Toast Sam Walsh Rnd 4 Rising Star Nominee

[Coona Blues]

Love the kid even more after reading this piece in The Age. Worth a read.

Football and family: The rising star and his heroic grandfather

Young Carlton star Sam Walsh doesn't have to look far to find inspiration and how to deal with adversity.

www.theage.com.au

Love his ambition to flip the coin at the grand final, Makings of a great story there...…......

 

[Stamos]

Hmmm

 

[BigFrizz36]

That's a fair quarter of football. And a fair goal.

 

[jezzajay]

What a jet...so happy we have him!!

 

[HARKER]

The worst part about what Walsh is doing now, is that he's set a standard and anything less will be seen to be a poor game.

Incredible game again and likely more coaches votes this week. Freak.

 

[HARKER]

The thing with Walsh is that he makes things look somewhat easy and for that reason alone, may be seen to be somewhat 'ordinary'

His execution comes about for a minimum of fuss, but sometimes we like the 'fuss'. End result is all that matters and on that measure alone - He's a star.

 

[no. 4]

Anyone know what the record is for the most possessions in a debut season? The most I know of is 539 possessions by Toby Greene. Sammy is up to 493 possessions with three games to go so a 550+ possession season is a real possibility.

 

[Aphrodite]

WOW!

 

[AndyWalkersGirl]

This kid is something. He’s like a cross between Craig Bradley and Chris Judd.

 

[Sheephead]

I was wrrrrrrrrrrrr.......I was wrrrrr........I was wrr..... I was not right to call this kid Vanilla. That goal he kicked to right of screen was not Vanilla, and it had some juice behind it. The new C. Judd 3 votes has arrived.

 

[mochacinolatte]

A full pre season in him, he is going to tear this competition apart.

 

[Stiffler's Dad]

If the judging panel is anything like 2017 (first panel which popped up in a Google search) then I doubt that he will get full marks.

Panel = Gillon McLachlan (chairman), Kevin Sheehan, Kevin Bartlett, Luke Darcy, Andrew Dillon, Danny Frawley, Glen Jakovich, Chris Johnson, Cameron Ling, Matthew Richardson and Warren Tredrea.

Can see KB and Richo giving 5 to Stack and Tredrea giving 5 to Rozee.....

A few blokes there that I can honestly say in all likelihood have no idea!
Be very worried!

 

[windows1]

A full pre season in him, he is going to tear this competition apart.

Isn’t he already?????

 

[Canyouhearthedrums]

Can’t wait to see him with a bit of strength in 2-3 years. Once he’s able to regularly break tackles, hold his position a bit more, he’s going to be unstoppable.

 

[teknodeejay]

There’s a bit of Simon Black about this kid about the way he goes about it. He’s putting up similar numbers in his first year to what a young Black was doing by the end of his second and of course Simon won the Brownlow in his fifth year (not to mention his second premiership).

Black had better disposal out the gate and you would hope Sam can improve that aspect over a couple of pre seasons. His elite endurance is what makes him such a weapon at a young age. Amazing how much two way running he does.

 

[Quazza]

Freak

 

[chunkylover53]

He had 12 touches and a goal at quarter time and copped very heavy attention all through the 2nd. They were dead set worried about him and stopping him went a long way to getting their run on.

He is an absolute freak and people are in for a bigger shock once he develops that acceleration he has hiding there. Will be Judd-like.

 

[teknodeejay]

copped very heavy attention all through the 2nd

Redden gave him, Schumacher and SPS some very interesting treatment - not to mention his dirty tackle on Setterfield including a shove while he was clearly on the ground injured. Steven Baker type dirtiness - intention to inflict hurt to gain an advantage type stuff. If Fev was still around he would have surely put his massive shoulder into him similar to his friendly Nathan Brown nudge 15 years ago (which he got suspended for).

 

[ferrisb]

Love the kid even more after reading this piece in The Age. Worth a read.

Football and family: The rising star and his heroic grandfather

Young Carlton star Sam Walsh doesn't have to look far to find inspiration and how to deal with adversity.

www.theage.com.au

I want to buy Plumber a beer. Or 10.

 

[Blue__Balls]

So are they going to split the Rising Star vote count over 2 nights to allow time for the 13-hour Walsh Highlight Reel, or just marathon it with an interval or two for refreshments?

 

[therubbernub]

There’s a bit of Simon Black about this kid about the way he goes about it. He’s putting up similar numbers in his first year to what a young Black was doing by the end of his second and of course Simon won the Brownlow in his fifth year (not to mention his second premiership).

Black had better disposal out the gate and you would hope Sam can improve that aspect over a couple of pre seasons. His elite endurance is what makes him such a weapon at a young age. Amazing how much two way running he does.

Walsh V Black 2nd year

 

[therubbernub]

He is an absolute freak and people are in for a bigger shock once he develops that acceleration he has hiding there. Will be Judd-like

I was always sad that we never saw Judd and cripps playing together in full flight. But I am salivating at the thought of seeing Cripps and Walsh playing together for the next decade

 

[Healer]

I was always sad that we never saw Judd and cripps playing together in full flight. But I am salivating at the thought of seeing Cripps and Walsh playing together for the next decade

And it gets me positively dribbling at the prospect of bigger, fitter Setters and Stocker in the guts with them too....seriously dangerous.

 

[BlueAbroad]

 

[windows1]

Can’t wait to see him with a bit of strength in 2-3 years. Once he’s able to regularly break tackles, hold his position a bit more, he’s going to be unstoppable.

He’s regularly breaking tackles. Like all the time. Seriously wtf are you watching?