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Thoughts?

We cannot afford to to let this talent slip.

Is generally an immaculate shot for goal.

Is getting better by the week since his round 3 omission

Had a solid night v Saints

Was a dangerous target at times.

Showed some hunger for the contest, a few pressure at acts

Has earned 3 brownlow votes v essendon as loose defender.

Jack Watts is Melbourne.

Jack watts is class.

Jack Watts will be the central figure in our revival next year and beyond

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Thoughts?

We cannot afford to to let this talent slip.

Is generally an immaculate shot for goal.

Is getting better by the week since his round 3 omission

Had a solid night v Saints

Was a dangerous target at times.

Showed some hunger for the contest, a few pressure at acts

Has earned 3 brownlow votes v essendon as loose defender.

Jack Watts is Melbourne.

Jack watts is class.

Jack Watts will be the central figure in our revival next year.

There are not many clubs that have a spare $600k in their salary cap so I doubt he will get that sort of an offer elsewhere, however I think we should offer him a three year contract around the $400 - $450k mark; he will be good under the right coach and with a bit of senior player guidance.

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I was thinking that he is worth maybe $70,000 per year.

I never seen him consistently going anything worth much more then that for the MFC.

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Give him a big first year with incentive based second and third years so it becomes a front ended contract if he's playing poorly or just a decent and fair contract if he's playing well.

Take out the number 1 draft pick and what do we have.

Pro's:
Speed, skill, bit of bonus height, moves well in traffic

Con's

Not hard enough at the contest yet or tackling

Not a great overhead mark very much a leading into space player

Defensive game needs work

Has struggled to hold down a position in the team long term

Now the number 1 pick represents talent and also has an off field significance if he was to go. So I'm not one to say you can completely disregard that so it is worth something but we have to be objective. In terms of what we gave up he owes us more than we owe him but at the same time he didn't ask to go number 1 pick specifically or he certainly didn't demand it. The other thing to consider is we have Clarke, Dawes, Howe and Hogan whilst our midfield is weak. We also have to pay Frawley, Garland and McDonald (and Pedersen - shudders). We can't overspend on talls or third tall types. I'd hate for us to get to a position where we have a big name FA who will represent value to us and not having the cash ie. Essendon with Goddard who didn't come cheap but was certainly worth the coin for the dons at that time.

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give him whatever he wants. In order to be a premiership side you need all-australian type talent, at the MFC at present we have about 5 players capable of that and he is one of them

he showed in one game today what he is capable of as an inside 50 target

ive always backed the judgement of our coaches, but based on today they seem like a pack of cretins for ever taking watts out of the Inside 50 arc

he's just spent 62 games on the half back flank and now he's where he was always supposed to be, at the position he was drafted at... staggering

I know its biased, wishful thinking.. but Clark, Dawes, Hogan, Watts and Howe isn't that the friggin dreamteam of forward setups or what?

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Jack Watts will be better than Naitaniu when we get Roos or Choco

And I though you were going to be our new coach LOL

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How does it tie in with the rest of the salaries, future salaries and so on?

You can't really work out what is reasonable to pay one player when you don't know what the rest of the players are getting.

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How does it tie in with the rest of the salaries, future salaries and so on?

You can't really work out what is reasonable to pay one player when you don't know what the rest of the players are getting.

I use the other club theory. Example 1- equalisation : Geelongs star players agreed to $500k to keep the list together. I'm guessing that may have been relaxed in order to keep Taylor, plus Scarlett, Harley , Ling , Ablett are no longer there.

Example 2 - marque player: Hawks reportedly have offered Buddy a mill per year , plus must be paying good money for Cyril, Roughy, Hodge, Mitchell. Next bracket Sewell , Lewis ect. Then recruits like Hale and Lake sign for less to play finals.

These figures are speculation, we have Mitch on 700k, Dawes on 500k, Davey coming off a 500k contract. Even if we only pay 92.5% of the cap who are we paying the money to? I thought the 3 Jacks had their contracts front loaded so to avoid problems with out supposed superstar list?? Has Watts already taken home big coin and the next contract is to be more modest?.

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We need to develop Watts to play on ball. His versatility to play in a number of positions and generate play is crucial for us moving forward. If he keeps building his intensity and agro he will be a fantastic player.

Omg he was drafted as a forward how about we stop with the crap of trying to develop him in every position and leav him as a forward!

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