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Player Watch #24: Tom Powell - signed thru 2026 - 7th highest ranked player league-wide after 3 rds - avg. 27.7d & 7clearances p/g
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Interesting year ahead how Clarko will use Tom. Personally he needs to be on ball but competition for those spots is going to be hot
If he has earned it on the track, he should play 70% of his football there:
First rotation follower/centre:
Goldie, LDU, Simpkin, Cunnington
Second rotation follower/centre:
Goldie Simpkin Powell Phillips
Third rotation follower/centre:
Goldie LDU, Powell Cunnington
Fourth rotation follower/centre:
Coleman-Jones Greenwood Powell Phillips
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Cunnington, Powell, Phillips, LDU, Simpkin, and Greenwood won’t all be playing together unless two of them are in different roles.
Teams usually only play four genuine inside midfielders at most. At most they’ll go up to six, but those final two will get very few rotations.
As a percentage you might think of it as:
LDU: 80%
Cunnington: 65%
Simpkin: 80%
Phillips/Powell: 60%
Phillips/Powell: 15%
That’s for centre square minutes. You of course have your two wings and usually a half-forward that pushes up the ground, which would typically be that fifth midfielder getting a few reps in the middle. For us, Thomas makes the most sense in that role.
Powell and Phillips I think are quite clearly in competition for that fourth spot. The other is at best getting that no man’s land forward spot that occasionally pushes up the ground. Maybe a spot on the wing.
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He's another candidate to play across half back/behind the ball I reckon.
I could also see him on a wing. He is a little like Angus Brayshaw from the Dees. TP is a very intelligent footballer.
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Just what I was thinking about.
TP is a ball hunter and needs to be at the coalface
Will be hard with cunners, Jy and LDU likely to get big minutes in there
What was clarko like in rotating mids or was his starters in there a high percentage of the game.
I’d expect we’d see a little bit of Wardlaw in there just to give him a bit of a taste.
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His vision could be a real weapon just off the contest.
A little bit. There’s not much of him at the moment.
Ah yes, a natural ball winner with natural handball vision playing off half back
In his first season I thought we used his vision and disposal pretty well but * knows what we were trying to do with him this year.
Definitely looks stronger and tougher. That's going to be crucial when he doesn't have the ball. Should be looking to stick like super glue on the bigger mids.
Definitely looks stronger and tougher. That's going to be crucial when he doesn't have the ball. Should be looking to stick like super glue on the bigger mids.
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Obviously not long term. But he's also one of our best kicks.
Phillips skills can be utilised across high HF, HB or wing.
I would love Cunners to play deep FP and bag a couple of goals a game when he plays there.
It was always going to be the case that if you invest all your highest picks into pure mids, you will struggle to fit them into the 4 mid positions. But then you have to realise that stoppages really only account for a very small percent of actual play time and these pure mids are all running around using their skills well, so it may not matter that we play 6 inside mids.
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Powell looks pretty special to me. My anticipation levels go through the roof when he's near it.
He confounds a few because he's not quick by foot but he's all flash with his brain, vision, hands and kicking efficiency.
Time and size is all he needs.
He confounds a few because he's not quick by foot but he's all flash with his brain, vision, hands and kicking efficiency.
Time and size is all he needs.
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Exactly. Handballing is not his superpower, it's his vision and decision-making.
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This kid is a ripper. Hope we don't get seduced about our midfield depth and give him up prematurely in the next few years.
It'd be a luxury to have him as the James Kelly or Brad Sewell (in terms of pecking order, not playing style) in a contending midfield.
It'd be a luxury to have him as the James Kelly or Brad Sewell (in terms of pecking order, not playing style) in a contending midfield.
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Not including Ben10, we have all the following U24:
Simpkin, LDU, TT, Phillips, Powell, Stephenson, Scott, Wardlaw (unproven).
Will be difficult to fit all of them in to their preferred position.
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Simpkin/Phillips - win it at the coalface, evade or drive out to a better position teammate. Both can move to the 2nd possession winner too
Stephenson/LDU/TT - win it when needed but primarily get and go quickly with run and/or long kicking
Wardlaw - could slot into either of the above groups based on vision but yep unproven
Scott - more a HB or wing for mine
Powell - probably the (cliched) Pendlebury equivalent, while he can win it himself has a bit of the "slow time down" and setup a great option if he's the 2nd possession winner
So potentially they could all work together IMO.
The really optimistic view could be that Zurhaar, Curtis or George turn their forward line tricks into respectable midfield minutes in which case we could have a real juggling act.
For where we are right now, there’s no such thing as too much of anything. It’ll sort itself out over the next couple of seasons.
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ridiculously exciting are the reports that Powelly and Phillips have both made excellent starts to pre-season
if both these guys come on then it pretty much completes our midfield -- LDU bringing the pace and power, Simpkin the clearance pig and leadership, Powell the absolute top end vision and class, and Phillips a bit of an all-rounder who also adds the defensive edge, all revolving around the legendary Cunners for at least the next couple of years
if that comes to pass, our pick 4, super explosive and defensive George Wardlaw would be a 'nice to have'
and then you have the genuine game-breaking x-factor of Thomas, Stepho and maybe the Goat rotating through, playing on the wing and/or stints forward
if both these guys come on then it pretty much completes our midfield -- LDU bringing the pace and power, Simpkin the clearance pig and leadership, Powell the absolute top end vision and class, and Phillips a bit of an all-rounder who also adds the defensive edge, all revolving around the legendary Cunners for at least the next couple of years
if that comes to pass, our pick 4, super explosive and defensive George Wardlaw would be a 'nice to have'
and then you have the genuine game-breaking x-factor of Thomas, Stepho and maybe the Goat rotating through, playing on the wing and/or stints forward
