L.J

[Dinosaur Rover 197]

When the team walked forward at the start of the game, I looked at our starting 6 forward group: Green, Jamar, Howe, Petterd, Sylvia and Watts. THere are clearly no crumbers of any sort in this lot, and once Jurrah came off the bench after a couple of minutes you could clearly see today that his role was to act as that of the crumber. A role he accomplished with some aplomb. He ran, chased hard, tackled, and when he had the ball he looked his quick and agile self and found targets by foot more often than not. The kicking for goal is the only thing that didnt improve by the magnitudes that his vision and nous did.

He gets a lot of his goals from crumbing. The Martin / Jamar combination is a godsend now because we have the bear in the square which produces front and center moments for LJ.

[PeterJames 46]

He was terrific and only let him down with his goal kicking, was a tough breeze though which resulted in bad kicking for both teams.

i'm worried when people are saying he wasn't the same withough Aussie and Davey. I don't think Aussie will play again for Melbourne (hope he does but there are more important things than football). And Davey might not be back until next year.

[Robbie57 2,020]

He looks all class when he isn't the prime forward target. I mean, he looks good either way, but the way LJ covers the ground when he bursts through the middle and hits a forward team mate on the chest is incredible to watch. I think he almost becomes a little predictable when Aussie or Flash play. They always look for him.

I thought he was really good on the weekend and very natural.

So I dont think the Davey or Wonna type is essential for him although I am sure he would be missing his flatmate and concerned about him.

That said Watts and LJ seem to have a connection, they are always the first to congratulate each other.

[Rogue 585]

I loved Jurrah's last goal; particularly the bit where, running into goal, he pointed at a Richmond guy in an effort to get Petterd (?) to lay the shepherd.

I'd get Davey back into the forwardline ASAP to work as the crumber and get LJ flying again. To stop someone like LJ from playing his natural, instinctive game, is criminal.

I get that it's part of a team setup, and we are missing ground work skills in the forwardline at the moment (although Watts is doing remarkable things below his knees), but we have to rectify this and get LJ playing his natural game again.

I'd play Davey as a forward. I don't think playing other guys, like Watts and Jamar/Martin, as marking options is such a bad thing. Jurrah could have had 6 on the weekend and plenty of his play looked 'natural' and 'instinctive'; plus there were some great 'team acts' and discipline.