VFL 2017 Round 3: Northern Blues vs Coburg at Coburg

[flyboy77]

I only saw a highlight package of all of our goals, but Thomas was everywhere on it.

For that he deserves a bit more respect from many of his detractors.

Any player who has won an afl premiership,  was considered one of the games elite mids for a little while,  is on big money and then goes down to the vfl once, and tears that level up straight away, even though he could play out the year, without earning his cash and put it all behind him deserves a bit more respect.

Sure, people might claim he only wants to trigger his extension,  but I think he'd genuinely be hurt by how little footy he's produced (based on how he goes about it) and has a bit more pride in himself and actually wants to achieve something rather than fizzling out into nothing.

He 'tore it up' against Coburg ffs.

He has shown time and time again now that he (or his body) cannot cut it at the top level. He might be wanting to do better but the writing is all over the wall.

What he did 4 or 5 or 6 years ago at Collingwood counts for nada now.

It is that simple.