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You don't seriously believe a number has any impact on performance?
Player Watch Pick #33 (2024) - Jack Whitlock
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It certainly does but not as much impact as the country town they grew up in.
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Red cars go faster too didnt you know?
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Please then explain the uncanny correlation between the shape of a donut, Hinkley's AFL grand final coaching achievements, and the number zero.
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Even less so than the private college they attended (if you were born in Victoria)!
I'm eyeing off the Bombers goal kicking version of Paul Salmon.
Goddamn what I would give for a Paul Salmon, what a beast.
Just watching those highlights Jack is obviously athletic for his height & likes to get involved around the packs. His kicking looks his biggest weakness in those highlights imo. Obviously there's a reason he fell in the draft but I haven't heard why. Am curious.
Interesting. Consistent with what I observed from his video highlights posted later in this thread (I'm going backwards thru this thread). There's a reason he fell so far, there always is. Does have some good attributes though.
Depth of talls and a dearth of mids / utilities meant that teams looked to snap up smalls knowing there would be talls later.
Basically the opposite of normal where teams reach for talls early knowing they’ll all be taken before their next pick while smalls will still be there.
Butters was our best player before switching to 9.
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in 2022
- butters last year of wearing number 18
- Butters 7th in B and F
- Rozee AA and B and F
Rozee was our best player prior to butters changing to number 9
If that is true it's absolutely deploable for someone drafted in at this level.
As a forward all he will be doing is turning the football over with that record.
PA cannot afford that sort of garbage from anyone, we have been through a lot of disappointment with poor kicking skills we just don't need it.
He should shape up or clear out imo.
That is a total misquote ... The 36% was not "accuracy", it is a different stat. I cant find it, but I remember seeing on the chart, thinking at the time that the poster had wrongly quoted it.
I think it might be "conversion rate" or some such ... def NOT accuracy
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No, I’m not sure that explains it. He fell in the rankings below a bunch of talls he was thought to be ranked in front of, or the equal of: his brother for one, Faull, Shanahan, Armstrong, Sims.
Rookie Me Central had him going at “12-20” and in their power rankings ahead of Shanahan, Faull, Mat Whitlock, Sims.- all who went before him. The real and unanswered question is why did he end up behind those talls?
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I think there is a fair element of boom or bust for Jack. Fingers crossed for both him and Port he develops quickly into the boom category.
All the background we’ve gotten since shows that teams had very little agreed consensus about placing these kpfs.
We obviously had Whitlock higher than others. Whether that’s right or not is arguable.
One of the things often spoken about leading up to this draft was how different teams would rate players wildly different
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Even with Richmond's mortgage on R1, clubs were literally spoilt for choice this year - it's no great surprise that many 'learned' predictions went out the window.
I'm not talking about his last year of number 18. I'm talking before his serious injury which occurred in 2021.
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Ok i get you
I remember that Richmond game, he was killing them before he got injured.
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Genuinely hope that Shane Edwards steps barefoot on a Lego.
Having watched numerous videos of his CTL games, the knock on this guy is his kicking for goal. I don’t think it’s a mechanical problem as much as not having a system/routine and clear plan when lining up. He generates a lot of shots on goal and gets a lot of clean possession inside 50 from different sources: marks in space, marks in contest, marks on the movement/lead, outmanoeuvring to run onto the loose ground ball, etc. but his conversion is less than 50%.
If we’re really serious about untapping his clear potential, the first thing we should be doing is to invest time into his goal kicking routine and practice. Get Schulz or Lloyd or someone similar to work day and night with him. It will pay off.
If we’re really serious about untapping his clear potential, the first thing we should be doing is to invest time into his goal kicking routine and practice. Get Schulz or Lloyd or someone similar to work day and night with him. It will pay off.
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Club’s ego is too high to consider that possibility despite the fact that their forwards coach is a hack of a kick at goal.
