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That's a fair response. I think it's a bit harsh to judge a young fella's performances purely on six VFL games and a quarter of big league, particularly when players of his ilk - hardnosed, high intensity, high impact game, take longer due to adjusting to the size of men they are playing against in comparison to under 18s, school and Carnival footy. Give the lad time, I'm a bit over dismissing the potential of young players so reactively - it's disingenuous and most of the time, plain wrong. Very different types of players - but two of the modern greats, Luke Hodge and Tom Hawkins, were both written off as kids, but really just needed to build tanks and gain confidence. Not saying Jhye is NEXT - but I liked what I saw against Carlton and expect him to play his first full AFL game within the first month of the season.Probably from his VFL performances. The best he looked was in that one QTR of AFL and he looked great, was very disappointing that he was injured for the rest of the year. Im looking forward to see more of him at AFL standard this year.
I take your point about McKenzie being in a bottom 4 side, it's just that Clarks VFL performances weren't much good either.