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He won just about every endurance test at the draft camp in 2006, but I recall him also performing very well in the 20m sprint.

How do people regard him in terms of leg speed? He has certainly demonstrated that he has a big tank, but from what I've seen he doesn't appear to be overly quick, or at least not as quick as his 2006 test times would have us believe.

In any case, very happy with him so far.
 
I've thought his speed is quite good, when he has to use it he can get going...

Great game on Saturday. And scored me 100 DT points. :thumbsu: :p
 
For the people who compare his career to Selwood, this is really unfair. Selwood is a once in a generation freak, who can come into AFL and be a top 10 player instantly. Give Hogan more games and you'll see continued improvement ala Hawkins.
 
Claude Balls said:
How do people regard him in terms of leg speed? He has certainly demonstrated that he has a big tank, but from what I've seen he doesn't appear to be overly quick, or at least not as quick as his 2006 test times would have us believe.
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Most <20 game players with brains are quick to release the ball rather take on tacklers or try to evade. Hogan showed this tendency on the weekend. He is quick to find someone in better position and his kicking is very good. Add a couple of goals and there is much to like.

Don't be too suprised that, as he gains experience, he shows more inclination to do some of the more flashy stuff.

Quick? he reminds me most of Kelly and how Kelly "ghosts" around without looking like he is going hard. Quick enough.
 

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In the last few games he's put set shots through from 50 metres out with relative ease. That's not bad for a smallish midfielder.
He might even be suited to a small forward role, but it is great that we have another young definitive midfielder coming on now to relieve our engine room which isn't getting much younger.

I don't think we could easily have kept both Prismall and Hoges on the list, so Prismall's loss is not nearly so bad since Simon has come on. His zeal is fantastic, hope he stays passionate.

Love this picture too of Mr Muscles ha ha:
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Claude Balls said:
He won just about every endurance test at the draft camp in 2006, but I recall him also performing very well in the 20m sprint.

How do people regard him in terms of leg speed? He has certainly demonstrated that he has a big tank, but from what I've seen he doesn't appear to be overly quick, or at least not as quick as his 2006 test times would have us believe.

In any case, very happy with him so far.
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I don't know much about draft camp but it was the repeated 20m sprints he did well with. Which i assume is different from just the 20m sprint. He may not be exceptionally fast over 20m but can do back to back 20m sprints without tiring to much. Unlike other players that can only sprint for short periods and then are exhausted.

But yeah i agree i haven't seen him run at a fast pace really. Although he doesn't really have the big spaces to run to show off his speed like Wojo does when he comes off half back. Although if Hogan does have the speed and the acceleration he really needs to start showing it off. Being able to run without his opponent being able to catch up would be a big + when he is trying so hard to become a regular.

As far as his tank goes it was reported that over Summer he passed Ling to become the best endurance runner at the Gfc (which i would have liked to see those results from each player). When he bulks up and can really play harder at the ball we will see how he holds up as all the tackling and slipping out of tackes like say Selwood does saps a lot of energy quite a bit more so than running around the field i would say. However generally as althetes bulk up their endurance starts to slip so he will have to find a nice balance.
 

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Will be a better performer statistically than Varcoe.
More disposals and more goals, could be our Steve Milne, a real little goer!
 
meto said:
Will be a better performer statistically than Varcoe.
More disposals and more goals, could be our Steve Milne, a real little goer!
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If we are looking to the saints for a look a like, I reckon Hogan is developing more like a Rob Harvey than a Milne. Couldn't possibly be as good as Harvey but runs all day like Harves.
Give him another couple of preseasons and ....
 

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Regarding nicknames, the folks around me at KP call him "Doc", because he's apparently put his medical degree on hold to play footy. Don't ask me how they know this stuff, but have heard he got an ENTER score of 98.
 
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Regarding nicknames, the folks around me at KP call him "Doc", because he's apparently put his medical degree on hold to play footy. Don't ask me how they know this stuff, but have heard he got an ENTER score of 98.
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He got an enter score of 98.2 or something and was offered a scholarship to study medicine at Monash. However he did turn this down to play for Geelong. He is studying health science part time at Deakin currently so he hasn't given up on academics.

Lemme find the interview

*Edit* I still had it book marked.
Interview from the 13th of March 2009


SIMON Hogan had an ENTER score of 98.2 and towards the end of 2006 was offered a scholarship to study medicine at Monash University. The graduate of Warrnambool's Emmanuel College had always been a strong runner but was on the path to becoming a doctor.

Then, a different kind of learning institution — one more interested in his boot than his brain — made an irresistible advance. And sport, at least as a full-time vocation, won out over academia.

During the two years he might have spent chipping away at elite tertiary pursuits, Hogan, an onballer who weighed 67 kilograms when Geelong signed him, has been named an emergency player five times. Meanwhile, one of his best mates at the Cats, fellow 2006 draftee Joel Selwood, has already played in two grand finals and has a premiership medallion.

Selwood is a reminder of how contrasting the beginning of footballers' careers can be. But he is also a footballing freak. Hogan's recent milestones are unlikely to be recorded on Geelong's banner any time soon. Indeed, only the most hardcore fans would know his name and number. But tonight's pre-season cup grand final marks the 20-year-old's fourth senior outing in four weeks and his home-and-away debut has never felt closer.

"Relief probably is a good word to use, actually," Hogan said this week of the breakthrough that occurred when he was picked to play against Adelaide last month. "Some of my closest mates are probably Joel and Tom Hawkins, who have come straight in and they've had a lot of hype around them. It's been a different story for me. There's been a few frustrating times, I guess, particularly last year when I was emergency a few times and in and out of the squad and didn't quite get that opportunity."

Hogan had 19 touches against Adelaide and spent time opposed to Crows skipper Simon Goodwin. The effort prompted immediate praise from his coach, who forecast that Hogan, Kane Tenace and Ryan Gamble were all capable of becoming "regular" senior players in what has been the AFL's most difficult unit to crack.

The next week, Hogan played on Port Adelaide's Kane Cornes. "That game against him particularly was a good experience," he said. "A couple of times he'd be next to me and then all of a sudden he'd be 50 metres away on the other side of the ground or something."

Hogan rivals Cameron Ling as his club's best endurance runner and even knocked off the vice-captain in a fitness test this past summer.
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He is doing a health-science course at Deakin University part-time and, surely having benefited from the calorie-counting dietary regimen of his housemate Hawkins on the odd occasion, Hogan now weighs around 81 kilograms. "He's pretty good now," Hogan said in defence of Geelong's supersized young forward Hawkins, who has been encouraged to leave food on his plate. "I would eat more than him now, I think, so we've sort of turned the tables a bit."

Geelong football manager Neil Balme said this week that, on recent form, Hogan's most meaningful debut won't be far away. Apparently round one of the season proper is not out of the question.

"There's no guarantee but we'd certainly be happy to play him," Balme said. "We've been very pleased with him. He's shown that he fits at the level. He's still got a way to go, he's still got to play week-in, week-out, but we're quite pleased with the way he's played to our structures. He's worked pretty hard on what we want him to do."

The off-season relocation of Brent Prismall, the once serial emergency player for Geelong who shifted to Essendon after finally breaking into the Cats' senior line-up, will help Hogan's cause. And while footy is a famed leveller, Balme notes that Hogan's cerebral attributes won't hurt either.

"He's clearly bright enough to get it and in today's footy that's a very important part of it," he said.
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Glassjaw said:
Maybe if Swift didn't go off.

I want him in for finals though. Drop Gamble and Stokes for Johnson and Chappy if they're fit.
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That was what I was going to raise.

I'm suspecting Chappy to play this week (although I'd be lukewarm on the idea personally) so am worried Hogan might get dropped. I'd rather drop Vegas or Stokes...but Vegas might stay in if SJ doesn't play, and Stokes is Bomber's lovechild.

Here's hoping you get to play, and carve up the dogs, Hoges :thumbsu:
 

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