2. Jarryd Roughead

[philhawk]

According to the My Man Thread, it looks like Furn will be one of the posters responsible for looking after Murph for us this season.

Take it away, Furn!

[Big Ronnie]

THe roughest head has met the roughest name to bloody type!!

Selection 19 Jarryd Roughead is Hodge-91011121314151617181920! (see i can count) man for 2008.

First things first our counting man, get his bloody hair cut!!

BR:thumbsu:

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Sorry about the lateness people, I know you guys were just dying to read the thread on the man with the rough head (and rough nuts). So here we go!

Name: Jarryd Roughead
DOB: 23rd of January, 1987 (21)
Drafted from: Leongatha/Gippsland U/18's
Debut: Round 3 (10th of March), 2005 vs Essendon - 12 Disposals, 2 Goals
Games (until end of 2007 season):
Goals (until end of 2007 season):
Height: 193cm
Weight: 101kg
Natural Foot: Left
Position: Key Forward, Key Defender, I prefer him in the forward line.
Nicknames: Roughie, Smooth, Roughnut (my personal favorite)

Yeh I'll post some articles now and my opinion later...

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http://www.elitesports.com.au/new/showarticle.php?articleID=337

Jarryd Roughead
By Content Migrator on 07.08.2007 in Hawthorn AFL TALENT

Subtitle: Hawthorn
Article:A tall left footed defender/forward, Roughead is blessed with excellent agilty and is a strong mark.

A talented junior basketballer good enough to contest several underage national championships, Roughead began to concentrate on football at 15 with immediate results.

He gained a place in the AIS-AFL Academy in 2003 after an excellent National Bank's AFL Under 16 Championships and gained senior experience by playing for Leongatha in the Gippsland Latrobe Football League last year, under the guidance of former AFL stars Paul Hudson and Andrew Dunkley.

With 40-plus goals during the 2004 TAC Cup season with Gippsland Power, Roughead underlined his versatility and was taken by Hawthorn with pick 2 at the 2004 National Bank's AFL Draft.

A return of 16 games, capped by a nomination for the NAB AFL Rising Star, in his debut season was a super result for both Roughead and the Hawks.

After starting the year in defence, time forward towards the end of 2006 indicates Roughead is ready to assume a key post in the Hawthorn attacking setup.

They will hope Roughead can be another in a long line of stars to emerge from their former recruiting zone in Victoria's east.

This continued further in 2007, with Roughead a key figure in Hawthorn's success, highlighted by five goals against Carlton in Round 12.

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2004 AFL national draft list


1. Richmond: Brett Deledio (Murray Bushrangers)
2. Hawthorn: Jarryd Roughead (Gippsland Power)
3. Western Bulldogs: Ryan Griffen (South Adelaide)
4. Richmond: Richard Tambling (Southern Districts)
5. Hawthorn: Lance Franklin (Perth)

http://www.abc.net.au/sport/content/200411/s1248719.htm

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http://www.mytalk.com.au/aspx/pages/mediaplayer.aspx?t=audio&w=7858

Hawthorn forward Jarryd Roughead joined 3AW Football the day after his four goals helped sink Freo:thumbsu:

[noosa hawk mad]

http://www.realfooty.com.au/news/news/rougheads-buddy-keeps-the-smiles-coming/2008/04/11/1207856837502.html?page=2

Roughead's buddy keeps the smiles coming

Martin Flanagan | April 12, 2008

BUDDY Franklin. Even the name's different. Buddy's an American name from the 1940s and 1950s. Buddy Rich was a great jazz drummer. I've never heard of an Australian being called Buddy, but then I haven't seen anything quite like Lance "Buddy" Franklin, either.
If sport is theatre, this boy's the star attraction. Only I shouldn't call him a boy. Buddy's a young man — tall, slender, brown-skinned, dark-haired, a smile that's a crease of light. And then there's the way he walks. To call it a strut is too strong a word for me because there's an easiness in the style that tells you Buddy's only doing what comes naturally.
He's like a jazzman, cool and unafraid, and, let's be frank, Buddy knows he's good. He's at ease out there with all those people watching because he's got the measure of the game. For me, last Saturday was one of those, "I knew he was good, but I didn't know he was that good" moments. Watching Hawthorn's electric responses to Buddy's every move, I was reminded of Peter Hudson, Hawthorn's great full-forward of the 1970s. Coach John Kennedy unashamedly set up the forward line around Hudson. They'd leave him one-out on the full-back in a way you can't do nowadays because players are so much more athletic and can get back and cover.
Back then, they looked like two sentries facing one another at a lonely border crossing. Their war was entirely personal. Periodically, the ball would break into their space and the contest would be on, naked and unadorned.
If Buddy looks good in every way, "Huddo", as he was known, didn't. Huddo looked like a tractor, with heavy thighs and long arms and a waddle in his walk. He wore long sleeves — taken, in those days, as a sure sign of being a lesser male. But he was quick and artful and marks stuck to his hands and he kicked ugly flat punts that went dead straight and he got belted every week just as surely as he scored lots of goals.
What do Buddy and Huddo have in common? In football, the play mostly transfers from line to line. Not when Buddy and Huddo are involved. Everyone — players and crowd — knew in Huddo's day like they know now that when Buddy goes for the ball that he is the game. Coaches can say what they like to diminish the status of individuals within their teams but I go to the football, unashamedly, to see the ones whose performances are greater than themselves.
Last Saturday's match between Hawthorn and North Melbourne at Telstra Dome was a beauty. North was terrific. It had a plan that worked. All it required was everything the Roos had and that's precisely what they gave it. They also have a champion, Brent "Boomer" Harvey.

Boomer's not like Buddy, not at all. For a start, he is, or was, the smallest man in the competition. He's white-skinned, not real pretty, but he's a mighty player, large of heart and possessed of classic skills. Check out, if you can, a moment in the third quarter on the wing when Boomer gets the ball and has three to beat.
We lament the loss of skills to the game — for example, the dummy and the baulk. We haven't been watching closely enough. Boomer did them all, but he did them at speed and what, in a slower game, was done extravagantly as a signal to the crowd to laugh and cheer is now little more than a hint, enough to send your opponent the wrong way for a second because that's all you need, you're past him.
North won for most of the day but lost convincingly in the end. The Roos were spent in body and mind and the Hawks were humming.
Other Hawthorn players who caught my eye? Cyril "Junior Boy" Rioli. His mother is Michael Long's sister. Through his father's side, he's related to another great football product of the Tiwi Islands, Maurice Rioli. Junior has Norm Smith medallists on both sides of his family. He plays like a Rioli with a hint of that hyper-energy Long brought to his great performances. Junior had four intersections with Saturday's game that were brief but thrilling. Check out the possibilities that suddenly appear when a player from the Tiwi Islands has the ball.
This article would be less than complete if I didn't also mention the phenomenon of Jarryd Roughead. Imagine you were talking to a television producer. You've got a show starring a tall, slim, extremely good-looking young man of colour (as we say nowadays) and we want the program to have general appeal. We need another character to act as a contrast for our hero, sort of like Richie was to the Fonz in Happy Days. Wouldn't you come up with Jarryd Roughead?
It's not enough that he's white-skinned and shaped like a doorway. What name would you give him if you were trying to slyly suggest the star of your show is extremely good-looking. You'd give him a name like Roughead. The Hawthorn forward line is like a cartoon, The Buddy and Roughead Show, but it works. In the sort of defensive panic Buddy engenders, opportunities are created that Roughead is more than capable of taking.
Finally, I have to mention Brad Sewell. I have to mention him because he's the sort of player you can easily miss. He's a Volkswagen among sports cars. Last Saturday, when North looked like it could tear Hawthorn apart, it was Sewell who kept getting the ball and bringing it forward, running at the North defenders and making them turn and run back to cover him. Obviously, Hawthorn knows how good Sewell is. He won its 2007 best and fairest. The Hawks, unlike me, have always been sober in their judgement of a footballer.

[noosa hawk mad]

http://www.realfooty.com.au/news/news/the-day-roughead-stopped-a-roughie/2008/04/27/1209234659322.html

The day the roughie was stopped by Roughead

Jake Niall | April 28, 2008

PUT a tall opponent on him and he's too quick. Put a quick player on him and he's too tall.
You can't chop his unreasonably long arms. Give him a yard and, as Leigh Matthews said, it's "game over" on the lead.
But Buddy Franklin can be stopped: by himself.
Last night Franklin booted 1.7. It was not as lamentable a yield as his 2.11 against the Western Bulldogs last year, but his wayward boot kept the Tigers alive for an uncomfortably long time.
They are both super athletic, 196-198 centimetre power forwards with outsized personalities. Leading men character actors, too.
But where as Richo's career has been frustrated by a combination of his own flaws and those (much greater) of his club, the more talented Franklin has been blessed to arrive at the right club in the right era.
Apart from one season from Brad Ottens, Richo has never had a foil like Jarryd Roughead.
"Roughie" is precisely the buddy that Franklin needs along side him: a solid bloke with a lumberjack physique, who can't be budged. He's the rock on which the cult of Franklin will be built.
Roughead and Franklin are one of those double acts in which the surnames are almost hyphenated, like Lillee-Thompson, Brereton-Dunstall, Abbott-Costello.
Without Roughead, Franklin will be double and triple teamed.
Even though he has been the game's most potent player this year, Franklin cannot hold up a forward line alone.
The beauty of this partnership is that they are so complementary.
Franklin is quick; Roughead is one-paced. Buddy is very left footed the conservative Roughead, fittingly kicks right. Buddy is freakish; Roughie is as plain as his name and the steadier man.
Franklin was crowded out last night and his failed him. As the match progressed Kelvin Moore, his unlikely opponent smothered him, albeit with a little help from his friends.
Roughead, thus, wasn't the foil. He became the primary target.
As it became clear that Buddy was having one of those nights — which concluded with a possible shoulder injury — the Hawks increasingly looked to Roughead in his mis-match on Luke McGuane.
Roughead's right boot had also been errant. At one point he had 1.3 from four shots and at halftime he and Buddy had contributed just three goals from 10 shots.
In the second half however, Roughead straightened his boot and did not miss nor drop any marks. His final yield of 5.3 was the difference. It shouldn't have been, but it was.

It seems a cruel part of the Roughead/Franklin story that the former has had some of his best performances against Richmond.
As Richmond supporters have obsessively noted on their feisty websites, the Tigers had the opportunity to draft both of the Hawks forwards. Instead they have the combination of Brett Deledio and Richard Tambling.
Deledio clearly has the gifts of a number one pick and that is part of his problem. Just as Paul Salmon had the misfortune to be so talented for a 205 centimetre player that he spent too much of his career at full forward, Deledio also has suffered for his versatility. This year Terry Wallace has used him mainly as a marking forward to support Richardson - a structure that might suit Richmond but does not help Deledio much.
If he is to be the super star Richmond cries out for, it will surely be as a midfielder getting 25-30 possessions rather than as a mid-sized forward booting two or three goals.
Meanwhile, Tambling shows flashes without much constancy.
It is significant, and often forgotten, that for all the Buddy-mania, Roughead was selected before the Hawk headliner in the 2004 national draft. That says something about what hawthorn thinks of Jarryd Roughead.
He will never boot 10 goals in a game. He will never sell a million posters or generate the kind of hysteria that engulfs his forward buddy. But he is less likely to contribute 1-7 against a team that Hawthorn should beat in its sleep.

[GALON]

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http://www.realfooty.com.au/news/news/its-all-good-for-hawk-roughie/2008/05/08/1210131168723.html
It's all good for Hawk roughie

Greg Baum | May 9, 2008

JARRYD Roughead's end of a short conversation with The Age in the middle of the MCG yesterday was punctuated every few seconds by the subordinate clause "which is good".
Which is not surprising. Roughead just now is enjoying a phase of his football career that, to say the least, is good. Every other week, he plays with Lance Franklin, which makes for rich pickings: six goals against Collingwood last Saturday, five against Richmond the week before, 24 for the season.
Tomorrow, for a variation, he will be at the other end of the ground to Franklin, but alongside Jonathan Brown and Brendan Fevola. Hawthorn captain Sam Mitchell this week said the club saw Roughead as a future Jonathan Brown.
"I don't know about that," Roughead said. "But it's obviously good to play with the likes of Brownie and Fev, hopefully playing up in the forward line, feed off them and get some experience, which is good.
"Obviously, Brownie is a great player. He'd won three flags by the time he was 21. Just to be playing with him is a great honour."
A great relief will be to be at a safe distance from Franklin. It will bring back memories. "We played juniors against each other when he was a WA boy and I was Vic Country," Roughead said. "He was always talented. Everyone could tell he was going to be a good player."
The closest they came to one-on-one was the day Franklin played in the ruck. "I think they were a bit small, the WA boys," he said.
"We're pretty good mates. To play alongside someone like that is pretty good. He takes a couple of defenders, which can leave myself or a couple of the other boys open, which is good. When he's at his peak, he's a bit hard to stop.
"I'm looking forward to Saturday. He's the only one I'll be giving a bit of s--- to." Which is good, kinda.
Roughead, if he plays, will have to deal with a dynamic glossed over in pre-publicity, but in the past was not always good. In club football, two many tall forwards in one team often is a bad thing. Contemplating the tribute match, it is assumed that Brown, Fevola and Roughead at one end, Franklin, Matthew Richardson and Matthew Pavlich at the other, will gel seamlessly.
Roughead does not see this as insurmountable. After all, it is a weekly problem at Hawthorn, and a pleasant one.
"It's more understanding each other and working out how they play and what their strengths are," he said. "One guy's strengths might be running back with the ball and one might be leading up, so we just have to work with each other. Get an understanding. Which is good."
But he admitted the Hawks have the advantage of having arrived, trained and played together for three years, not three sessions.
Roughead said he did not remember interstate football at its zenith, but sensed its gravitas and was proud to be picked at only 21, albeit late. He was with family in Leongatha when the summons came. "Got the call-up Monday and had to come back pretty quick," he said. "Which was good. Very good."

[RustyHawk]

Roughead decoy behind Buddy rise

Mark Hayes | June 09, 2008 12:00am

(talking about Round 11 clash against Essendon at the Dome 07.06.08)

BUDDY will get the votes and the headlines - nine goals in this era makes that a certainty. But there are several factors in Lance Franklin's surge towards the ton, not least of whom is the big bloke who appears destined to stand in No. 23's shadow.

Jarryd Roughead was taken three places above Franklin in the 2004 draft, but that might have been the last time his name was the more prominent of the pair.

And while Franklin's 59 majors at the halfway mark of the season are rightly lauded, it would be foolish to overlook Roughead, whose three goals on Saturday night against Essendon propelled him to 35 for the season and fifth in the Coleman Medal race.

That's 94 combined goals from a combination that has already fired a mind-blowing 154 shots at goal in just 11 rounds - a pace that already ranks them among the leading one-two combinations in the modern era.

While it now looks as if they've teamed this way for years, Hawk fans will realise their cohesion is a new facet after the pair often made similar leads in their first season together in attack last year, often resulting in their respective backmen being given an inadvertent helping hand.

But those days are gone, as evidenced on Saturday with Roughead repeatedly leading his opponent Dustin Fletcher away from the "Buddy zone," leaving Franklin one-on-one with Paddy Ryder.

While not necessarily a hard team rule, its effectiveness thrills coach Alastair Clarkson.

"(It) was noticeable early in the game, Roughy had to sacrifice his position a fair bit, but that's what team play is all about," Clarkson said on Saturday night.

"As it turned out, they (the Bombers) were recognising that Franklin was making too great a contribution and that's when 'Roughy' started to kick his goals.

"He ended up with three, so that's what team play's all about."

Vice-captain Luke Hodge said it was a sign of the young Hawks' growing maturity.

"It's not a tactic for Roughy to leave Buddy one-on-one - he's kicked 30-odd goals himself, but it's more a matter of the way they run now," Hodge said.

"Buddy was free for a while, then Roughy - they're starting to work well as a team. It's not me, me, me like it used to be, perhaps - it's more about the group.

"And (Mark) Williams, (Cyril) Rioli and (Tim) Boyle play their part up there, too. They all know it doesn't matter who kicks 'em, as long as we kick 'em."

Clarkson gave captain Sam Mitchell high praise, too, for similar selfless efforts against Essendon including a game-high seven clearances.

"He's amazingly courageous and . . . he got bashed from pillar to post tonight, but still played an important role for us," Clarkson said.

"(But) by having such a strong tag in (Andrew) Welsh, who did a pretty good job, it allowed other guys to be free for us because 'Mitch' was able to block.

"So we got a lot of free ball from our stoppages, primarily because of the sacrifice of Mitchell's game and we're really pleased with his contribution even though (his) statistics didn't say that he had a great game.

"If teams continue to tag Mitchell, for instance, (Jordan) Lewis and Hodge and others end up getting good . . . easy clearances because of the sacrifice that Mitchell makes, then we're delighted with that because they've got to make a pretty tough decision."

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It must be Rough, Rough, Rough!
Roughead has shown why he was selected as one of Hawthorn's Twin Towers, as his stellar 2008 season just gets better and better. With already 52 goals under his belt at an average of 3.25 goals a game, Jarryd is well on track to kick 70 goals during the regular season. His towering frame of 193cm and 101kg is part of an awesome forward line that is striking fear into the hearts of opposition defenders.

Roughead is shooting accuracy is 60% (52 goals 36 behinds after 16 rounds) up from 52% (40 goals, 36 behinds from 22 games, in 2007) This is a dramatic improvement, but one would say that there is still massive room for improvement as he continues to work on his kicking skills.

With the finals approaching the Hawthorn spear head is continuing to have an impact as part of one of the most lethal forward lines in the AFL.

Go you good thing!

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Congratulations to Jarryd Roughead on 50 goals for the season! :thumbsu::thumbsu:

You star!! :thumbsu:

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Don't overlook the sidekicks to the stars

Robert Walls | August 9, 2008

TODAY the Hawks will take on the Brisbane Lions in Tasmania, and again the focus will be on the gun forwards Lance "Buddy" Franklin, who leads the goalkicking list with 85, and triple premiership player Jonathan Brown, the man with the biggest on-field presence in the game.
But there is more, much more for football lovers to enjoy when they watch this game. Both Franklin and Brown have great support acts in 2008 that are helping them and their teams as we draw towards the end of the season.
Jarryd Roughead and Daniel Bradshaw might well be considered by some to be in the shade of their superstar teammates, but both are having fine seasons, and their efforts should be acknowledged.
Roughead and Franklin were born only seven days apart, and the 22-year-olds both made their debuts in 2005, Franklin in round one and Roughead two weeks later. In less than three years, the pair became the Hawks' leading goalkickers.
This season they are dominating, having thus far kicked 143 of the team's 285 goals. That's 50% of the team's score. Roughead is overshadowed by the hype and excitement that surrounds "Buddy", but you get the feeling he doesn't care that much.
With the spotlight and usually the best defender and opposition strategies going onto Franklin, the redhead from Leongatha can do his own thing without fuss or fanfare. And he does.
For a big man, Roughead covers enormous ground. He continually pushes into the Hawthorn defensive half to help out. At centre bounces, he will often charge in off the line from the wing position to take advantage of his left-foot arc.
From a set shot he is a deep, penetrating kick. The run-up is short and straight, and it is a powerful follow through. Roughead is a more accurate kick than his mate, shooting at 60.4% accuracy, compared with Franklin's 55.9%.
Contested marking is a real strength of Roughead's. Weighing in at more than 100 kilograms, he doesn't get shifted off the ball when bodies clash and with his arms at full stretch, he is very much a one-grab marker of the ball.
At ground level he is no slouch either, being very quick and clean at controlling the ball below the knees. And with an affable, easy-going nature, Roughead might increasingly become the face of the club as his buddy retreats from the mountains of publicity he generates.
Apart from Nigel Lappin, Bradshaw — who turns 30 later this year — is the longest-serving Lion at the club. Coming from Wodonga as a teenager, Bradshaw made his debut in 1996. So he has seen it all up north. The battles, the premierships and now the rebirth.
Throughout it all he has been low-key and reliable, whether playing as a key defender or full-forward. Two years ago, he topped his club's goalkicking with 59 majors. Last year he wrecked his knee and missed the complete season.
This year he has bounced back and is in career-best form. Already he has a season-best tally of 63 goals and, with an accuracy rate of 72%, is showing the younger boys how it's done.
Few players read the ball better off the boot than Bradshaw. He leads quickly and decisively and has a strong pair of hands. He also has plenty of courage, being prepared to stand his ground to contest marks, when he knows full well he will be crunched.
He and Brown, who have played together for nine seasons, have a wonderful understanding. Time and again when one has possession outside the 50-metre arc, that player will show patience and wait for his mate to lead. Then a skilful, well-weighted pass will be put into the leading player's path.
So enjoy the Brown-Franklin show today, but don't underestimate the importance of their sidekicks.

[RustyHawk]

Eight Hawks re-sign for two more

August 14, 2008 HAWTHORN have signed new deals with eight players, which will keep them at the AFL club for the next two years.

The eight players are Jarryd Roughead, Chance Bateman, Jordan Lewis, Robert Campbell, Mark Williams, Mitch Thorp, Brent Renouf and Jarryd Morton.

Hawks football manager Mark Evans said this week's re-signings were a great boost for the club's future.

"It's a strong message to have eight players who are such a big part of our future quest for premiership success all coming out in the one week and agreeing to terms, it's a great message of solidarity," Evans told the Nine Network's AFL Footy Show.

The Hawks are currently second on the ladder.





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[RustyHawk]

Preliminary Final 2008

What a Goal! It was impossible to split two contrasting, team-lifting goals from Jarryd Roughead and Shane Crawford late in the second term for the honour of the best goal of the game but one thing was for sure, both goals bought the Hawks crowd to their feet and helped bury the Saints during the Hawks' second-term onslaught.

The margin was already 35 points when Roughead somehow roved a hit-out from a boundary throw-in and quick as a flash booted a superb goal over his shoulder at the 25 minute mark. Then just two minutes later Crawford kicked a magnificent goal on the run from 35 metres out on the boundary line, right in front of a large contingent of adoring Hawks fans to give his team an eight goal lead going into half-time.


Roughie played a great game against the Saints kicking 4 goals including the one described above.

[noosa hawk mad]

We can take Cats: Roughead





By David Reed 2:06 PM Sun 21 September, 2008
http://mm.afl.com.au/Portals/0/images/AFL/AFL%20A-E/RougheadConfident_246a.jpgJarryd Roughead believes 10-15 goals from the Hawks will be enough to defeat Geelong


HAWTHORN key forward Jarryd Roughead has declared Geelong “there for the beating” in next Saturday’s grand final at the MCG.
Roughead said the Hawks would have won the round 17 clash with the Cats if not for some skill errors.
“We had a few costly turnovers that probably cost us the game,” Roughead said.
“We were probably in it for three quarters and a few mistakes, that we let ourselves down with, cost us.
“I reckon they are there for the beating.”

Roughead’s premiership confidence was backed up by ruckman Robert Campbell, who was also keen to talk up Hawthorn's chances the day after the Hawks defeated St Kilda by 54 points in their preliminary final.
“Anyone on their day is right to be beaten,” Campbell said.

“We’ll go into the game up against the form side of the past two years and the benchmark for every other club to reach, but you can’t go into a grand final and not thinking you are going to win.


“You want to play against the best, so why not on the day of all days?”
Roughead said the Hawks had learned plenty from the massive round 17 match-up with the Cats.


“That was the biggest crowd I had ever played in front of, but it was a good learning curve for us all to play in front of a crowd of 90,000 plus and you play against the best team in Australia,” Roughead said.


“It is pretty good experience, and a good step to the grand final.
“We are looking forward to it on Saturday and ripping right in.”
Roughead suggested that between 10 and 15 goals would be enough to beat the Cats.


“Last night we kicked 15, but when we played Geelong last time we kicked 10 or 11 and were only 11 points off,” Roughead said.
“So give or take, between 10 and 15 goals [is what we’ll need].”


Campbell said the Hawks now had the right balance of aggression and skill after sometimes falling foul of the umpires in the past few years.


“We have a lot of guys who will play right to that edge, and that’s what makes them the players they are,” Campbell said.
“That had an effect on the side in the past, but I think we have matured a lot over the past 12 months.
“I don’t reckon it will be an issue at all.”

[RustyHawk]

2008 Brownlow votes: 7

[noosa hawk mad]

Roughhttp://www.afl.com.au/News/NEWSARTICLE/tabid/208/Default.aspx?newsId=68142ead more at ease in front of goal





By Adam Cooper 8:02 PM Tue 23 September, 2008
http://mm.afl.com.au/Portals/0/images/AFL/AFL%20A-E/RougheadConfident_246a.jpgJarryd Roughead


HAWTHORN forward Jarryd Roughead says he is now a better set shot for goal than this time last year when his inaccuracy nearly helped bundle the Hawks out of the finals.


Roughead's two misses from set shots late in the nail biting elimination final against Adelaide in 2007 nearly cost his side dearly, until Lance Franklin saved the day with the winning goal.


The misses prompted Roughead to work hard on his goalkicking during the off-season, and he has responded in 2008 with 73.51, a strike-rate of 59 per cent accuracy, up from 52 per cent in 2007.


After a return of four goals straight in the preliminary final win over St Kilda last Saturday night, Roughead said he felt more confident booting for goal after beefing up his workload since that final last year.
"Over the pre-season, I worked a fair bit on it with (former teammate) Ben Dixon and David Rath, one of our kicking coaches, and worked out a good routine," Roughead said.
"And I get out there two times a week and practise for half an hour or an hour to keep improving, which is good.


"It's just getting a routine down pat and working on it and practising - that's the best way for it."
Roughead's contribution has him fourth on the list of goal kickers across the league in 2008, behind only Franklin (111), Carlton's Brendan Fevola (99) and Brisbane's Daniel Bradshaw (75).


But he has not attracted nearly any of the fanfare of those three, given Franklin's megastar status has meant the left-footer from Leongatha in country Victoria has enjoyed a largely low-profile season.
"Buddy (Franklin) is a great player and for the next 10 years he'll cop what (attention) he cops," Roughead said.


"So I'm happy to go under the radar and do what I have to do week in, week out, which is good."
Roughead, Franklin and Mark Williams, who has booted 43 goals this campaign, form a potent triumvirate in Hawthorn's attack, and one with flexibility.


All three forwards can play close to goal or be effective when the major target, such as Williams proved when he kicked five goals against the Saints last weekend.
"It's good variety to have down there with 'Junior' (Cyril) Rioli there as well," Williams said.
"So if someone doesn't get a kick one week, someone else will."

[noosa hawk mad]

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24403205-5012432,00.htmlHawks' country boy Jarryd Roughead stirs old Swan Andrew Dunkley







Courtney Walsh | September 26, 2008

FORMER Sydney full-back Andrew Dunkley doesn't watch footy much these days but will make an exception tomorrow.
The elite defender, who notched 217 matches for the Swans including the 1996 grand final, laments the direction the game has gone since his retirement in 2002.


Yet the feats of his natural enemy as a player - a Hawthorn forward of outstanding talent and character - have convinced the 40-year-old to watch the grand final from Yarram, a south-eastern Victoria town where he runs a farming machinery business. But that freakish talent is not Buddy



Franklin, rather Hawthorn's lower-profile star Jarryd Roughead, the club's forward-line captain and one-time member of Dunkley's 2004 Leongatha grand final side.
The forward, who Dunkley plans to ring today to "gee him up a bit", regularly texts the former Swan's oldest son Josh, 11, to check his progress, hence his Yarram fan club.


"He gives me a reason to watch the footy," Dunkley said.
"He is a great kid, a country boy with plenty of character and some good values.
"I told Sydney about him but do you think they listened? They needed to trade to get the early draft picks but he was worth it."


While Franklin is football's hottest property after an outstanding season that saw him clinch the Coleman Medal, Roughead has also had a brilliant season.
The 21-year-old, who was taken three spots ahead of Franklin in the 2004 draft at pick two, has kicked 73.51 playing predominantly as a centre-half forward, including four last week against St Kilda.


While Franklin has 111.87 to his name, statistics late in the season showed Hawthorn directed the ball through Franklin almost half the time they moved forward, with Roughead the target approximately 20 per cent of the time. Yet his output has him sharing the company of champions Jonathan Brown and Matthew Pavlich.


"You tell me the last time a centre-half forward had a season like him when he is not the sole target?" Dunkley asked.
"What he has made out of his opportunities is magnificent."
That Roughead has done so while taking control of the forward line is even more credible.

"He directs us pretty well and lets us know how we're going after every quarter, so it is good to have him down there as a captain," team-mate Mark Williams said.
The Hawk, a former basketball talent who switched to football and joined the Leongatha Parrots, whose home ground is fittingly on Roughead St, at the urgings of his father, Michael.


But Roughead was not always as aware of his surroundings, admitting this week he had little idea of what he was doing when playing for Dunkley in his only previous grand final experience.
"I played a senior one with Leongatha when I was 16 and we got done," he said.


"I didn't really know what to expect back then and I suppose I still don't know.
'(I'll) try to be calm and enjoy the week. There has been no point trying to play it down."
It is a wise approach given grand final week is impossible to play down. Roughead and the Hawks yesterday trained in front of 10,000 fans at Waverley Park, the scene of their last premiership win in 1991 over West Coast.


That crowd will multiply ten-fold today with a massive crowd expected at the first grand final parade involving two Victorian teams since 2000, while the MCG will be at capacity tomorrow.
While the Hawks concede Geelong grand final experience, Roughead believes their round-17 clash, won by the Cats by 11 points in front of 86,179 people, stands his side in good stead for tomorrow.


"That was the biggest crowd I'd ever played in front of, but it was a good learning curve to play in front of a crowd of 90,000-odd, against the best team in Australia," he said.
"It was a pretty good experience and a good step towards the grand final.



We were in it for three quarters, but with a few mistakes we probably cost ourselves. They are there for the beating, so we will see how we go.
"It is the last game in September but it is just another game."
Maybe not, but win or lose, it is likely Roughead will always be a hero in Yarram.

[noosa hawk mad]

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24403205-5012432,00.htmlHawks' country boy Jarryd Roughead stirs old Swan Andrew Dunkley







Courtney Walsh | September 26, 2008

FORMER Sydney full-back Andrew Dunkley doesn't watch footy much these days but will make an exception tomorrow.
The elite defender, who notched 217 matches for the Swans including the 1996 grand final, laments the direction the game has gone since his retirement in 2002.


Yet the feats of his natural enemy as a player - a Hawthorn forward of outstanding talent and character - have convinced the 40-year-old to watch the grand final from Yarram, a south-eastern Victoria town where he runs a farming machinery business. But that freakish talent is not Buddy



Franklin, rather Hawthorn's lower-profile star Jarryd Roughead, the club's forward-line captain and one-time member of Dunkley's 2004 Leongatha grand final side.
The forward, who Dunkley plans to ring today to "gee him up a bit", regularly texts the former Swan's oldest son Josh, 11, to check his progress, hence his Yarram fan club.


"He gives me a reason to watch the footy," Dunkley said.
"He is a great kid, a country boy with plenty of character and some good values.
"I told Sydney about him but do you think they listened? They needed to trade to get the early draft picks but he was worth it."


While Franklin is football's hottest property after an outstanding season that saw him clinch the Coleman Medal, Roughead has also had a brilliant season.
The 21-year-old, who was taken three spots ahead of Franklin in the 2004 draft at pick two, has kicked 73.51 playing predominantly as a centre-half forward, including four last week against St Kilda.


While Franklin has 111.87 to his name, statistics late in the season showed Hawthorn directed the ball through Franklin almost half the time they moved forward, with Roughead the target approximately 20 per cent of the time. Yet his output has him sharing the company of champions Jonathan Brown and Matthew Pavlich.


"You tell me the last time a centre-half forward had a season like him when he is not the sole target?" Dunkley asked.
"What he has made out of his opportunities is magnificent."
That Roughead has done so while taking control of the forward line is even more credible.

"He directs us pretty well and lets us know how we're going after every quarter, so it is good to have him down there as a captain," team-mate Mark Williams said.
The Hawk, a former basketball talent who switched to football and joined the Leongatha Parrots, whose home ground is fittingly on Roughead St, at the urgings of his father, Michael.


But Roughead was not always as aware of his surroundings, admitting this week he had little idea of what he was doing when playing for Dunkley in his only previous grand final experience.
"I played a senior one with Leongatha when I was 16 and we got done," he said.


"I didn't really know what to expect back then and I suppose I still don't know.
'(I'll) try to be calm and enjoy the week. There has been no point trying to play it down."
It is a wise approach given grand final week is impossible to play down. Roughead and the Hawks yesterday trained in front of 10,000 fans at Waverley Park, the scene of their last premiership win in 1991 over West Coast.


That crowd will multiply ten-fold today with a massive crowd expected at the first grand final parade involving two Victorian teams since 2000, while the MCG will be at capacity tomorrow.
While the Hawks concede Geelong grand final experience, Roughead believes their round-17 clash, won by the Cats by 11 points in front of 86,179 people, stands his side in good stead for tomorrow.


"That was the biggest crowd I'd ever played in front of, but it was a good learning curve to play in front of a crowd of 90,000-odd, against the best team in Australia," he said.
"It was a pretty good experience and a good step towards the grand final.



We were in it for three quarters, but with a few mistakes we probably cost ourselves. They are there for the beating, so we will see how we go.
"It is the last game in September but it is just another game."
Maybe not, but win or lose, it is likely Roughead will always be a hero in Yarram.

[RustyHawk]

Saturday 4th October 2008

Peter Crimmins Medal (Hawthorn Best and Fairest Award)

Jarryd Roughead won the most consistant player award.

Jarryd also came in 4th in the count behind Franklin, Mitchell and Hodge. Not bad company there!