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No argument there.
I'm just pointing out that whilst I don't necessarily agree with Reggi's assessment that he 'probably won't make it', his tardy start to the year is surely a worry. With our current mini-crisis with injuries and a largely dysfunctional forward line, there have been a multitude of scenarios put forward on how it can be addressed and who should move up to fill the void and not one of them scenarios involve Jed, who has played all the ressies games but hasn't impressed enough to even get a mention.
When a post starts 'With respect', you just know there is about to be a slapping. Not sure he deserved it for a reasonable view.Driver of the Dan Hannebery bandwagon....all aboard. 4th April 09Comment
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Jonno the numbers on height and weight at the Swans sight are sometimes not accurate. I have seen them say a player is so & so weight and in another part of the sight or in an article it will say something completely different. So bloody confusing. The sight has probably not been updated in a while, at least the start of the season when the main list was decided. He has since spent some time injured and had a lot of gym time as well as running and no group training. Since the season started he has played all games and been training normally but his pre-season was interrupted. I am just judging on looking at him go around the park and I saw him up very close in two resies matches. He looks to me to have put on some bulk. I am just wondering if that has had an effect on his aerobic abilities? That is all!Comment
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How about in the past Brett Kirk, Paul Kelly, Mickey O'Loughlin and Adam Goodes weren't immediate starters as soon as they joined the Swans they all took a couple of seasons to adapt. Reg had to be moved to defence after failing as a forward with a stint in the resies. LRT didn't just turn up and get a game he had to battle. Marty and Rhyce were unwanted by their previous clubs. Jetts got sent back to the resies. Seabs has spent plenty of time in our resies and was unwanted at his previous club. Joey and Benny were unwanted by their previous clubs and played a lot of reserves at the Hawks. Macca and Mal did their time in the resies too. So quite a few players there.Comment
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Aren't they trying him in a new role? Maybe that is the reason why he isn't playing as good as you have seen over last year. He will come good sometimes just takes a while for them to understand what it takes.Comment
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Nick Smith was taken as a rookie in 2007 and didn't get elevated/play regular games until 2009. Settle pettle!Comment
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I always find the height/weight stats to be a little amusing. It is in the best interest of a club to underquote a player's height in an attempt to undermine the opposition pre-game matchups - especially for new or previously unseen players. It is only a very small detail, but it happens a lot. Check Rohan's stats if you want proof.Comment
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I knew him as a gentle young man, I cannot say for sure the reasons for his decline
We watched him fade before our very eyes, and years before his timeComment
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goodes was well on his way to winning the rising star at the Same point in his career. O'loughlin played seniors kicking 3 goals game one. Kelly similar. None were languishing in the reserves.
Don't know how you couldn't say he isn't a disappointment, and at this stage hard to understand how he was drafted 21You don't ban those who supported your opponent, you make them wallow in their loserdom by covering your victory! You sit them in the front row. You give them a hat! Toby ZieglerComment
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Yes its a disappointment that he isn't playing in the 1's. Fair enough. However Jed was pretty highly rated prior to the draft and it seems that being drafted somewhere between 15 and 25 was fair enough according to most. So if he does turn out to eventually being a bust, maybe it's just the Swans' bad luck that could just as easily have been the bad luck of any of a number of other teams that could have drafted him.
What I would not want to see is our club picking players from nowhere, that aren't rated highly by anyone, with our high draft picks, that turn out to be busts. No one in the AFL has done that too much as far as I would understand but team like the Knicks in the NBA had a bit of a habit a few years ago of picking crazy picks with early draft picks that ended up busting pretty quickly.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that drafting is not an exact art, and not all high draft picks work out, for various reasons, and sometimes those reasons don't come to the fore until after they're drafted. Disappointed, yes, but not giving up on seeing Jed make something of himself yet.Comment
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