AFL Player #15: Jayden Laverde

[Beerfish]

Contract Status: Unrestricted Free Agent 2025
My Boy Draft 2024: Pick 7, Nuggs Bunny

 

[Howard Moon]

He is clearly a bit inside his own head right now. He Has never been a great kick but could be relied on to halve a contest down back. His positioning was all out of whack and he looked a bit lost for whatever reason.

That's ok, he can go to his happy place and head shot a few sweats in fortnite, even if they are only 12

 

[Petrify]

Posted in the autopsy but I legitimately wont be watching next week if Laverde is picked.

Imagine the message you send to the players by selecting someone who week in, week out gets absolutely ****ing destroyed by his opponent. Pathetic club.

 

[Jobe Watson]

****ing embarrassing this guy has essentially been a best 22 player for the last two years. Would have to be one of the worst KPDs in the league. Get him out.

 

[andleanback]

Can not have this guy at full back for another 12 months, he’s a ****ing disgrace. Legitimately a local level footballer that tries to play with physicality

 

[Petrify]

Look at this freeze frame as the ball comes off Collins boot. His direct opponent, Laverde, has his BACK TO THE BALL. Mac Andrew then gets a free uninterrupted run and jump at the ball. Absolute COMEDY how one player can be so bad at his job

 

[Skipper_]

Every man and his dog has known this guy is not an AFL key defender for the best part of 3 years now.

Hayes may well get monstered next week but he genuinely couldn’t do any worse than this bloke.

I love how every time he gets out-marked by his opponent inside 50 he falls on top and tangles up with them as if he thinks he’s still able to lay a tackle. This classic Laverde ‘fake-tough’ move happens 5 times a week and brings me great joy each time.

From all reports he is a pretty sound and genuine guy so I do feel bad about the amount of stick he is copping atm, but he is clearly not up to the level anymore.

 

[mcgrath_truther]

what frustrates me as a decidedly mediocre youth football defender is that he loses touch with his opponent so often, let’s then get goalside. everything that defenders shouldn’t be doing.

****ing consistently

 

[MarkJohnson#1]

VFL at best, the forgotten truth is our backline has simply been decimated and we have been forced to play this bloke when he doesn’t cut the mustard. Reid, Ridley, Baldwin we need you guys fit and firing net year or we are cooked.

 

[Yoda_]

He got tough stickers now, that's sacrosanct for EssigntonFC

 

[Zach Package]

I seriously can’t recall a more accident prone Essendon player, potentially AFL player. The amount of collisions he’s been involved in where he’s been hurt or cut or dazed or cannoned into someone else or in this case Cox must be ridiculously high. Bad luck? No peripheral vision? Cursed by St. Kilda trying to recruit him?

Admire him for constantly playing out of his weight division and putting his head where it doesn’t belong but also, pick another proper big defender and he wouldn’t have to.

 

[Seb78]

For the tip

 

[Schnitzengruben]

Genuinely dumb footballer. That play last week where he turned his head the wrong way running back with the flight, and then tonight, not checking the run of the most athletic/dangerous bloke on the field in the final play of the game.

Just stupid. He's PEAK Essington, and peak Adrian Dodoro. The most baffling (or damning) part? We've gotten him to 129 games.

 

[DERO]

i don’t know whether he is “stupid” per se. He can’t kick that well and he knows it but has the urge to take the game on some times and runs himself into trouble. It is a horrible mix sometimes.

 

[yodellinhank]

Should've picked boekhoerst

 

[naraku]

Could be a candidate to retire.

Seems cooked.

 

[MarkJohnson#1]

i don’t know whether he is “stupid” per se. He can’t kick that well and he knows it but has the urge to take the game on some times and runs himself into trouble. It is a horrible mix sometimes.

I don’t think he’s stupid he’s just not that good a footballer.

 

[ydc55]

To be fair Reid or Baldwin would have been their preferred option I am guessing.
Surely Hayes is worth a crack on Amartey next week.

 

[bombreys]

To be fair Reid or Baldwin would have been their preferred option I am guessing.
Surely Hayes is worth a crack on Amartey next week.

Reid maybe, not Baldwin

 

[Loonerty]

Time's up.

 

[Bjchan13]

Still contracted for next year. I dont think its at the stage you need to delist him early (would be fine as VFL/depth next year) but the end has clearly come quickly for him. He's had his share of injury and concussion and it looks like its all caught up with him. Need to give Hayes an oppurtunity after 2 solid VFL years and maybe even Weideman gets to show his form as defender as well.

 

[ant555]

To be fair Reid or Baldwin would have been their preferred option I am guessing.
Surely Hayes is worth a crack on Amartey next week.

Well that is true. Laverde spent all of pre season playing in the B defensive set up.

 

[Yoda_]

The big guy really is in some form.

Mac Andrew - 4 goals
Jye Amiss - 4 goals
Anthony Caminiti - 3 goals
Take your pick on Thilthorpe, Fogarty or Keays - combined for 11 goals

the gift that keeps on giving. Perhaps its time the review is honest and feedback taken on board that it just isn't working.

 

[Schnitzengruben]

The big guy really is in some form.

Mac Andrew - 4 goals
Jye Amiss - 4 goals
Anthony Caminiti - 3 goals
Take your pick on Thilthorpe, Fogarty or Keays - combined for 11 goals

the gift that keeps on giving. Perhaps its time the review is honest and feedback taken on board that it just isn't working.

Dodoro would've been chomping at the bit to give his vanity project as long a contract as possible. Wouldn't be surprised if there's another extension in the works.

Just adds to the list of guys who have been given one too many years for being great Essendon people.

 

[TheGreatBarryB]

The big guy really is in some form.

Mac Andrew - 4 goals
Jye Amiss - 4 goals
Anthony Caminiti - 3 goals
Take your pick on Thilthorpe, Fogarty or Keays - combined for 11 goals

the gift that keeps on giving. Perhaps its time the review is honest and feedback taken on board that it just isn't working.

All those players at least 3cms taller than Laverde. He shouldn’t be playing on them. But we have no one else currently. We need Reid back and club feels Hayes not quite ready.

 

[bombreys]

All those players at least 3cms taller than Laverde. He shouldn’t be playing on them. But we have no one else currently. We need Reid back and club feels Hayes not quite ready.

Whilst this is true, we refuse to address it. It’s been the case for years, and will in all likelihood be the case again next year. We need to actually do something about it