Player Watch #1: Hugh Greenwood

[Kangaroos4eva]

He trimmed down after the knee and pretty sure he's leading the comp for tackles

Third behind Jack Steele at the top.

 

[Kciza]

Lays a lot of tackles because he's never first to the ball. Too slow

 

[Only Forwards]

This Bloke is coverage that we paid SFA for.

If Cunners and Jed were fit I am not sure he would be in the side.

If both were fit and we weren't in a COVID world he may not even be on our list.

He's not a building block of the team.

He is more like an umbrella we had to buy because it was pouring outside and they were on sale right in front of our face.

 

[Le Grille]

Imagine how smashed on the inside we’d be if he wasn’t playing ?

 

[roos_fanatic08]

Thought he would’ve provided a bit more on field leadership to be honest.

If he was still at GC I doubt he’d be getting a game

 

[Roosurgence]

This Bloke is coverage that we paid SFA for.

If Cunners and Jed were fit I am not sure he would be in the side.

If both were fit and we weren't in a COVID world he may not even be on our list.

He's not a building block of the team.

He is more like an umbrella we had to buy because it was pouring outside and they were on sale right in front of our face.

The problem is that Noble isn’t using his as coverage, he is using him as a prime midfielder at the expense of other mids like LDU.

If we are serious about rebuilding he shouldn’t be playing so many minutes in the midfield and should be spending more time forward with small midfield stints.

The mix is all wrong. Too many hack it forward bulls and not enough mids to break free of the contest.

Longmuir was taking the piss on Friday and directing all midfield traffic through his opponent. He must have been shocked that Noble kept letting him do it all night and made no change? It’s was laughable.

 

[shimaburnsgrieg]

Gold Coast made the right decision to rookie list this guy.

I can see why we picked him up given the Cunners situation but he has been very underwhelming - just another one of the senior players showing nothing and seemingly in no danger of getting dropped.

 

[Caracas]

Posters are really tying themselves up in knots re-writing history. The fact is our team is in a collective hole. Everybody has suffered as a result, particularly players who have had the greatest weight of expectations on them. Sometime, somehow Noble has to turn this around. We can only hope it can begin in Hobart this weekend.


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[LuvtheKangas]

I'd play him in the forward line and drop Ziebell. This would allow us to have a better midfield mix and a slightly better forward line.

 

[giantroo]

NEW ROO CLOSE TO TRIGGER​

NORTH Melbourne's free agent pick-up Hugh Greenwood is closing in on reaching his trigger for a contract extension with the Roos.

Greenwood crossed from Gold Coast to North Melbourne last off-season as a delisted free agent after agreeing to be temporarily delisted by the Suns as a list mechanism for the club.

But in the meantime Roos coach David Noble, who had a previous relationship with Greenwood from their time together at Adelaide, set his sights on adding the bigger-bodied midfielder to his mix and North completed the swoop.

Hugh Greenwood

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Hugh Greenwood

Age

32

Ht

190cm

Wt

92kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

16.9

4star

K

8.8

3star

HB

8.1

5star

M

2.3

2star

T

6.8

5star

CL

4.6

5star

D

17.4

4star

K

10.4

4star

HB

7.0

4star

M

1.5

2star

T

8.9

5star

CL

5.6

5star

D

16.4

4star

K

8.6

4star

HB

7.8

5star

M

2.2

3star

T

7.6

5star

CL

4.4

5star

at North Melbourne training on April 27, 2022. Picture: Getty Images

He agreed to a two-year deal with a games played clause for a third year, with Greenwood set to hit the mark in the next fortnight which will tie him to the Roos until the end of 2024.

The 30-year-old has played all of the Kangaroos' eight games so far this season, having spent two years at the Suns following three years with Adelaide.

The former basketballer has played 91 games at AFL level since debuting for the Crows as a 25-year-old. – Callum Twomey

 

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NEW ROO CLOSE TO TRIGGER​

NORTH Melbourne's free agent pick-up Hugh Greenwood is closing in on reaching his trigger for a contract extension with the Roos.

Greenwood crossed from Gold Coast to North Melbourne last off-season as a delisted free agent after agreeing to be temporarily delisted by the Suns as a list mechanism for the club.

But in the meantime Roos coach David Noble, who had a previous relationship with Greenwood from their time together at Adelaide, set his sights on adding the bigger-bodied midfielder to his mix and North completed the swoop.

Hugh Greenwood at North Melbourne training on April 27, 2022. Picture: Getty Images

He agreed to a two-year deal with a games played clause for a third year, with Greenwood set to hit the mark in the next fortnight which will tie him to the Roos until the end of 2024.

The 30-year-old has played all of the Kangaroos' eight games so far this season, having spent two years at the Suns following three years with Adelaide.

The former basketballer has played 91 games at AFL level since debuting for the Crows as a 25-year-old. – Callum Twomey

A games trigger of 10 out of a possible 44 to be granted a one year extension? Why bother!

 

[TennisPlayerAndy]

Play less than 25% of games gets you an extra year.

LOL.

 

[Passmore]

A games trigger of 10 out of a possible 44 to be granted a one year extension? Why bother!

Well you have to use some nice bait to get such a big fish to your club.

 

[roos_fanatic08]

Laughable contract. May as well have given him 3 years

 

[Merlin007]

Is there a bit of revisionism here? I can't remember anyone on the board thinking the Greenwood 'steal' was anything other than good business, and the structure of the contract was what was needed to get a senior player to move inter-state with a young family. Modest trigger for a third? big deal

 

[blackshadow]

Laughable contract. May as well have given him 3 years

Somehow I don't think it was envisaged that our best inside midfielder would be sidelined with cancer.

 

[Chewy Chewman]

I do wonder what his role will be once Phillips and Powell make it back into the team. Small forward?

 

[Mav]

A games trigger of 10 out of a possible 44 to be granted a one year extension? Why bother!

Play less than 25% of games gets you an extra year.

LOL.

Well you have to use some nice bait to get such a big fish to your club.

how do you know the games played trigger is based on 2 seasons? Could well be based on 1 season. And with our injury history its a very good clause.

 

[The Nostradamus]

Play less than 25% of games gets you an extra year.

LOL.

Is there a bit of revisionism here? I can't remember anyone on the board thinking the Greenwood 'steal' was anything other than good business, and the structure of the contract was what was needed to get a senior player to move inter-state with a young family. Modest trigger for a third? big deal

he'll be vfl for most of the next 2 year i reckon

the way the contract was structured was 500k for first 2 years but the trigger for the last year is only 250k so smoothes out the deal a bit

 

[King Corey]

Is there a bit of revisionism here? I can't remember anyone on the board thinking the Greenwood 'steal' was anything other than good business, and the structure of the contract was what was needed to get a senior player to move inter-state with a young family. Modest trigger for a third? big deal

Agree. He was being talked up like a massive upgrade Dumont and able cover for Cunnington.

A few weeks in and when things aren't firing on all cylinders he's a bust.

 

[The acurate one]

he'll be vfl for most of the next 2 year i reckon

the way the contract was structured was 500k for first 2 years but the trigger for the last year is only 250k so smoothes out the deal a bit

Is that such a bad thing? Our VFL side is crying out for some experience. I hope once Cunners, Phillips, Comben, Powell and a couple of others are playing seniors more often than not that we have some of our AFL battlers leading the way in the VFL.

 

[The Nostradamus]

Is that such a bad thing? Our VFL side is crying out for some experience. I hope once Cunners, Phillips, Comben, Powell and a couple of others are playing seniors more often than not that we have some of our AFL battlers leading the way in the VFL.

Didn’t say it was

 

[RossHenshaw]

I do wonder what his role will be once Phillips and Powell make it back into the team. Small forward?

At 191cm I don’t think he can play as a small forward. He is in the side for now in the midfield Group as the bigger body and for his tackling strengths. Jy , LDU & JHF are just not big enough.
He was definitely playing a lot more than just this role at the Suns . I feel he is not 100% for us ATM. In fact he has never looked fit since joining us. I know he had a serious knee injury late last year. He just does not look the player he was at GC. Hopefully he can recover that form vs West Coast in round 2 soon again.

 

[Passmore]

Is that such a bad thing? Our VFL side is crying out for some experience. I hope once Cunners, Phillips, Comben, Powell and a couple of others are playing seniors more often than not that we have some of our AFL battlers leading the way in the VFL.

Once Cunners retires, Phillips busts and Jason and Tommy go back to SA, he’ll captain of the 1’s.

 

[RossHenshaw]

Once Cunners retires, Phillips busts and Jason and Tommy go back to SA, he’ll captain of the 1’s.