Player Watch #12: Jy Simpkin - 2025 Sole Captain

[DuckYeah]

Not ****ing one player has improved the last two years

 

[RossHenshaw]

3 years down the track…still relevant

We are not AFL worthy

 

[tazaa]

I was calling him out for the shit standards he was setting earlier on and as usual the delusional ones on here were up in arms.
Fast forward to round 8 and the years over so who gives a ****.

 

[Harris 10]

More shite kicks, again a lack of two way running.

 

[Uncle_Leo]

What has happened to his disposal?

Awful.

 

[The Nostradamus]

Scary thing is he’s probably top 2 in our bnf with JHF atm

 

[tazaa]

FWIW he had 6 touches at half time. 6. That’s pathetic. His first handball set the tone for a shithouse night.

He and Greenwood had 10 each at 3 quarter time. 10 ffs

How the **** are we going to get anywhere when our 2 highest CBA midfielders have a combined 20 disposals over 3 quarters of football.
**** my life David what are you doing to this team.

 

[TurnoverMerchant]

Not a fan of Jy at all.

 

[Harris 10]

What has happened to his disposal?

Awful.

If you’re honest about it his disposal has been shite since game 1.

 

[Uncle_Leo]

If you’re honest about it his disposal has been shite since game 1.

It’s got noticeably worse this year

 

[ferball]

3 years down the track…still relevant

In the three years since then he's been pretty good tho. Now he just gets swamped by the opposition. They figure we've got no one else and someone sits on him all game. If he wants to go to the next level he has to find a way to overcome that.

 

[Errol Street]

Closer to a C grader even when he gets it just doesn’t create much


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[amaz199]

Has lost whatever made him unique and skilful. No sidestep with hardness, no depth in his kicking, no damage. nada. Vanilla.

Going backwards with the rest of the team.

 

[archereleven]

Defensively a complete liability and supposedly the best trainer/runner at the club.

What does that say?

Wing. Give the cbas to players that can create ffs.

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[Shinboner1]

Saw his visibly give up on field a couple of times tonight.
That's when i knew we were in trouble.

 

[SMaturin]

A moment from Jy was a microcosm of the team.

Final quarter had a mark on a hbf. Could have bitten off (what I thought) looked like an acceptably risky 20m kick to a player in the corridor.

Shaped to do so, thought better of it and ended up going sideways and back - after a 3-5 second pause that lets Freo setup.

We don’t have or trust our skills to take the game on from our back half.

It bogs us down. Maybe a reaction to the horrendous turnover numbers of recent weeks, but I think there’s more to it than that.

 

[scottywiper]

Extremely disappointing.

 

[glenn2479]

In the three years since then he's been pretty good tho. Now he just gets swamped by the opposition. They figure we've got no one else and someone sits on him all game. If he wants to go to the next level he has to find a way to overcome that.

It’s a good point you make Ferbs. Yes we are a victim of our own horrible play but it’s compounded when opposition know that they only have to stop Jy, Larkey and Hall ( 2 of which didn’t play tonight), so they can put all their effort into those players because the rest have little to no influence anyway. You can already see them locking down on JHF. What a baptism of fire for that poor man.

 

[Billy Not Really]

For as much talk as the club put up about the year he was going to have, he’s gone backwards.

I don’t know how good exactly he can be when he’s still inconsistent at this point in his career, a few couple of purple patch games don’t really convince me that he should be captain or if he’s capable of being a premiership midfielder.

 

[Lavy_Panther]

He's playing as the #1 inside mid, i.e. Cunners' position. He's not exactly giving less than what Cunners gives in terms of defensive running. Problem is that Ben is irreplaceable when it comes to cleanliness and ball use.

Again, cool your jets on Jy.

 

[awesome wells]

Sorry but there’s absolutely no way is he our future captain

 

[Uncle_Leo]

Sorry but there’s absolutely no way is he our future captain

Yep I don’t see it either

 

[archereleven]

He's playing as the #1 inside mid, i.e. Cunners' position. He's not exactly giving less than what Cunners gives in terms of defensive running. Problem is that Ben is irreplaceable when it comes to cleanliness and ball use.

Again, cool your jets on Jy.

It's like comparing a Ferarri to a horse and cart mate.



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[Engimal v3]

Haven't ever been sold on him, to be honest. Might seem like a reactionary take, but he had a lot of improving to do.

 

[The Nostradamus]

Jy 30min ago out on the ground with our players but is sick?