Past #6: Taylor Garner - delisted end '21 - 49 NM games/37 NM goals - go well Garns

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Hands like a vice. Tackles like someone stole something from him. Arrogant, talented, hard-as-nails prick of a footballer. Two clutch goals on the run. Covers the ground stunningly well for a guy with an interrupted pre-season. We missed him last week.

I would donate my hamstrings to him if that were medically possible or viable.
 

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i was sitting behind the Ponsford goals where we were warming up and TG must have missed 1 in 3 practise set shots - i thought this is not going to be good - then he nails those 2 important shots on the run - just fantastic for his confidence - needs to translate that into set shots now. How was that tackle on the boundary in the last...he knows how to stick tackles that's for sure.
 

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Ex players speak of a game that Dennis Pagan used to play called who wants it ?? where Dennis would kick the ball 40m & get 2 players to go 1v1 to retrieve it by hook or by crook it didn't matter . Invariably the bloke who wanted it most would get the ball back to Dennis . Both players would be completely knackered by the end of it after around 2 or 3 mins of multiple efforts .

I feel if they played this game now I'd be backing Garner would be the man .
 
Very, very good game. He makes stuff happen. Strong as an ox overhead. He is massively important to us for the next 5-6 years.

Edit: BTW love his understated celebrations. Kind of like "Yeah, I'm the s**t. Next."
 

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Ex players speak of a game that Dennis Pagan used to play called who wants it ?? where Dennis would kick the ball 40m & get 2 players to go 1v1 to retrieve it by hook or by crook it didn't matter . Invariably the bloke who wanted it most would get the ball back to Dennis . Both players would be completely knackered by the end of it after around 2 or 3 mins of multiple efforts .

I feel if they played this game now I'd be backing Garner would be the man .


Trick borrowed from Barassi. Old school.
 

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Him and Kayne regularly turning in 20 possession games now.
Was actually KTs first 20 possession game for the season, hard to believe i know, was also the first game without kicking a goal. I much prefer the higher possession game, we need his skills around the ground, like we had with boomer. apologies for hijacking the garns thread:$
 

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I remember that drill when I used to play.

And I still recall nothing was more frustrating than getting the ball, and the coach deliberately sidestepping the pass back so we'd have to keep going.
We did it also , but lucky for us the coach only handballed 5-10m away . Didn't roost it 40m like Dennis .
 
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Underrated play was on the half-back flank in a one vs. two - wraps Hunt (I think) up in a tackle and puts him over the line. Turned an inside 50 against into a throw-in.

Good things happen when he is around the ball. It is that simple.
 

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Was actually KTs first 20 possession game for the season, hard to believe i know, was also the first game without kicking a goal. I much prefer the higher possession game, we need his skills around the ground, like we had with boomer. apologies for hijacking the garns thread:$

First of his career actually.
 

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