Player Watch #38 Tom Sims

[Truetiger]

Awesome video lol

 

[Nostradumbass]

Awesome video lol

Damn, big unit.

 

[lizard man]

Do you think sims took such a long time to open the door because he was banging a chick at the time?

 

[tigs2010]

Do you think sims took such a long time to open the door because he was banging a chick at the time?

Only explanation.

THE_GUN will try tell us he was sinking piss though

 

[Muddiemoose]

Awesome video lol

Has a rough head
Looks like a melton type

 

[DontArgue4]

Only explanation.

THE_GUN will try tell us he was sinking piss though

can confirm was in his bed with a slab of vbs

 

[Bojangles17]

Flies in the face of the whole selection integrity notion from Yze TBH. Don't reckon he'd be coming in if we were playing against any other team in the league (bar Norf).

I suspect the inclusion is to share some ruckwork which is a fair ask for a debutant but we re playing a rookie side too

 

[Bird Man]

Interesting he hasn't really dominated the VFL and gets ahead of Ryan. Am i missing somthng in his games during the VFL that is better than Ryan?

 

[fargothegreat]

Interesting he hasn't really dominated the VFL and gets ahead of Ryan. Am i missing somthng in his games during the VFL that is better than Ryan?

Ryan is injured.

 

[tiger_tough]

I suspect the inclusion is to share some ruckwork which is a fair ask for a debutant but we re playing a rookie side too

Gray and even Blight played much better and can chop out in the ruck.

 

[sanaya]

Do you think sims took such a long time to open the door because he was banging a chick at the time?

hiding the bong in case they wanted to come inside


that or it was his 11am goon sesh

 

[JAKLAUGHING]

But Freo are shit?

 

[Le RickyBobby]

Happy for the kid, but this is a weird debut.

 

[voorhees]

cool video.
love the way Yze gets involved with the 'your playing' debut videos.

 

[Bojangles17]

cool video.
love the way Yze gets involved with the 'your playing' debut videos.

Moulding his own team , hope we get a few more wins

 

[DontArgue4]

Sims-sational

 

[HumanMeatball]

me and him were doing vb bongs. Lucky yze didn’t come inside

 

[TheOptimum18]

How are freo tracking ? The 2 rucks obviously don’t work from them

Their issue is playing both Darcy and Jackson as if both are the number 1 ruck.

Just looking at last weeks numbers (both Jackson and Darcy played the full game), Darcy took 58% of all ruck contests, Jackson took 31% of all ruck contests and Draper took the remaining 11% (only in the last quarter, where Freo were doing some weird stuff where Jackson became a midfielder at ruck contests instead of the being the ruck). Compare this to every other "first" ruck that played in the same week:

80%+: Xerri, Marshall, English, ROB, Gawn, Flynn, Nank, McInerney, Witts
70%-79%: Goldstein, Sweet, TDK, Cameron, Grundy, Briggs, Meek
Less than 70%: Blicavs took 50% of the ruck contests for Geelong, but Stanley was subbed out in the second quarter which distorts things.

So all things being equal, Fremantle the only team that gives their "first" ruck less than 70% of all ruck contests, and by a long margin.

Even looking at last night, the quarter by quarter break down of ruck contests for Darcy and Jackson looks like the following (no other player for Fremantle took a ruck contest in the first 3 quarters):
Q1: Darcy with 14, Jackson with 12
Q2: Darcy with 11, Jackson with 18
Q3: Darcy with 8, Jackson with 10

To me, its quite simple: as long as we don't think Sims splits ruck time 50/50 with Nank, then it's not a problem.

The best teams just don’t play 3 key forwards, not this year and not historically. The only team in the top 8 that plays 3 is Adelaide I believe.

Need some nuance to the Adelaide fwd structure. Probably moreso at the start of the season when the narrative around this was at it's peak, but Adelaide actually play 3 tall fwds as well as a ruck on the field at any given time, with a 4th tall on the bench.

You'd see Tex, Thilthorpe and Fogarty as the talls with ROB in the ruck, and then when ROB goes off, Tex, Fogarty and Curtin becomes the tall fwds with Thilthorpe being the ruck.

I'll be very curious to see how many times we see all 4 of Lynch, Faull, Sims and Nank on the field which would replicate the Adelaide structure you mention. Having 3 of the 4 on the field at any time is probably more than fine for our structure.

 

[Handsuper47]

What's his nickname? Dim Sims? The Sims?

 

[Tiger_Of_Old]

I think there’s very little chance that all 3 make it as successful afl players, let alone all fit into the same fwd line.
Time will tell

Can see all 3 winning the Coleman (in the same year)

 

[Tiger_Of_Old]

How are freo tracking ? The 2 rucks obviously don’t work from them

Darcy is slower than Groupie_

 

[lalorGOAT]

Do you think sims took such a long time to open the door because he was banging a chick at the time?

Think he was just on spotify

 

[Downtown06]

Do you think sims took such a long time to open the door because he was banging a chick at the time?

All the more reason to select him and then tag team the chick

 

[THE_GUN]

Only explanation.

THE_GUN will try tell us he was sinking piss though

Hope he stays home Saturday night

 

[Karp3_dm]

Awesome video lol

Literally got caught mid wank to Johnny Sins video
Had to finish off before greeting Ooze