Can Naughton win the Coleman

[GVGjr]

Completely agree. When he's seemingly forced to take a pack mark 3 deep to get a goal I am often left lamenting why he can't just get the odd simple lead out, chest mark, kick a goal Jason Dunstall style.

A few more lead out and chest marks would lift his performance.

[Happy Days]

Of course he can win the Coleman he’s the best key forward in the AFL. And are we really still concerned about his set shots? They improved out of sight between 21 and 22.

I’d argue that between no Bruce, Jamarra still largely developing and Cody dropping off due to playing through an elbow in need of reconstruction like an absolute psycho that Naughts had to play as the whole forward line for stretches last year. If we can become less predictable then he can clear 65 goals no problems.

[bornadog]

A few more lead out and chest marks would lift his performance.

To do that we need to move the ball quicker into the forward line before it is congested.

Often we keep the ball in our forward 50 for long periods, but due to the volume of players in the forward line, it becomes hard to lead anywhere, let alone have a shot.

[F'scary]

He kicked 51.34 from 97 shots at 52.6%. That is pretty much in line with most other leading key forwards in the league other than Tom Lynch:

Hawkins 67.43 125 53.6%
Cameron 65.37 117 55.6%
Curnow 64.42 117 54.7%
Lynch 63.27 99 63.6%
McKay 45.31 87 51.7%

So he could either improve his accuracy (probably unlikely) or take more shots like most of the others do to achieve a higher goal tally.

Note: finals games included in the above figures.

ok, so Naughton should focus on increasing his number of shots on goal but I think he should also try and improve his accuracy.

[F'scary]

A few more lead out and chest marks would lift his performance.

Weightman would still find a way to fly against him.

[Bulldog4life]

He can win the Coleman but as F'scary said he would need to improve his set-shot percentages and I'm not sure we are bringing in a specialist to help him with that.
I think he would need to score at least 65 goals to have a chance so he would need a lot of things to go right for him.

Not a huge jump only 14 extra goals from this year. Yes he can win the Coleman. His goal kicking has improved from what it was too.

[GVGjr]

Not a huge jump only 14 extra goals from this year. Yes he can win the Coleman. His goal kicking has improved from what it was too.

He is averaging close to 50 goals per season so it's a significant jump to get to 65. Midfielders with kicking skills will help if he can get on a few good leads.

[Dry Rot]

Leading Goalkickers: Every Aaron Naughton goal in 2022

https://www.afl.com.au/video/870660/...=1671998400001

[Testekill]

A big improver would be Naughton getting more low passes where he can just lead and mark.

[BornInDroopSt'54]

He'll be playing CHF so no.
Could win a brownlow a la Templeton.

[jeemak]

Would a better question be:

IF Aaron Naughton won the Coleman, would that be enough for 'everyone' to stop saying he needs to go back to defence?

Nothing he might do in the future could ever amount to that. You're dreaming.

[jeemak]

Hopefully a return to form from Keath and some additional areal support from Jones will help us clear the ball out of our back half more quickly and give all of our forwards cleaner football closer to goal. We tend to do it the hard way out of defence and get bogged down between the arcs sometimes, allowing teams to set up against us.

With Naughton specifically, he actually needs to get better at presenting to the ball carrier to simplify how we transition the footy and also for him get his hands on the footy more often. It's a mental/ intent thing with tall forwards, they often find themselves running away from the carrier which leads to some of the abovementioned issues in having to work stupid hard to get a touch or score after taking a mark from three deep. Having heard he's playing further up the ground in training/ sim I'm looking forward to seeing whether he can get better at this.