Past #25: Robbie Tarrant - traded to RFC for CCJ&picks - 2yr deal at RFC - 174 NM games/44 NM goals - retires 13/7/23 effective immediately

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Ooh tough one. Tarrant much classier.

But Mick had to slug it out in an era where just about every team had at least 1-2 very capable strong key forwards and at least 3 of them would go down as AFL legends.

Robbie is a gun but let's see how he'd go taking Ablett, Modra, Lockett, Dunstall, Rocca, Lyon et al on constant rotation.

Not saying he'd fail but it'd be a tougher ask than the army of 199cm ex-basketballers getting around these days.

And in Mick’s day FBs were generally left one out to fend for themselves.

Slightly off topic, I actually saw Micky yesterday. Walking away from the Queen St court region pushing a trolley full of case files next to a barrister!!


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And in Mick’s day FBs were generally left one out to fend for themselves.

Slightly off topic, I actually saw Micky yesterday. Walking away from the Queen St court region pushing a trolley full of case files next to a barrister!!

His wife was/is a lawyer? Assume it's related to this.

Was trippy seeing his almost grown-up daughters speaking about him in a clip last year. I always imagine these player's babies still being babies until seeing them emerge 15 odd years later.
 

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I can’t see Mick coping with today’s rules or Arch or JYD for that much

At the other end Carey would have kicked 100 goals per season from 93 to 99

I remember screaming out at the MCG one day in the late 90’s “why don’t ya turn it into basketball”

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Mick is a ripper bloke. If you ever have the chance go and say hello - he is a genuinely good shinboner.


A very soft hearted and gentle man, which surprises some.
 
A very soft hearted and gentle man, which surprises some.

Very much like his late father Snake
Pure gentlemen with very kind hearts
I remember just before Skinny died, he went to the effort of having certificates printed , proclaiming his love for North.
They were all on the top counter of the old reception
I bloody wish I could find my copy after all these years


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Very much like his late father Snake
Pure gentlemen with very kind hearts
I remember just before Skinny died, he went to the effort of having certificates printed , proclaiming his love for North.
They were all on the top counter of the old reception
I bloody wish I could find my copy after all these years


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Met skinny and mrs skinny (always forget her name) and they were genuine shinboners - hard working folk who appreciated everything they had. Would sometimes sit with mrs skinny at games and she loved her roos.
 

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Micky was a champ. He would be a little too short now, and the horizontal swipe to take out the arms would make thing a little harder. Micky was underrated as **** in the 90's also, a champion full back in an era of the greatest full forwards to play the game.

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I have also met him a few times. He took the time to say g'day to my then 5yo outside Etihad before that Tigers game where we came from the clouds in the second half (2014?). Genuine bloke.

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He’s the best all round key defender in the game.

Will be interesting to see how he goes without Scooter beside him.

It's not so much Tazz that we need to worry about, it's Daw, Durdin, McKay & Walker.

A hell of a lot of defensive smarts walked out the door with Thommo.
 
He said that? Surely not.


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Wtf? When did he say that?
Presumably Gossage only watched the two games we had in Perth where Kennedy and McCarthy dominated us.
Tim Sausage is a one-eyed Aints supporter, another reason to smack them Rd1..
Friday two weeks back.
There was a segment on SEN about footballers or sportspeople that needed to lift.
Some muppet nominated Robbie Tarrant most likely a pisstake and then Gossage not only agreed but justified it by quoting contested marking stats for 2019.
He was challenged by North listeners and then went even further and blamed Tarrant as the reason we are mid table.
 
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Criminally underrated.

He is a far superior footballer especially when compared to media love child’s like Talia, Blicavs or Hurley (disregard Rance because he is actually a good footballer).

If Robbie plays another 50-60 games to the standard he has set over the past 4 years then I’d happily argue he has had a better career than his brother.
 
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Friday two weeks back.
There was a segment on SEN about footballers or sportspeople that needed to lift.
Some muppet nominated Robbie Tarrant most likely a pisstake and then Gossage not only agreed but justified it by quoting contested marking stats for 2019.
He was challenged by North listeners and then went even further and blamed Tarrant as the reason we are mid table.

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Like most people in the media, they probably don’t watch the games. All they can do is point to irrelevant stats, rather than use the eye test like most people. I’m sure people in the media will soon make the argument that Jack Riewoldt is better than Tony Lockett because he runs more Km’s than him 🤦‍♂️
 
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