Now Roughead...

[wart101]

Kind of irrelevant considering it's not like Roughead would snag 5 playing for Richmond at the moment. Hell any AFL standard forward tonight would of kicked at least 3 or 4 playing against those defenders with that dominance in the midfield.

very true

 

[tigerT]

Tom Williams had his breakout game last week for the doggies, want to have a sook about passing up on him too?

fair dinkum...

 

[Croat tiger]

Tom Williams had his breakout game last week for the doggies, want to have a sook about passing up on him too?

fair dinkum...

Well said how many games has it taken for roughead to play a decent one especially with carlton displaying last years form?.

 

[Crumden]

The Carlton - Port game last week was VFL standard. Hardly surprising the Hawks had a night out against them.

 

[Choota]

personally i disagree if he played for essendon for example he would be somewhere like courtney johns at the momment imo... perhaps slightly better
dont get me wrong buddy is a gun player but i think he is still made to look better by a very good midfeild and a lack of other elite forwards..

you chuck him alongside lloyd and lucas and put him in a average to poor midfeild that the bombers have and i think he would not do anywhere near aswell...

but considering that he is only a 3rd year player and is only what 20 years old? he would still be above expectations.

Yep. Franklin = Courtney Johns. You've got it one, sport.

Strong showing from Roughhead last night. And Franklin goes alright.

 

[polakthetiger]

He kicked 5 goals in ONE game....Tambling kicked 4 goals in ONE quarter. So what....both pretty inconsistant but showing signs.

Lets look at this in 4 years.....

Actually it has already been done to death...lets not!!

Why don't we start on the Kruezer/ Cotchin conundrum??

 

[Nightwolf]

If we had picked Franklin over Tambling the same thing would have happened.

Franklin would be shit, and Tambling would be tearing the game a new one.

Disagree massively. Franklin is a freak. He'd dominate at any club..

On Roughy tho, why is this a thread? Taking Deledio ahead of him was the 100% correct option..

 

[Bojangles17]

gimmee a break, what next, Beaus dowlers hauls in the box hill seconds to be rammed down our collective throats, I am about as interested in ruffheads performance as yesterdays used toilet paper...Dont block the WWW with such peurile drivel..pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

 

[Smell The Glove]

That's a fair point. Extremely happy with Deledio so far and it is only Carlscum.

I distinctly recall Geelong saying the same thing about you guys earlier this year.

 

[IDGAF]

Stop this crap. We had no option on this one unless you'd prefer roughead over deledio.

Exactly .

pointless

 

[GhostofJimJess]

Disagree massively. Franklin is a freak. He'd dominate at any club..

On Roughy tho, why is this a thread? Taking Deledio ahead of him was the 100% correct option..

Agree with just about all of this Nightwolf. Franklin is a freak, but the planets did need to align somewhat for him to prove it. Potentially Gablett-like if he continues to develop, and even "God" himself didn't find his feet when at the Hawks. The Geelong manner of play and lifestyle suited him a lot more back then.

The Hawks have done very well to channel Franklin's mind and energies in the right direction, because he does have a certain loose cannon quality about him which frightened the Tigers and Bulldogs a little back in 2004.

On Roughy and Lids, of course you are correct again. But comparing the two is always going to be unfair anyway - they play such similar roles. It'd be like Collingwood fans squabbling over whether they got a better deal with Pendelbury or Trav Cloke.

 

[soupofficial]

why would you guys be so upset that after about 45 AFL games, a #2 key forward draft pick stands up and scores 5 goals for the first time? wasn't this pretty much at least what everyone expected he'd be able to do when he was universally rated a top 5 pick in 2004?
he's developed slowly, delivered much less so far than the two guys drafted on either side of him, yet you lot start sooking when he kicks 5 goals out of 27 (when our 3 main forward targets from 2006 were all out injured) against the worst backline in the league?

for heaven's sake, support your team.