Being an internal trial pretty much ignored the older guys except Jnr, midfield is the go, looked good.
concentrated on the young ones, and yes I know, 1 match and an internal but I liked a lot of what I saw. Here are my standouts.
Pedlar - Wow, I now understand why they jumped with our second pick. There were times I thought he had a 32 on his back. I think I am going to enjoy watch this kid play. Hard at it, moves through the contest nicely and disposal ok.
Berry - just a little behind Pedlar IMO, and I mean a little. Great pick up. Again hard at it, good movement and loves to tackle, we may have found the perfect tagger that can nullify and hurt back the other way
Hately - As expected, good mix of inside and out, needs to clean up disposal a bit but not concerned at this stage. Has good vision and makes good choices.
These 3 worked really well together. Good sign for the future.
Worrell - Looks like an AFL player, I'm sure I've seen it said before in this thread but I agree, a bit of the Bont about this kid, has that balance a loping gate that is deceptively quick with a nice read of the play and good skills. I want to see more of this kid.
Butts - Our next full back, good size, good movement and looks a little stronger. better disposal than Harto, give it a couple of years and he will be a step up from Harto.
Borlase - my only knock is I wish he was a little taller. For an NGA rookie pick.. start the car. I can already taste the salty tears down the road in a couple of years about how we cheated the system and he should be Powa! Jake Kelly
should be worried because this kid has his spot in his sights and it is just a matter of time.
Noteble mentions
Rowey - ready to go.
Jones - turned the corner, expect big things this year
McHenry - Finally! I now have some confidence in him
Philthy - That pack mark in the 4th made me smile, clean, to tall. And there were times I had to look twice to figure out who that midfielder was, nice
I am concerned about our defence, if Tahlia goes down we are in trouble. Mcasey, Butts, Borlase, will be ok but still very green. I think we are going to leak some big scores this year and next. Our smalls are ok but those big forwards are going to feast on us, especially those teams with 2 or more big forwards.
concentrated on the young ones, and yes I know, 1 match and an internal but I liked a lot of what I saw. Here are my standouts.
Pedlar - Wow, I now understand why they jumped with our second pick. There were times I thought he had a 32 on his back. I think I am going to enjoy watch this kid play. Hard at it, moves through the contest nicely and disposal ok.
Berry - just a little behind Pedlar IMO, and I mean a little. Great pick up. Again hard at it, good movement and loves to tackle, we may have found the perfect tagger that can nullify and hurt back the other way
Hately - As expected, good mix of inside and out, needs to clean up disposal a bit but not concerned at this stage. Has good vision and makes good choices.
These 3 worked really well together. Good sign for the future.
Worrell - Looks like an AFL player, I'm sure I've seen it said before in this thread but I agree, a bit of the Bont about this kid, has that balance a loping gate that is deceptively quick with a nice read of the play and good skills. I want to see more of this kid.
Butts - Our next full back, good size, good movement and looks a little stronger. better disposal than Harto, give it a couple of years and he will be a step up from Harto.
Borlase - my only knock is I wish he was a little taller. For an NGA rookie pick.. start the car. I can already taste the salty tears down the road in a couple of years about how we cheated the system and he should be Powa! Jake Kelly
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Jake Kelly
- Age
- 29
- Ht
- 190cm
- Wt
- 90kg
- Pos.
- Def
Career
Season
Last 5
- D
- 14.5
- 4star
- K
- 8.3
- 3star
- HB
- 6.3
- 4star
- M
- 4.6
- 4star
- T
- 2.6
- 4star
- MG
- 157.8
- 2star
- D
- 8.1
- 2star
- K
- 6.3
- 3star
- HB
- 1.9
- 1star
- M
- 3.3
- 3star
- T
- 2.6
- 4star
- MG
- 104.1
- 2star
- D
- 14.8
- 4star
- K
- 9.0
- 4star
- HB
- 5.8
- 4star
- M
- 6.0
- 5star
- T
- 4.2
- 5star
- MG
- 107.0
- 2star
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Noteble mentions
Rowey - ready to go.
Jones - turned the corner, expect big things this year
McHenry - Finally! I now have some confidence in him
Philthy - That pack mark in the 4th made me smile, clean, to tall. And there were times I had to look twice to figure out who that midfielder was, nice
I am concerned about our defence, if Tahlia goes down we are in trouble. Mcasey, Butts, Borlase, will be ok but still very green. I think we are going to leak some big scores this year and next. Our smalls are ok but those big forwards are going to feast on us, especially those teams with 2 or more big forwards.