Panos and Jones Combination up forward

[Eastdog]

Re: Panos and Jones Combination up forward

I said in another thread that I hope Panos debuts this season. Does anyone think Panos will make his debut this season.

[Go_Dogs]

Re: Panos and Jones Combination up forward

I said in another thread that I hope Panos debuts this season. Does anyone think Panos will make his debut this season.

Difficult to say Eastdog. I expect he'll get an opportunity at some stage but unless our selection of 3 ruck sized players stops, it's hard to see him getting a run - that said we don't seem to show a huge emphasis on balance, so who knows.

[G-Mo77]

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Bookmark this thread ^^
Takes key forwards years to become good players! He needs to increase his aerobic capacity and second efforts. To early to call

I'll bookmark it. I'm very confident the kid will make it. Far to much expectations on him from some of our supporters. I get tired of hearing he's not up to it, he's a kid expected by fans to do what Barry Hall did if you think that was ever going to happen you are obviously pretty dense.

[jeemak]

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Peter German's review of Panos isn't too gleaming:

"Matt Panos: He played forward and kicked two first quarter goals. He had a couple of opportunities to kick another couple but just got caught with the ball. His attack on the ball was good and we were pleased with his approach to the game. If a bit of luck went his way he could have quite easily kicked four goals and hopefully that is a game he can really keep building on. "

Basically saying he's too slow for AFL. If he's getting caught at Willy then this will show up more at another level.


OK who's the next gun forward?

........Tom Hill!

Or you could look at it this way, he did everything we wanted of him for the most part, though he just had one or two instances in which he let himself down by not understanding his limitations

It's actually a fairly positive review. Fair enough as Greystache has said it might have been a howler of an error, though 18-22 year olds can be prone to those at all levels.

BTW, do you really believe that if you get caught holding the ball once or twice at Willi that your AFL career is done?

[G-Mo77]

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I honestly thought we'd see a bit of the Panos/Jones forward line this season. Unfortunately 15 rounds in Panos has not made it into the squad. There's still time though and Panos seems to be doing the right things in recent weeks. Although without a good ball user I don't know how much help Panos would be anyway. Hope he gets some games in before the end of season.

[GVGjr]

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I remember that play, I forgot to mention it in my write up.

Basically he got the ball over the back of a marking contest about 40m out and took off towards goal, he had the chance to kick it from 20m, but ran an extra few steps and a defender came in from the blind side and tackled him. It was a bit of a howler to be honest, but I wouldn't necessarily put it down to lack of pace, more lack of vision and trying to get too close to goal before taking the shot.

My recollection of the incident in question is similar, but not quite he same. I felt that he took possession, then turned and started toward goal from a standing start. I would have said he took no more than three or four steps to steady himself, and was about to kick when he was run down from behind by a player who had already been on the move, and so had momentum.
The other incident when he was caught in possession if I recall correctly, was in the middle of a pack situation where he was tackled before he had much opportunity to either kick or handball it away. Crossy would probably have got that one away in time, but not many other players though.

[Remi Moses]

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I'll bookmark it. I'm very confident the kid will make it. Far to much expectations on him from some of our supporters. I get tired of hearing he's not up to it, he's a kid expected by fans to do what Barry Hall did if you think that was ever going to happen you are obviously pretty dense.

Think he'll make it . Watched Butcher tonight and remembered the hype, he's struggling this year. It's really hard to be a young key forward in this environment.We need to be extremely patient.Heard a damming stat last night that we have only 19% scoring when inside 50!
It's the lowest in over a decade

[Bumper Bulldogs]

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Heard a damming stat last night that we have only 19% scoring when inside 50!
It's the lowest in over a decade

And this is not due to the talks, more the fact that the smells have not kept I in IMO. Due to effort of injury this is what I see as the main issue, if they had been hitting the score board all of a sudden the ball starts going the way of the talls.

I don't really think that Grant as shown anything as a forward coach this year and he needs to get better structures and enable the guys on the park an opportunity to show us all what we know. They have the goods.