AFL Player 20: Peter Wright

[Lore]

Contract Status: Free Agent (?) 2027
My Boy Draft 2024: Pick 21, TheGrizz

 

[Vander18]

Clearly a confidence player - clunked one in the second half and everything clicked. Massive second half. Was pleasing to see and hope he can sustain it.

He’s a lovely kick - for goal and around the ground.

 

[ant555]

Back to playing a role that suits him and he has an impact .

 

[srobbo]

That clunk & goal in front of Grundy needs to be line in the sand for him because he grew another leg after it & dictated the rest of the game.

 

[Old Campaigner]

Everyone knows the premium goon comes in 2L boxes

 

[Beerfish]

 

[Vander18]

If he never fires a shot in anger for us again we still win that trade after today.

 

[TheGrizz]

16 disposal, 10 marks, 2 goals, 6 tackles and 8 score involvements.

That right there is a game. Looks like KPF and relief rucks suits him.

 

[Kyptastic]

If he never fires a shot in anger for us again we still win that trade after today.

The Mark Williams rule

 

[Towno78]

Really really handy today. Particularly giving us an outlet. Hope he continues to clunk them like that.

 

[CBombers17]

If he can keep marking the ball like that he will play a lot of footy for us His ability to convert set shots is really valuable.

 

[jmoo wan]

Peter “Collingwood Beater” Wright.

 

[BrunoV]

During the third quarter I was thinking along the lines of but for a dumb umpiring decision (not to pay his first contested mark about 15 from goal), then the second dumb decision to ping him (when Cameron drove him into the ball), being burned badly on the lead, and despite a few missed catches, he was playing the game that proved he is AFL standard and potentially a good player at that.

By the end of the last it was just a genuinely good game.

The Sydney game exposed the soft underbelly and I think it was almost the game he had to have. He really addressed his competitiveness last week and this week he put it all together and ended being good on ball and really good forward.

It's 2 games he's played in the red and black now that show the sort of player he should be.

He really could have taken the game apart today. If he can maintain that level of intensity it is only a matter of time.

 

[jmoo wan]

During the third quarter I was thinking along the lines of but for a dumb umpiring decision (not to pay his first contested mark about 15 from goal), then the second dumb decision to ping him (when Cameron drove him into the ball), being burned badly on the lead, and despite a few missed catches, he was playing the game that proved he is AFL standard and potentially a good player at that.

By the end of the last it was just a genuinely good game.

The Sydney game exposed the soft underbelly and I think it was almost the game he had to have. He really addressed his competitiveness last week and this week he put it all together and ended being good on ball and really good forward.

It's 2 games he's played in the red and black now that show the sort of player he should be.

He really could have taken the game apart today. If he can maintain that level of intensity it is only a matter of time.

Don’t let his dopey face fool you - he was a competitive beast today

 

[Highly Evolved]

Geez, I hope he builds from this. 100% a confidence player and I remember in one of those pre-season videos he said he came to EFC (paraphrasing here) because "Truck believed in him". He was great in the second half. A real difference.

 

[Megabattimus]

Shut me right the **** up today. Never gonna call for him to get dropped ever again. That second goal was insane!

 

[HirdyLannister]

Has a beautiful set shot for goal.

 

[IHurley]

I should apologize for what I said about him last week. I initially believed he was an astute pickup then doubted him and now I've gone back full circle.

Like Langford he has all the natural gifts except intensity (which means that, like Langford, he'll go from droppable to star from week to week).

I think people believe you can just choose to switch on intensity and if you don't it's because you're lazy but it just doesn't work like that. Either way, Wright will be good for a pick 70 odd but we can't expect him to play like this every week.

 

[Gazza Greatness]

Clearly a confidence player - clunked one in the second half and everything clicked. Massive second half. Was pleasing to see and hope he can sustain it.

He’s a lovely kick - for goal and around the ground.

That's the best game I've seen 2 mt Peter play and agree with massive second half. Surprised me bigtime with huge marks, ruck taps, knock on's, 'deadly' straight kicking for goal and he did it all when it mattered the most with big crowd in high pressure 2nd half of game which has not been his go at all in AFL games to date as he normally goes missing under pressure, this could be a major turn around for him and the Bombers.

 

[Squeaky]

Well done Litre - what a great 2nd half.
If he could set a level near that performance we are laughing.

 

[Vander18]

That's the best game I've seen 2 mt Peter play and agree with massive second half. Surprised me bigtime with huge marks, ruck taps, knock on's, 'deadly' straight kicking for goal and he did it all when it mattered the most with big crowd in high pressure 2nd half of game which has not been his go at all in AFL games to date as he normally goes missing under pressure, this could be a major turn around for him and the Bombers.

Reckon the trick will be persevering with him, which they have so far.

Got to give him the first 10-12 games to get some consistency and meet the levels required and live with a few stinkers in that stretch.

 

[Darealrath]

I really liked seeing him work up to half back to give us an option coming out of defence because unlike most ruckmen he has the foot skills to do more than just boot it down the line when he does get it . I'm not sure if he only did this when he was playing in the ruck or he had a bit of license to roam as a forward. Just hoping the coaches work out how to make the most of this when Draper is back and 2MP has less time in the ruck.

 

[VelvetSledge]

I'm eating a lot of humble pie. Called for his head, but I'm glad that the coaches stuck fat. Great effort yesterday

 

[MattyB3150]

Clearly a confidence player - clunked one in the second half and everything clicked. Massive second half. Was pleasing to see and hope he can sustain it.

He’s a lovely kick - for goal and around the ground.

Agree. He dropped a few in the forward line early. He started taking a few contested marks in the backline and then got the confidence to mark everything from there on in. Defiantly a confidence player.

 

[citizen-erased]

Reckon the trick will be persevering with him, which they have so far.

Got to give him the first 10-12 games to get some consistency and meet the levels required and live with a few stinkers in that stretch.

Yup.
And gives us the option to cycle through Flip and Bryan with a good backup option.

That boundary set shot was ridiculously good.

 

[DeezNuts]

Absolutely dominated the second half of the game