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Player Watch #28 Will Edwards

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He looks like he absolutely belongs at the level. Has looked so composed after taking about 5-10 mins to find his feet.
 

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a lot of debutants, rookies, young players start out in early games looking like they're worried about getting in the way, or they're not sure they deserve to be out there at all ...
edwards looked like after he'd been out there several minutes, starting to grin, thinking "oh sh1t, yeah, i can do this!"
 
Looked every bit as comfortable at AFL as he has been at VFL level.

Been a fan of his since he was a 16-17 year old in the Academy and am proud to say I never lost faith once*

*last year after leg injury doesn't count, ok!
You and me both BB.
 
Honestly he exceeded my expectations, which weren't exactly low to begin with. Looked confident, took the game on, used his size and showed good physicality.

Also very impressive the way his first touch was a pretty poor dropped mark and clearly he didn't let it get to him at all. Just got better as the game went on. Absolutely stoked.
 

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Nice debut. The size defender we're crying our for, obviously you don't expect him to be it in his first handful of games.
Nice call by Cox and co though to see and actually take the opportunity to blood him against a weakened KF line up so he could be eased in playing on other young players.
 
Edwards size and height excites me (197cm!). It's shameful to admit but I didn't realise we were developing a defender of that size in our reserves. He did a few good things tonight. As a bonus he's from Sydney which gives us no go-home factor.

We should absolutely give him a few more games this season. Then we have more depth down back. More importantly we can let the Liz off the chain.

What a great season this has been so far. Entertaining. 🤍❤️
 
Of the next three games only North have two dangerous keys in Larkey and the inexperienced Trembath. Dees and Pies are scoring more with their smalls and mediums. It will be interesting to see if Cox leaves Big Will in for a while. I would.
 
I want to see him get a kick out next week and just go straight down the middle I reckon odds would be paying 1.90 for him to kick it into the centre circle thats how much of a roost he has on him
 

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Edwards playing such a good debut game makes the make up of the rest of the defence interesting for the time being. Firstly he’s keeping out two tried and true veterans in Melican and Hamling which is nothing to sniff at. And secondly it in a way might solidify Rampe’s place in the side as a veteran to usher him through alongside as another key with McCartin now clearly the main man down back. Edwards surrounded by veterans and leaders in McCartin, Rampe, Mills, Blakey is a really good environment for him to learn in.

Gotta give it to Rampe too, I was really worried about how he’d look this year but he’s started the year really well. An utter professional in every sense of the word.
 

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