Jack Watts - 3 more years

[demondavey]

Worked for Brad Miller, right?

Just because they're from the same club doesn't mean they're the same player.

 

[ThaiTiger]

The only reason Brad Miller was on an AFL list is because he had a hot mrs. Like Shaun Hampson.

It's good for team morale. Is Jack's missus hot? Could increase his value.

 

[demondavey]

It's good for team morale. Is Jack's missus hot? Could increase his value.

Not sure.

 

[PAFC_1870]

Just if there was a thread for this. Maybe in the trading forum. How appropriate that would be.

 

[Damon_3388]

Skill wise? Yes. Work ethic? Absolute poles apart.

How much of that is nature, and how much of that was nurture in his formative years as an AFL footballer?

 

[Marc_Remillard]

I can't help but feel that if Melbourne just said "you're a CHF, and that's it", and played him there unchanged from day dot (with maybe his first full year in the VFL, with no pressure to debut at AFL level while you're still at high school), he could have been the next Nick Riewoldt.

He has never had the tools, intensity, aggression or instincts to play as a CHF

 

[Damon_3388]

He has never had the tools, intensity, aggression or instincts to play as a CHF

So if that's the case, given that he was 6'5" and athletic as hell, was FF in the U/18 All-Australian side in 2008, and was adjudged the best player in Div 1 at those U/18 Championships, what was he expected to turn out to be when drafted at #1? Another Cale Morton (skinny 6'4" 2007 Larke Medalist, drafted #4 by Melbourne in 2007), to put on the other wing?

 

[Stan Van Gundy]

Wow, just read the first page and everyone was so mad that Jack Watts got his own thread. The dude is a bigfooty meme legend for being so epically s**t and soft that people mockingly put his name as an option in 90 % of polls on here. Of course it's gonna be thread worthy then if he re-signs.

 

[Marc_Remillard]

So if that's the case, given that he was 6'5" and athletic as hell, was FF in the U/18 All-Australian side in 2008, and was adjudged the best player in Div 1 at those U/18 Championships, what was he expected to turn out to be when drafted at #1? Another Cale Morton (skinny 6'4" 2007 Larke Medalist, drafted #4 by Melbourne in 2007), to put on the other wing?

Expectations and reality are often different