Enough with the Boyd questions: Beveridge

[AndrewP6]

We should go full Marshawn Lynch.

Like this:

Bevo should take this guy's approach to pressers. http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-super-...on-t-get-fined

[azabob]

Did anyone else hear in the press conference after the Swans game that Beveridge referenced the lack of free kicks Boyd was getting but Boyd doesn't complain, he just gets on with the job.

I love how our coach isn't afraid to stick up for his players.

[bulldogtragic]

Did anyone else hear in the press conference after the Swans game that Beveridge referenced the lack of free kicks Boyd was getting but Boyd doesn't complain, he just gets on with the job.

I love how our coach isn't afraid to stick up for his players.

I'm not sure why the umpires are treating him like Barry Hall and not like Nick Riewoldt. If it happens again I want the club to go go public with their envoy to the umpires dept, just to fly the flag and get him a game reprieve as a minimum.

[bornadog]

I'm not sure why the umpires are treating him like Barry Hall and not like Nick Riewoldt. If it happens again I want the club to go go public with their envoy to the umpires dept, just to fly the flag and get him a game reprieve as a minimum.

Sick of these backman getting away with holding and wrestling players.

[Rocket Science]

I'm not sure why the umpires are treating him like Barry Hall and not like Nick Riewoldt. If it happens again I want the club to go go public with their envoy to the umpires dept, just to fly the flag and get him a game reprieve as a minimum.

Beveridge subtly underlined Boyd's treatment this season during yesterday's postgame presser, capping his remarks with Boyd being prepared to fight his way though it rather than complain about it.

[westdog54]

Nice subtle dig at the Clokes and Riewoldts of this world

[LostDoggy]

May God help the first defender to NOT hold and wrestle him.

[boydogs]

May God help the first defender to NOT hold and wrestle him.

Yep, his positioning and marking is getting better every game, he's not just spoiling all the time

[lemmon]

And despite all that, I'd have been happy for Tom to have accrued this number of marks and goals over half a season let alone just 5 games. He's already made himself vital to our structure- we look significantly poorer going forward when he's off the ground and for someone so high profile his game continues to be underrated next to someone like Hogan. I was honestly thinking we were getting a kid who was probably going to be mostly a 5 disposal a game passenger until 2018, but if we had Carlisle up forward instead, would he be doing that much more than Tom is?

I was nervous about putting so many eggs into this key forward basket but we looked to have picked the perfect one for team structure, for his own scope of development, for current output and a guy who looks as tough mentally as they come. I could not have been more pleased with the exceptional starts he's made, is a key plank to the forward line already.

[Topdog]

And despite all that, I'd have been happy for Tom to have accrued this number of marks and goals over half a season let alone just 5 games. He's already made himself vital to our structure- we look significantly poorer going forward when he's off the ground and for someone so high profile his game continues to be underrated next to someone like Hogan. I was honestly thinking we were getting a kid who was probably going to be mostly a 5 disposal a game passenger until 2018, but if we had Carlisle up forward instead, would he be doing that much more than Tom is?

I was nervous about putting so many eggs into this key forward basket but we looked to have picked the perfect one for team structure, for his own scope of development, for current output and a guy who looks as tough mentally as they come. I could not have been more pleased with the exceptional starts he's made, is a key plank to the forward line already.

I'm loving the contests that he brings and also the development he is showing already in such a short time however if he were a 5 disposal a game passenger I'd be disappointed as he would be showing no improvement at all. We should be seeing a slight improvement every season.

[LostDoggy]

The most pleasing thing is his fitness. He is running out games. He averaging around 90% time on ground over the first 5 weeks.

I thought it may take 3-4 years until we start seeing what he really is capable of. But now I'm thinking 1-2 years.

[Greystache]

Intesresting, someone seems to have actually watched us and doesn't just want to hope Tom Boyd fails. (Or they read this on WOOF http://www.woof.net.au/forum/showthr...003#post433003)

The Buzz: Tom Boyd is starting to reward the Western Bulldogs for bold and adventurous trading



TOM Boyd was the Christmas present Western Bulldogs fans were only supposed to unwrap in 2017. Two rounds in, after Jeremy McGovern and Alex Rance treated him as their plaything, they wondered if he would be any good by 2027. Yet five weeks into the season, the Western Bulldogs are one of many clubs being rewarded for bold and adventurous trading.

Boyd is no Tom Hawkins yet, but after the most brutal list of opponents a second-year tall would ever encounter, he is just one of the remarkable Bulldogs success stories. And arguably, he is outperforming former Dogs captain Ryan Griffen, the man traded away by the Bulldogs (along with pick six) in last year’s once-in-a-lifetime trade. Griffen will come good — he has to after a strangely flat opening where he has averaged just seven kicks a game (his lowest total since 2008).

Don’t look now, but Boyd has kicked seven goals in his last three weeks on Norm Smith medallist Brian Lake (three goals), All-Australian defender Daniel Talia (two) and premiership defender Heath Grundy (two). He has held up an end on the competition’s defensive gorillas who might have played on dynamo Jake Stringer and found just enough space to hit the scoreboard.

He hasn’t dominated by any means but in averaging 10 disposals and four marks (three inside 5), he has done exactly what Beveridge would have asked him. Griffen’s form slump is more befuddling given he has been tagged only once — by St Kilda’s Mav Weller — and has only one breakout game against Gold Coast (eight handballs, 21 kicks). Still, with Greater Western Sydney believed to be paying only $180,000 of Griffen’s salary this year and also with pick six (key back Caleb Marchbank) it will ultimately turn into a win-win deal.

It is another reminder that not trading at all can sometimes be a bigger risk than stepping into the unknown.

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