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Some suggestions Max Gawn is carrying an injury. Gawn late to training, only walks laps - AFL.com.au
Kieran Jack provided a little of it when he was at his peak. I wouldn't be surprised to see Ronke develop into a similar kind of role in the forthcoming years. The club compared him to Jack shortly after drafting him and there are similarities. He's shown decent hardball winning ability in his short time in the game, though we don't yet know if this can translate into centre clearance type work. He's probably a better overhead mark than Jack (helped by being a little taller) and maybe a better kick too, certainly better at the same age.
I sometimes look at our young, developing players and daydream about a current day star that they might one day emulate, based on their package of attributes. I don't have models for all of them, but some are:
Ronke - Robbie Gray, able to switch between the midfield and forward line, depending on where he's most needed, with a real goal sense but able to win his own ground ball too (maybe without the same smoothness of movement)
Florent - Shaun Higgins, providing class through traffic (without being a real get-down-and-dirty ball winner) and on the outside. Evasive and quickish, though not express.
Mills - Luke Hodge, starting out as a defender, moving into the midfield in his middle career and being a genuinely tough player without being a clearance machine, and then possibly returning as the general of the defence in his twilight years
Dawson - Jack Gunston, as a strong mark, accurate and long kick, able to play defence, wing or as a genuine third forward. Not ultra fast but a good reader of the play.
I realise most of them won't get to be quite as good as these models, but if they even get close, they'll be exciting to watch.
Sadly I don't look at any of our current crop and think "Buddy"! (Except for Buddy, of course.)
After watching the the NEAFL and our bottom 6 players last week, I’m more than happy to have Hanners come straight back in. Even at his 2018 averages he’d be in our top dozen players. Plus I’m pretty sure he was named in our bests in the NEAFL last week as runner.
In: Cameron Hannebery Rohan Towers
Ext bench: Hannebery Dawson Robinson Newman Papley Cameron Rohan Towers
In: Hannan Hunt Kent Pedersen Weideman
Out: Smith
Ext bench: Kennedy-Harris Weideman Hannan Vince Pedersen Hunt Kent Neal-Bullen
Last edited by ugg; 9th August 2018 at 07:24 PM.
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