Delist Thornton

[ShlomoGlickstein]

He's hopeless. Puts no defensive pressure at all. Too weak to be a defender.

 

[Stanton]

Who should we play instead of him? Livingston, saddington, teague, mgrath are far worse defenders

 

[ShlomoGlickstein]

Who should we play instead of him? Livingston, saddington, teague, mgrath are far worse defenders

I don't beleive it. Thornton gets worse each week.

 

[no. 4]

This thread is pointless. Apart from Whitnell he is our best defender at the moment. Can't afford to get rid of him until Bower and other future key backmen come in.

 

[HBF]

I don't beleive it. Thornton gets worse each week.

Has just lost all of his confidence. He still tries to do cute things like kicking around corners and dinky little left footers. When your confidence is down, which I believe his is, he should just concentrate punching, spoiling and trying to hit targets on his right foot.

 

[blues4flag]

He's hopeless. Puts no defensive pressure at all. Too weak to be a defender.

Angry we lost, are you?

 

[HBF]

This thread is pointless. Apart from Whitnell he is our best defender at the moment. Can't afford to get rid of him until Bower and other future key backmen come in.

The problem is there is daylight between Whitnall and the rest of our defenders. Hopefully Bower and Hartlett can give us something to look forward to when they come back from injury.

 

[The Old Dark Navy's]

Why don't you start 22 delist threads every week on top of another 6 sack the coach threads?

 

[RoK]

He's hopeless. Puts no defensive pressure at all. Too weak to be a defender.

ban this troll.

 

[SA Blue]

ban this troll.

I agree. I wonder if he even barracks for Carlton.

 

[audas]

SA Blue
Quote:
Originally Posted by RoK
ban this troll.

I agree. I wonder if he even barracks for Carlton.

RoK
Quote:
Originally Posted by ShlomoGlickstein
He's hopeless. Puts no defensive pressure at all. Too weak to be a defender.


ban this troll.

Hes entitled to his opinion. Ban people who want to ban people for expressing their opinions.

But yeah, how about making some suggestions rather than pointing out the bleeding obvious ShlomoGlickstein.

 

[mediumsizered]

Why would you delist Thornton? In the game I watched today, he was the one trying to hold the defence together and he used the ball very well, as he has all season. The thing that stood out most of all in today's game was the lack of leadership. Of the long serving players, only Lappin and Whitnall could have held their heads up after today's game.

 

[RoK]

I don't beleive it. Thornton gets worse each week.

you are a ing goose mate and a dirty troll.

 

[RoK]

Why would you delist Thornton? In the game I watched today, he was the one trying to hold the defence together and he used the ball very well, as he has all season. The thing that stood out most of all in today's game was the lack of leadership. Of the long serving players, only Lappin and Whitnall could have held their heads up after today's game.

Fev made some stuff up's today,but he tryed hard.The kids played well.

 

[Mentallo]

Certainly has not been our worst player this year.
Plus like every other week the oppositon on ballers have 0% pressure on them when they deliver the ball into their forward line.

 

[Blue Boyz]

Why would you delist Thorton? The biggest problem for him is that he played out of position.

Because of his size he is a BP or HBF but due to the obvious fact that the club is almost devoid of any defensive options he is asked to do a job that is physically not capable of and to his credit he battles and contests well against the odds most games.

I know everyone is entitled to their opinion but you have to wonder where some supporters get their ideas from.

 

[les22]

Who do you really barrack for.You are a miserable winger who takes pleasure complaining about everything. Pleaser barrack for collingwood or essendon,they may need you.WE DONT

 

[ShlomoGlickstein]

We'll trade and have money for a more experienced and tougher defender once Kouta and a few of the rabble are gone. Mal Michael would be alright, and might wanna move if the Bears go crap.

 

[thegrove]

this could be the worst thread ever. thornton has been our best defender over the the past 3 years (except for whitnall when he's back there)

 

[Jeremias]

Hes entitled to his opinion. Ban people who want to ban people for expressing their opinions.

But yeah, how about making some suggestions rather than pointing out the bleeding obvious ShlomoGlickstein.

Isn't that exactly what you are doing?

anyway, Shlomo, T-Bird is a good defender-just is severely down on confidence. needs MUCH more support around him than bloody livingston. with whitnall down back he looks better, but yesterday he was played forward a lot.

Thornton, whilst not an excellent player, is very good. Until we can draft more key defenders, he is one of our only ones. Hopefully in a few more years, we will have drafted a big strong defender which will enable thornton to go to a position where he looks far more comfortablr, a half back flank.

 

[stokesy]

Thornton was our best player against Essendon wasn't he?

 

[Spiller]

Give me a break, Thorton is the only key defender we have. Most weeks he given the task of handling the opposition's key forward, who is normally far bigger than himself, and most weeks he does a reasonable job. Carlton should be rewarding Thornton for playing above his weight most weeks, certainly not delisting him. I shudder to think how many more goals we would concede each week if he wasn't playing.

 

[Funkalicous]

I don't even agree that Thornton is low on confidence. The last month he's been racking up the stats and playing almost career best footy IMO.

I actually think our backline have been very good this year. They've really held their own against quality attacks, and with little defensive support from our midfield. Thornton isn't the reason why we're 2nd last.

 

[blues4flag]

The ball didn't leave our backline the last couple of weeks. Not his fault that our midfielders couldn't stop the continous supply to the opposition forwards, when its coming in that quick and that good, no one's gonna stop it.

 

[BlueWorld]

I don't even agree that Thornton is low on confidence. The last month he's been racking up the stats and playing almost career best footy IMO.

Racking up the stats in the backline? That's some achievement!