Page 2 of 2 FirstFirst 12
Results 13 to 17 of 17

Thread: Tom D

  1. #13
    Veterans List aardvark's Avatar
    Join Date
    Mar 2010
    Location
    Down South
    Posts
    5,676
    Quote Originally Posted by dimelb View Post
    Rest easy RB42, he is. As of last year's Championship Dinner I think.
    and a fully fledged member of the "Viking" AFL team of the century.

  2. #14
    Senior Player
    Join Date
    Aug 2005
    Location
    Canberra
    Posts
    1,041
    Derickx is ranked 10th for time on ground percentage at the Swans this year with 84%. That puts him ahead of all our midfielders except McGlynn, McVeigh and KJack, who obviously have resting roles onfield.

    It also puts him ahead of guys like Brodie Grundy (75%), Hale (83%), McEvoy (73%), Naitanui (69%), Dean Cox (76%), Tom Hickey (50%), Sandilands (81%), McIntosh (81%) and level with Lobbe (84%).

    Ruckmen with a higher TOG than him include Minson, Mumford, Giles, Goldstein, Maric and Longer. Some of the best in the league and one of the brightest young prospects.

    What Derickx is doing is playing an energy-conserving style that enables him to maximise his time on ground and let us fit 100 minutes worth of vaguely competitive ruck contests into 22 players more efficiently. He rarely (if ever) jumps, he simply finds the opponent's line, makes body contact, and tries to prevent the other ruckman from getting a clean tap. What he's doing could be called anti-rucking, or ruck-tagging, something like that.

    Derickx shouldn't just be judged against a hypothetical better ruckman, but also for the fact that he's letting us get away with only playing one true ruckman. His value to the team is arguably also the midfielder or extra forward he allows us to play by soaking up contests and ruckman time on ground.

    Even with Pyke in the team, he might well let us leave Pyke deep as a target for more time than we otherwise could with a less durable ruckman than Derickx.

  3. #15
    Quote Originally Posted by Matt80 View Post
    Harrison Ford was a carpenter before be scored the role of Han Solo! He allegedly was seen doing some work on the casting set when someone said that be should audition. He was a part-time actor as well.

    Tom may end up as Dene Cox within two years if Harrison Ford is anything to go by!
    Funny you should mention Harrison Ford. He was discovered when he was building some cabinets George Lucas' home. Just goes to show that you need to make the most of your opportunities.

  4. #16
    One Man Out ShockOfHair's Avatar
    Join Date
    Dec 2007
    Location
    Due north
    Posts
    3,668
    So with Tommy D and Jake Lloyd we're our Star Wars franchise is pretty much set: Return of the Buddy and the Tandem Menace.

  5. #17
    Quote Originally Posted by ShockOfHair View Post
    So with Tommy D and Jake Lloyd we're our Star Wars franchise is pretty much set: Return of the Buddy and the Tandem Menace.
    George Lucas played 4 games, kicking 1 goal for South Melbourne in 1947.

Page 2 of 2 FirstFirst 12

Tags for this Thread

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •  
Single Sign On provided by vBSSO