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Jones...8 possies and no tackles in a team that was pumped and the ball was down his end most of the game.....he is a dud with zero nous and you cant teach nous....
Walsh, Dick, and Menzel aside there wasnt much joy in the NB's this week....Yarran couldnt be bothered and Jaksch looks a shadow of the player that towelled up Henderson when playing for GWS...
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RiverRat. I have been banging on for some time about teaching Jones to be a defender. At least we may get some return from him in the squad. Jamo won't last forever. Jones doesn't know how to play as a forward. It isn't in his DNA. How Mick saw something in this guy is beyond me.
PUT JONES DOWN BACK in our senior side, and LEAVE HIM THERE to learn how to be an AFL footballer. Pleeeesa FFS.
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(08-09-2015, 10:49 AM)Mantis link Wrote:RiverRat. I have been banging on for some time about teaching Jones to be a defender. At least we may get some return from him in the squad. Jamo won't last forever. Jones doesn't know how to play as a forward. It isn't in his DNA. How Mick saw something in this guy is beyond me.
PUT JONES DOWN BACK in our senior side, and LEAVE HIM THERE to learn how to be an AFL footballer. Pleeeesa FFS.
If we don't do that then the investment in him will be a complete write-off, so we have to give it a try.
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(08-09-2015, 10:49 AM)Mantis link Wrote:RiverRat. I have been banging on for some time about teaching Jones to be a defender. At least we may get some return from him in the squad. Jamo won't last forever. Jones doesn't know how to play as a forward. It isn't in his DNA. How Mick saw something in this guy is beyond me.
PUT JONES DOWN BACK in our senior side, and LEAVE HIM THERE to learn how to be an AFL footballer. Pleeeesa FFS.
Unfortunately, you have to be able to play a bit to be an AFL defender or forward and Jones just isn't up to it. He could play as a forward, defender or even in the midfield for years and still not improve.
The Bulldogs learnt that he wasn't an AFL footballer and the other 16 clubs wouldn't touch him with a barge pole. Adding Jones to our list is one of the most inexplicable list management decisions we have made this century.
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Bower. Please do not mention him as an AFL player. He was something I don't want to say. Deer in the headlights at best.
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(08-09-2015, 09:29 AM)ElwoodBlues1 link Wrote:Jones...8 possies and no tackles in a team that was pumped and the ball was down his end most of the game.....he is a dud with zero nous and you cant teach nous....
Let's just cut our losses with this dud. Remebmer Mick telling us he would be unstoppable at the start of the year? How laughable. At least Watson can use the ball, his defensive efforts cant be any worse than the germophobe.
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Re Jones - I was happy to see Jones at FB. I have been calling for this since it feels like round 1 or 2 when it was obvious back then he needed a change of position to learn more (an old fashion football education if you will) and to learn how to work. The physical attributed Jones possesses will should give him a decent chance to become a lock-down FB for starters.
I'd keep him there 100% and see what happens at VFL level for the remainder of the year. I'm not opposed to playing him at FB at AFL level before the seasons done either.
Re V-R - you don't cut a kid like him just yet. He's struggled yes but what an environment to introduce a kid into. He needs another year before we get hasty and start pruning players like him. His kicking is excellent and he moves well. Low confidence playing in a rabble team under a poor coach, zero development work into these kids it appears and we are a rabble AFL club too. Some kids will go okay early and some won't. I'll back him in for next year.
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Perhaps this weeks game against the Lions is an opportunity to trial him at fullback? Seems ideal and we've nothing to lose.
