Player Watch Charlie Dixon Part 2

[Holden Hillbilly]

PORT Adelaide forward Charlie Dixon can shock the competition and claim this year’s Coleman Medal, according to former St Kilda star Leigh Montagna.
Dixon kicked a career-best 49 goals last season, finishing second in the competition for contested marks and fifth for marks inside 50 throughout the campaign.

However, with Port Adelaide strengthening its depth this season with the addition of players like Tom Rockliff, Steven Motlop and Jack Watts, the 27-year-old is bound to improve further.

So much so that Montagna believes he is a sniff to claim the Coleman Medal.

https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/po...a/news-story/410a2ba1c95a3034b4a9401369ee437c

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

The coach is backing Big Dix. A Port caller bagged him just before Ken in Shanghai come onto SportsdaySA for his regular Tuesday segment, and Ken came on and defended the jobs he has had to do this year and said whilst his goal kicking has been poor, he would be in any side's best 22.


And Jesper take's the grab and turns it into a story

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sport...b/news-story/cdf7ede9cb4dad4203b65c6a02bf1f05
Port Adelaide coach Ken Hinkley has defended key forward Charlie Dixon’s goal kicking drought and says he is still a good enough player to make every side in the AFL. Dixon, who was the Power’s leading goal kicker with 49 last season, has kicked only five goals from eight games this season — all singles — and been kept goalless in three games.....But Hinkley said Dixon would still be a first-choice player at all AFL clubs and added value beyond his goal kicking with his pressure acts, help out in the ruck during Paddy Ryder’s injury spell, presence in attack and ability to set up goals for his teammates.

“The work that he does for us, as a competitor first and foremost, is vital to our success,” Hinkley said on Adelaide radio. “Yes, we’d all love him to be hitting the scoreboard. “Everyone wants him to hit the scoreboard but none more than Charlie himself. “But he’s got a role that he plays within out side that’s more than just goals. “Yes, we’d like him to be a couple of more. “But there would not be a team in the AFL that wouldn't pick Charlie Dixon in it.”
http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sport...b/news-story/cdf7ede9cb4dad4203b65c6a02bf1f05

 

[Waspy79]

GWS dropped Patton who has been asked to perform similar role as Dixon with similar lack of output.

 

[OneGreatClub]

GWS dropped Patton who has been asked to perform similar role as Dixon with similar lack of output.

Dixon does his part. He’s undroppable in my opinion

 

[Pedro59]

How many of the games this year has he been asked to do something else other than kick goals ie rucking even

What a stupid non story

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Dixon does his part. He’s undroppable in my opinion

Anyone wanting to drop him has rocks in their head given how he had to cover Ryder and others, but he has to improve his set shot kicking for goal and has to stop dropping marks with his cement hands.

 

[OneGreatClub]

Anyone wanting to drop him has rocks in their head given how he had to cover Ryder and others, but he has to improve his set shot kicking for goal and has not stop dropping marks with his cement hands.

Hope we bet 2017 Dixon back soon.

 

[Power Raid]

I can’t believe he’s copping scrutiny given his role in 2018

He’ll be back to his best as a forward soon

 

[JimmyBeerCans]

Blighty didn't rate his tank at GCS interesting

 

[jakey]

Lemme get this right...

We take our permanent CHF from 2017 and stick him up the ground in a variety of ruck / wing type roles for about 60% of the time and yet he should still be nailing multiple goals a game?

K

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Blighty didn't rate his tank at GCS interesting

He is a power athlete not an endurance athlete. We have helped him build his overall fitness base, but the average fan understands the more time he spends closer to goal the less defensive running he has to do like in the WCE EF to get us out of the s**t, the more he can use his power skills and be more dangerous and kick more goals.

But footy is a team game not individual games and the coach(es) are asking him to do team things, which take away from his greatest strength. Give him 5 weeks in a row where he does very little work outside 60m from goal and becomes a bigger threat.

 

[Freak Dodgeball Accident]

Lemme get this right...

We take our permanent CHF from 2017 and stick him up the ground in a variety of ruck / wing type roles for about 60% of the time and yet he should still be nailing multiple goals a game?

K

 

[Chrizzt]

He is a power athlete not an endurance athlete. We have helped him build his overall fitness base, but the average fan understands the more time he spends closer to goal the less defensive running he has to do like in the WCE EF to get us out of the s**t, the more he can use his power skills and be more dangerous and kick more goals.

But footy is a team game not individual games and the coach(es) are asking him to do team things, which take away from his greatest strength. Give him 5 weeks in a row where he does very little work outside 60m from goal and becomes a bigger threat.

I.e. having all of Ryder, Marshall, and Watts in the side should be a huge boon for him.

 

[TeeKray]

It's impossible to deny that Dixon's form is significantly down on what it was last year. In a sense he's lucky that he's a key forward and that we (and most other clubs) don't have much depth in that position so the pressure for spots just isn't there. I think he'll turn it around but he needs to because he's not playing at a standard that an AFL team's #1 KPF needs to be playing at.

 

[jakey]

It's impossible to deny that Dixon's form is significantly down on what it was last year. In a sense he's lucky that he's a key forward and that we (and most other clubs) don't have much depth in that position so the pressure for spots just isn't there. I think he'll turn it around but he needs to because he's not playing at a standard that an AFL team's #1 KPF needs to be playing at.

That's the thing though. He's a KPF and largely hasn't been playing as one. When you've never actually played number 1 ruck for lengthy periods of time before, and are also being asked to play decoy or wing hit up man when it's not really your physical bag, it's pretty rugged to get marked down. If we give him a couple of full games back at KPF and his output doesn't improve, fair enough, get out the brickbats. We've gone out of our way to * with his form though, largely through necessity imposed by poor list management over several years.

 

[Long live PAFC]

You drop players for a variety of reasons.

Fitness, not doing the team thing, not playing to team structure, discipline, form.

If you’re dropping someone, you need to be sure they will get something out of it and that the team will get something out of it.

Dixon puts in as much as anyone. He plays for the team and works to the structure. So the reason you’d be dropping him is to gain form. We don’t have a replacement so the team would suffer. What is Dixon likely to get from playing SANFL? It won’t give him any more or less confidence than playing at AFL level. If anything he would like suffer from poor delivery at SANFL as much as he does at AFL.

Patton at GWS, had dropped his work rate. This isn’t the same as Dixon.

He should and will be allowed to build form and confidence at AFL.

 

[Revan11]

Come good he will. Big bag he kick.

 

[raptalia]

I do not think Charlie is out of form but he is out of position. He is getting enough of the ball but he does not have the field position to hurt the opposition and inspire his team mates. Charlie is a big unit capable of big marks and imposing his physical presence but we are not seeing any of that up on the wing where he is getting most of the football.

 

[OneGreatClub]

Come good he will. Big bag he kick.

Right you is

 

[Andre]

I.e. having all of Ryder, Marshall, and Watts in the side should be a huge boon for him.

Yeah, I don’t get people saying the return of Marshall should be at the expense of Dixon or Watts. The return of Marshall stops one of them being double teamed and allows one of the three to always be back near goals (instead of Sam Gray or Neade as our deep forward). If we get Marshall back and with Dixon not forced to ruck, with Watts left as the only KPF and none of our three talls impact, then and only then start a discussion on dropping one.

 

[Harlott]

This guy's a forward. We're finding reasons, excuses for him. Should be averaging at least 1-2 goals a game in the current setup

 

[simmo_bc]

would be virtually unstoppable if we used and delivered the ball to him properly, certainly can’t criticise him for working hard and he gets to most contests.

It is only a matter of time before he rips a game apart.

 

[raptalia]

This guy's a forward. We're finding reasons, excuses for him. Should be averaging at least 1-2 goals a game in the current setup

Which would be OK if he was playing as a true forward but he is not. The current set up is the problem not Charlie. It is hard to kick goals from 80-100 metres out from goal which is where Charlie is most of the time. It has been a long time since I noticed Charlie consistently leading out from the forward 50, take a mark and have a shot on goal. Ken seems to like Watts around the forward fifty and big Charlie playing inside the centre square, maybe it should be the other way around?

 

[Harlott]

Yes that's why I said in the current setup. Still think for a guy who is understood to be a forward he should be finding himself 1-2 a game.

 

[jakey]

Which would be OK if he was playing as a true forward but he is not. The current set up is the problem not Charlie. It is hard to kick goals from 80-100 metres out from goal which is where Charlie is most of the time. It has been a long time since I noticed Charlie consistently leading out from the forward 50, take a mark and have a shot on goal. Ken seems to like Watts around the forward fifty and big Charlie playing inside the centre square, maybe it should be the other way around?

It should definitely be the other way round. I want Watts running toward goal from midfield. Witness his beautiful angled 40m assist last week.