Player Watch #30: Charlie Comben - signed til end '27

[Shack18]

The fwd experiment didn't work against Sydney last week & again last night. Looked a completely more confident & assured player once he went back in the last qtr of both games.
We have so many holes to fill, why mess with one that we can just lock in & set and we know what we'll get?

So true, we need to play these guys in our best positions. Logue is by far our worst key defender, therefore move him forward to replace Larkey

 

[Moti]

The fwd experiment didn't work against Sydney last week & again last night. Looked a completely more confident & assured player once he went back in the last qtr of both games.
We have so many holes to fill, why mess with one that we can just lock in & set and we know what we'll get?

I was one pushing for him to play forward, but now he has to play back. He likes it easy and the intercept defender is the role for him.

 

[Blightys Barrel]

As soon as Chom moves forward his coordination levels drop 45% and his one touches become four touches. Send him back and he clunks them and his one touch returns. He has one of the biggest hearts out there a shame he has to play alongside the likes of Mykonos Logue and that Suburban footballer we got from the Dogs who no longer can play the game at this level.

 

[PokerRoo]

Should walk straight into Clarkson's office......

 

[Better Loosen Up]

Never plays as a forward again

 

[My Left Foote]

Absolutely cruelled us not only did he not have any impact up forward but we desperately missed him down back, just a brain dead decision by our super coach.

 

[Disco Dew]

We’ve got a couple guys showing a bit up forward in the VFL.
No reason for Chom to go forward ever again

 

[Merlin007]

Never plays as a forward again

Absolutely cruelled us not only did he not have any impact up forward but we desperately missed him down back, just a brain dead decision by our super coach.

I would have thought we’d learn that lesson the previous week, but I guess they’re struggling to name a coherent group of talls

 

[ferball]

I would have thought we’d learn that lesson the previous week, but I guess they’re struggling to name a coherent group of talls

Its not that hard to have moved Logue forward. The year before he came to us he played the last third (or more) on the forward line and still kicked a goal a game and played ruck as well.

 

[WayneShimmiesTheBush]

 

[hotchilli]

It clearly didn’t work but it was worth a look to throw him forward.

 

[Roos29]

How the narrative has changed around his position in the side.

 

[chickenonachain]

His only string to his bow is intercept marking there’s nothing else.

 

[DarkPhoenix]

How the narrative has changed around his position in the side.

Was thinking the same thing.

Wasn't so long ago that phrases on the level of "not a defenders bumhole" were thrown around.

 

[ferball]

Was thinking the same thing.

Wasn't so long ago that phrases on the level of "not a defenders bumhole" were thrown around.

Last year?

He looks heaps better this year. He just looks better. He smashes spoils to the boundary alot more and he's just harder to beat. And stats back that up.

Since last season he's gone from just under four spoils a game to closer to six, improved his contested defensive one on one win rate by 50% on last year and halved his contested defensive loss rate. So he has improved significantly as a backman.

 

[shintemaster]

It clearly didn’t work but it was worth a look to throw him forward.

I think it was worth a look, I don't agree that the current situation was the way to do it. He's still played very little football - putting him forward when we have a gun forward like Curtis that barely gets a look at the ball is setting him up to fail.

 

[hotchilli]

I think it was worth a look, I don't agree that the current situation was the way to do it. He's still played very little football - putting him forward when we have a gun forward like Curtis that barely gets a look at the ball is setting him up to fail.

The opportunity presented itself out of the Larkey injury along with Dawson joining Pink & Logue in defence.

No harm in trying it considering he’s played plenty of football up forward in the past but he clearly looks a lot more comfortable behind the ball.

I dare say he ends up back in defence this weekend and Logue dropped.

 

[shintemaster]

The opportunity presented itself out of the Larkey injury along with Dawson joining Pink & Logue in defence.

No harm in trying it considering he’s played plenty of football up forward in the past but he clearly looks a lot more comfortable behind the ball.

I dare say he ends up back in defence this weekend and Logue dropped.

I get the opportunity, I just don't think it was in his or the teams long term interests. Plonking an inexperienced KPF next to an approaching retirement Jack Darling in a team that can't even generate i50's is just going to be an exercise in proving... nothing. If they want to see whether he can be a KPF that wasn't the way to do it.

 

[hotchilli]

I get the opportunity, I just don't think it was in his or the teams long term interests. Plonking an inexperienced KPF next to an approaching retirement Jack Darling in a team that can't even generate i50's is just going to be an exercise in proving... nothing. If they want to see whether he can be a KPF that wasn't the way to do it.

He played his juniors as a forward, he was drafted as a forward and he’s spent the majority of his time on an AFL list as a forward. Wouldn’t really describe him as an inexperienced KPF.

I would have preferred to see them try him up there alongside Larkey but have no issue in terms of the timing of trying it when in terms of availability and where we are at in terms of our season.

 

[DocSholl]

Shades of Nobles playing [PLAYERCARD]Ben McKay[/PLAYERCARD] forward while prime [PLAYERCARD]Tom Hawkins[/PLAYERCARD] was at the other end

 

[King Hansen]

Poor game today. Gave away SIX free kicks against and some really rookie ones.

 

[hoffseason gains 01]

Poor game today. Gave away SIX free kicks against and some really rookie ones.

Definitely got caught in no man’s land a few times too

 

[DuckYeah]

Trade

 

[TruRoo]

Trade

For what?

He’s not the most valuable commodity

 

[Chip Scab1]

For what?

He’s not the most valuable commodity

Comben? Nah keep him. He'll be ok by 2027