Lewis Letta

[smasher]

I watched him closely last night and I think the reason his disposal is so poor is because he is running too fast and can't pull up to kick the ball properly.
If you watch some of the other indigineous smalls they don't run so fast but are still elusive and always have time to line up at goals instead of banging away anyhow.
Maybe he can learn this in the two's????

 

[liz]

That is something all very quick players have to learn and many (most) of them struggle at times when introduced to the pressure of senior footy. Jack, for example, has learned over a few seasons, to slow and balance himself before kicking and his disposal has improved tenfold.

Earlier in the season Jetta was balancing himself prior to kicking but he seems to be doing it less and less. He still has a long way to go to pick up the pace and pressure of AFL footy but no reason why it shouldn't come with more experience.

 

[Swans120]

Roosy last night:

“At the moment, it’s just completely psychological. To be perfectly frank … he’s probably got to go back to the seconds and kick two or three goals because I don’t think it’s going to happen at senior level,” he said.

“That’s okay. He’s just a young kid and he’s just got the yips at the moment. The way to fix that is to get him back, get him playing good footy and kicking two or three goals in the seconds and he’ll be fine.

“It’s probably at the stage now where he’d run into an open goal and trip over the footy, but he’s a really talented kid and it’ll turn around. When it does, he’s the sort of kid who’ll kick 12 or 13 straight.”

 

[Stevie Ray Swan]

Jetta should stand next to Bradshaw in the goal square, and when Bradshaw takes a mark, he should pretend he hurt his knee and cant get up, and let Jetta take the shot .

 

[WoGiTaLiA]

He seems to either nut a kick perfectly or shank it at the moment, he doesn't have an in between where he can not hit it cleanly and have it go straight.

He is not the only Swan whose kicking is not on at the moment. ROK seems to be slowly rediscovering his kick but Goodes is really struggling amongst others.

 

[BIGBEZ]

I agree to a point but his ability to hit targets at speed was one of the things that impressed when we got him, it will all click as will the goals. If we are talking about the run down the wing when he 'shanked' it on the full, that was a tough one and credit has to go to Harry O for great defense. When Jetta got the ball and took off, he looked up and was poised enough for a kick but their was no one to kick to, he looked at Harry and took him on, he shifted up another gear(you could see him grimace right on the gear change) and lit up the jets because there was no one to kick to and Im pretty sure he would have been instructed to run anyway, now most players would have run at him and at that speed Jetta would have switch footed them and ran past as he can do but Harry was experienced enough to know he wasnt gonna catch him so instead coralled him towards the boundary forcing him to kick under pressure, seemed to me he was trying to find someone, but still our forward line was stagnent or empty (I couldnt see on tv but the commentator simply described it as 'no one to go to') and Jetta was running out of space then delayed his kick to the last possible moment and went down the line, shanking it. Great defense by H, crappy forward options.

I cant believe I found myself having a chuckle every point he kicked last night, I know poor form on my behalf, I couldnt help it but I did feel for him.
It will come, and as Roos said, he is the sort of bloke that will kick 15 goals straight when it clicks.

 

[Tas]

I wonder why he just doesn't run closer to goal, he has had a number of shots from around 50 where he could have probably gone within 30m. I think he doesn't realise how much time and space he has at times.

I reckon if they just told him to push close to goal, even if you have to gift him one to just break the hoodoo.

 

[disgruntled goat]

I didn't think Jetta was bad at all last night, and in fact if we're talking about wanting our players to at least have a go and take the game to the likes of Collingwood, he was doing that early.

As for the goals/behinds, he's just been unlucky.

 

[SM]

I wonder why he just doesn't run closer to goal, he has had a number of shots from around 50 where he could have probably gone within 30m. I think he doesn't realise how much time and space he has at times.

I reckon if they just told him to push close to goal, even if you have to gift him one to just break the hoodoo.

I've seen him do it, the problem is that it's generally a lot more congested around goal, so whenever you see him close to goal he's looking for a quick gimme with the player with the ball but that player is either tackled in the congestion or only has time to get a quick snap off.

 

[theburst]

Fairly descriptive from Roos so Jetta has been a let down for him. Confidence back and he could still play an important part in the Finals, assuming we make it.

 

[Dangas]

Lewis Letta is a gun!

 

[SOPH_CROSS]

Lewis Letta is a gun!

totes my new fave player

guess i wasted my $5 on buying this lewis Jettas badge at yesterdays game