Player Watch #7: Zane Duursma

[Themanbun]

He has a poor tank and is skinny. Gonna be a very long burn.

 

[shinboner magic]

Bad look when ball is bouncing in front of him and he’s just watching it

 

[TennisPlayerAndy]

So far off it. Lacks any intensity. No tank.

Shouldn’t be playing.

 

[Chadwiko]

Very early days but I had massive concerns about him pre-draft and they are starting to bear out, I'm afraid.

 

[Passmore]

Reckon I'll give him a bit more time personally.

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[shinboner magic]

Reckon I'll give him a bit more time personally.

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No issue without

Some start off ready to go and others take longer

 

[Topparoo]

Get him away from Stephenson asap I think. There's gotta be someone else on the list who would be a better role model for him.

 

[Fart Cummings]

its not like the rest of the forward line is getting much more of it!

 

[Joshen]

The reality is that we're playing with one less and I doubt he is learning much.

 

[bhoysdontcry67]

Get him away from Stephenson asap I think. There's gotta be someone else on the list who would be a better role model for him.

Genuinely who?

 

[koshari]

Very early days but I had massive concerns about him pre-draft and they are starting to bear out, I'm afraid.

what are your concerns? he was always going to be a 40 to 60 games in him to get conditioning and adjust to afl pace player,

may as well play him in the next 19 months of dead rubbers.

 

[William Caresser]

Needs to play VFL for a while working with Tom Lynch and Barlow. Doesn't work hard enough or have the tank off the ball and it's costly. Struggling at ground level.

 

[trooroo4life]

Doing him a disservice playing him every week. Needs to find his feet at the lower level. No issues about his long term, just not easy playing half forward and he hasn’t got enough of a tank to pressure so it sticks out like a sore thumb. He’ll be fine, just go back and find some confidence.

 

[apollo_creed]

what are your concerns? he was always going to be a 40 to 60 games in him to get conditioning and adjust to afl pace player,

may as well play him in the next 19 months of dead rubbers.

terrible call to be honest mate. He has been abysmal and shouldnt be playing until he’s at least near being an afl standard player.

 

[DarkPhoenix]

Give him a string of games in the 2s to get some confidence.

Bring in Sellers or whoever we pickup in the MSD. Doesn't matter really.

 

[DarwinRoo]

He is a first year player playing in the worst team in the league, leave him the **** alone!

 

[RooDave]

Just has to go back to the 2's just to get some touch. Gotta be hard only having 2 or 3 disposals (a nice goal btw) but apart from that doing basically nothing.

He's a kid, he's not even close to the finished product but he's not going to get there getting subbed out in the 3rd and riding the pine.

Give him a really solid 4-6 back in the twos, get the numbers up to 15-20 possies a game and a few snags and then come back in.

 

[Topparoo]

Genuinely who?

Tough question, but I would hope and pray that he is close with Harry and George. Even Luke Mc, and I have been hard on him but I think he has improved his output especially since Jy has been injured. But the list of candidates is short I'm afraid.

 

[Passmore]

Genuinely who?

Quarantine him, Wardlaw, Sheezel and McKercher. Make sure none of them catch whatever disease the others have

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[Hazey1977]

Was it Zane's side of the ground that Port worked through for all the first half? (I missed the 2nd half due to cutting down trees).

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[Roosurgence]

He is a first year player playing in the worst team in the league, leave him the heck alone!

Doesn’t mean he isn’t playing like a soft lazy campaigner.

Age has nothing to do with effort.

 

[koshari]

terrible call to be honest mate. He has been abysmal and shouldnt be playing until he’s at least near being an afl standard player.

ordinarily i would agree completely , glaring problem is we dont have 18 players of AFL quality so thats the caviet where he may as well be learning in the bigtime? I know its a double edged sword when we have blokes like laz and drury who are actually honest triers but Zanes got more talent in his little finger than those 2 blokes put together. alternatively drop him for a block of games to build some stamina and accept spuds like taylor will be running round in the ones. frankly all are less than ideal scenarios.

 

[Roosurgence]

I think I preferred the days of Laidley’s untalented, unfashionable warriors that gave 100% no matter what, than this talented bunch of soft *****.

 

[hellas_johnny]

Honestly even in the vfl kicked 4 but did nothing besides getting those joe the goose goals. Still in the boat that I think we should have taken watson over him

 

[Swallow_Wood]

Definitely not worth wetting the bed over, but should be given a decent run in the twos. It'd be good for his touch and confidence.