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Opinion Jackson Thurlow

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Gysenn said:
Just wanted to give a shoutout to Thurls - this was months ago, but I don't think I ever mentioned it on here - Turbocat 's avatar just reminded me.

There's a boy about 18-19 in the cheersquad who comes with his Mum to every game - don't know anything about the situation so I shouldn't really comment, but he quite clearly has some form of disability.

Anyway, after Thurlow was drafted, this kid bought the very first Jackson Thurlow badge from the Cats shop. He goes to every VFL game, and Thurls was always really nice to him at every VFL game, had long chats with him whenever he saw him there, and was apparently rapt when he saw that the kid was wearing his badge.

Before his debut, Jackson came over to the fence during the warm up and had a really good chat with him as he does at the VFL games (which is when I gathered the above), talked about how excited he was, etc. I thought it was really nice of him to show a genuine interest in somebody who was, quite clearly, his biggest fan.

We won the match - I can't remember who against - and after the game, all of the players collected those mini footballs from a bag, signed them, and ran off in all directions to hand them out to kids. Now - when this happens, the players never come to the cheer squad. When Thurlow grabbed his footy - 150 metres away at the other end of the ground - he jogged in a straight line directly to the cheersquad to find his biggest fan, gave him the footy, ruffled his hair, and then ran down the race with the rest of the boys.

Really nice moment. Good on you, Thurls. :thumbsu:
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That's an amazing story, thanks for sharing! Just one thing, don't go buying any Jackson Thurlow badges, or you too may have your hair ruffled. That'd be a tragedy!:p
 

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Gysenn said:
Is there an echo on this forum? You've gotta be the 934rd member to comment on the hair ;)

All in good fun. Heard it all before!
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It's not the first time I've commented, so am I the 934th or just the 933rd because you counted me twice? Look mate, I've always held the belief that "if you've got it flaunt it" and in your case you've got it in spades. Take the good with the bad, if there's any bad at all, because having your avatar pic as yourself and sporting hair like that is always going to get comments!
 
Gysenn said:
Is there an echo on this forum? You've gotta be the 934rd member to comment on the hair ;)
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I can guarantee you Mr. Gysenn that I will not be extracting any urine out of you over your hair.
 
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Gysenn said:
Ah.. Thankyou?
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And for reasons that will become obvious as soon as you lay eyes on me.

And I think that I got that Booby.
Something to do with shooting fish in a barrel?
 

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From what I have seen Thurlow could really be a decent player. Has the height, leg speed, hands, kicking skill and decision making to be a best 22 player. But I do not think it will be 2014. I expect he will half a dozen or so games - and have a really big 2015. Three pre-seasons and a dozen or so senior games and he will be ready for a break out season.

If he can have a break out season in 2014 that would be of course even better but he simply does not seem to have had the time to get experience and body for AFL just yet.
 

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