Player Watch Jackson Hately

[Mutineer]

Are you more bullish on Gollant or O'Connor making it long term for us than Jackson as that big inside mid?

I don't see Gollant as ever being an inside mid for us and you would hope Jackson given his draft position and more decorated junior career would be a superior player to O'Connor in the inside mid role.

 

[Crow till I die]

I don't see Gollant as ever being an inside mid for us and you would hope Jackson given his draft position and more decorated junior career would be a superior player to O'Connor in the inside mid role.

fair enough, but how many times do we see players taken later in the draft outperforming players with higher draft positions...It is all infront of OConnor and Gollant as to what they want to make from their respective AFL careers

 

[jackster83]

Promising game tonight.

Could be a bit like Keays - not super pretty but has a huge work rate. Is good by hand too.

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

Promising game tonight.

Could be a bit like Keays - not super pretty but has a huge work rate. Is good by hand too.

More of the same please.

Needs to be given a decent block of games now in the middle to see if he can produce consistent performances like tonight.

Biggest positive from tonight.

 

[Danger in Texas]

Found a lot of the footy, and was generally efficient with his ball use. Also found ways to make opportunities for himself up forward (even if he didn’t always convert)

Best game for the club, hopefully he can build on this

 

[thebeedee]

Bubbles had a great game

 

[Crow till I die]

More of tonights game from jackson going forward please. Hope he is feeling it and can take the confidence with him

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

More of tonights game from jackson going forward please. Hope he is feeling it and can take the confidence with him

Good point about confidence.

Sometimes that is all it takes to click.

Hopefully not a once off, but he has bought himself a block of games in thr middle now.

 

[Punchy Bassett]

Player gets played in natural position and looks alright, welcome to the 21st century Crows

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

Player gets played in natural position and looks alright, welcome to the 21st century Crows

Had more scoring chances as a midfielder than he did as a forward too...

 

[Crow till I die]

Good point about confidence.

Sometimes that is all it takes to click.

Hopefully not a once off, but he has bought himself a block of games in thr middle now.

Is that the first time he has had real midfield time this year and not been shunted to half forward?

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

Is that the first time he has had real midfield time this year and not been shunted to half forward?

2nd game as played last week against the Blues & there were some green shoots then.

We just need to give him a block of games in the middle as looks a different player.

 

[hey shorty]

Is that the first time he has had real midfield time this year and not been shunted to half forward?

First time at either club yep

 

[Crow till I die]

2nd game as played last week against the Blues & there were some green shoots then.

We just need to give him a block of games in the middle as looks a different player.

Would be a very nice surprise indeed if jackson proves us all wrong and can go on and become a quality mid for us. Fingers crossed

 

[Punchy Bassett]

Player gets played in natural position and looks alright, welcome to the 21st century Crows

I just can't stress this enough we are s**t at player development

 

[ABAB]

I just can't stress this enough we are s**t at player development

Only in the midfield as they had constant stayer of Crouch and Sloane there.

 

[GrandGazza]

Hately and Matthew Kennedy are so similar IMO

 

[CroCop]

Hately and Matthew Kennedy are so similar IMO

Kennedy much better disposal and depth with his kicking

 

[MRB37]

I'd like to see Burgess really get into him this off-season and see if he can develop his lower body physically so he can get some real power in his legs and core. He's not gonna be a game breaker speed wise and his disposal is not gonna be elite, but he can certainly be a bigger midfielder we need with some genuine power in his game.

 

[hey shorty]

Kennedy much better disposal and depth with his kicking

But it's also taken him a long time to get to that point.

 

[Drewie11]

Even the Hately Haters have to admit that was a great game from him last night

Maybe there is something there? Hopefully that gives him the confidence to kick on from last night

 

[StonesThrow]

If he can't improve his kicking it's still a no from me. An accumulator with no weapons and a poor kick is the opposite of what we need going forward.

 

[Drewie11]

If he can't improve his kicking it's still a no from me. An accumulator with no weapons and a poor kick is the opposite of what we need going forward.

Apart from 1 kick to Tex his kicking was decent last night and he could’ve ended up with 3 goals. Put himself in good spots going forward.

 

[Gtowncrow]

Hately haters hate a hot Hately!

 

[Thunderstruck]

Best part about his game was he kept his pressure up despite running hard offensively as well. Team high 30 pressure acts to go with his 27 touches. Fantastic work rate.