Welcome Welcome to Hawthorn: Pick 18, Josh Weddle - Round 10, Rising Star!

[Strapping Young Lad]

Sam says Blicavs…

 

[Colloquy]

I feel he needs to tidy up his foot skills but sometimes but this will come with experience.

 

[daniel23]

I think his biggest thing to work on is his physical presence. He has it all, at times though he lacks the physicality in his tackling or looks half hearted in going for a spoil if he thinks he can't make a contest.

 

[ahhhhhh]

I think his biggest thing to work on is his physical presence. He has it all, at times though he lacks the physicality in his tackling or looks half hearted in going for a spoil if he thinks he can't make a contest.

He’s 19…

 

[daniel23]

He’s 19…

Thanks for that I had no idea.

 

[Simon Crawshay]

All in all that was an excellent first year of footy from Josh

Cannot wait to see how he goes next year with other pre season to refine his game.

Great job young man.

 

[Billyc]

Great selection and great first year. Extremely high upside.

 

[TFFM]

Love this guy, astute selection. Hardly put a foot wrong since his debut. What a great find, hope he continues to take the game on and provide excitement and a point of difference moving forward.

 

[TassieGrown]

Liked his game this week, future A grader for me

 

[Judd2Sewell]

Absolute Stallion of an athlete. Can't wait to see what kind of player we develop him into - personally I'm hoping it's a HBF/wing hybrid.

 

[CaptainWorpedo]

Absolute Stallion of an athlete. Can't wait to see what kind of player we develop him into - personally I'm hoping it's a HBF/wing hybrid.

We have enough HBF, could we try him has HFF / Wing, he loves to kick a goal.

 

[Alite]

It is confirmed that Sam Mitchell has said that Josh Weddle should run and be creative and be damned the consequences. If he get’s caught, so be it, if he fails to find a target, run again. There are no consequences for a Weddle run and there should not be. Failure IS an option and it is OK. Because crelative play makes goals and Weddle sets those up often… as a 19 year old.

We are seeing the building up (by his coach) and the creation of a very special player.

 

[Slainte]

There are so many possibilities with Weddle. Sometimes I see a Rance, breaking lines from full-back, sometimes a rampaging Dipper creating havoc on the wing and sometimes a Bontempelli/Fyfe/Buckenara alternating between half forward and midfield.

 

[MrPremiership]

Great first season

 

[CrimminsSquad]

Great first season

Yeap, having been fortunate to see him a little last year I think giving him more license to attack next year will see an even better output, last few weeks he has looked a little tired at times (understandable) and also at times hasn't attacked the ball as much as he did at juniors because you could see him thinking about where he was meant to fit into the zone/structures.

No doubt he will sort this out and once he starts attacking the ball like at juniors I would be very nervous as an opposition player.

 

[Gaston]

A couple of pre-seasons and the ceiling could be endless.

 

[burner1]

Just a freak athlete and settled into pace of afl very quickly. Seems a confident/resilient type - mistakes don’t seem to faze him at all.

Expect a lot of skills work for him over next few years. His ball drop is horrible and while he can be acceptable kick if moving in straight lines he struggles on angles. Has a way to go to get to an acceptable level for a half back ina finals contender - poor use/turnovers by hbfs are costly. His hand passes also need work. But this is what training/development/coaching is for - he’s a first year player.

Still a very impressive debut season. Lots of upside as he spends more time in afl system.

 

[Buckemenico]

It is confirmed that Sam Mitchell has said that Josh Weddle should run and be creative and be damned the consequences. If he get’s caught, so be it, if he fails to find a target, run again. There are no consequences for a Weddle run and there should not be. Failure IS an option and it is OK. Because crelative play makes goals and Weddle sets those up often… as a 19 year old.

We are seeing the building up (by his coach) and the creation of a very special player.

BazBall

 

[AussieToffee15]

I think his biggest thing to work on is his physical presence. He has it all, at times though he lacks the physicality in his tackling or looks half hearted in going for a spoil if he thinks he can't make a contest.

It's clearly his current weak-spot. He doesn't look to have a natural zest for the really physical stuff just yet.

I hope he develops a little more in that space, and I also hope that he moves to a wing when CJ returns next season.

 

[Judd2Sewell]

We have enough HBF, could we try him has HFF / Wing, he loves to kick a goal.

Scrimshaw, CJ and Sicily are probably the long-term options. And Sicily plays more as a third tall. I think there's room for Weddle to play there and through the wing position too.

 

[Alite]

BazBall

Interesting concept. All out attack from the backline.

Create a backline that uses the speed and creativity of Weddle, Impey, CJ, Mitchell, and Day and see them cut a swath through the midfield as a group to deliver to our fwds. It is a given our “unused in the chain“ wings or mids would have to get back to support the backline. We would then see our backs run as a group through the middle and the wings and mids move backwards… following similar movement to ions around a magnet = the sides rush back while the speed goes up the middle.
Damn… an AFL-Variation of Bazball could work. At the very least, it would create goals. At the most, if those at speed up the middle waxed well, it would be unstoppable.

That is a next level type of attack. And I Love it. We just need a name: maybe Flashball.

 

[caseman2]

The fact he hasn't signed the "standard" 2 year draftee extension, i hope that means they are already working on a long term deal straight off the bat.

Going by Kade Simpson

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Kade Simpson

Age

39

Ht

183cm

Wt

75kg

Pos.

Def

Career

Season

Last 5

D

21.3

5star

K

14.0

5star

HB

7.3

5star

M

5.7

5star

T

2.6

4star

MG

409.0

5star

D

16.3

4star

K

11.9

5star

HB

4.4

3star

M

3.9

4star

T

0.8

1star

MG

258.6

4star

D

2.0

1star

K

1.2

1star

HB

0.8

1star

M

0.8

1star

T

1.6

4star

's comments he ain't going anywhere soon if the club has something to say about it

Josh Weddle​

“Josh had an outstanding first year of AFL footy. He played 17 games, he won a Rising Star nomination and played in multiple roles down back. He could play on the dangerous small forward, the key forward, or the resting ruck. For a first-year guy to be able to do all that is quite amazing. He has got a bright future, it looks like he has been in the system for years. The great thing about Josh is that he continually kept improving throughout the year in his positioning and skill execution – pretty much everything we went to work on during the week you would then see transition on game day. He works incredibly hard at his craft. I think Hawthorn supporters should be incredibly excited to watch him for years and years to come.”

 

[Jake_09]

Thought we overpaid to trade up on draft night but couldn’t be happier with the Weddle selection now…looks an absolute gun in the making

 

[The Chad and I]

Thought we overpaid to trade up on draft night but couldn’t be happier with the Weddle selection now…looks an absolute gun in the making

I still don't know what exactly we paid for the Burgoyne trade, so I'm not gonna try to understand this one.

 

[Simon_Nesbit]

I still don't know what exactly we paid for the Burgoyne trade, so I'm not gonna try to understand this one.

Two first round picks is what I've been told.

 

[caseman2]

Two first round picks is what I've been told.

Shotgun Williams was involved in the trade from memory