Welcome Welcome to Hawthorn, Jackson Ross, Pick #71 2017

[Strapping Young Lad]

Welcome to Hawthorn, Jackson.

Smart, quick, tall.


http://www.heraldsun.com.au/leader/...t/news-story/dd74ac940d6aafedea56c0f8e460da9d
HE was one of Australia’s top tennis prospects but Jackson Ross is looming as a potential selection in this year’s AFL national draft.

Ross was a former Australian top-10 tennis junior but now has his sights set on making it onto an AFL list after returning to football less than two years ago.

The 17-year-old played junior football with South Belgrave until under-11s before his tennis career took off.

He had aspirations of being world No. 1, winning a Grand Slam and his favourite player was Novak Djokovic.

In hindsight he said those lofty ambitions were “a bit extreme”.

 

[Max Powers]

Welcome Jackson, all the best in your career at the brown and gold.

 

[Lethality]

A sharpshooter going by the goalkicking test(30/30). Also very good footskills. (29/30). I wonder what the downside is.

 

[Luv_our_club]

Love child of Michael Jackson and Diana Ross?

 

[bumsonseats]

Was really hoping we would pick up this guy but didn't expect it would be this late.
I saw somewhere that he can play across the wing......the thought of a tall running wingman excites me.
Upgrade on Willsmore

 

[Leather Poisoning]

Was really hoping we would pick up this guy but didn't expect it would be this late.
I saw somewhere that he can play across the wing......the thought of a tall running wingman excites me.
Upgrade on Willsmore

We shall call him Willsmost!

 

[Mojo]

Was really hoping we would pick up this guy but didn't expect it would be this late.
I saw somewhere that he can play across the wing......the thought of a tall running wingman excites me.
Upgrade on Willsmore

My 89 year-old grandma is an upgrade on Willsmore....

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

Champion Data say he is 192cm, but earns numbers like a small.

Ranks elite in Contested Possessions, Disposals, Goals, Assists and Score involvements.

 

[Restricted Free Agent]

Welcome to the Hawks Jackson, good luck on a hopefully very successful career

 

[VandoHawk]

Super high ceiling but also super unproven. Stats indicate he is elite. Fantastic late selection.

 

[Blaze Storm]

My 89 year-old grandma is an upgrade on Willsmore....

Why didn't she register for the draft then?

 

[Slick]

Speculative pick, but one I'm more than happy for us to take at that pick! Exciting to see him develop!

 

[Hawk Dork]

Why didn't she register for the draft then?

Freo or Norf would have snapped her up

 

[The German Hunter]

I’m most exited about this pick. Super raw but has gun written all over him.
The last junior top 10 tennis player that chose to play footy instead of tennis turned out ok too (Sloane)

 

[Alite]

Plenty to work with here. Clearly a long term project at 75kgs.

Jackson ROSS (info from AFL draft central)
Outside Midfielder/Medium Forward (Haileybury College/Eastern Ranges)
22/06/1999 (18yrs, 5months) | 192.5cm | 74.5kg
Scouting notes: Booted 29 goals playing as a centre half forward and on the wing for Haileybury College in the APS school competition. Comes from an elite tennis background and is still quite raw in football terms. Has a long kick and is able to use it on either side of his body. Very athletic and is a player with plenty of development left.
Strengths: Upside, mobility/versatile, kicking, scoreboard impact
Improvements: Consistency, tackling, reading the game
Combine test results: 20m Sprint (secs) – 3.09 | Agility (secs) – 8.46 | Yo-Yo Test (level) – 20.8

 

[Hawks1994]

I remember hearing about him through the grape vine in regards to his tennis career. Was always spoken of as being extremely agile for such a tall kid

Stats seem to show that he has translated that athletic ability to football

Looking forward to seeing him grow and develop; the perfect apprentice for Rough or Gunston

 

[Davo-27]

not so excited by this pick, he seems like a tall rangey runner that can kick goals on smaller opponents, i guess we'll see what he produces at Box Hill... at 75kgs another project player

 

[Davo-27]

he seems like a poor-mans Sicily without the aggro... well i wish him all the best

 

[Thaihawk]

I’m most exited about this pick. Super raw but has gun written all over him.
The last junior top 10 tennis player that chose to play footy instead of tennis turned out ok too (Sloane)

The f/s one we had stuck to tennis, and did all right too. Collected plenty of cash playing the game.

 

[The German Hunter]

The f/s one we had stuck to tennis, and did all right too. Collected plenty of cash playing the game.

He won’t win a flag playing tennis

 

[RIOLINWITPUNCHS]

He won’t win a flag playing tennis

Ironic that Vickery retires to follow his tennis playing missus on tour and then we pick up this guy especially after last year with the whole Mitchell/Lewis thing.

What will be the ironic thing next year I wonder.

 

[The German Hunter]

Ironic that Vickery retires to follow his tennis playing missus on tour and then we pick up this guy especially after last year with the whole Mitchell/Lewis thing.

What will be the ironic thing next year I wonder.

O’Rourke will retire and we will draft Ham String?

 

[GilPender]

Ironic that Vickery retires to follow his tennis playing missus on tour and then we pick up this guy especially after last year with the whole Mitchell/Lewis thing.

What will be the ironic thing next year I wonder.

What a coincidence?!

 

[Davo23]

What a coincidence?!

Is it an ironic coincidence?

 

[burger09]

A tall who plays small



Yeah you know what to do.

Shoot to kill, this is just noise pollution.