List Mgmt. Welcome Tom Gross (Pick 46, 2024 National Draft)

[Bleedblueandgold]

Excited about his debut!
Hopefully he'll stay in the side for most of the rest of the year.

 

[RanaNaved]

Let’s go Grossy! Well deserved debut this weekend. Go well young fella, hope this is the first of 200+ games, 5 Brownlows, 10 premierships and a quality career highlights package in the blue and gold!

You're underselling what he will achieve

 

[EagleMan87]

Odds shortening for a WCE win now that the future GOAT has been named.

Future GOAT?! Oh, ye of little faith.

 

[KBLT]

Can the AFL just preemptively award him the Rising Star now?

 

[Broken_Chairs]

Can the AFL just preemptively award him the Rising Star now?

Brownlow*

 

[Dark Sharks]

Gross > Judd

Confirmed

 

[CoastersFlag No.5]

Thought he was really good in his debut game hopefully he gets another chance next week.

 

[BeornJ]

One of our best debut games in a while.

17 disposals
7 contested possessions
7 score involvements
5 clearances
1 goal

 

[Dark Sharks]

Runs both ways. Has speed, tidy skills, good overhead, tough. Looks like a genuine balanced midfielder.


Some players you can tell don't have it straight away, others you can see immediately they'll be comfortable at the top level. Gross is the latter.

 

[flamingEMBERS]

That was a great debut and something uplifting for us fans.
He may need a stint in the WAFL later in the year, but for the foreseeable future he’s gotta be in the team.

 

[HoneyBadger35]

#1 Eagle for clearances and score involvements.

19 CBAs on debut, pure mid. Just keep playing him, finding a startable mid with pick 46 is program changing stuff so let’s set him up for every chance.

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Felt like we had Lachie Neale running around out there. Great debut.

 

[Dark Sharks]

That was a great debut and something uplifting for us fans.
He may need a stint in the WAFL later in the year, but for the foreseeable future he’s gotta be in the team.

 

[Byron_Clanger]

I'll unload a truck full of rotten eggs and fart bombs at MRP if Gross is omitted this week, or any week for that matter

 

[Bleedblueandgold]

#1 Eagle for clearances and score involvements.

19 CBAs on debut, pure mid. Just keep playing him, finding a startable mid with pick 46 is program changing stuff so let’s set him up for every chance.

There is no chance in the universe he would've gotten the opportunity in the middle if it was last year.

 

[RanaNaved]

Kid's a gun. Tough, smart and skilled. Told y'all

 

[flamingEMBERS]

Felt like we had Lachie Neale running around out there. Great debut.

Felt more like Daniel Kerr minus the arson

 

[Bleedblueandgold]

Very good debut performance. Pretty clean all round, and not afraid to take the game on.

 

[Quinten Kennedy]

Felt more like Daniel Kerr minus the arson

Early days...

 

[Big_Birdy]

Best debut game (for a genuine kid not a mature age) at the club since Judd.

Prove me wrong

 

[Elite Pete]

Felt more like Daniel Kerr minus the arson

Yep, give the man number 4 next year.

 

[eagles rule]

Great debut by Gross adapted to the level seamlessly in one of the hardest positions to play for a rookie ..The kid has a good skills and footy smarts plus is very competitive nature , definitely a steal at Pick 46 ..
I’m looking fwd to watching him grow as a player ..

 

[domad33]

From watching Grossy in training scratchy's take it up to our mids (very low bar I know), to BOG performance in WAFL praccie, to earning a spot with a solid ass debut.

17D 1.1 on 71% TOG against a finals hardened side, we've found one. Hope he cements his spot, has a consistent year, and becomes a core part of our paper thin midfield lineup.

 

[Monocle]

Very impressive debut.

One of the things that has impressed me, since he arrived at West Coast, is that at every higher level that he has been exposed to, he has stepped up.

That tells me two things:

1. That he has the capacity to further grow his game and still has lots of improvement left in his game.
2. That he is a quick learner that has a high footy IQ.

Both these attributes I rate highly in assessing young talent.

The fact that he is a hard worker and backs himself in to take on the contest, is the cherry on the top.
A natural hunger for the contest is a commodity that can also overcome a gap in talent, ( not suggesting that he lacks talent by the way ) as desire in something that can't be taught - you either have it or you don't.

Talent when coupled with, hard arsed desire, more often than not, delivers a quality player with a long future in the game.

I think we just may have found ourself a good footballer with Tommy Gross.

 

[Eaglemaniac]

Been waiting for him to debut for us since we picked him up in the draft. Can’t wait to see how he goes once he gets comfortable at the top level.