AFL Player 20: Peter Wright

[Lore]

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

 

[faible]

People have a weirdly high bar for him. He cost us an F4 which is an absolute bargain, has been a solid-good FF and is probably one of the best RUC / FWD players going around if we use him that way which is a really misunderstood role.

 

[HirdsTheWord]

Has to give more than that

 

[MiguelM]

Needs to learn to take a contested mark. Poor game tonight.

 

[Red Black and Blue]

Better as ruck than forward atm. Would be interested to see him go number 1 to give Goldy a rest and roll a forward line of Jones + Caddy which I think is the best setup for us going forward.

 

[RedmanWasHere]

Squibbed a couple of marking contests.

At 203cm, he's gotta be better.

 

[Vindicater]

Don't trust him to halve enough contests

 

[Schnitzengruben]

Hopefully that suspension didn't spook him regarding impacting contests.

 

[MarkJohnson#1]

He’s so slow and can’t get any separation on defenders. That and the ease in which blokes who are often a lot smaller than him seem to nudge or outwork him is beyond frustrating. Has no idea how to use his body and his forward craft is poor. Basically needs it on a silver platter or to fall in his lap to kick goals these days.

 

[eth-dog]

He’s so slow and can’t get any separation on defenders. That and the ease in which blokes who are often a lot smaller than him seem to nudge or outwork him is beyond frustrating. Has no idea how to use his body and his forward craft is poor. Basically needs it on a silver platter or to fall in his lap to kick goals these days.

This is some sort of bullshit. He literally kicked 5 last week.

Bad game but everyone is overreacting to it. He's still a very good forward/ruck.

 

[jdstorm]

He’s so slow and can’t get any separation on defenders. That and the ease in which blokes who are often a lot smaller than him seem to nudge or outwork him is beyond frustrating. Has no idea how to use his body and his forward craft is poor. Basically needs it on a silver platter or to fall in his lap to kick goals these days.

Or maybe he’s slow because he’s gassed because he’s never had to build a tank to play ruck.

Also Essendons forward entries were largely crap. Not to many forwards could do much with what they were getting.

Team really needs to look to readjust their idea of how high the ball has to go if they are trying to create a forward 50 chaos ball

Going from 2 rucks to 1 ruck has hurt the team structurally because it allowed Goldy to rest on ground and it allowed all of the forwards to slot into their natural roles

Wright roaming around the arc as F2
Jones coming in from the side as f3
Langers and Stringer finding seams within the F50
Gresham being able to crumb those packs.

 

[DeezNuts]

The guy has bricks for hands, can’t mark anything unless it’s lace out

Not really fussed he kicked a bag last week when we targeted him almost every inside 50

 

[Darealrath]

When up the field I thought his desperation to lay tackles and contest ground balls was impressive. Probably the best I can remember seeing from him.

Midfield was shocking so no surprise he didn't do much up forward. He's more reliant on good delivery than Stringer and Langford.

 

[jannissary]

he’s better at CHF, he can slot em from 60 out. our entries sucked but he did provide a lot up the ground.

 

[carnthedons]

2.03m Peter but he’s gotta have a 1.83m centre of gravity

 

[MarkJohnson#1]

This is some sort of bullshit. He literally kicked 5 last week.

Bad game but everyone is overreacting to it. He's still a very good forward/ruck.

Who’d he play on last week?

 

[MarkJohnson#1]

Or maybe he’s slow because he’s gassed because he’s never had to build a tank to play ruck.

Also Essendons forward entries were largely crap. Not to many forwards could do much with what they were getting.

Team really needs to look to readjust their idea of how high the ball has to go if they are trying to create a forward 50 chaos ball

Going from 2 rucks to 1 ruck has hurt the team structurally because it allowed Goldy to rest on ground and it allowed all of the forwards to slot into their natural roles

Wright roaming around the arc as F2
Jones coming in from the side as f3
Langers and Stringer finding seams within the F50
Gresham being able to crumb those packs.

Never had to build a tank? Spare me! Nick Riewoldt had one of the biggest tanks in the game and never played ruck. I agree the one ruck set up has hurt him though.

 

[Ants]

Most players have bad games. His wasn’t helped by the midfield’s delivery. But to go this hard after someone who has had a good season is perplexing.

And he was hardly alone in having a bad day at the office.

 

[ant555]

Who’d he play on last week?

How many second rucks kick 4 goals ?

 

[Nifft]

He is what he is. He's not a superstar, but he can have his very good games, as well as his ordinary ones.

I think Pete would benefit if we can get our forwardline functioning better, where there is more separation between the forwards rather than a big pack in front of goal. Pete doesn't mark as well in a pack, but he is more dangerous on a lead or one on one.

 

[MarkJohnson#1]

How many second rucks kick 4 goals ?

Against North:

Joe Daniher - 5
Harry McKay - 5
Shannon Neale - 3
Jake Riccardi - 3
Mabior Chol - 2
Elliott Himmelberg - 2
Jack Hayes - 2
Luke Jackson (first ruck) - 2

Not unusual for second rucks to kick multiple goals against North Melbourne.

 

[ant555]

Against North:

Joe Daniher - 5
Harry McKay - 5
Shannon Neale - 3
Jake Riccardi - 3
Mabior Chol - 2
Elliott Himmelberg - 2
Jack Hayes - 2
Luke Jackson (first ruck) - 2

Not unusual for second rucks to kick multiple goals against North Melbourne.

So two.

 

[MarkJohnson#1]

So two.

Against North, I haven’t gone through the other 100 odd games.

 

[Nuggs Bunny]

He seemed a bit lost last night, even when Goldy was rucking he ended up being behind the ball without being involved in the chain surprisingly a lot for a guy playing full forward. Not sure what they were trying to do with him there. Forward line structure was really not there last night.

 

[Wahooti Fandango]

I thought he was good against the Tigers.

 

[Vander18]

Against North:

Joe Daniher - 5
Harry McKay - 5
Shannon Neale - 3
Jake Riccardi - 3
Mabior Chol - 2
Elliott Himmelberg - 2
Jack Hayes - 2
Luke Jackson (first ruck) - 2

Not unusual for second rucks to kick multiple goals against North Melbourne.

Joe plays second ruck but he’s also Brisbanes #1 key forward. It’s not quite the same thing.

Does McKay ruck? Thought they played DeKonig and Pittonet with DeKonig as the second ruck and third tall
Forward.