Sorry just to be clear what hallmarks are these? Downhill skiers don't get over 4 tackles a game. And how exactly does one ski downhill at gold coast??
Printable View
Jack is a football genius.
We should get him.
Do we know his personality and work rate outside of football ?
Is he an all round good bloke ?
Is he driven ?
Is he a natural leader ?
Apart from the football side of things I know nothing of these things with him and they are what are looked at when we are recruiting players.
If what the media are saying is true I would say he has a lot of these attributes.
Does anyone here have answers about him.
I'm of the belief that players of the talent of Martin will get better at a stronger club.
My only question of players we recruit is if they are coming for the right reasons and not just because of the money. Speculation that Carlton is his preffered destination but that we can pay more isn't great in my opinion. If he genuinely wants to play for us then we should go hard to make that happen
Jack showed great maturity, self sacrifice, courage and dedication as a young man pursuing his dream of being an AFL player.
He may thrive in the position of being looked up to as a role model to the younger indigenous kids we are planning to add to our list.
Jack also is a definite point of difference to our playing group, he adds a dimension we are currently lacking.
I'd be thrilled to get him down to the kennel.
Tom Browne reporting we are leading the race for Martin
I can talk about him a bit - not from the past couple of years as I really haven't seen him much since 2015.
He is a very hard worker. He is well liked by his team-mates and has an 'old head' on his shoulders. He wouldn't like the losing too much and is a very prideful person. He is THE great, unrealised talent in the AFL today (with Callum Ah Chee not far behind him - but Jack is better than Cal).
We are talking about a genuine, first overall pick in the draft type talent. The other 3x pre-draft selections (two awarded the Giants, two awarded the Suns) were Crouch (Brad version), Jaeger O'Meara and Jesse Hogan. (Yes, 3x West Australians who ALL missed the National Champs in their 18th year). Pretty comfortable in saying Jack was more highly regarded that the other 3. He can seriously play. His idea of fun is salmon fishing off Broome - not 3am in a dodgey Gold Coast night club. He would be a great get and if the club pulls it off we will all sit back and thank the lord above they did.
Yes mainly I agree, but with a little asterisk. Their guess might be we land Martin & Bruce. So that opens up a squeeze on Dickson out of the club and he may want to keep playing but elsewhere. What level is their guess work, I don’t know, but Dickson chatter seems like a domino effect of bringing in two more forward. If we get them and another club offers him 2 years, good for Dicko.
Lets get him now. We need to impress him and as GVGjr says, not just with money, but the overall culture and environment of the Whitten Oval. Nail this one Sam.
I hope I'm speaking for a the vast majority of our WOOF members is saying how privileged we are to have contributors like your good self (and quite a few others) providing us with first hand knowledge of the quality of players we have been discussing
Many thanks MJP, you add so much value to the discussions here.