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There was alot of talk about Benjamin when he was a junior, and even the year he was drafted, alot of people on BF who had seen him play a bit in WA rated him pretty highly, and even thought he might go first round. The fact that he was still pretty raw when he was drafted, and he needed alot of work on his kicking were the main reasons why he fell down the order.

It has been pleasing to see him improve this year, with his kicking being particularly good. I can see him debuting this year, and he might even have a chance of doing that on Saturday. His form with the Bullants has been pretty good, and would have very much earnt his spot.
 
Is he a midfielder?
Apparently he runs the 100m in under 11secs.
This is what we have been lacking. get him in i say.
 
Banga19 said:
He's only listed as 189cm on Footwire. Has he shrunk?
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that's what age does to you :rolleyes:


but nah in all seriousness does this bloke carry a bit of grunt in him? the boy can run SURE, but can he tackle? I think thats what we were lacking in the midfield zone before .....but people like Hadley (who's faster than tickers - who by the way we all know is tops at tackling) and of course Judd set the standard for pace and pressure........ AND how about skill wise? I want to know EVERYTHING!
 

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For the romance
he ought to play,
would have been a great indigenous story.

Eddie, Joe and Clint share a house,
he is against his former state,
runs like a deer,
some sort of bush legend,
and hell if he plays well,
could run with Wojinski next week.

Every Indigenous i have seen, can pick up the game speed in about 2 seconds.

I can't see any "Developement" in him chomping through bog heaps,
from Coburg to Cranbourne....or is it Craigeburn for the rest of the year.
 
BLue_Bloys said:
I watched a VFL game about 4 weeks ago and the guy really impressed me, I would assume he'd get a game this year
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Same. Think he'll get a run at some stage. His improvement over the past 12 months has been pretty good.
 
HBF said:
Same. Think he'll get a run at some stage. His improvement over the past 12 months has been pretty good.
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I'll confess I don't watch a lot of VFL, but last year from what I saw of him he looked like he was kind of lost.

This year he's been good and from what I've read of the match reports is continually impressing.

Benjamin and Walker running on the wing will be something to watch out for in the future
 

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GPW1 said:
i remember there being big wraps on him pre draft, and was stoked we picked him up late (based on bigfooty opinion :) )

hope comes good.
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Agree. As I've said before with the next several drafts being compromised by the wreckage that will be GC17 and YCBFS18, blokes like Clint and Joey are potentially gold-plated. If they can deliver some consistent footy for us we will suddenly have a good dose of the sort of excitement that currently only Eddie brings to our side ie. speedy, running, attacking football.
 
just out of interest, people that follow the draft/under 18's, where did you rate bejinman and anderson at the time they were drafted? have they met/fell below expectations?

(as kind of mentioned above my only pre-draft knowledge is from reading phantom drafts/popular opinion/and watching the odd u18's championship game etc on bigfooty which is often flawed)
 

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