You still owe us Taz

[spoljar]

[DaVe86]

Thought Tarrant worked hard last night and chased as hard as he could. Still took 8 marks showing his leading was ok. Was not a night for forwards. Tarrant worked harder than any tall on the ground

[Yobbo^LuKa]

[Captain_MyCaptain]

From today's AGE 6-08-06.....what's your decision?

COLLINGWOOD not only made the right decision in playing misbehaving pair Chris Tarrant and Ben Johnson but were more focused because of the controversy, senior Magpie Scott Burns said last night.
The Pies lost to Adelaide by four points, but not before Tarrant threatened to win the game for them in the dying moments of the match when he charged off the bench with the Crows leading by five points at AAMI Stadium and won a free kick. His kick, from 50 metres out, was punched over the line by a defender.
Burns said the controversy involving Tarrant and Johnson, who were fined $5000 each by the club after being out late last weekend, had been handled well by coach Mick Malthouse.
"I thought it jelled the players together," he said. "It's funny when you get a lot of people from the media and the public having their opinions on things, thinking that it may not be the best thing for the club. But when you're involved internally you could tell by Wednesday that we were all going to work pretty hard together. Every player wanted the boys to play tonight."
Burns praised Johnson's contribution, in particular. "Benny was really good. He's been good all year," he said.
"Everyone makes mistakes at times and I just think a lot of solutions that people have thrown up were band-aid solutions that don't actually get to the source of the problem."
Last night's loss meant Collingwood slipped to sixth, but Malthouse suggested they would gain confidence from having produced such a competitive performance on the Crows' home patch.
He did not believe that, had Tarrant kicked the winning goal, his decision to play the pair would have been vindicated.
"I don't find that at all. My decision was my decision solely … regardless of whether he did kick the goal or didn't kick the goal," Malthouse said.
"When you win games like that there is a tendency to smooth over a few things and when you lose it it's highlighted so at the end of the day you probably make more errors than the winning side and as a consequence you go back and hopefully correct those errors."

oops...this is a mistake, should be new topic.

[Robert Walls (not really)]

Forget Tarrant, he is no longer a match winner. Just a good ordinary player. He is no longer in the top 10 players at Collingwood.

[Albow]

[Robert Walls (not really)]

Tarrant is so up himself, he makes his own nose bleed.

[Lone Ranger]

[HAL]

Thanks I will add it to my gossip files.

[Cathalyst]

Trade bait

[Robert Walls (not really)]

Tarrant has been in reverse gear for two years since Terry Daniher left. The space between his ears doesn't work anymore.

[Cathalyst]

[Albow]

Let's leave it up to experts who watch every game live, have more statistics taken and see every training session. If Malthouse and the match selection committee are happy with Tarrant's effort than that should be enough said. Cathalyst and Robert Walls (not really) why not spend some of you energy supporting our team after a great effort against the Crows on their home turf, one where we had our chances but unfortunately we didn't quite get there. Crows had an average winning margin of 76 points at AAMI Stadium before Saturday night, and it showed we won't be just making up numbers in the finals.

[Captain_MyCaptain]

[Cathalyst]