Player Watch #37: Cooper Harvey - signs 1yr extension - Roo til end 2025

[giantroo]

Peak bigfooty watching a 1min highlight video "not a great kick"

Agree, no one is hitting 100% disposal efficiency in any game, not even the best. Hayden Young goes at 82.1% and he is considered an above average kick.

Cooper has plenty to work with and that's all that matters.

 

[the flying ham]

Agree, no one is hitting 100% disposal efficiency in any game, not even the best. Hayden Young goes at 82.1% and he is considered an above average kick.

Cooper has plenty to work with and that's all that matters.

100%, and if he has an attitude like his old man, he will excel in a professional environment

 

[Bren]

100%, and if he has an attitude like his old man, he will excel in a professional environment

lets hope he takes after Dad not Uncle Shane

 

[king of the road]

Peak bigfooty watching a 1min highlight video "not a great kick"

I’ve not even seen the one minute clip so I’m concerned that others are concerned. Which is concerning.

 

[Val Keating]

lets hope he takes after Dad not Uncle Shane

Shane’s boys can play too.

 

[shinboner magic]

Agree, no one is hitting 100% disposal efficiency in any game, not even the best. Hayden Young goes at 82.1% and he is considered an above average kick.

Cooper has plenty to work with and that's all that matters.

Think it more that he was kicking off one step and that’s why it looked odd

 

[year of the roo]

Shane’s boys can play too.

I knew we should have given him those extra 97 games. Dammit Amarfios.

 

[Merlin007]

I knew we should have given him those extra 97 games. Dammit Amarfios.

only rubbing it in, but we took Shane over Aaron Davey.....

 

[Bren]

Shane’s boys can play too.

and its been documented how un professional he was.... hoping he takes after his uber professional dad

 

[northbergs]

only rubbing it in, but we took Shane over Aaron Davey.....

Ouch!


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[numchuks]

only rubbing it in, but we took Shane over Aaron Davey.....

The proof will be in the pudding I believe were Dani’s words.

 

[Merlin007]

The proof will be in the pudding I believe were Dani’s words.

... well, I think we ended up with a SAO biscuit, and Melbourne got the sticky bun

 

[Sphynx]

Peak bigfooty watching a 1min highlight video "not a great kick"

I watched a hell of a lot of him at training in preseason, probably more than every person on here has seen of him in person, remembering he spent most of the pre-christmas and January period there and played in most of the match sim.

I'd have to agree with him in general, kicking is not his strong suit, people thinking he's Boomer are setting him up for failure and it's actually incredibly unfair. It's already begun on the previous few pages.

He's a completely different player, he's much bigger, he's stockier and he's got nowhere near the same foot speed as Boomer or the same general skill level.


I'm glad he's coming here, as I think he's 2-3x the prospect Jackson is as a comparison, but people need to temper their expectations of him. He's more Kieran Harper (without the athletic side) than Brent Harvey.


I think the 30-40 range is about where he sits and it's for a reason.

His kicking and cleanness/fumbles with the footy are the things he needs to work on when he hits full time AFL training. He's got good footy IQ, he can get plenty of the ball in a range of positions, he's got advanced running patterns for his age (no surprise where he's learnt that), it's some of the natural intangibles like kicking, cleanness and athleticism I have concerns about.

 

[Only Forwards]

My son said he played the last game shortly after losing one of his good mates, hence the black armband.

 

[the flying ham]

I watched a hell of a lot of him at training in preseason, probably more than every person on here has seen of him in person, remembering he spent most of the pre-christmas and January period there and played in most of the match sim.

I'd have to agree with him in general, kicking is not his strong suit, people thinking he's Boomer are setting him up for failure and it's actually incredibly unfair. It's already begun on the previous few pages.

He's a completely different player, he's much bigger, he's stockier and he's got nowhere near the same foot speed as Boomer or the same general skill level.


I'm glad he's coming here, as I think he's 2-3x the prospect Jackson is as a comparison, but people need to temper their expectations of him. He's more Kieran Harper (without the athletic side) than Brent Harvey.


I think the 30-40 range is about where he sits and it's for a reason.

His kicking and cleanness/fumbles with the footy are the things he needs to work on when he hits full time AFL training. He's got good footy IQ, he can get plenty of the ball in a range of positions, he's got advanced running patterns for his age (no surprise where he's learnt that), it's some of the natural intangibles like kicking, cleanness and athleticism I have concerns about.

I think there are some track watchers, yourself included, who have put in the time into watching these kids to make a well informed observation. I don't think watching merely a highlights package constitutes that

 

[Twinkletoes]

My son said he played the last game shortly after losing one of his good mates, hence the black armband.

Correct

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[Dan]

He's more Kieran Harper

I'd be very happy if this turned out to be the case.

Not that I want Coop's delisted by his 4-5th year of footy.

But I can't remember in the last 20 years any other player in their first 2 years having as many highlight reels as Harper did.

We had something special in that kid and then we tried to turn him into a midfielder.......when he wasn't getting much of the ball he'd go back to the VFL and his confidence got shot. Injuries didn't help either.

 

[Lomas]

I'd be very happy if this turned out to be the case.

Not that I want Coop's delisted by his 4-5th year of footy.

But I can't remember in the last 20 years any other player in their first 2 years having as many highlight reels as Harper did.

We had something special in that kid and then we tried to turn him into a midfielder.......when he wasn't getting much of the ball he'd go back to the VFL and his confidence got shot. Injuries didn't help either.

NMFC ankle curse.

 

[Roo Beauty]

I experience genuine PTSD when I hear Kieran Harper

Kieran Harper

Age

32

Ht

187cm

Wt

84kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

8.9

2star

K

5.6

2star

HB

3.3

3star

M

2.0

2star

T

3.4

5star

G

0.9

4star

No current season stats available

D

8.2

2star

K

5.2

2star

HB

3.0

3star

M

2.2

3star

T

3.2

5star

G

0.8

4star

’s name.

 

[trooroo4life]

Kicked a ripper in the 2nd qtr today. Fended off an opponent and nailed it from 45 on a tight angle. Has been ok in the first half, got nailed in a tackle just before half time unaware of a player coming side on from him.

 

[giantroo]

 

[shinboner magic]

Did old Chris boy just work it out

 

[giantroo]

Did old Chris boy just work it out

HAHAHA

 

[Del191229]

Chris is really stupid hey. And racist.

 

[giantroo]

Northern Knights get through the wildcard round after being 20 points down in the last to win by 4 points.