Lynch walked into Suns chief executive Mark Evans’ office and told him he was leaving. The club immediately stripped him of the captaincy and banned him from doing rehab in the football department before he was attacked for his lack of loyalty at a players-only meeting led by several younger teammates.
“That was interesting,” D’Orazio said. “Tom is the best bloke you will ever meet. He’s a ripper. I know people say that, but he is legitimate. You ask him to jump and he’ll say, ‘How high?’
“He’s just a gentleman. He’d given the Gold Coast his all and wanted them to succeed, but it was time to come home.” Through a process of elimination, Lynch, D’Orazio and senior player manager Paul Connors narrowed it down to three clubs: Hawthorn, Collingwood and Richmond. “Once he got his mind around coming home it was probably only ever those three,” D’Orazio told the Herald Sun this week.
When the story broke that Lynch wanted out, former Richmond assistant coach Mark Williams declared on Adelaide radio that the star forward had eyes only for the Tigers. “It’s been a 2-3-year process to get Tom Lynch to Richmond. I’m telling you it will happen,” Williams said. But D’Orazio insisted no decision had been made.
Master coach Alastair Clarkson put in a bold pitch best remembered for an episode of levity in which Lynch lost track of his use of nicknames. Clarkson began referring to Connors as “Jake”, the club’s fitness guru Andrew Russell as “Jack” and Hawthorn midfielder and former Sun Jaeger O’Meara as “JOM”. “Paul is called Jake from his school days (named after the wrestler Jake ‘the Snake’ Roberts), so Clarko is going ‘Jake’, ‘JOM’ and ‘Jack’ and after the meeting Tommy walked out and he’s like ‘who the hell is Jake and JOM and Jack?” “It was pretty funny.”
Hawthorn came agonisingly close, but the pending retirement of Jarryd Roughead made a partnership with Richmond spearhead Jack Riewoldt more appealing to Lynch.
Collingwood pushed hard all the way. Coach Nathan Buckley complicated the Pies’ bid in July by admitting on Channel 9 that he had personally met Lynch before the Suns knew of his decision to depart. “It wasn’t anything major — it was just a bit annoying,” D’Orazio said.
The Magpies fluffed their lines again when journalists were tipped off about a secret meeting between Lynch and Pies’ recruiting boss Ned Guy at the Lynch family home in Blairgowrie. Guy narrowly avoided a waiting TV crew by running through bushland at the rear of the house.
“I remember looking out the window and saw a camera — I still don’t know how they knew we were there,” D’Orazio said. Others suspect the source of the leak was a senior football official with strong media connections.
D’Orazio said Richmond was “the right fit” for Lynch. Over coffee in a Toorak Village deli in early October 2018, a Richmond contingency of Neil Balme, Brendon Gale and Blair Hartley got the answer they wanted. Lynch called coach Damien Hardwick an hour later and the deal was done.
Friendships with former Suns teammates turned Tigers Dion Prestia and Josh Caddy didn’t hurt. Nor did Collingwood’s upset win over the Tigers in the 2018 preliminary final.
Lynch felt joining a team on the road to redemption would be easier than one in pursuit of a three-peat. He knocked back far bigger financial offers at other clubs and remains outside Richmond’s top-three earners. “It wasn’t about the money for him at all. He just wanted to win and have some success,” D’Orazio said.
Twelve months later, Lynch played in his first finals series and won a flag in his own MCG romp over the Giants. “I remember trying to squeeze into the rooms. It was hard to get in,” D’Orazio said. “His mum and dad were there, his girlfriend Olivia, who is a star, and I had my wife Sarah there as well. You couldn’t wipe the smile off my face.
“It was pretty cool. It’s not often that it’s a fairytale end to a trade and you win it in your first year. “He made the right call.”
Based on his importance when Jack went down and his instrumental role in the PF, we dont win the flag in 2019 without him. Has paid off already.
We don't make top 4 either. It's funny how hawks fans in particular thought he was a gun when they were sure they were getting him, clearly they were listening to T.Browne every 2nd week when he flip/flopped between pies & Hawks as faves every week. Now he's a spud but they are rather silent on Patton. i compared the stats of Lynch v Patton this season & Lynch has him covered in every department.
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Bumping this.
This is where Melman was at after Round 4 last year.
This is where Melman's at now.
First, the obligatory stuff.
VFL/AFL: 11953rd player to appear, 987th most games played, 151st most goals kicked
Gold Coast: 34th player to appear, 4th most games played, 1st most goals kicked
Richmond: 1159th player to appear, 387th most games played, 98th most goals kicked
Next, who his goalkicking targets are.
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1082 26 Nahas, Robin 1987-11-10 176cm 72kg 83 (29-3-51) 100 2009-2013 21y 145d 25y 273d
414 5 Morris, Bill 1921-04-24 188cm 86kg 140 (85-2-53) 98 1942, 1944-1951 21y 64d 30y 130d
1076 20 Morton, Mitch 1987-01-28 184cm 83kg 59 (18-3-38) 94 2008-2011 21y 69d 24y 219d
426 15 Mooney, Arthur 1924-12-14 180cm 79kg 66 (36-1-29) 94 1943-1948 18y 180d 23y 132d
686 7 Moore, Eric 1948-04-29 183cm 87kg 80 (55-1-24) 94 1966-1972 18y 29d 23y 362d
793 1 Lee, Mark 1959-03-29 199cm 96kg 233 (103-1-129) 94 1977-1991 18y 123d 32y 3d
743 6 Sproule, Paul 1944-12-16 179cm 76kg 86 (61-1-24) 93 1972-1975 27y 128d 30y 278d
1141 11 Castagna, Jason 1996-07-12 181cm 82kg 85 (59-1-25) 92 2016-2020 19y 293d 24y 17d
634 24 Barrot, Bill 1944-05-06 180cm 82kg 120 (62-0-58) 91 1961-1970 17y 105d 26y 94d
692 10 Sheedy, Kevin 1947-12-24 180cm 81kg 251 (166-2-83) 91 1967-1979 19y 126d 31y 132d
967 17 Broderick, Paul 1970-01-03 178cm 85kg 169 (92-1-76) 90 1994-2001 24y 82d 31y 262d
36 1 Herbert, Barney 1889-02-20 188cm 96kg 192 (87-2-103) 90 1909-1912, 1914-1921 20y 70d 32y 237d
91 18 Keggin, Ted 1891-07-28 188cm 83kg 59 (17-1-41) 87 1912-1914, 1917 20y 274d 25y 337d
1104 6 Grigg, Shaun 1988-04-19 190cm 85kg 171 (97-2-72) 86 2011-2018 22y 339d 30y 155d
745 16 Wood, Bryan 1954-04-03 185cm 85kg 209 (137-2-70) 85 1972-1982 18y 40d 28y 175d
771 17 Edwards, Allan 1957-11-12 188cm 90kg 66 (34-2-30) 84 1975-1979 17y 200d 21y 174d
1148 22 Caddy, Josh 1992-09-28 186cm 87kg 68 (51-0-17) 84 2017-2020 24y 176d 27y 294d
551 14 McDonald, Ron 1933-08-12 189cm 83kg 92 (33-2-57) 84 1955-1960 21y 254d 27y 1d
573 5 Crowe, Neville 1937-06-01 193cm 96kg 150 (63-2-85) 84 1957-1967 19y 325d 30y 100d
1029 10 Stafford, Greg 1974-08-27 204cm 106kg 74 (29-0-45) 83 2002-2006 27y 213d 32y 6d
689 37 Green, Mike 1948-05-14 193cm 95kg 146 (101-0-45) 83 1966-1971, 1973-1975 18y 98d 27y 129d
769 2 Roberts, Neville 1955-03-06 180cm 79kg 48 (26-1-21) 81 1975-1977 20y 30d 22y 188d
832 17 Rioli, Maurice 1957-09-01 175cm 76kg 118 (48-0-70) 80 1982-1987 24y 200d 29y 361d
685 8 Clay, Dick 1945-03-06 185cm 89kg 213 (152-2-59) 80 1966-1976 21y 55d 31y 70d
1070 28 King, Jake 1984-03-26 178cm 82kg 107 (43-4-60) 79 2007-2014 23y 25d 30y 10d
867 40 James, Stephen 1965-03-31 188cm 88kg 77 (28-0-49) 78 1985-1990 20y 6d 25y 134d
220 33 Lynch, Dave 1902-03-13 179cm 78kg 20 (11-0-9) 77 1922-1923, 1926-1927, 1929 20y 110d 27y 80d
1159 19 Lynch, Tom 1992-10-31 199cm 99kg 34 (24-1-9) 76 2019-2020 26y 141d 27y 272d2 more goals to overtake Dave Lynch.
