Traded #10: Aaron Francis - Traded to Sydney w. Pick 42 + Future fourth rounder for Pick 37. Thanks Frang!

[Beerfish]

Contract Status: Out of contract 2022
Injury Status: n/a

My Boy Draft 2022: Pick 29, Mr Bultitude

 

[Darealrath]

Looks such a natural footballer.

 

[quotemokc]

Just keep playing him

 

[Howard Moon]

Just keep playing him

Interesting log jam when/if smack is back.

Can't play smack JD stringer frang fwd

But he's looked better than in def imo. Hmm

 

[eDPS]

Very happy with his game today, when it clicks he will really start tearing games up. Has to play every week whether that’s back or forward.

 

[jmoo wan]

DERO said frangga’s played s**t. But he also said he kept getting him confused with stringer, so maybe he played okay

 

[eDPS]

DERO said frangga’s played ****. But he also said he kept getting him confused with stringer, so maybe he played okay

Nah think he mistook him for Baguley

 

[naraku]

I want to see him drift up towards the wings, I think from there he can lock the defence but also unlock our attack. Very pleased with Franga

 

[EnolaGay]

He's building week by week


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[Blind Turn]

Without being a match-winner, he was actually close to our most important structural performer tonight. If given the time he’ll work this forward caper out. Will be interesting to see where they settle him in coming weeks.

 

[DERO]

Nah think he mistook him for Baguley

I was mistaking Shiel for Baguley.

 

[Liberator]

Sharpening. Seemed to really enjoy kicking that goal- great to see. Also, he is really smart by hand...

 

[Doss]

He was excellent.

 

[DERO]

Best number 25 since Stringer.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Dropping this bloke was pure madness. We just have to keep playing him.

 

[Old Stuckup]

Dropping this bloke was pure madness. We just have to keep playing him.

How does he fit when Brown/McKernan return?

 

[yaco55]

His decision-making tonight was a class above - And he moved much better.

 

[Vander18]

The thing I really like about Franger - he’s very hard at it, in the air and on the deck.

Was really good in a terrible game.

 

[ant555]

The best part was his second efforts where up. We all know how good he can be when he has the ball so it was good to see one of the week areas of his game going up a level.

 

[Blind Turn]

His decision-making tonight was a class above - And he moved much better.

I’m happy to conveniently ignore his indecision that resulted in him kicking out on the full too given that the rest of his game was full of merit

 

[srobbo]

I think we keep him fwd. Got better as the game wore on, finding routes to hit up in & around i50. Has a clever head on him, so just needs time to familiarise himself to bed down a role there.

 

[ScrappyCoCo]

As i mentioned somewhere else I was sitting pretty much our the interchange. Franger was stuffed when he came off for a rest...more so than others, so fitness is still a work in progress. He was good last night and some of his grabs were terrific.

 

[DERO]

A part of the lack of cohesion in the transition from defence to a forward target can be put down to Brown being out. We are missing his work rate and willingness to continually present between the arcs.

Francis is not capable of getting up and down like Brown who is a running machine but if he does develop this capability he will take the game by the scruff of the neck. His talent is undeniable but does he have the willingness to continually run himself into the ground, pick himself up and do it again?

The lack of movement and as such genuine options moving from the back flank at times was obvious and is a real concern moving forward.

 

[blitzer]

I liked Francis' game and I thought he made a real impact from his touches. It will be interesting to see if Brown comes straight in for him or not. Brown has the workrate but he's very vanilla and you won't see him do the run down tackles, or the deft little knock on's and handballs that really create scoring opportunities. On the flipside Brown will get more of the ball, he will keep presenting far more, which will improve the link between our midfield and forward line and help reduce balls getting intercept marked because we have no targets. The other thing Brown does excellently is kick straight from set shots.

I think Francis as a forward prospect is a much better chance of making it than say Hurley/Carlisle were because I think he's much more of a utility and can still mark the ball with heat on him as a forward. Part of it is, he's stronger in his body and doesn't get moved off the ball as easily. Plus he has a real burst of pace when he's fresh and goes all out. The downside is that sometimes as a forward you simply have to do a lot of unrewarded running and presenting, can he get his fitness up to that level?

 

[rumply]

Keep playing Frang regardless is the only way to find out if he can get the tank we all desperately want to see him with because he wont get it playing VFL. Play him front, back, middle, who cares. All we need to see for the rest of the season is gradual improvement & given that last night he was good, by seasons end we could all be drooling.

 

[Red Black and Blue]

4 assists in two weeks, all of them with drawing handballs. That is a inside midfield trait, hopefully can get his fitness up to a level where he can run through there like Stringer.