Player Watch #13: Jack Higgins

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Higgo has been our best player since the resumption. Has been a real live wire as a mid / forward. Against the Dees had 19 Disposals @84% 1 goal and 2 Goal assists and 8 intercepts. Hiding behind Lever was one of them

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Hiding behind Lever
The half-time foxfooty coverage got this in quality view haha
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and this quote from the coverage was quality: "that's the biggest influence that Jake Lever's had on Today's game, hiding Jack Higgins" - David King
 
The half-time foxfooty coverage got this in quality view haha
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and this quote from the coverage was quality: "that's the biggest influence that Jake Lever's had on Today's game, hiding Jack Higgins" - David King
* he’s quick off the first few meters
Showing why he’s rated so highly for footy iq as well
 
Higgo was the best junior ever statistically. He's got all the tools to be very good. He's matured. I reckon we play him in the middle, resting forward. Might be a very nice player to cover for Prestia, if he's out - or add to Dion's magic if Dion is OK.

Jack Higgins coudl easily be a B+ or even A grader - and soon.
 

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Higgo was the best junior ever statistically. He's got all the tools to be very good. He's matured. I reckon we play him in the middle, resting forward. Might be a very nice player to cover for Prestia, if he's out - or add to Dion's magic if Dion is OK.

Jack Higgins coudl easily be a B+ or even A grader - and soon.

Definitely easy to forget. One wonders if he can turn into a genuine ball magnet midfielder.


Higgins, 178cm, ended the carnival averaging 27 disposals, 13 contested possessions, six tackles and five clearances. That added to the work he did forward of centre, where he still managed to kick six goals and provide a further seven goal assists from just four games.

Jack Higgins' TAC Cup stats for 2017.
Jack Higgins' TAC Cup stats for 2017.Source: Supplied
Such form carried through to the second half of the TAC Cup season, where Higgins was influential in helping Oakleigh finish the campaign as minor premiers.

Multiple 30-disposal games in the midfield were followed with huge hauls up forward, including an incredible seven-goal match against the Pioneers in August.

It saw Higgins end the TAC Cup season averaging 23 disposals and 2.3 goals per match.

The end product? In the 33 games Champion Data has covered Higgins throughout his junior career, he has averaged 145 ranking points — the best average figure ever recorded by the AFL’s official number crunchers, beating Tom Rockliff’s record of 144.

 

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The half-time foxfooty coverage got this in quality view haha
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and this quote from the coverage was quality: "that's the biggest influence that Jake Lever's had on Today's game, hiding Jack Higgins" - David King
Max Gawn's expression, priceless.

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The form he's in it might be worth having him on the ball a little more. Especially with the outs we've now got.

This is the last thing we should do with him. He has potential match winning ability as a forward and would be nothing more than a plodder with the mids, the only strength of his playing as a mid would be his clean hands.
 
This is the last thing we should do with him. He has potential match winning ability as a forward and would be nothing more than a plodder with the mids, the only strength of his playing as a mid would be his clean hands.
Clean hands is exactly why he should be in the middle as an in and under extractor winning the hard ball those guys don’t need speed

especially now we are without Cotch who genuinely is the bloke who wins the hard ball for us

than feeding it out to guys like Bolton on the outside (the ones that need speed)

Than we can still rest him forward when needed
 

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Clean hands is exactly why he should be in the middle as an in and under extractor winning the hard ball those guys don’t need speed

especially now we are without Cotch who genuinely is the bloke who wins the hard ball for us

than feeding it out to guys like Bolton on the outside (the ones that need speed)

Than we can still rest him forward when needed

Higgins isn't going to be an elite in and under mid and couldn't give us anything close to what Cotchin provides our midfield. Higgins plays midfield when you're s**t side who is happy for a player to run around getting pointless touches while his opponent is damaging. He is basically a poor mans Toby Greene who pretty much exclusively plays forward for GWS. Yes he could play mid and rack up the ball and do plenty of hack kicks out of stoppages better than Higgins could but where he is damaging in the same way Higgins damaging it with his smarts in the forward line of reading the ball better than those around him, being lite on his feet, having the goal sense and being stronger than his size would suggest.

Higgins is a dime a dozen midfielder he is a potentially very dangerous forward. Its is actually Bolton who has the capacity to become a dangerous inside/outside midfielder.
 
Higgins isn't going to be an elite in and under mid and couldn't give us anything close to what Cotchin provides our midfield. Higgins plays midfield when you're sh*t side who is happy for a player to run around getting pointless touches while his opponent is damaging. He is basically a poor mans Toby Greene who pretty much exclusively plays forward for GWS. Yes he could play mid and rack up the ball and do plenty of hack kicks out of stoppages better than Higgins could but where he is damaging in the same way Higgins damaging it with his smarts in the forward line of reading the ball better than those around him, being lite on his feet, having the goal sense and being stronger than his size would suggest.

Higgins is a dime a dozen midfielder he is a potentially very dangerous forward. Its is actually Bolton who has the capacity to become a dangerous inside/outside midfielder.
I didn’t suggest he was ever going to be an elite in and under mid

The fact of the matter is that 3 of our starting mids are either going to be out injured this week and beyond (Cotch and Prestia) and Dusty won’t be able to play an inside role until his rib issue is sorted

Higgins has played inside as a jr and at a vfl level and along with graham is the best option to throw into the fray as it stands
 
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Higgins has played inside as a jr and at a vfl level and along with graham is the best option to throw into the fray as it stands
and Ross, of course, as an inside mid.

Aarts actually looked to go hard after hard-ball-gets in his debut, so he might mould into a diving-around-the-place inside-mid in the Cotchin mould.
 

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I didn’t suggest he was ever going to be an elite in and under mid

The fact of the matter is that 3 of our starting mids are either going to be out injured this week and beyond (Cotch and Prestia) and Dusty won’t be able to play an inside role until his rib issue is sorted

Higgins has played inside as a jr and at a vfl level and along with graham is the best option to throw into the fray as it stands

Pickett, Ross, Dow, Bolton and RCD are all far better options for the way Richmond play.
 
Pickett, Ross, Dow, Bolton and RCD are all far better options for the way Richmond play.
RCD is yet to play a Sr game and Dow is a first year player who promising but is still undersized to suggest they are better options to play full inside midfield mins it’s ludicrous

Bolton will play Shane Edwards’ roll as the outside playmaker with short stints inside

Pickett could play the role maybe but hasn’t played as an inside mid much
He played off half back and outside mid mostly in WAFL so that suggests to me that is the role he is more suited to play
 

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RCD is yet to play a Sr game and Dow is a first year player who promising but is still undersized to suggest they are better options to play full inside midfield mins it’s ludicrous

Bolton will play Shane Edwards’ roll as the outside playmaker with short stints inside

Pickett could play the role maybe but hasn’t played as an inside mid much
He played off half back and outside mid mostly in WAFL so that suggests to me that is the role he is more suited to play

Richmond don't play or at least try and avoid playing slow plodders like Higgins in midfield. To do so would be to go back to 2016 with Anthony Miles. We would be better off trying inexperienced players capable of playing the Richmond way than to revert back to that old style.

Edwards is an inside/outside mid, the role you suggest he plays doesn't exist.

Pickett won two flags in a week playing as mid.
 

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