The Tassie Four R`s - I love em :)

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Royce - Roachy - Richo - Reiwoldt.

All spaced to perfection. How lucky have we been :thumbsu:

And now it’s like the full circle. Tommy said kick it long to Royce he will take care of the rest. Now its kick it long to Riewoldt and his amazing body on body contested work, he also takes care of the job at hand.

One thing David King said on the weekend stood out. He said down at punt road they were in awe as he had ability like no other who could predict when the ball was in flight just where it would drop. You see it in this incredible body on body contested marks when the ball just finds its way into his arm (as the other is held by his opponent) My Mum and Dad told me the three R`s were the most important thing in life… They were wrong. The four R`s have just taken over. :)
 

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So david king after spending the last three months slagging us is now trying to take credit when we start to improve.

Expect terry next to say i told everyone that 2011 was going to be the year.......both of them ******s.
 

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So david king after spending the last three months slagging us is now trying to take credit when we start to improve.
C`mon NQ expect better from you. Its not a DK slag off thread. He has spent more time with Jack than either of us, and was a great observation. But its not about King, its about the other four that we have landed.
 

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You're dead right Baz, we have been incredibly blessed. :thumbsu:

One thing that really strikes me when you compare them is that despite some similarities, each is also very distinct and unique in their playing style. You'd think at least two of them would be similar, but they're not.

Two from the South, one each from the North and the North West...the pattern suggests we should expect to find the next one in the North. :D

Funny thing about Tassie is that there may well be a few thousand people who already know who it is and the fact they're destined to be a famous sportsman will have been obvious as dogs balls from before they're 10 years old. ;)

I wish you'd seen Ricky Ponting play, I swear he would have won half a dozen Brownlows if he'd chosen footy over cricket. Like David Boon before him, he played ruck for North Launceston (and Brooks High - not sure where Boony went to school, Queechy perhaps) as a junior...couple of very short kids who were just such magnificent, skilled athletes that you played them where they could get their hands on the ball first - in the ruck. Hard to believe, but Boon was like greased lightning as a teenager before he stacked on the weight.

Ponting wouldn't be more than 5'4, but he'd regularly out-jump blokes well over 6ft, knock the ball to his own advantage out in front, then stroll to the 50 without anyone getting close to laying a hand on him and ram home a perfect drop punt half post high in a howling gale. And then go back to the centre and do it again. Opposition coaches would try and play a virtual wall of half-backs to stop him, but he'd just run through them or start taking advantage of the space behind them by hitting one forward after another on the chest. You couldn't work him over or rough him up to throw him off his game, he was way too tough for that (he was facing adult fast bowlers by age eleven or even earlier and grew up in the toughest part of Launceston...he didn't mind a scrap at all), plus he started trying harder if anyone tried it on - that had dire consequences for the opposition.

He was a freak mate, would have been the best footballer to ever come out of Tassie I strongly suspect, I don't doubt for a second that he had even more talent for footy than cricket.
 

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I wish you'd seen Ricky Ponting play, I swear he would have won half a dozen Brownlows if he'd chosen footy over cricket. Like David Boon before him, he played ruck for North Launceston (and Brooks High - not sure where Boony went to school, Queechy perhaps) as a junior...couple of very short kids who were just such magnificent, skilled athletes that you played them where they could get their hands on the ball first - in the ruck. Hard to believe, but Boon was like greased lightning as a teenager before he stacked on the weight.
Boonie went to Launceston Grammar which is just down the road from Punter's school (Brooks).

Apparently he was extremely handy at football at school and very hard.
 

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:thumbsu:I know TrueThylacine on here, who is a ripper bloke, is from Tassie and just loves the fact that we have had so many great forwards from the Apple Isle.
I understand he has a jumper signed by three of the four Tassie boys and was chasing one final signature. Should be worth thousands one day (if he don't leave it to me;)).
But it's uncanny we should get so many great forwards from the one state.
I read the other day Richo was elevated to "legend status" in the Tassie Hall of Fame and was described in the newspaper article as "arguably Tasmania's greatest player" and even above Baldock.:thumbsu: Great honour!
 

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:thumbsu:I know TrueThylacine on here, who is a ripper bloke, is from Tassie and just loves the fact that we have had so many great forwards from the Apple Isle.
I understand he has a jumper signed by three of the four Tassie boys and was chasing one final signature. Should be worth thousands one day (if he don't leave it to me;)).
But it's uncanny we should get so many great forwards from the one state.
I read the other day Richo was elevated to "legend status" in the Tassie Hall of Fame and was described in the newspaper article as "arguably Tasmania's greatest player" and even above Baldock.:thumbsu: Great honour!
Am arranging to get the final one , Disco , as we speak Goldie and its down the 4 yellow stripes on my heritage guernsey. And get stuffed its mine! hahaha. When you down to Melb for a game next?
 

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Am arranging to get the final one , Disco , as we speak Goldie and its down the 4 yellow stripes on my heritage guernsey. And get stuffed its mine! hahaha. When you down to Melb for a game next?

:thumbsu:DOWN for the Sydney game in a few weeks and then back for the North Melbourne clash ... both Sundays I believe!
 

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