I saw enough from him to want to give him more opportunities. 

It's little wonder JT had his eye on him for a while. 

He is ready made, highly skilled, great work rate and hungry.

You can't ask or get better than that.

Great pick up along with his Werribee team mate AJ.

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Clean player with a good bit of agility and pace. Got caught out of position a bit on defensive transition but not unexpected for his first game. 

Deserves more opportunity but will face a bit of competition with Spargo and Tholstrup once they return from their respective injuries.

15 minutes ago, Nascent said:

Clean player with a good bit of agility and pace. Got caught out of position a bit on defensive transition but not unexpected for his first game. 

Deserves more opportunity but will face a bit of competition with Spargo and Tholstrup once they return from their respective injuries.

That competition for spots will be great.

If Spargo can get back to his best, I'd certainly see him as the closeset competition to Henderson, but no doubt Tholstrup will also heat things up as he matures and gains in confidence.  Hendo looks to have that maturity, hardness and composure to play at the top level already sorted.

16 hours ago, The Mighty Demons said:

 

If only he didn't slightly overcook that pass around the 25 second mark, it would have been the perfect centring kick and forward 50 entry. 

Still great signs for me that he had the skills and awareness to make space for himself at half forward and then lower the eyes to hit up a great leading option and not just chip it deep into the pocket to get bottled up or a low percentage shot on goal.

Also took whoever it was to be making the lead straight down the ground giving the option.  Noticed that Jefferson provided that several times for us and hopefully it is team directive in our game plan over the pre-season marking an improvement in how we move the ball into forward 50.

The footage shows the missed Petracca handball to Bowey…Arrgh

Pretty disappointing after a reasonable debut. Seems to lack aggression, can't stay on his feet and is hesitant in his decision making.

7 minutes ago, Cranky Franky said:

Pretty disappointing after a reasonable debut. Seems to lack aggression, can't stay on his feet and is hesitant in his decision making.

I think he's still a decent squad based player, but hard to tell given everyone has been a bit toilet.

Yeah I think it’s time he goes to Casey. If you’re getting 4 touches a game as a small forward you’d be wanting to impact the scoreboard, but he had 0 score involvements and was correctly subbed out.

We need to get some height into our forward line. The likes of Spargo, Sharp and Henderson aren’t giving us much.

Another to add to the large bucket of small forwards who can't score goals consistently. Can't have 4 of them in your team every week.

I'm not sure what his point of difference is that will allow him to be a quality AFL player. He hasn't kicked or assisted on a goal in the past three weeks, so is basically a passenger at this point.

He isn't quick, he is shorter than ideal, doesn't apply great tackle pressure, doesn't kick goals, doesn't win his own football.

Basically another Spargo, and we already have one more of those than is required.

some harsh comments here. first 4 games playing AFL were decent. had a quiet one on the weekend. so be it. looks a good user and given our shizen running patterns, its not a bad start.

having said that he and spargo shouldnt both be playing with Kozzie and Chandler in the side. id keep him in and drop Spargo.

Description	Date	Opponent	Result	K	HB	D	M	G	B	T	HO	GA	I50	CL	CG	R50	FF	FA	AF	SC
Round 5	Apr 12	Bombers	Loss 57-96	1	3	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	12	13
Round 4	Apr 4	Cats	Loss 46-85	6	3	9	3	0	0	1	0	0	2	0	2	1	0	0	37	32
Round 3	Mar 29	Suns	Loss 62-120	5	6	11	4	0	1	1	0	0	2	1	1	0	1	1	42	43
Round 2	Mar 23	Kangaroos	Loss 66-125	7	6	13	2	1	1	5	0	1	2	0	1	0	2	0	68	72
Round 1	Mar 16	Giants	Loss 74-77	6	7	13	1	1	0	3	0	0	1	2	5	0	1	2	48	55

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14 minutes ago, Bay Riffin said:

id keep him in and drop Spargo.

Spargo had 2 GAs on the weekend. I'm happy for Hendo to be his understudy at present.