Player Watch #8 Jonty Faull

[lalorGOAT]

Mate, I have lots of patience. That's why in real life I'm hanging on. Age doesn't matter; you either have it or you don't.

What are you talking about age absolutely matters.

 

[dean33]

Yeah, but I'm still waiting for Ryan to come good like people keep telling me. As for the craft, freaking high school teachers had me and other teammates play with needles and sawing; I dare say none of us mastered that craft.

I doubt there are many if any still saying Ryan will come good, think jonty will make it personally but maybe thats just me.
Ps. Stay away from needles...

 

[captain cotch 9]

He'll kick 4 this week.

 

[Toothpick Vic]

Reid vs Faull is just a stupid comparison, they are completely different players

The point I'm making is that we would all love to know what standout attribute the recruiters saw in Faull to warrant pulling the trigger on him so early. You only have to go back to the first page of this thread to see that people considered it a reach.

I'm yet to see anything that separates Faull from every other tall forward taken. It's not a knock on him; he didn't pick himself. And I'm not trying to be a smartas*e, but what is it? His combativeness? His tank? Because it certainly isn't his kicking, mark clunking or forward craft and he isn't exactly an imposing figure.

I know hindsight is a wonderful thing, and I'm well aware of his age and what the progress should look like, but why the reach at the time?? That's my question.

We needed to take at least one other lock, besides Lalor, and Reid was it......

 

[dean33]

The point I'm making is that we would all love to know what standout attribute the recruiters saw in Faull to warrant pulling the trigger on his so early. You only have to go back to the first page of this thread to see that people considered it a reach.

I'm yet to see anything that separates Faull from every other tall forward taken. It's not a knock on him; he didn't pick himself. And I'm not trying to be a smartas*e, but what is it? His combativeness? His tank? Because it certainly isn't his kicking, mark clunking or forward craft and he isn't exactly an imposing figure.

I know hindsight is a wonderful thing, and I'm well aware of his age and what the progress should look like, but why the reach at the time?? That's my question.

We needed to take at least one other lock, besides Lalor, and Reid was it......

Thats fair and I suppose they must not have rated Reid so high at the time which is disappointing no doubt. I do know Sydney were right into Jonty and we knew that they were going to take him with their first pick.

I suppose by then we'd already taken Lalor, smillie and hotton so they felt we needed a tall and rated jonty as the best in the draft so selected him.
Shame we missed on Reid being a mad tiger family but hindsight is wonderful.

 

[KrispyKreme]

Thats fair and I suppose they must not have rated Reid so high at the time which is disappointing no doubt. I do know Sydney were right into Jonty and we knew that they were going to take him with their first pick.

I suppose by then we'd already taken Lalor, smillie and hotton so they felt we needed a tall and rated jonty as the best in the draft so selected him.
Shame we missed on Reid being a mad tiger family but hindsight is wonderful.

I still remember watching pick 12 & 14 come up. In a Group chat with the boys all of us pumping up the picks for Shanahan and Reid lol. How disappointed we were for jonty. Large reach. So far I’ve given him praise but I’m offf him after what I’ve seen for 5 weeks.

 

[Meteoric Rise]

The point I'm making is that we would all love to know what standout attribute the recruiters saw in Faull to warrant pulling the trigger on him so early. You only have to go back to the first page of this thread to see that people considered it a reach.

I'm yet to see anything that separates Faull from every other tall forward taken. It's not a knock on him; he didn't pick himself. And I'm not trying to be a smartas*e, but what is it? His combativeness? His tank? Because it certainly isn't his kicking, mark clunking or forward craft and he isn't exactly an imposing figure.

I know hindsight is a wonderful thing, and I'm well aware of his age and what the progress should look like, but why the reach at the time?? That's my question.

We needed to take at least one other lock, besides Lalor, and Reid was it......

Faull's outstanding trait is his competitiveness. You need to let the guy have time for his body to mature before you will see the full benefit of that at AFL level, he is often just being pushed aside at this point, but the effort is there for all to see. When Faull is as strong or stronger than his opponents around his 5th and 6th years in the system, his appeal will be there for all to see.

 

[Daka]

He didn't even earn a Rising Star nomination with plenty of opportunity.

Draft bust all over him. how he got Jack Riewoldt's number I'll never know.

 

[sante]

What key forwards dominate in year 2? I actually can’t believe the negativity on here. Jonty showed plenty last year that he will be a good footballer. The fact he hasn’t improved on last year doesn’t mean he won’t make it

 

[KrispyKreme]

What key forwards dominate in year 2? I actually can’t believe the negativity on here. Jonty showed plenty last year that he will be a good footballer. The fact he hasn’t improved on last year doesn’t mean he won’t make it

Jeremy Cameron
Pretty sure hogan was also good

 

[Acinath]

Jeremy Cameron
Pretty sure hogan was also good

And you know who wasn’t?

Tom Hawkins
Jack Riewoldt
Josh Kennedy
Jarryd Roughead

Some of the best KPF over the last 20 years, all took 3-5 years to get there shit together

He may not make it, but to flog the bloke after 20 odd games is a mistake

 

[KrispyKreme]

And you know who wasn’t?

Tom Hawkins
Jack Riewoldt
Josh Kennedy
Jarryd Roughead

Some of the best KPF over the last 20 years, all took 3-5 years to get there shit together

He may not make it, but to flog the bloke after 20 odd games is a mistake

I just don’t think he has what it takes. I hope he makes it but the fact he can’t mark just screams he will have trouble. Ben Simmons couldn’t shoot and now look at him.

 

[Bojangles17]

Thats fair and I suppose they must not have rated Reid so high at the time which is disappointing no doubt. I do know Sydney were right into Jonty and we knew that they were going to take him with their first pick.

I suppose by then we'd already taken Lalor, smillie and hotton so they felt we needed a tall and rated jonty as the best in the draft so selected him.
Shame we missed on Reid being a mad tiger family but hindsight is wonderful.

And that’s why we should be sacking those involved , it’s an indictment on the club when a bf poster is calling these guys out as our priority selections pre draft and these highly paid dopes are mindlessly pissing our pics up against the wall

 

[Bojangles17]

And you know who wasn’t?

Tom Hawkins
Jack Riewoldt
Josh Kennedy
Jarryd Roughead

Some of the best KPF over the last 20 years, all took 3-5 years to get there shit together

He may not make it, but to flog the bloke after 20 odd games is a mistake

Cadman has taken a couple of years to really hit his straps B U T , even in his early days he’d take a towering mark that would make you put down your glasses then do little .

I haven’t seen that from faul at this stage . Fawcett showed a bit of what I’m talking about

 

[Julio Dulio]

Jonty is my favourite of the 2024 draft haul. Not sure what others are seeing, but he'll be a fan favourite eventually.

 

[tunksy]

Cadman has taken a couple of years to really hit his straps B U T , even in his early days he’d take a towering mark that would make you put down your glasses then do little .

I haven’t seen that from faul at this stage . Fawcett showed a bit of what I’m talking about

And for some context cadman was doing that in a much better team that ours currently

 

[Boston tiger]

He must be showing something at training .

 

[Meteoric Rise]

Jonty is my favourite of the 2024 draft haul. Not sure what others are seeing, but he'll be a fan favourite eventually.

I firmly believe Jonty Faull will make some people posting here feel extremely foolish.

There are so many seemingly brilliant players who just never amount to anything great because they are not endowed with the capacity to fight for the ball or put pressure on the toughest opponents. We saw plenty of those suffer at our hands in our stunning run of 10 finals wins in a 4 year period during our dynasty. Players that looked great until they didn't. Then they looked pathetic. Against our players many of whom didn't look great, until they did. Then they looked near unbeatable.

That is where this bloke is likely to shine.

People need to read the script. We don't necessarily recruit players who if they were batsmen could play the most delightful cover drives and stylish flicks off their pads while the sun is shining, but don't look so clever when under vicious attack from opposition bowlers. Our recruiters recruit for character first where they can. We have a player who doesn't try to run away from physical pressure to get a kick, he embraces it, even though he is not strong enough to cope right now. When he is physically strong enough he will be a huge asset to our team.

 

[Daka]

And you know who wasn’t?

Tom Hawkins
Jack Riewoldt
Josh Kennedy
Jarryd Roughead

Some of the best KPF over the last 20 years, all took 3-5 years to get there shit together

He may not make it, but to flog the bloke after 20 odd games is a mistake

Disagree with that Hawkins & Riewoldt showed more in their first two seasons than what Faull has.
Jack kicked 18 goals in his 2nd year... and averaged a goal a game across his first two seasons, Faull is a long way off doing that, he has kicked 2 goals in 7 games.

 

[Meteoric Rise]

Disagree with that Hawkins & Riewoldt showed more in their first two seasons than what Faull has.
Jack kicked 18 goals in his 2nd year... and averaged a goal a game across his first two seasons, Faull is a long way off doing that, he has kicked 2 goals in 7 games.

Jack's second year on the list Richmond won more games than it lost. And the team averaged 101 points per game. Jack had 26 scoring shots in 18 games.

Faull is playing for a team that is 0-7 with a % of 54 that averages 60 points per game. Jonty has 7 scoring shots in 6 games, so far.

 

[tiger_tough]

He didn't even earn a Rising Star nomination with plenty of opportunity.

Draft bust all over him. how he got Jack Riewoldt's number I'll never know.

 

[wegetpumped]

He'll kick 4 this week.

That will be 4 marks as he miskicks it to himself.

 

[wegetpumped]

Disagree with that Hawkins & Riewoldt showed more in their first two seasons than what Faull has.
Jack kicked 18 goals in his 2nd year... and averaged a goal a game across his first two seasons, Faull is a long way off doing that, he has kicked 2 goals in 7 games.

Jack was played further up the ground as Richo was occupying FF and never showed his true skill till he became FF, but just the same, he wasn't bad at all, just a much better ff. People comparing Faul to Jack—I mean, where's the world come to?

 

[lalorGOAT]

He didn't even earn a Rising Star nomination with plenty of opportunity.

Draft bust all over him. how he got Jack Riewoldt's number I'll never know.

Worst post of the year contender

 

[wegetpumped]

Worst post of the year contender

Why do you think he's any better than that? Might as well give him number 1