AFL Player #11: Jade Gresham - An astute choice for sub?

[Beerfish]

Contract: Unrestricted Free Agent 2026
My Boy Draft 2024: Pick 28, mcgrath_truther

 

[Bjchan13]

Train the PS as a small pressure forward exclusively and there may be a spot in the side. No room in the 22 for him as a small midfielder/high half forward.

Kako, Guelfi, Gresham, A Davey, Menzie, J Davey.

Ideally you'd have 3/6 warranting AFL selection, playing AFL standard footy and applying AFL standard pressure.

It really is open for spots.

Kako hasnt been drafted yet but im almost certain he'll play round 1.

Both Daveys need to get serious as they could, on talent, put themselves ahead of all of Gresham, Menzie and Guelfi. Problem is they dont work hard enough and aren't smart enough yet to realise they are probably close to being delisted. Extremely frustrating that their old man hasn't instilled a work ethic thats required to make it.

Menzie and Guelfi get games by default.

Gresham started the year well, missed around 6 or 7 goals he'd normally slot in the middle of the season and lost confidence. He'll get opportunities next year of course and he has the ability to bounce back and be a 30 goal small forward.

 

[eth-dog]

Playing in the Indigenous All Stars game

 

[FlyingV]

Good luck to him! Boy is he important to us currently with Guelfi and Davey down. The only other legit small forwards we have are Menzie and a first year player in Kako.

 

[katana]

not a fan in general but he played very well. side selected is too tall so i'd have him starting next week.

 

[Red Black and Blue]

Best half he’s played for us.

 

[Beerfish]

Odd selection for sub I would've thought.

 

[Bjchan13]

I thought he would've started after reports that he'd had a good summer. Think for balance we need someone to play as a 2nd genuine small forward next to Kako.

 

[eth-dog]

I'll back the call. Impact player, can play multiple positions and struggled in the Geelong match as well as towards the end of last year. Needed a kick up the ass.

 

[ant555]

I find it funny that last year nearly everyone was saying why is he in the side towards the end. Now after one game he plays well after coming on and the coach has ****ed it up ?

 

[Vindicater]

I find it funny that last year nearly everyone was saying why is he in the side towards the end. Now after one game he plays well after coming on and the coach has ****ed it up ?

I think it was more that the coach ****ed up the sub and went in far too tall. Gresham coming on balanced us out alittle.

 

[ant555]

I think it was more that the coach ****ed up the sub and went in far too tall. Gresham coming on balanced us out alittle.

I’m not convinced too tall was the issue myself. When they broke the game early it was more not playing 6 forwards and not allowing them to burn it out of the back half. The game was lost within 15 minutes of rebounding footy. Yes their small forwards were good but the rebound set it up in my view.
Was also some defensive lapses in the front half that hurt .
70% of the game we matched them.

 

[JayJ20]

I find it funny that last year nearly everyone was saying why is he in the side towards the end. Now after one game he plays well after coming on and the coach has ****ed it up ?

To be fair, we said Gresham was a poor sub choice before the game. You cannot go in with one small forward in the modern game, especially against Hawthorn who have good ball movers from defence. It was a poor decision by Scott and it showed in the second half.

 

[ant555]

To be fair, we said Gresham was a poor sub choice before the game. You cannot go in with one small forward in the modern game, especially against Hawthorn who have good ball movers from defence. It was a poor decision by Scott and it showed in the second half.

Most of the first quarter we still had mobile players there. Not like we have a bunch of talls. The mistake was not the sub. The mistake was going with a 5 man forward line and running the extra up to the contest which they changed at 1/4 time. It was a tactical error by the coaching group. Gresham or Hobbs my view is it would not have mattered. The damage was done in that 15 minute period of the first quarter when we allowed the the extra player in the back half rather than matching up 6 on 6. That's my take.

 

[Zach Package]

Most of the first quarter we still had mobile players there. Not like we have a bunch of talls. The mistake was not the sub. The mistake was going with a 5 man forward line and running the extra up to the contest which they changed at 1/4 time. It was a tactical error by the coaching group. Gresham or Hobbs my view is it would not have mattered. The damage was done in that 15 minute period of the first quarter when we allowed the the extra player in the back half rather than matching up 6 on 6. That's my take.

Is that chicken or egg?

Did we elect to send a number up to the stoppage because of the extra midfielder we picked in the 22 or did we pick the extra midfielder in the 22 because that’s how we want the game to look?

I’m not sure I like the extra around the ball because I don’t think we have the aerobic power to push away from the stoppage and create overlap, I don’t think it works otherwise.