Player Watch #12: Jy Simpkin - 21/22 SBM - 23/24 CoCapt

[Mute Point]

Disposal is horrendous more often than not, embarrassing for a club captain.

Last kick of the match. It's 5 minutes later & I'm still trying to work out what he was thinking.

 

[amaz199]

He works but his disposal is so costly that I can't see where he provides a benefit.

It's still very clear his best work is in the contest. Does not have the required attacking flair.

 

[roos_fanatic08]

You’d be hard pressed to find a worse kick of the ball in the comp. I honestly can’t think of a worse kick.

Constantly miss kicks them, completely misses 20-25m targets, tries to over kick the ball because he can’t kick 40m and he absolutely torches the footy going inside 50.


embarrassingly bad.

 

[kangatragic]

I'm really worried about Jy. Has regressed so much over the last few years and feel all these concussions might of taken there toll.

 

[Devil Fish]

Jy’s stocks are plummeting. His disposal by foot is getting worse. Which I didn’t think was possible.
In combination with several concussions which seem to be taking their toll.

Signed til 2029????? My goodness.

 

[Roosurgence]

****ing hopeless.

 

[tricknologist]

Contracted to 2029

 

[Roosurgence]

Contracted to 2029

Look at two of the long term contracts, Simpkin and McDonald. Long time contracts to Fisher and Stephen’s.

Bye Brady! List killing campaigner!

 

[heem]

We should primarily be playing Jy as our long sought crumbing forward at Larkeys feet. His problem with kicking is all about depth and judging movement of players 15-30 metres away. He is diabolically bad at this part of the game. But he can crumb, is elusive, can handball at pace and can kick straight at goal. A weak tackler but can apply some okay-ish pressure.
Could stay in the midfield rotation to some extent but should be under strict instructions to handball or kick long and not use short to medium kicks.

 

[scottywiper]

Has always been a poor ball user, which many people seemed to ignore, including in making him co-captain. Now also looks to be labouring on the field.
That contract is a bad one and looking worse by the week.

 

[pupstar]

You’d be hard pressed to find a worse kick of the ball in the comp. I honestly can’t think of a worse kick.

Constantly miss kicks them, completely misses 20-25m targets, tries to over kick the ball because he can’t kick 40m and he absolutely torches the footy going inside 50.


embarrassingly bad.

You need to watch a couple of Essendon games

 

[amaz199]

Gonna sound controversial but I think he needs a spell in the 2s.

 

[tazaa]

It is what it is.

Culturally making him captain on the back of one of the worst seasons by a best and fairest winner in memory and one of the worst in the clubs history, along with McDonald is just f***ed.

The concussions, his hand injury, his own form, his kicking, the clubs woes and all the pressure on him being the captain may be getting to him.

 

[roos_fanatic08]

You need to watch a couple of Essendon games

Merrett, Parish, Caldwell are all better kicks than him. Setterfield is a terrible kick, but most of his disposal is by hand .

 

[Themanbun]

Needs more than 12 CBAs a game.

 

[pupstar]

Merrett, Parish, Caldwell are all better kicks than him. Setterfield is a terrible kick, but most of his disposal is by hand .

Tsatas Sheil apparently Mckay when he was with us are worse Parish on par.

 

[Grogg]

Natural half forward, was turned into a mid then asked to go back to a part mid /part fwd role.

I understand why this has taken place & the reasoning behind it, but I don't think it's particularly helped him unfortunately.

 

[Merlin007]

there's an unhealthy dynamic on here to dump on blokes who are struggling, even though they give their all for the club.

Six weeks ago, Jy Simpkin

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Jy Simpkin

Age

26

Ht

183cm

Wt

77kg

Pos.

M/F

Career

Season

Last 5

D

16.0

4star

K

7.9

3star

HB

8.1

5star

M

2.4

3star

T

3.3

5star

CL

2.9

4star

D

20.6

5star

K

11.0

4star

HB

9.6

5star

M

2.0

2star

T

3.5

4star

CL

5.5

5star

D

10.0

3star

K

5.6

3star

HB

4.4

4star

M

2.8

3star

T

2.4

4star

CL

0.2

2star

was knocked into orbit by one of the more despicable acts ever seen on a football field, and he's backed up as soon as he could to help his side.

If he's off the pace, there's a reason.

Ease up.

 

[Themanbun]

there's an unhealthy dynamic on here to dump on blokes who are struggling, even though they give their all for the club.

Six weeks ago, Jy Simpkin was knocked into orbit by one of the more despicable acts ever seen on a football field, and he's backed up as soon as he could to help his side.

If he's off the pace, there's a reason.

Ease up.

100% mate. I'm all for criticism (without vitriol) coming at blokes who watch their opponent burn us and don't give two shits, but Jy busts his arse no matter the circumstances or how he's feeling.

 

[Firebat]

there's an unhealthy dynamic on here to dump on blokes who are struggling, even though they give their all for the club.

Six weeks ago, Jy Simpkin was knocked into orbit by one of the more despicable acts ever seen on a football field, and he's backed up as soon as he could to help his side.

If he's off the pace, there's a reason.

Ease up.

Agreed in principle, but these challenges and shortcomings by Jy are not new.

These challenges were evident when we resigned him on his mega deal and as the game has progressed from just ‘move it forward’ to now needing more precision to cut open defensive zones, it’s clear the coaching staff are desperately trying to find a place on the field to hide his disposal woes.

It’s a sad state of affairs.

 

[Devil Fish]

Look at two of the long term contracts, Simpkin and McDonald. Long time contracts to Fisher and Stephen’s.

Bye Brady! List killing campaigner!

It is negligence. There's no other word for it.

 

[SMaturin]

I think he’s always looked at his best in the forward line.

 

[TennisPlayerAndy]

Another bloke that has jammed it into reverse and accelerated.

Hard.

 

[Val Keating]

I think another reason we have taken Jy out of the middle for the majority of the game is to protect him a bit. He can’t afford another concussion this yr. With all the rules relating to this he would need to sit out for quite a long period.

He got put into the middle at stages in the second half and we looked much better when he did. The ball wasn’t just being ran out with ease

 

[Val Keating]

I think he’s always looked at his best in the forward line.

I like him in the middle, but I reckon he could be a gun small forward.

At the moment it looks like the coaches are trying to play him in that high half forward role that Robbie Grey played, which could work if we could actually win a centre clearance.