Traded #17: Jake Melksham - Traded to Melbourne for pick 25

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He's not playing it in the same role that Hocking does, though.

He's "running with" guys for about 80% of games, it's not exactly a "hard tag".
I guess that's a fair point, but it's still a tag (or sort of). The difference is he's hurting them the other way too
 

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He's no orphan when it comes to that, I reckon a dozen players have done that this season, including Jakey C on the weekend which gifted Cameron a goal.
 

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But you wrote in another thread that's its the quality of clearances that matter, when I wrote,:D it is pleasing to see Melksham/Myers/Heppell winning clearances in the last 2 weeks.
HaHa well played sir, well played

He is the one, along with Howlett and Zaka that seem to have that breakaway pace from the stoppage. We do tend (as a collective) to go over the stoppage, which gives the opposition backs better chances at killing the high ball than going through the stoppages and lowering our eyes and hitting up our forwards with those lower balls in. (see Travis Cloke 2013 version compared to Travis Cloke 2012).
 

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I think he is acting faster. As soon as he stops to think, he seems to make mistakes, but when he acts on instinct alone, he usually does well.
 

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His form since (and including) the Carlton game would suggest he is very, very close. Kicking big goals of late too which is a rather large string to your bow
I meant are you serious that he wasn't best 22 at the start of the season. He had played every game in 2011 and 2012. Pretty sure that makes him best 22, in the eyes of TRB at least.
 

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Interesting to contrast the last few games for the club with what happened late last year. We needed him to step up last year and he failed badly. Where would we be right now if he had repeated last years form? Makes you wonder how fragile our current success is. Take the form of Melksham and the presence of Goddard our of this team and what would be happening?:oops:
 
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