I had he same ‘flat’ feeling. But in hindsight: Infelt the drills were pretty meh. Bland stuff. Like long kicking to the boundary? Wtf? Easy end to end stuff with zero pressure? Even the running was meh.
The impressive thing for me was MCG easily kept up with Gibbo. His fitness is though the roof. I’m pretty excited what he can do with ‘repeat efforts’ now in his tool
That was me. Just at the boundary drills. Seems like they want to keep ‘run with’ as an option. He did ok on a limited sample....which is better than anyone else who (stupidly) tried to match him at the end of training in some impromptu one on one drills. Silly stuff.
Great training match up for jack. I wonder if this is a role we will see him play more often.
At the start of last season in a Northern Blues practice game at punt road he played a cracker of a first half kicked 2 goals, sat on a couple of heads with one mark very impressive playing ruck and forward.
No Stocker isn’t showing enough. He’s still back end of the running. Still lacking mobility/agility. Nice kicking and so on but he’d be out of the best 8/9 mids. And a long way behind Willo, Doc, SpS, Simmo and Newman for a running defender role.
In the middle.
Thats just the way it is, it is it is......
I’d have been ‘shattered’ if you ignored me...
Yep. Finally we can let kids “develop” in the twos instead of putting them straight in to get smashed. Ben will be a good player in time, good size already, knows his footy, can play both ends. A lot to like having kids learn & earn a spot & be very well prepared for that step up.
