Northern Blues vs Essendon

[LP]

Jack needs to improve his disposal by foot and get a left side too if he is going to play midfield....

Agreed, it'll be too easy to negate him at AFL level.

They'll just tell some mid-sized super fit athlete type to stay on his left and push him right.

[Shakin77]

A midfield group consisting of Cripps, Jack, Kennedy is a very slow group to be around the ball.

Cripps is a grader and a bull so he can get away with it, but we will be shown up if the other 2 only make it as B graders.

Jack and Kennedy must be turn onto elite ball user and and elite inside the contest otherwise it wont work.

Will get murdered on the outside when we don't have the ball so need to use it exceptionally well when we have it to outweigh the negative.

That's true, however at this stage Jack and Kennedy are far from locks.  If one out of the two turned into a really good midfielder that would be a good result.

[laj]

I'm more and more liking De Konning. Not many play key forward and ruck both well but he seems to be able to do that thus far. Paul Salmon, Corey McKernan and even David Hale types are such a bonus. Hope he turns out somewhere even remotely close to those players, especially the first two once he develops more physically. He might get tried late in the year for a bit of experience if he keeps going.

"Tom De Koning
Stats: 10 disposals, 4 marks, 2 goals
From the coach: Tom kicked 2.1 including a couple of strong marks in the air. As a young tall, he’s developing his leading patterns as a key forward really well, and his second efforts at ground level were really impressive. We liked his game on the weekend, particularly his first half."

[laj]

"Jack Silvagni
Stats: 22 disposals, 7 tackles, 6 inside 50s, 4 clearances
From the coach: The plan was to play as both a midfielder and forward, but like Cam Polson he ended up playing more in the middle due to injuries. He was really good around stoppages and in contested ball, while he used drive in his legs to get out of stoppages and congested situations while using the ball really well in general play."

[Lods]

"Jack Silvagni
Stats: 22 disposals, 7 tackles, 6 inside 50s, 4 clearances
From the coach: The plan was to play as both a midfielder and forward, but like Cam Polson he ended up playing more in the middle due to injuries. He was really good around stoppages and in contested ball, while he used drive in his legs to get out of stoppages and congested situations while using the ball really well in general play."

Dad had that strength through the hips and legs

[laj]

Dad had that strength through the hips and legs

Granddad did that pretty well too.

[Lods]

Granddad did that pretty well too.

Probably a better example to the mid-field Jack.

[crashlander]

Not a nice story.