The way I heard it WC were gonna take Jack if we didn't.

I have this fear that if we trade him on he will crucify us.

Neeld will demand and eventually get Jack's 100% commitment.

He's 21 people. I'm not making excuses, just trying to be a realist.

I can't see Neeld getting rid of him this year. I can see Neeld getting rid of lots of other players. I think a case can be made for up to 9 being moved on, depending on what is done with the rookies. But that thought belongs in another thread.

Exactly my thoughts too. He's probably never played footy in his life. Except at primary school maybe!

Played until age 17. Whatever that's got to do with anything?

So does this thread have a point to make...? or is it just stating a bunch of information that everyone already knows.

Gee it takes a big man to sit at his keyboard and type a post like this.

I don't claim to be a big man. In fact I'd begrudgingly describe myself as a bit of a pea-heart, I reckon I can recognise one.

I say Watts!

Played until age 17. Whatever that's got to do with anything?

I don't claim to be a big man. In fact I'd begrudgingly describe myself as a bit of a pea-heart, I reckon I can recognise one.

You can recognise one can you, so you have to hide behind your keyboard and whack them.

This is the whole point, a lot of posters on here have never and I mean never played the game at a decent level, have absolutely no idea of what it takes to be an AFL footballer, especially when you are thrust into it full time at 17 or 18 when most other males of that age are only interested in a beer and mini skirt or to be correct a beer and a tight pair of leather trousers.

But that doesn't stop them putting up groundless opinion, yes you are entitled to it, but when challenged you have to back up why you have that opinion.

If you can't back it up then don't opine it, Jack Watts uses his brain instead of his muscle a lot of the time, but he is still learning and I believe he will get there, yes it occassionally looks like he is shirking a contest, but unless you are inside his head, you have no idea what is going through there......I am sure he knows if he does not lift his game defensively he is going to be playing the next few games at Casey.....

Not Hurley??

Not a chance.

Probably just me, but I don't see him as "the next big thing" that everyone else is.

And if we'd drafted him, he'd only be known as "the kid that punched out a cabbie".

Watts will be fine. He is not a naturally aggressive person, so it will take him a little longer to realise that he has the kind of physique that will enable him to stand up in any contest (it is more a mental issue involving self belief, than any form of "pea-heartedness"). Once he realises that he actually has a strong frame and takes confidence from that, he will move on in leaps and bounds.