Player Watch Jackson Hately
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Remember what you thought after Keay's first game, and ROB, and Jones, and McAdam, and Sholl, and Berry, and Doedee, and Thilthorpe...
Never as bad as you fear, or as good as you hope.
Except Thilthorpe, the exception that proves the rule.
Never as bad as you fear, or as good as you hope.
Except Thilthorpe, the exception that proves the rule.
I mean it's a bit different comparing a green draftee to someone who has been on another clubs list...
It seemed he was used more as negating mid to manoeuvre Mitchell in particular at the Centre Bounces rather than get the ball himself. His kicking needs tidying up but he also looked like he needed the run to blow out some cobwebs, didn’t play at all last weekend which wouldn’t have helped. Tackled well and got 17 touches in only 65% TOG which seems awfully low for him so may be being managed somewhat after the adductor injury in pre-season and building him up still, give him 4-6 weeks and then see where it’s at, cant be writing him off after one game at a new club with new structures many more should be dropped before Jacko.
Jones hasn’t done anything to change my opinion of him
Can’t believe people are writing him off already. He’s played 1 game! Fair dinkum people
Keays....
Not even the last game of the season against the Bulldogs, you didn't change your mind after his first game?Jones hasn’t done anything to change my opinion of him
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Keays is getting a lot of the ball, but not sure his kicking is still that great. I'm still a fan of his though.
Hately showed enough for me, won a few 50:50 contests, linked up a few times. Again, kicking is a work in progress.
Keays had 4 years and 30 games at Brisbane before joining the crows and was 23 start of last season.
Hately only had 2 years and 13 games at GWS and is still only 20 years old.
Hence my point responding to his comment "I mean it's a bit different comparing a green draftee to someone who has been on another clubs list..." and used Keays as an example who has turn out to be very good player despite his 1st game which was poor for us last year, and Hately's 1st game for us was actually reasonably solid compared to Keays.
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No thats a clear outlier in his AFL track record.
So at that time you, unlike all of us, didn't change your mind after that game?
no, just like 1 bad game wouldn't change my mind on someone i rated.
You mean you still think he is the bombJones hasn’t done anything to change my opinion of him
The guy won our emerging talent award alongside some pretty decent names:
You mean like Keays?
Hately broke into a 22 with a better midfield than ours. I would guess most on here have not seen a lot of him (under focus) and those that have are probably harking back to his junior days ... where he was touted as gun.
The bloke needs some time to get his feet - all I am saying is let's not hang someone on their first outing for the club.
He’s a bomb alrightYou mean you still think he is the bomb
The guy won our emerging talent award alongside some pretty decent names:
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After the two trial games it looked like our midfield was going to be a disaster and that was with Sloane and Crouch playing.
To be 3-3 with 3 games total from those two is well above expectations. There's plenty of room to give Hately an extended run - we should be rotating the 1st and 2nd year mids anyway.
To be 3-3 with 3 games total from those two is well above expectations. There's plenty of room to give Hately an extended run - we should be rotating the 1st and 2nd year mids anyway.
You mean you still think he is the bomb
The guy won our emerging talent award alongside some pretty decent names:
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Hamish!!!!!!
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I remember he used to get on the scoresheet quite regularly for Centrals as well. For a teenager in that league he held his own quite well.
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He did, but we didn't draft him to play half forward which is what he was doing in Central's SANFL League team in the latter part of the season in his draft year.
The club and Hamish made it pretty clear we'd pursued him on the premise he was the big bodied inside mid we badly needed to add to our midfield mix so it would be disappointing if he doesn't measure up to that specific role.
Like I stated previously it's early days yet but I think we'd all like to see Jackson really imposing himself on the inside contests a fair bit more than he has thus far in the SANFL and last week's AFL game. After all this is a 3rd year player not a rookie.
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Are you more bullish on Gollant or O'Connor making it long term for us than Jackson as that big inside mid?
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He might have broke into 22 with a better midfield than ours but let's not kid ourselves he never got close to breaking into their midfield rotations in any of the games I watched and that was most of them.....which is fair enough given GWS's midfield strength.
I'm all for giving him time to adjust but I really want to see him using his bigger body inside the contests a lot more than he has been to date.
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