Trent Dennis-Lane

[Reggi]

Fevola or not Fevola ?

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/spo...-1225829828568

Another Fremantle Dockers recruiting coup......

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/has-wa-lost-the-next-nextbigthing-20100212-nx7w.html

In all seriousness, it's an intraclub game. That said his raw stats around speed and endurance are promising..... looking forward to seeing him next week. Hope the hype doesn't go to his head

The next Silvio Foschini maybe.....

[COBHC]

I hope it's another wasted draft pick by the Dockers.

He looks the goods. Being mature age (21) may help him out. He's in my best 22 for the Swans this year, should get a gig in Round 1 from all reports.

[giant]

Well, I've now seen this boy twice and he's been a stand-out both times. No guarantee for success of course but plenty to be excited about. He has the balance and poise that you expect from the aboriginal boys, but also a level of footy smarts and calmness. One mark from Friday, where he's given the smallest nudge to the defender in front before leaping back and taking a super mark overhead, spoke of a player that is well ahead of the learning curve of your normal new recruit.

[ugg]

I think his background is Tibetan rather than indigenous Australian

[royboy42]

I also believe he is not of aboriginal origin.

[Legs Akimbo]

Giant's post misidentified TDL as aboriginal, however, I was more concerned about this...

No guarantee for success of course but plenty to be excited about. He has the balance and poise that you expect from the aboriginal boys, but also a level of footy smarts and calmness

The conjuction 'but' shows opposite or conflicting ideas in a sentence so that it suggests 'Aboriginal boys' (itself a somewhat condescending turn of phrase) may not also have footy smarts and calmness.

Hopefully, that is not what Giant meant.

[smasher]

Dennis-Lane shines in intra-Club match

Dennis-Lane shines in intra-Club match

Trent Dennis-Lane is almost a certainty to line up against Carlton in the Swans' pre-season cup opener, after kicking five goals in Friday's Club practice match

[ShockOfHair]

I think his background is Tibetan rather than indigenous Australian

Burmese.

[CJK]

Furthermore, Dennis-Lane beat three of Sydney's best defenders - Tadhg Kennelly, Martin Mattner and Nick Malceski.

Wut?

[Auntie.Gerald]

yep he will be dangerous as he has a good leap on him which will make it difficult for a fast short tagger to pick him up but even harder for the mobile medium talls at say 188 to 190cm tall as TDL will beat them for pace !!

and kick a goal !!

[Molly dooker]

During the Draft and all the rumours I took the time, as I'm sure a lot of you did, to watch his videos and was immediately excited by what I saw.

What excited me was not just his footy smarts because that can count for nothing if everytime you go for goal you get a point (poor Schneids), his accuracy and ability to score from anywhere was completely freakish.

BRING IT

[dimelb]

Giant's post misidentified TDL as aboriginal, however, I was more concerned about this...



The conjuction 'but' shows opposite or conflicting ideas in a sentence so that it suggests 'Aboriginal boys' (itself a somewhat condescending turn of phrase) may not also have footy smarts and calmness.

Hopefully, that is not what Giant meant.

I think he meant "not only ... but also"
And yes, TDL looks the goods.

[Jeffers1984]

Jetta and TDL are the ones i'm looking forward to the most on Saturday



...oh and Big Mummy too.

[giant]

Before we all get too precious, the "but" was more a reference to "maturity beyond years" that one might expect from a newby, which I would have thought was clear from the subsequent sentence. "But" I do acknowledge a mistake as to his racial antecedents.

Nevertheless, forget his origins - just get excited that we appear to have picked up a young footballer (and yes they're all boys to me) that has the skills to address nicely a gap in our forward line make-up to date.

[Hartijon]

Before we all get too precious, the "but" was more a reference to "maturity beyond years" that one might expect from a newby, which I would have thought was clear from the subsequent sentence. "But" I do acknowledge a mistake as to his racial antecedents.

Nevertheless, forget his origins - just get excited that we appear to have picked up a young footballer (and yes they're all boys to me) that has the skills to address nicely a gap in our forward line make-up to date.

If he gets a spot then ,our forward line will be very different..very very different
Goodes at CHF,Bradshaw,White,TDL at FF
The question will be.."who misses out" I thought it would be Moore but he is burning up the track pre-season. 4 new faces,2 missing from last year..who si going to miss out?