Big Whitey

[Plugger46]

I think you're reading way too much into that.

Yeah, spot on.

[barry]

He's fast, he's big, can take a mark, and is that rare and valued commodity of forward/second ruck.
Plus he's playing in a club which manages to eek out every possible bit of a players ability onto the field.

So why isnt he a superstar ?
It doesnt make sense.

[stellation]

That Jesse feels this was a better moment than the tackle and shepherd he applied to allow everitt's goal disappoints me but affirms my belief that he is still missing the point of how the swans play and think.

I think you're reading way too much into that.

[graemed]

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Mighty Whitey tweeted he was delighted to be the focus of the Quad Call. Good luck to him, he deserves it.

That Jesse feels this was a better moment than the tackle and shepherd he applied to allow everitt's goal disappoints me but affirms my belief that he is still missing the point of how the swans play and think.

[DK_]

The other Jesse goal that comes to mind was against Geelong in 09 or 10 where he burnt off one or two players and booted it at pace from near the 50. Like this one a beauty to watch and not at all a big man's goal. Glad he's got the recognition.

I think (hope/want maybe?) that this year he's added some serious fitness to back up these acts with work up and down the ground. Hopefully like Jetta took his speed and backed it with fitness in 2012.

[ShockOfHair]

The other Jesse goal that comes to mind was against Geelong in 09 or 10 where he burnt off one or two players and booted it at pace from near the 50. Like this one a beauty to watch and not at all a big man's goal. Glad he's got the recognition.

[alt_mattr]

It was a special moment. I never realised how fast he is, in modern footy that type of foot speed is pretty handy

[Primmy]

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Mighty Whitey tweeted he was delighted to be the focus of the Quad Call. Good luck to him, he deserves it.

[ugg]

[Jewels]

I'd like to see Sammie and Jesse create a website and call it Reid and White Online.

[ShockOfHair]

I'd like to see Sammie and Jesse create a website and call it Reid and White Online.

[Ludwig]

We should remember that Jesse started putting in consistent reserves performances from the middle of last year, when he started playing mostly in the ruck. And he has carried that over to this year. He put in a fair performance in his first senior game this year, and we all agree quite a good one last week. So there are a few positive signs that he may have in fact turned the corner. But the jury's still out. We just have to wait and see.

[magic.merkin]

I must say, lets see him back it up for a few weeks in a row before we exhale...

I was his biggest fan (big footy and RWO were my defending battle grounds), but last year I gave up hope and looked elsewhere for our next KPP. I dearly want to be proved wrong. As watching him live that day against Carlton in 2010 when he was leading and slotting 4, I dared to believe and was saying Barry who?

[alt_mattr]

Can I just say both Reid and White are excellent footballers, great guys and try their guts out. We are bickering over which is better is like bickering over whether a Porsche is better than a Maserati. Sure, one probably is better than the other, but having both in the garage is pretty bloody awesome.

I just want to enjoy the fact that a good player had a good game and we have a squad with too many good players in it.

[Melbournehammer]

So happy that there is now some actual fairness about assessing jesse. Please remember that many of those games he has played for us in the last few years - richmond at the mcg last year, hawthorn at the mcg this - we have been absolutely belted around the ball - and i mean absolutely belted. but he is always the first one out because he has no support behind him.

Sam has been a critical part of our success because he is rarely outmarked - he actually has tremendous reach and a great spoil and he uses that often when caught behind in marking contests - which is why i think he would actually make a great defender. but jesse has strengths as well - people expect him to bust packs - but bbbh never did that and no-one criticised him for basically being a lead up forward who was lost when they introduced the hands in the back rule because he didnt know how to take a contested mark apart from pushing his opponent under the ball. Jesse often plays in front and has consistently brought the ball to ground when in contests - and that is what people congratulate sam for on many occasions.

They are both developing players and neither is the answer to everything but I am so sick of people calling him a spud. He isnt. He had the misfortune to play at the tail end of a great period for us - as our entire midfield turned over as all of the 2005-06 era players drifted out and todays midfield was developing.

I would play sam ahead of jesse because he is capable of getting up to the wing and back more often, but i just want him to be recognised as not a spud but someone that can play a bit - limitations exist but he is not a spud.