Player Watch #29: Will Phillips

[perplexed]

That's not a bust. Her eyes are moving.

 

[Grogg]

So were you calling Cunnington, petracca a bust in their first few years too?

Zia also said staying in Melbourne was bust too.

Let that sink in.

 

[Blightys Barrel]

He was probably BOG for us today...

The last two times he's played VFL he's led our team for disposals...

"Barely VFL standard"?

Mate, stop making up nonsense to justify your vendetta against this kid.

Chadwiko - The coaches from Essendon and North just didn’t rate his performance to have 8 other players in front of him. Leading the disposals is one thing, what you do with those 24 touches and game impact is something else.

Essendon 15.9 (99) def North Melbourne 6.12 (48)
10 Nick Bryan (ESS)
4 Jackson Hately (ESS)
4 Xavier O'Neill (ESS)
4 Jack Peris (ESS)
3 Zach Reid (ESS)
3 Jordan Ridley (ESS)
1 Louis Butler (NM)
1 Bailey Scott (ESS)

 

[Epictetus]

Chadwiko - The coaches from Essendon and North just didn’t rate his performance to have 8 other players in front of him. Leading the disposals is one thing, what you do with those 24 touches and game impact is something else.

Essendon 15.9 (99) def North Melbourne 6.12 (48)
10 Nick Bryan (ESS)
4 Jackson Hately (ESS)
4 Xavier O'Neill (ESS)
4 Jack Peris (ESS)
3 Zach Reid (ESS)
3 Jordan Ridley (ESS)
1 Louis Butler (NM)
1 Bailey Scott (ESS)

yeah, but that Louis Butler is something else, man. Hard to pry a vote off him.

 

[Junk yard]

Chadwiko - The coaches from Essendon and North just didn’t rate his performance to have 8 other players in front of him. Leading the disposals is one thing, what you do with those 24 touches and game impact is something else.

Essendon 15.9 (99) def North Melbourne 6.12 (48)
10 Nick Bryan (ESS)
4 Jackson Hately (ESS)
4 Xavier O'Neill (ESS)
4 Jack Peris (ESS)
3 Zach Reid (ESS)
3 Jordan Ridley (ESS)
1 Louis Butler (NM)
1 Bailey Scott (ESS)

Careful, they'll line up to take you down if you speak the truth.

 

[Junk yard]

He was probably BOG for us today...

The last two times he's played VFL he's led our team for disposals...

"Barely VFL standard"?

Mate, stop making up nonsense to justify your vendetta against this kid.

Dominated two games without a single coaches vote?

 

[roos_fanatic08]

Careful, they'll line up to take you down if you speak the truth.

Why are 90% of your posts directly targeted at Will? It's as if he ran over your dog or something.

 

[ferball]

Chadwiko - The coaches from Essendon and North just didn’t rate his performance to have 8 other players in front of him. Leading the disposals is one thing, what you do with those 24 touches and game impact is something else.

Essendon 15.9 (99) def North Melbourne 6.12 (48)
10 Nick Bryan (ESS)
4 Jackson Hately (ESS)
4 Xavier O'Neill (ESS)
4 Jack Peris (ESS)
3 Zach Reid (ESS)
3 Jordan Ridley (ESS)
1 Louis Butler (NM)
1 Bailey Scott (ESS)

Bailey's kicking so bad he gets a vote a vote for the D*ns.

 

[ferball]

(Yes, yes I know...)

 

[King Corey]

Bailey's kicking so bad he gets a vote a vote for the D*ns.

Going to be hard for him if the Stephen Dank Medal night is the same as the Syd Barker.

 

[Junk yard]

Why are 90% of your posts directly targeted at Will? It's as if he ran over your dog or something.

Mostly responding to ridiculous comments. As above, there were people saying he was BOG on the weekend. He wasn't in the best 8 on the ground.

 

[Colby Cheer Squad]

Bailey's kicking so bad he gets a vote a vote for the D*ns.

Pretty good distance on his kicks though.

 

[roos_fanatic08]

Mostly responding to ridiculous comments. As above, there were people saying he was BOG on the weekend. He wasn't in the best 8 on the ground.

But why only Phillips? There are ridiculous comments on every player thread...

Also, did you watch the VFL game?

When a team gets belted, the losing team very rarely gets player votes from coaches.

Phillips was comfortably in our best 2-3 players on the weekend.

 

[Junk yard]

But why only Phillips? There are ridiculous comments on every player thread...

Also, did you watch the VFL game?

When a team gets belted, the losing team very rarely gets player votes from coaches.

Phillips was comfortably in our best 2-3 players on the weekend.

No one defends tucker or corrs shit games. Full time mid, doesn't rest forward, 24 is not enough. It was the first out of four or five games he's played that he's been better than Watkins.

 

[Blightys Barrel]

Bailey's kicking so bad he gets a vote a vote for the D*ns.

I had to do a double take on that, and check there was also the same name for Essendon. If he kicks better than “our” Bailey, should we get Rawlings to start working the phones?

 

[roos_fanatic08]

No one defends tucker or corrs s**t games. Full time mid, doesn't rest forward, 24 is not enough. It was the first out of four or five games he's played that he's been better than Watkins.

Plenty of people defend shit games from Powell, Zurhaar, Scott, Curtis ect, but you aren't in those player threads. It's weird.

 

[Junk yard]

Plenty of people defend s**t games from Powell, Zurhaar, Scott, Curtis ect, but you aren't in those player threads. It's weird.

That would be because I rate all of them and they all have elite attributes. Will does not, his one chance was to increase his running capacity over the preseason and he didn't. He can't spread, doesn't run defensively and can't get to enough contests.

 

[Disco Dew]

That would be because I rate all of them and they all have elite attributes. Will does not, his one chance was to increase his running capacity over the preseason and he didn't. He can't spread, doesn't run defensively and can't get to enough contests.

Zurhaars elite attribute is not being able to break tackles yet still attempts to every single chance he gets.
Scott’s elite attribute is serving it up on a silver platter to the opposition.
Think the other guys do have some actual elite attributes but genuinely don’t see it with those two.

 

[roos_fanatic08]

That would be because I rate all of them and they all have elite attributes. Will does not, his one chance was to increase his running capacity over the preseason and he didn't. He can't spread, doesn't run defensively and can't get to enough contests.

So why aren't you in Lazzaro's player thread criticizing everyone who posts something positive in there?

 

[Junk yard]

So why aren't you in Lazzaro's player thread criticizing everyone who posts something positive in there?

Lazz has gotten himself in to supreme physical condition and has improved his disposal massively. I'm fairly confident he can make it, if someone's having an absolute crack at it that's all you can ask.

 

[My Left Foote]

Lazz has gotten himself in to supreme physical condition and has improved his disposal massively. I'm fairly confident he can make it, if someone's having an absolute crack at it that's all you can ask.

So Will isn't having an absolute crack then?

 

[ferball]

I had to do a double take on that, and check there was also the same name for Essendon. If he kicks better than “our” Bailey, should we get Rawlings to start working the phones?

Hey ... he got a coaches vote in the VFL.

 

[Junk yard]

So Will isn't having an absolute crack then?

Doesn't look it to me, has a crack in the contest then spectates. Doesn't chase hard at all but also doesn't spread offensively, he seems less fit than last year after a full preseason.

 

[DocSholl]

Plenty of people defend s**t games from Powell, Zurhaar, Scott, Curtis ect, but you aren't in those player threads. It's weird.

People do get quite defensive of Will though, assume because the alternative is admitting we stuffed up pick 2

 

[Intothewind]

People do get quite defensive of Will though, assume because the alternative is admitting we stuffed up pick 2

Not everyone gets into the hand-wringing about picks.

The kids don't pick themselves, so it's a bit weird to keep referencing what pick they went. Totally valid when reviewing the performance of a list manager though.