Player Watch Jason Horne-Francis - You were always one of us

[Ford Fairlane]

Was weird that the interviewer was louder than the player. Reverse AFL press conference.

 

[Fizzler]

Honestly I'm sick of all the desperation to label the kid and put pressure on him. This is his first full preseason, and it's only his 3rd year. He's got a long way to go. We know the potential is there, but I'm certainly not putting any expectations on him other than he keeps improving. If by year 5 he's not in our best couple players then I'd be disappointed. There's a lot of time left for him. Don't need to expect miracles and brownlows.

I don’t think any of us are doing that intentionally at least. At least on my part, I’m mainly just excited because of how ****ing good he was without even getting to do a preseason in his first two years, and he quickly rose up to become my favourite player on this team. It genuinely does feel like he could live up to and exceed pre draft expectations which were already sky high, and so far he’s tracking to easily be a top 2 player in his draft class. I don’t like lumping expectations on any player because I’m a big believer that every player who is elite in any sport has only gotten there because their system believed in them and they were given ample opportunity, so I’m treading a fine line here when I talk about JHF’s ceiling, but realistically even if he is only in our top 5-10 players in x amount of years, I’m sure he’d still be a great player with a great list around him.

Unrelated but Connor Rozee named JHF as the young teammate most likely to be a future captain in the captains survey earlier in the week. With Connor being the youngest captain in the league, you’d be hard pressed to find a player younger than him earmarked for captaincy (the whole leadership group is his age or older), but **** yeah I can see this happening, I love players who hate losing.

 

[EskimoPAFC]

Will miss the Dees game: https://www.portadelaidefc.com.au/n...8zvVWhZ55i7TZH3lJkhdImGLRnLQ9Ew-0XnA6y2yEl0vI

 

[RangaInTeal]

Boy this kid can play

 

[PowerLil]

Absolute jet.

 

[Enviable Tradition]

Hes going up a level this year.

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[Marmozet]

 

[Windy Cindy]

He could be our best player ever


He has special traits..

 

[jackag24]

Thought his first half was average.

Second half he went ape shit. ****ing impressive

 

[ClintEastwood]

Jeez he's special. #icebath

 

[gbear]

Love him

 

[sobrave]

He's tracking well ahead of Dangerfield at the same stage of his career

 

[Chewy316]

Once he puts it all together he will be the best player in the competition.

 

[tangolikelama]

Poor norf lol

 

[PAFC66]

Freak

 

[powerrrrrrrrrrrr]

Full breakout game tonight. Absolutely dominated.

Should have had a couple shots on goal to if our forward entries were better.

 

[sobrave]

Looks more composed, and making better decisions now rather than trying to do everything himself and overcook things. Amazing game. Essendon just couldn't lay a glove on him

 

[Harlott]

Looked the total package for a lot of the game tonight.

 

[pstew2dstew]

In over a decade of eating dogsheet as supporters he is our biggest win we really lucked out with him ...hasn't even hit his prime.

I feel like giving Norf another late first rounder...

 

[gbear]

Looks more composed, and making better decisions now rather than trying to do everything himself and overcook things. Amazing game. Essendon just couldn't lay a glove on him

Helps when you are not getting booed all the time either.

 

[Butters and Pepper]

In over a decade of eating dogsheet as supporters he is our biggest win we really lucked out with him ...hasn't even hit his prime.

I feel like giving Norf another late first rounder...

I'd rather just give North a pile of dogsheet.

 

[jdeezy]

The kid can play. That 3rd quarter was phenomenal

 

[Poo Eckert]

Like to just say, called it. Not sure how Wines will benefit us now as he will take minutes from this guy.

 

[x_les_x]

Two games into a season where he has had his first offical AFL standard preseason.

Imagine the next few years….as kenny would say, im scared

 

[El_Scorcho]

Incredible