Father, son. Who was better

[LostDoggy]

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Just googled it and I surprise myself sometimes, it was Cresswell.
Don't press play if you have a weak stomach.

That incident was from the same day that Chris Grant striked Nick Holland that eventually cost him the Brownlow. The same day Jason Dunstall kicked his 1200th career goal. That match was less famous for the 45-point win to the Bulldogs being their largest victory of the 1997 season. I am not sure how many teams have made a PF and their greatest winning margin is as small as 45 points. We were actually behind by three points during the final quarter.

[Topdog]

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Big call. Certainly at Tom's age Tony was kicking around in the twos most weeks but Tony Liberatore ended up in my best five ever bulldog players. Tom is a rare talent though. He has the potential to be better than his dad.

Premiership hero Tom IMO injury and keeping his head screwed on permitting will end up being a much better player than Tony and Tony was one of my favs. Tom is a rare talent and his ability to extract the ball is second to none.

[1eyedog]

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I wondered why we drafted him, I really did. Surely we had enough hard nosed one paced mids with questionable kicking skills?

The first time I saw him at preseason training I had a brand new favorite player. He doesn't give up, he doesn't do anything silly with the ball, he is as good overhead as any mid I've seen and he kicks goals. I think since the draft came in Dunks is only the third first year draftee to play in a premiership, Cyril Rioli and Joel Selwood are the others. That's pretty good company.

Great kid too great head on his shoulders.

[Twodogs]

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Premiership hero Tom IMO injury and keeping his head screwed on permitting will end up being a much better player than Tony and Tony was one of my favs. Tom is a rare talent and his ability to extract the ball is second to none.

Mitch Wallis knows exactly what he's going to do too. He's been playing with Tom sincce schooldays. He knows when to hover next to a pack and when to keep going just by checking where Tom is. If he's going for the ball Mitch stops and calls out "Tom, Tom" until the ball comes flying towards him. It's great to watch.

[Topdog]

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Mitch Wallis knows exactly what he's going to do too. He's been playing with Tom sincce schooldays. He knows when to hover next to a pack and when to keep going just by checking where Tom is. If he's going for the ball Mitch stops and calls out "Tom, Tom" until the ball comes flying towards him. It's great to watch.

I watched the Hawks game last night again and that pickup and handball to Bont for the "You know who it is" goal was fantastic play by Tom

[Bornadog]

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I watched the Hawks game last night again and that pickup and handball to Bont for the "You know who it is" goal was fantastic play by Tom

Tom's finals series was amazing. The amount of times he did handballs like that from bottom of packs and look away ones over his head, was no fluke. Remembering he was coming back not only from a knee reco, but an injury that looked like his season was over.

[Twodogs]

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I watched the Hawks game last night again and that pickup and handball to Bont for the "You know who it is" goal was fantastic play by Tom

Tom's finals series was amazing. The amount of times he did handballs like that from bottom of packs and look away ones over his head, was no fluke. Remembering he was coming back not only from a knee reco, but an injury that looked like his season was over.

The Tom Libba chucks the ball is offensive I reckon. His hands are so quick that sometimes you don't see the movement until the slow mo replay but it's always a proper handball as defined by the rules-the ball is is one hand and its punched by the other. But I worry that, especially early in the season, Tom is going to be singled put under the tighter interpretation and fair handballs of his will be called throws.

[Topdog]

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The Tom Libba chucks the ball is offensive I reckon. His hands are so quick that sometimes you don't see the movement until the slow mo replay but it's always a proper handball as defined by the rules-the ball is is one hand and its punched by the other. But I worry that, especially early in the season, Tom is going to be singled put under the tighter interpretation and fair handballs of his will be called throws.

He probably will be but as with most bullshit interpretation changes from season to season I can see the handball one not being called after Round 9

[Twodogs]

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He probably will be but as with most bullshit interpretation changes from season to season I can see the handball one not being called after Round 9

Like last season. Toby McLean kept getting head high tackles paid to him (mostly correctly) but then for a month or six weeks after the meeja made a fuss mid season they stopped paying him frees until later in the season and over the finals doing a complete 360 degrees back to paying him the same frees they were at the start of the season.