He is pretty soft at times, but his kicking out from behinds today was very good and he had a couple of good kicks when switching play to free players

These kicks should be bread and butter for any AFL player. It's like congratulating him for tying up his boot laces properly.

He just doesn't want it mentally from what i can tell. No point playing someone with that mindset as it can be very damaging to the rest of the defensive team's confidence and, Lucifer forbid, may even effect the rest of the playing group if it goes on too long. Cant be good for his confidence either.

Needs many weeks at Casey trying to hold down a key forward role IMO.

IF, and it's a massive IF, he finally shows a hunger for contested footy and is willing to hit the contest hard without shirking it and play some real hard nosed footy up forward, as well as defenisively trying to pressurre his opponents when he hasn't got it and close check them (unlike now when he just waltzes around with a CGAF attitude once he hasn't got it) then maybe you bring him in for one last role of the die in the last 6 to 8 rounds or so and see if he's turned the corner courage wise. At the moment he appears to have no appetite for the hard contest.

The above might seem harsh but honestly, if he doesn't or can't change his present attitude, we'd be doing him (and us) a favour by moving him on to go and play some other kind of sport with very little body contact, such as cricket.

As i've said before, unless Watts can get his mind around the "Physical" aspect and committment that's required at this level of team sport then i'm afraid his time in this game will be short lived.

If he finally gets his mind around the physical part, then he could finally fullfill his much lauded potential and end up being a damn good AFL player.

Edited April 21, 201312 yr by Rusty Nails

The stats don't back you up RR, but don't let the facts get in the way of a good old fashioned 'Land scapegoat lynching...

Why don't you go to a game and observe rather than being feckless goose that ignorantly parrots numbers off a page and thinks he sounds smart?

You really are light on the fizz.

These kicks should be bread and butter for any AFL player. It's like congratulating him for tying up his boot laces properly.

If they are so easy then why for last 4 years have our players just been kicking every kick out long to the boundry to jamar who normally drops it and the ball comes back into the 50.

I've defended Jack on this site for about three years. I hate to post a negative after a rare win BUT Jack was a disgrace. He actually " put in the short steps". I now must agree with Ben Hur ( God help me) Jack is soft.

Biff,

That's a very, very ordinary thing to imply on a forum like this. People yell out all sorts of crap at the game that they have no idea about.

Lets not stoop to this. Jacks not going well but suggesting this seems very average.

He was shameful today. Does not run to back up and there are no 1 percenters. Frawley was just as bad and needs to spend less time pointing at people and more time getting the ball.

I came away thinking Watts is the worst number one draft pick in 20 years. And I really don't think he gives a stuff.

Who's scapegoating; didn't you see how bad he was today? Did you go to the game?

Couple of good passes on the backline when he was under no pressure don't add up to a good game.

Didn't say he had a good game, but the usual Watts bashers are trying their best to make him sound like Hitler today when he was more like Nixon.

As I've mentioned in the Post-Match thread, I think Jacks big problem is simply playing too far off his man. He was caught out time after time giving his man room and not being able to close fast enough to save the situation. He wasn't overly soft today, went for a bump at one point (failed, but the intent was there), but he was so damn loose that his man was able to get away with murder. He has to get his head around the fact that he is defending and he has to shut his man down when we don't have the ball.

Why don't you go to a game and observe rather than being feckless goose that ignorantly parrots numbers off a page and thinks he sounds smart?

You really are light on the fizz.

Ooh sorry there lassy, didn't realize facts get you in such a tizzy, ooh lala.

Didn't say he had a good game, but the usual Watts bashers are trying their best to make him sound like Hitler today when he was more like Nixon.

Stu-i'm a Watts fan but he was getting well beaten by crappy short kids from a crappy team .

There is a big problem there.

I cant deny it anymore .

he is too good to be so bad .

he wouldn't get bashings each week if he put some effort into the hard things. He stands arround the packs pretending while his team mates are in the pack.

I've defended Jack on this site for about three years. I hate to post a negative after a rare win BUT Jack was a disgrace. He actually " put in the short steps". I now must agree with Ben Hur ( God help me) Jack is soft.

Ditto mate-seeing is believing .

Stu-i'm a Watts fan but he was getting well beaten by crappy short kids from a crappy team .

There is a big problem there.

I cant deny it anymore .

he is too good to be so bad .

Dead set correct!

Didn't say he had a good game, but the usual Watts bashers are trying their best to make him sound like Hitler today when he was more like Nixon.

The Hitler reference was tacky and in poor taste.

You keep hitting a new low on the gormless meter.

i hate watching this bloke play footy, his intensity and lack of desire for the contest just drive me mental

needs to be dropped until these things are corrected, if it takes 2 weeks or 14 weeks i dont care, but it needs to be addressed

i hate watching this bloke play footy, his intensity and lack of desire for the contest just drive me mental

needs to be dropped until these things are corrected, if it takes 2 weeks or 14 weeks i dont care, but it needs to be addressed

Well said.....Casey until and unless he shows some interest in playing AFL level contested footy.

The Hitler reference was tacky and in poor taste.

You keep hitting a new low on the gormless meter.

Even I have never called you "gormless" Stuie. It is a beautiful adjective. I await your response with interest.

God (who I don't believe in) I love Dland at times

Were you at the game Stuie ? Forget the stats, he was very ordinary

He was worse then that.

He was garbage & has to go back the Casey.

Trotting about avoiding getting to contests, playing looser than a paper 'G' string... we very nearly lost this game today, because of his casual ways.

Embarrassing. Sad. He shirked it today. Cheap inconsequential possessions many uncontested off the half back line that did little to hurt the opposition.

Needs to go back to the VFL and actually show that he wants to make it in the AFL.

He is faking it badly at the moment.

absolutely, totally, agree.

he's a Sham of an AFL player, at the moment. he needs to check his attitude, its not good enough.

He and James Frawley were absolute liabilities today.

I was at the point in the last qtr thinking don't pass it Watts or Frawley as its a certain turn over usually by hand to a player about to be tackled.

He often plays from behind and that's his basketballing background. It sometimes works beautifully in the AFL, but it can also make him look soft and at times a little stupid.

at times?

I tell ya, put in Dunn & drop Watts, thats how bad he is right now.

We have NO chance to beat the Lions with watts in this mood.

For most of today Frawley was atrocious and he is, at the moment, a shadow of what he once was. Not sure if it's confidence but on his first three quarters today he should be playing at casey next week with Jack.

I've never sen Jack as soft as he was today, he shirked many contests both in the air and on the ground and was embarrassing. You could see it all, the slip rather that the tackle, the turn and bump instead of attacking the ball, the half hearted attempt to fly for a mark from behind.

We saw today who wants to wear the Red & Blue,,, & who doesn't.

I'd take Aaron Fiora number 1 before Watts

We saw today who wants to wear the Red & Blue,,, & who doesn't.

The thing that gets me is if there was a stat for watching a contest and just jogging along to meet it if you can get there then Watts would rack up 100 possessions a game. He is a brilliant watcher of the game.