AFL Player #15: Jayden Laverde

[Beerfish]

Contract Status: Unrestricted Free Agent 2025
My Boy Draft 2024: Pick 7, Nuggs Bunny

 

[eDPS]

Yes I think the coaches will be happy to play Laverde ahead of Baguley.

I personally love Baguley as you know what you will get. However, what you'll get isn't as good as Laverde's best.

You have a player in their last year vs a player with a career ahead of him and i doubt on output Baguley would be streets ahead so it comes of no benefit playing him ahead of Lav if Lav is playing well and is fit.

 

[fairbump_playon]

You have a player in their last year vs a player with a career ahead of him and i doubt on output Baguley would be streets ahead so it comes of no benefit playing him ahead of Lav if Lav is playing well and is fit.

100% agree.

 

[astrowizzle]

Bags applies pressure that's about it. Lav offers something as a forward. Can lead and Mark and is strong. Looks like he wants to hurt people.
I hope we play him for the whole year and get some miles into his body

 

[Rancid Trogs]

Very happy to have gotten Jayden in the 'My Boy' draft. Really excited for what 2019 might bring ... although disappointed he didn't get a run last night. Was reading a decent season preview last night at:

https://readingtheplay.wordpress.com/2019/03/07/essendon-bombers-2019-season-preview/

and happily found the following:

"Jayden Laverde is the man Essendon fans would love to get a decent run at it. He's got size, power and aggression. He just needs to stay on the park. With an eye catching three goal performance to finish season 2018 and the best preseason of his short career, Laverde will be hoping to cement a spot in Essendon's best 22 this year."

 

[BrunoV]

Yes I think the coaches will be happy to play Laverde ahead of Baguley.

I personally love Baguley as you know what you will get. However, what you'll get isn't as good as Laverde's best.

I'd like to share you optimism but the coaches seem to select Baguley every time.

 

[dnbassador]

Btw guess who got a heavy knock in the reserves last night! #geelongcurse

 

[kelvin_sheedy]

Is he coming off injury. Surprised he wasn't given at least a game and a half in jlt.

 

[fairbump_playon]

I'd like to share you optimism but the coaches seem to select Baguley every time.

It’s early March, Bruno. For Bombers fans that’s traditionally a time when heavy losses in preseason games are the only things slightly diminishing summer’s boundless optimism.

 

[DERO]

 

[ghostdog]

I love Bags, but if he's gone I'd hope McGrath and Smith rotate through a defensive role in the forward line. Bags playing this role last year improved us.

 

[yodellinhank]

Is he coming off injury.

Yes

 

[Sockeye]

If we play Smack and Joe as KPF's I'd go Baguley.
If we play Brown and Joe as KPF's we need to go with Laverde.

 

[JayJ20]

Doss Do you want to explain yourself?

https://www.essendonfc.com.au/news/2019-03-16/get-to-know-matt-guelfi
Greatest individual effort you have seen on the footy field: Doss’s (Jayden Laverde) three first-quarter goals

 

[Doss]

Yeah I kicked three goals in the first stanza once. It was cool.

 

[Ambrosia]

Doss Do you want to explain yourself?

https://www.essendonfc.com.au/news/2019-03-16/get-to-know-matt-guelfi
Greatest individual effort you have seen on the footy field: Doss’s (Jayden Laverde) three first-quarter goals

Never heard Jayden's being called Doss before. Thought it was exclusively a Hayden thing

 

[Atavistic]

Yeah I kicked three goals in the first stanza once. It was cool.

You were on fire that day. Bit disappointing you didn't go on with it and kick a bag.

 

[Whispering_Jack]

Jaydoss I guess

 

[Vander18]

Would play him ahead of Baguley. We have Tippa, Fantasia, Smith and McGrath who can all play as small forwards...really need another player who can mark the ball and provide some size up forward.

Laverde is strong and quick....no reason he can’t bring the same level of pressure as Baguley.

 

[JayJ20]

Would play him ahead of Baguley. We have Tippa, Fantasia, Smith and McGrath who can all play as small forwards...really need another player who can mark the ball and provide some size up forward.

Laverde is strong and quick....no reason he can’t bring the same level of pressure as Baguley.

100% agree with this. Baguley didn’t look great in the JLT so I think it’s wiser to develop Laverde and keep Baguley as depth.

 

[Bjchan13]

This bloke needs to work his way in to the seniors and stay there. Personally i think if he is fit he should play so he can get some consistency at the highest level. Always been a big fan of bags and nothing against him but if some of our young blokes like laverde and parish cant match bags intensity and take his spot in the 22 soon it would be disappointing.

 

[blitzer]

I've never really got the Laverde hype. His first 4 years at the club have produced a good first half against Geelong and a 3 goal quarter against somebody (i forget who it was, Gold Coast?). The coaches have never had him as a priority selection, nearly always choosing to select someone else ahead of him. Like last year he got games after Begley and Green were injured. Now he's fallen behind Baguley in the pecking order too. This is despite the fact that Baguley barely even kept his spot on the list.

My prediction is he'll continue to just be a depth player as long as he's on our list. He's not awful but he lacks the endurance to be a midfielder, lacks the forward nous to be a quality AFL forward and just doesn't really fit into an AFL structure as far as I an tell.

 

[BOMBERS 4 LIFE!!!!]

I've never really got the Laverde hype. His first 4 years at the club have produced a good first half against Geelong and a 3 goal quarter against somebody (i forget who it was, Gold Coast?). The coaches have never had him as a priority selection, nearly always choosing to select someone else ahead of him. Like last year he got games after Begley and Green were injured. Now he's fallen behind Baguley in the pecking order too. This is despite the fact that Baguley barely even kept his spot on the list.

My prediction is he'll continue to just be a depth player as long as he's on our list. He's not awful but he lacks the endurance to be a midfielder, lacks the forward nous to be a quality AFL forward and just doesn't really fit into an AFL structure as far as I an tell.

Kicked 3 goals in the first qrt against Port last year

 

[ghostdog]

Kicked 3 goals in the first qrt against Port last year

Lead, mark, turn, kick inside fifty to the advantage of Stringer (?) for a goal in one of the JLT games was perfect. He needs a consistent run of games. I just hope he gets his chance before he decides he wants out.

 

[blitzer]

Kicked 3 goals in the first qrt against Port last year

Wow 3 goals, one time. Look at all the games he played last season playing in the forward line the vast majority of the time. Most games he didn't even kick 1 goal. Special mention to him in the Carlton game where he managed under 10 disposals, no tackles, no goals and no goal assists.

 

[Seagrave_Holmes]

Jayden 'he'll be good next year" Laverde