Please, please, please drop Tadhg

[Primmy]

Time Tadgh, Time.

Also time for selectors to see the writing on the wall and do something about it before it becomes totally undignified.

[Dosser]

Maybe Rohan needs to keep looking over his shoulder at training these days in case Tadgh 'accidentally' injures him... Seriously, it is so sad to see Kennelly like this - he has always been one of my favourite players. Can we make an offer to him to return home and start an academy there for us?

[Big Al]

It breaks my heart. One of the nicest guys you would ever want to meet. Has been great for this footy club but sadly it's time.

[Captain]

It breaks my heart. One of the nicest guys you would ever want to meet. Has been great for this footy club but sadly it's time.

Wow. If you are saying this then his time must really be up!

Nice or not nice, he should have gone 4 weeks ago.

[Bloody Hell]

Horse stated in his post match that Tadhg has been down the last few weeks and they'll have to see what they can do to get him back into form.

[ScottH]

We may have seen the last of Tadhg as a player.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/afl/it-could-be-over-for-kennelly/story-e6frexwr-1226117819184

[Primmy]

At least this gives him space to work things out with a bit of credibility. I hope he plays a blinder in the twos.

[Cheer Squad]

I never supported Kennelly's return to the club after he came back from Ireland, because I thought it inevitable he'd break down at some stage.

He hasn't exactly broken down, but it's obvious he's nowhere near as productive as he used to be. I wonder if his recent decline in form has something to do with a concealed injury.

[Triple B]

I never supported Kennelly's return to the club after he came back from Ireland, because I thought it inevitable he'd break down at some stage.

He hasn't exactly broken down, but it's obvious he's nowhere near as productive as he used to be. I wonder if his recent decline in form has something to do with a concealed injury.

[Cheer Squad]

What else do you think explains his loss of form?

[Big Al]

What else do you think explains his loss of form?

Players lose form. Sometimes age creeps up on them. Confidence levels can wane.Or he could be carrying an injury. Unless they tell us we just don't know. The fact Horse has put him back to the ressies to work on his "confidence" suggests to me that there isn't a specific injury issue.

[Mr Magoo]

I think others have mentioned it but I think the change in the way the game is being played has really affected players like kennelly. He doesnt get anywhere near the space he used to and with age creeping up and less time to make good decisions he is struggling and has been made to look slow.
The lack of a decent preseason may not have helped either.

[wolftone57]

I think Al has it right, players age & as we age we get a little slower each year, I know I was a very fit guy & now I am lucky to be able to crawl out of bed in the morning without any major muscle problems. forwards are much more defensive than previously but even so Tadhg has lost a few yards (I still can't get my head around that saying in metric). Courageous player but sometimes you need to know when to hang the boots up.

[CJK]

Thank god the old donkey has been taken out the back and put out of his misery.

Should have happened a few weeks ago.

[Triple B]

What else do you think explains his loss of form?

The game has passed him by unfortunately. He was never a great 'defender' in the true spirit of the term, just a great rebounding backman whos deficiencies in defence were far outweighed by the run he gave us off half back. But alas, he has lost more than a yard of pace this year, the run just isn't there anymore and he is now a liability and has been since the middle of the year.

I'd suggest his actual body is probably better now than the year before he left, at least his shoulder has managed to stay in it's socket.

Even it does come to pass that he has carried a niggle which hasn't allowed him to perform, he gave us good service last season and the early part of this, a far cry from your bleating 'A disgrace, keeping a young guy out of the side, will break down and then we'll be a man down on the list' calls you made when he returned after his stint in Ireland. That's where you are clutching at straws, suggesting a non-existant injury is the reason to justify your glass empty outlook of 18 months ago.