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(08-18-2020, 08:12 AM)kruddler date Wrote:The above was how the saints used him.
We are just copying them. 
Didn't I read one of his early interviews that stated one of the reasons for coming to us was because the Aints pigeon-holed him as a small defender(HBF/BP) and he wanted to spend more time forward?
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(08-18-2020, 10:29 AM)LP link Wrote:Didn't I read one of his early interviews that stated one of the reasons for coming to us was because the Aints pigeon-holed him as a small defender(HBF/BP) and he wanted to spend more time forward?
Reckon I read that also.
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(08-18-2020, 10:42 AM)Gointocarlton link Wrote:Reckon I read that also.
Me too!
Newnes didn’t want to be a HBF.
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(08-18-2020, 11:38 AM)kruddler date Wrote:They moved him forward....he got injured....they tried to 'rebadge him' because they had enough forwards and he thought it best to reinvigorate his career elsewhere. (Think Laidler)
He started off as a HBF, he was considered too small/light to be a midfielder alongside Montagna, Geary, Hayes, Fisher, etc., etc.., so they played him in a Simmo type role. Until about 2016 they split his time between the HBF and the Wing, it was 2017 when they put him in the leadership group that he got his desire to run regularly in the midfield. But he was still squarely known by Aints fans as a wingman until the day he left!
Right up to the point he requested a trade it was reported that "Wingman Jack Newnes had been left out of the 2020 leadership group!"
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