AFL Player # 6: Jye Caldwell

[Lore]

Contract Status: Out of contract 2024
My Boy Draft 2024: Pick 2, eth-dog

 

[quotemokc]

We need to remember that he is only 20

 

[yodellinhank]

We need to remember that he is only 20

Who, Langford?

 

[JayJ20]

We need to remember that he is only 20

Other than a few of his kicks in the 3rd, I thought he was really good. Deceptively strong in contests. Laid 9 tackles, second most behind McGrath.

We've found a player here.

 

[RedmanWasHere]

I thought he played well last night.

Stayed involved which you'd like to see with all players.

Ready for the next game Jye.

 

[naraku]

Very good game from Jye. Not afraid to lay tackles and keep involved.

 

[Loonerty]

Yeah very impressed. Was in every contest, if he didn't get the ball he was laying a tackle.

 

[Wahooti Fandango]

Yep, definitely one of our better players on the night.

 

[BrunoV]

Butchered it.

Didn't butcher it in the pre-season so hopefully it was an aberration.

 

[TheGrizz]

Field kicking was poor, but the intent was good and he was clean by hand.

Plenty to work with.

 

[fairbump_playon]

Butchered it.

Didn't butcher it in the pre-season so hopefully it was an aberration.

Looked like fatigue

 

[Vander18]

Has the quickest, cleanest hands at the club.

Is best 22 right now and will never play VFL other than due to injury. I like him a lot. There is a touch of Jason Johnson

Jason Johnson

Age

46

Ht

180cm

Wt

85kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

20.6

5star

K

13.0

5star

HB

7.5

5star

M

4.3

4star

T

2.7

4star

No current season stats available

D

8.8

3star

K

5.4

2star

HB

3.4

3star

M

1.2

2star

T

1.0

3star

about him.

 

[BrunoV]

Has the quickest, cleanest hands at the club.

Is best 22 right now and will never play VFL other than due to injury. I like him a lot. There is a touch of Jason Johnson about him.

They're good but do you think better than Parish? Not so sure. Parish takes possession of the ball like he has quick grip on his hands.

 

[Vander18]

They're good but do you think better than Parish? Not so sure. Parish takes possession of the ball like he has quick grip on his hands.

Parish is a great one grabber, so is Caldwell. Caldwell distributes better once he has it though - very good at getting arms free and then has some creativity with how he releases teammates.

Not like Parish is bad at this but Caldwell is very, very good at it for a 20 year old kid. As he gets bigger and stronger his ability to absorb contact, hold his feet and release the ball is just going to get better.

 

[Zach Package]

Parish’s hands are second only to Watson in my time watching Essendon. Jaws of life stuff.

Field kicking is vastly overrated for inside players, key indicators for Jye are defensive running, tackling and hitting contests at speed. All were good and will get better.

 

[fairbump_playon]

Parish’s hands are second only to Watson in my time watching Essendon. Jaws of life stuff.

Field kicking is vastly overrated for inside players, key indicators for Jye are defensive running, tackling and hitting contests at speed. All were good and will get better.

I agree that Parish has incredibly sticky hands but I also agree with Vander... Caldwell is either already better or will be soon.

 

[eDPS]

Parish’s hands are second only to Watson in my time watching Essendon. Jaws of life stuff.

Field kicking is vastly overrated for inside players, key indicators for Jye are defensive running, tackling and hitting contests at speed. All were good and will get better.

McGrath is right up there aswell, even Merrett when he first started was lightning fast with his hands but prefers to kick

 

[Bjchan13]

Rather than a panic handball he's happy to absorb physical contact to make sure that his handballs are putting his teammates to advantage. Love him

 

[BrunoV]

Parish’s hands are second only to Watson in my time watching Essendon. Jaws of life stuff.

Field kicking is vastly overrated for inside players, key indicators for Jye are defensive running, tackling and hitting contests at speed. All were good and will get better.

Can't agree with this. It's the very reason so many of them are overrated. At best 30% of their kicks are the scrambles from contested situations. The rest of the time they are in as much space as a half back, who tend to be able to kick the thing, and spraying the ball, stuffing up forward 50 entries.

 

[doug85]

Rd 1 | Caldwell highlights

Watch Jye Caldwell's best moments from his first game in the red and black.

www.essendonfc.com.au

 

[Lore]

Rd 1 | Caldwell highlights

Watch Jye Caldwell's best moments from his first game in the red and black.

www.essendonfc.com.au

Playing volleyball at the end there haha

 

[Loonerty]

Sorta forget easily that that was only his 12th game.

 

[ant555]

He was okay but as you would expect for a young midfielder he made some errors. Some disposal wise and some positioning / defense wise. He was one of the guilty parties as far as the third quarter went with a few basic mistakes. The plus side is he does some good stuff as well and is hard at it. Given he has played under 20 games and even less as an actual midfielder he has plenty of scope to improve.

 

[bennyg12]

Massive upside in this kid

 

[MarkJohnson#1]

Hard as nails which I liked. Adds another dimension to our midfield.

 

[Don35]

Good player. Has had As much criticism as ham after 1 week from the over educated stupidness of essendon fans. 1 bloke can play. The other simply can’t.