Welcome Pick 36 - Ashley Smith

[Shadow Minister]

I heard NicNat could of competed in the High Jump at the Beijing Olympics for Fiji.

Yeah I think I read somewhere that in high school he cleared 2m and that was without any real training or a refined technique. I wonder if his added height since then will have aided or hindered his jumping ability.

 

[beatlesmith]

I doubt it. To reduced your time from 10.6 to 10 flat is HUGE. Many never do it. 10 flat is barely enough to be competitive in the Olympics.

Its scary that Usain Bolt can run almost 1 second quicker in the 100m.

10.28 is olympic qualifying time, and it only had to be reached once in an 18 month perios to qualify. Not too far off. The current womens world record is 10.49. If he trained his arse off and got a sex change, he could hold a world record!

 

[Shtav]

Yeah I knew you were mucking around, and I didn't mean to sound as cranky as I did. It's too early in the morning.

No worries. It was early in the morning when I wrote it

 

[larrikin]

10.6 for the 100m is unbeliveable for a kid of that size, he is HUGE. You would think after a couple of preseasons he could get even quicker..

Kerr run's in the late 11's for the 100m IIRC.

Reading back, the quote says he ran "10.6 or 10.8". There's a fair bit of difference between those. Still quick though. From the same paper
http://www.starnewsgroup.com.au/story/64983

The stellar results are not surprising considering Smith won the 100m Victorian Secondary Schools’ Sports Association title in his age group in 2004 and came second nationally in the triple jump the same year."

Interesting to note too - I was listening to SEN last night and they had Hawthorn's old fitness coach on (who is now at Melb) who was has an athletics background. He said they had Daniel Chick running 11 second flat 100m and his 400m was exactly the same time as what Freeman ran to win at Sydney.

 

[15_year_member]

I hate people coming on here and claiming to be connected to somebody on the footy system with inside info on something and most of the time when i see people claiming it on here i don't believe it. And so people are free to take this as they will.

But my old flatmate from London is from a footballing family in Melb and has a brother who works in the collingwood recruiting dept. Strangely enough though he is a mad keen eagles fan even though he is not West Australian. Anyway, his brother reckons that the reason Smith slid so far in the draft is that he is a complete loose unit mentally. He reckons we need to be careful with him or he could end up hanging around with the Cousins/Chick/Kizon crowd within a few years.

He said that of the 500 odd players that Collingwood have psychologically tested over the last 10 years Smith has almost the lowest score of all of them. I am still not unhappy we drafted him because when you draft a bloke a 36 your never going to get perfection. They are always going to have some kind of deficiency whether it be pace, kicking, psychological etc that you are going to have to work on. But it sounds as though Coxy and Glass might need to give him the New Breed speach nice and early on.

 

[Biggie]

Interesting.

 

[WCE57]

Ah Jesus, thats not what I want to heard!

Oh well,hopefully Cox, Glass can sort him out.

 

[Gunnar Longshanks]

He said that of the 500 odd players that Collingwood have psychologically tested over the last 10 years Smith has almost the lowest score of all of them.

What do they ask players during "psychological testing"?

Is it like, "what kind of animal are you?"

 

[Finding Ebo]

''What do you see in this picture, Ashley?''

''A clown getting r*ped by a flying elephant''.

''Hmm... We could use you on a wing or a flank''.

 

[15_year_member]

What do they ask players during "psychological testing"?

Is it like, "what kind of animal are you?"

If it's anything like the one i sat for ASIO when they came to my Uni recruiting it's quite bizarre. Questions like "I sometimes masturbate when i am alone?" and "I sometimes killed small animals when i was a child?". But the AFL clubs and many employers seem to put stock in it. But the point is, from what i have heard, he is pretty wild and unstable bloke. To come last in psycholigical testing at a club that has and has had blokes like Didak, Johnson and Tarrant there is quite an achievment.

 

[Lynch takes a mark]

Those tests are easy

Just think of Dexter or Patrick Bateman and then do the opposite

 

[Gunnar Longshanks]

Questions like "I sometimes masturbate when i am alone?"

As opposed to when you are in the company of others?

I would have thought that waiting until you were alone was the decent thing to do.

 

[Gunnar Longshanks]

Those tests are easy

Just think of Dexter or Patrick Bateman and then do the opposite

I would have thought that there is an obvious "correct answer" to every question.

It's like in management surveys when they ask, "what kind of animal are you?". You don't tell them you're a snake. You say you're an owl, or a lion, or a cool dog that did stunt work on Miami Vice.

 

[Audacious]

Well im sure Kerr and Cousins wouldnt have rated that highly in the psych tests but i couldnt care less when they play footy as well as they do.

 

[larrikin]

''What do you see in this picture, Ashley?''

''A clown getting r*ped by a flying elephant''.

''Hmm... We could use you on a wing or a flank''.

Gold

In all realty though, they are probably cognitive reasoning tests, which basically test intelligence. The personality tests (which they probably did as well) don't give you a low or high "score", they just indicate preferences and potential strengths and weaknesses in people.

 

[Gunnar Longshanks]

The personality tests (which they probably did as well) don't give you a low or high "score", they just indicate preferences

Like whether you like to give or receive?

 

[happy_eagle]

or scrunch or fold ?

 

[larrikin]

Like whether you like to give or receive?

In a roundabout kinda way

Which is your preference?

 

[TOA.]

If it's anything like the one i sat for ASIO when they came to my Uni recruiting it's quite bizarre. Questions like "I sometimes masturbate when i am alone?" and "I sometimes killed small animals when i was a child?". But the AFL clubs and many employers seem to put stock in it. But the point is, from what i have heard, he is pretty wild and unstable bloke. To come last in psycholigical testing at a club that has and has had blokes like Didak, Johnson and Tarrant there is quite an achievment.

Wild and unstable is very strong from what I've heard. He needs work on his ethic but if he gets it right he could be a big pay off. Well worth it for pick 36.

 

[Eagle_Bay]

Some of the questions might be similiar to these, cant be arsed answering all of the questions atm.

http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp

 

[larrikin]

Some of the questions might be similiar to these, cant be arsed answering all of the questions atm.

http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp

Nah, that would be pretty useless as a recruitment tool

 

[Double the Fist]

''What do you see in this picture, Ashley?''

''A clown getting r*ped by a flying elephant''.

''Hmm... We could use you on a wing or a flank''.

Dammit, made ma laugh out loud at work

 

[sydney eagle]

Does anyone else think this is a weird specification to add?

It's like, "well, indigenous players are obviously in a category of their own."

He's fast - for a white bloke.

" Pretty fly, for a white guy !"