Player Watch #3: Jed Anderson - successfully returns against Adelaide

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Having watched the replay, his goal is one of my favourite individual plays of the year. Wins the centre clearance with a ridiculous airborne handball, then pushes forward from the contest and takes a contested mark inside 50.
His repeat efforts over 20+ meters have been an absolute pleasure to watch this year. See them pretty much every game; fantastic speed and animalistic physicality leading to him effecting the contest again and again.
 

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Confidence and being fully fit. Not just injury free but genuinely ripped and aerobically fit. He's finally getting a good run at it and making every post a winner.

Love it!
I'll.say it again. People underestimate just what the pneumonia did to his body.

Some people never get back to full fitness after what he went through.

There was a ceiling imposed upon his body severely limiting his aerobic capacity, recovery and general energy levels, basically like living with chronic fatigue.

He's finally shaken it and you can see just how much healthier he looks.
 
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Having watched the replay, his goal is one of my favourite individual plays of the year. Wins the centre clearance with a ridiculous airborne handball, then pushes forward from the contest and takes a contested mark inside 50.
This play was broken down in full on The Saturday Stretch last night but, typically, to highlight Ward's lack of workrate at a crucial stage of the game.

Loved that from Jedi.
 
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Writing off a 22 year old after an injury interrupted season in his first year in a new team when he's being forced to step up due to other injuries in the team?... I suspect a few servings of humble pie will me meted out in this thread.
I backed him in from the beginning in multiple posts throughout this thread since 2016. I always believed he'd come good. But this good this quick?... Has exceeded my expectations with how good he's become.

But you can't succeed if you're not given the chance. Jed and Brad should be commended. Come on - you know who you are.
 
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And I'd like to bump this for good measure - the only time I'ver every bumped my own post... WA Roo, where are you?

Are you honestly that simplistic in that you really think that's all that would be needed to get a team of professional recruiting staff to draft a player from another club? You are completely deluded mate - that analysis is so rudimentary it's laughable. Cam and the team would have watched him for years and knew exactly what they were after when they went for him.

From what I understand, and I'm no recruiter, he was a pre-listed GWS priority player and was captain of the NT junior team - a very highly rated junior that Hawthorn got in a trade for a senior player they were happy to move on.

Now, Jed moved on for opportunity, because "when he looked at things practically, he knew Cyril Rioli, Luke Breust and Paul Puopolo were going to be hard to push past for quite a while yet. And so, nervously, he asked Alastair Clarkson if he could have a look around."
http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-ne...est-six-days-of-his-life-20160303-gna74a.html

Upon having a look around, the Hawthorn recruiting manager states, the "highly talented player" attracted some interest from eight clubs!
http://www.theage.com.au/afl/tradin...n-youngster-jed-anderson-20151016-gkao1t.html

To summarise, we have a pre-listed, stand out junior (which doesn't garuntee success admittedly - just ask Taylor Hine!) in one of the best teams of all time, who is still young, looking to move on, who chose our club over many others and who has many traits our team is crying out for - speed, hardness, youth and leadership. Apparently his skills are good when fully fit too - time will tell on that one, as they haven't been great to date - he'll admit that.

But what I can tell you for sure is - your simplistic take on the whole process is so far off the mark it is utterly ridiculous.
 

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Watching him warm up, just how good his hands are really stood out. He, cunners, Higgins, Goldy, frog, Clarkey and BJ we're doing stoppage drills with crocks and minson, and he and Ben10 were both hittting some ridiculous handballs- perfectly weighted, to space, for the likes of Clarkey/Higgo to run on to.

You can tell the really good handballers apart because the ball seems to stick in on hand freakishly long, allowing them to make split second decisions. Him and cunners have that, Clarke and Dumont (and this is just an example) don't.

My favourite player at the moment. Will be a gun- it's a sure bet because none of what he's doing is remotely freakish- it's just good, hard, contested footy. Love it!
 

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I'll.say it again. People underestimate just what the pneumonia did to his body.

Some people never get back to full fitness after what he went through.

There was a ceiling imposed upon his body severely limiting his aerobic capacity, recovery and general energy levels, basically like living with chronic fatigue.

He's finally shaken it and you can see just how much healthier he looks.
agree, he looks so strong.
 

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He has a career average of under 13 disposals but this year is averaging nearly 20. Also this year he has played 9 games. Over a quarter of the games he has played in his life so far played this year, in a row. For the first 3 games of the year he averaged 12 disposals too. The big wet probably didn't help that.

The last six games he has averaged just under 23 disposals. 10 more than the rest of his career. Got less than 20 once in that time, in r 5.

In the last 3 games he has averaged 26 disposals. Double his career average.

This is a good trend. If he stops there - averaging 26 disposals for the rest of his career and maintains the level of pressure he brings he will be a great player.

It seems almost too good to be true but given the run the kid has had he deserves some luck. Although its probably a combination of fitness, confidence and an extended run with some responsibility. Not luck.
 

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Having watched the replay, his goal is one of my favourite individual plays of the year. Wins the centre clearance with a ridiculous airborne handball, then pushes forward from the contest and takes a contested mark inside 50.
Finally the Jedi is using the Force. :stern look
 
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I love checking the halfway mark. Went back to page 72 and 73. Amazing the calls to delist him, thoughts about what pick he cost us and his defenders calling this his first official year uninjured. How far we and Jed have come since then shows that anyone can turn it around with hard work
 
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