AFL Player #16: Archie Perkins - Re-signed for two more years - 3/6

[Beerfish]

Contract Status: Out of contract 2024
My Boy Draft 2024: Pick 9, sup3rfish

 

[Seb78]

Reckon some of us are being way too harsh on this kid. Playing that high half forward role, that is not only one of the tougher positions, but thankless at times as well.
Yes, still a lot of room to improve for the kid but I actually think he's been pretty good in most games this year.

 

[MattyB3150]

Reckon some of us are being way too harsh on this kid. Playing that high half forward role, that is not only one of the tougher positions, but thankless at times as well.
Yes, still a lot of room to improve for the kid but I actually think he's been pretty good in most games this year

Got a lot of coaches votes round one this year.

Some players take longer to reach that next level. We just have to be patient. Could be our best player in a few years.

 

[Keystone agony]

Got a lot of coaches votes round one this year.

Some players take longer to reach that next level. We just have to be patient. Could be our best player in a few years.

Against the hawks in a 10 goal win

He shows signs, but im not sure what hes going to be. Love seeing the shake of the hips and standup or break some solid tackles and then booming kicks 55m for goal

I dont see the midfielder and hes clearly not showing enough to be in there

The only thing is weve seen these big mids/fwds take time

Degoey took 6 years
Petracca 6 years
Rayner still hasnt cut it

No point comparing him to Sheezel whos playing half back. Rachelle whos physcially as ready made as Hobbs at the start and 180cm tall as is Soligo. These 180cm guys picked early should be having more impact early

Owens maybe fair, but is he just an absolute freak? And a more natural forward?

 

[ant555]

He just looks so casual out there, and not in a good way. No real manic desire to affect the play unless he has the ball.

He's talented but at times it looks like he thinks he's playing in the park with his mates over a Sunday bbq.

Seems to have a bit of the early Langford laconic about him.

 

[ant555]

Got a lot of coaches votes round one this year.

Some players take longer to reach that next level. We just have to be patient. Could be our best player in a few years.

I am all for patient . Just think he has not progressed a lot further than where he was in his first year. He was always going to take longer as he came from a draft that played minimal under 18 footy. None of the top 10 from his draft have really been ripping it up week in and week out. Most have shown flashed of very good amongst some inconsistent footy. Archie has played the most of any of the top 10 in his draft year. 50 games up next time out. He has to be showing a bit more consistent footy over 4 quarters. He has the tools . Just has to be progressing through the levels.

 

[Keystone agony]

There is no doubt the club should and will need to look at a 6 week stint onball in the VFL to train up that area because it cant be gained in the AFL. We need to know if he can take any strides there

Hobbs should be played ahead

 

[Lore]

Seems to have a bit of the early Langford laconic about him.

Glad I'm not the only one that read that comment and thought 'laconic!'

 

[VelvetSledge]

Plateaued a bit, but he'll come good. Whether that's in the VFL or AFL, we'll see.

Feel as though he's too good for the twos, though.

 

[Lore]

Statistically actually he's improved year on year in a pretty linear fashion. He gets more ball, though the improvement is mostly in uncontested possessions, kicks inside 50 more, kicks more goals, his kicking efficiency and kicking effectiveness are also better. His marking is the only thing to really go backwards.

Over his career so far he's been statistically average for a forward in the key stats, but this year is above average in most of them (that's comparing all forwards from the entire league to determine averages, with above average being in the top 3rd but not the top 10%).

What I would suggest based on that is that he's working on a few things skill wise, like his kicking and getting into good positions as part of the chain so that he has time to kick properly and isn't rushed.

He's also using his weapons further up the ground and is not taking as many marks because he's not in those positions where he'd be getting on the end of it. Instead he's the one winning it or receiving it further up the wing and trying to kick inside 50, likely as part of a chain originating in D50.

Given we have contested and uncontested possessions, I'd really like to see contested and uncontested disposals broken down as well.

 

[FlyingV]

Reckon he’s tracking fine. Has the scope to be a 2 goal 20 possession weapon. Just don’t think he’s a 30 touch a game type accumulator (which Tsatas and Hobbs probs will be)

 

[citizen-erased]

Reckon he’s tracking fine. Has the scope to be a 2 goal 20 possession weapon. Just don’t think he’s a 30 touch a game type accumulator (which Tsatas and Hobbs probs will be)

yeah. ive come around on not playing him in the middle.
HF/Wing and do similar stuff to Martin where he can get in when needed, but the key is work to the outside, play big there and be a presence from HB to HF/pocket

Hobbs, Tsatas, Caldwell complimenting Shiel, Setterfield, Merrett and Parish feels enough for me

 

[LB#16]

He's not a midfielder. Doesn't run hard enough defensively to be in there. Has enough goal kicking ability to go forward.

 

[faible]

Archie Perkins of the Essendon Bombers Career AFL Stats

Archie Perkins of Essendon Bombers career AFL statistics

www.footywire.com

As Lore said, he's improved pretty much across the board each year, just incrementally rather than a big jump.

He's a lot stronger on his feet than you'd think, quite often he can hold his feet through a tackle and either get the ball clear or run out of it once the tackler slips.

Looks a bit like a player that doesn't quite know what they can do yet, once he realises his strength and looks to use it I think we'll see him take a bigger jump.

 

[LB#16]

 

[faible]

Danger didn't get a great grip, but that's a > 90kg player getting an arm around his hips at pace and Perkins holding his feet throughout.

 

[Old Campaigner]

nearly got his dick torn off

 

[Albertross]

Has done a fair bit of jogging with his defensive efforts, particularly in the last 2 weeks. Overall, we've improved as a team in that area so far this year, not so sure Archie has though.

 

[Old Campaigner]

He might just be lacking the underlying fitness levels due to missing most of his draft year with the covid restrictions. That's something which should sort itself out over time.

 

[Beerfish]

Danger didn't get a great grip, but that's a > 90kg player getting an arm around his hips at pace and Perkins holding his feet throughout.

Yeah I dunno lol he didn't really get any grip and Arch saw him coming and had time to shift his body weight as well.

Don't get me wrong though it's great he didn't fall over.

 

[joey_jo_jo]

Yeah I dunno lol he didn't really get any grip and Arch saw him coming and had time to shift his body weight as well.

Don't get me wrong though it's great he didn't fall over.

it definitely is a great quality Perks has though, whenever he or stringer have the ball you just know they will evade the first tackle. With Stringer its through brute strength but with Perks i think its a good centre of gravity and strong hips/thighs.

 

[faible]

Yeah I dunno lol he didn't really get any grip and Arch saw him coming and had time to shift his body weight as well.

Don't get me wrong though it's great he didn't fall over.

Can you not just be happy for us? Such a beacon of negativity.

 

[Wahooti Fandango]

 

[Milanista28]

Tracking to be the next Will Hayward

9

Will Hayward

Age

26

Ht

186cm

Wt

83kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

10.6

3star

K

6.6

3star

HB

4.0

3star

M

3.4

3star

T

2.8

4star

G

1.1

4star

D

9.0

2star

K

4.3

2star

HB

4.7

3star

M

2.7

3star

T

2.7

4star

G

0.7

4star

D

9.4

3star

K

6.2

3star

HB

3.2

3star

M

2.6

3star

T

3.4

5star

G

1.4

5star

, I want to see more from him.

 

[Maxabillions]

It’s a good point someone made about bigger/explosive type mid/forwards like TRACC taking a while to break out. It will take a while for his strength/power to build, he could really explode when it does. I think he’s tracking along nicely. He could definitely be the type of player that’s given licence to just attack, he has the skills to be very damaging, when he comes along more so defensive stuff may be less important. I’m pretty excited about him.

 

[andleanback]

Seems to have a bit of the early Langford laconic about him.

I think when he goes through patches of not being involved in the play his intensity goes down. I’d like to see them change up his position for a few weeks. Heck give him Durhams wing role this week.