AFL Player 16: Archie Perkins - Sub sub sub sub 🥖

[Beerfish]

Contract Status: Out of contract 2026
My Boy Draft 2024: Pick 9, sup3rfish

 

[ghostdog]

Came in to post the same. Good signing. Now to work on consistency and playing a defensive game.

 

[Snake Charmer]

Absolutely no issues with the contract would of given him more. There’s a really good player here with Perkins. Just needs to put it together. Feels like the type that will in a year we compete in the finals at a high level

 

[Blind Turn]

I was almost at the point where I’d have been happy to offer him as a straight swap for Stengle. Feel like he’s on the tipping point of either becoming elite or not living up to expectations. I want him to be elite more than any other player on our list due to the things he could offer but he’s still very hot and cold (from week to week and in-game).

 

[Vindicater]

Just signed 2 more years
Yippee

Great deal.

 

[jmoo wan]

it think he, like me, is held to a higher standard than most people because he is ridiculously good looking

 

[ant555]

Despite him going missing for a few periods of the game he still did some pretty clever stuff. Maybe we can slot him onto a wing for a bit.

 

[blitzer]

His impact with the ball is excellent but we need him to win more of the ball and defend a bit better consistently.
I don't think he's what we need in a midfielder this year if we were to go deep into finals but he could become that player in time.

 

[Petrify]

Despite him going missing for a few periods of the game he still did some pretty clever stuff. Maybe we can slot him onto a wing for a bit.

Does not have the endurance or speed to play on the wing. Should be playing as a high half forward for us at the moment.

 

[katana]

people are very harsh on this dude. he's taken some steps this year, and had two down weeks. keep him in the midfield rotations, he seems to be picking it up.

we may as well attempt to maximise his talents by keeping him around the mids and floating forward.

 

[Kong]

Jogs most game lacks intensity

yeah id love for him to arch the back more often

 

[yodellinhank]

yeah id love for him to arch the back more often

There are times he could perk up a bit

 

[ant555]

Does not have the endurance or speed to play on the wing. Should be playing as a high half forward for us at the moment.

Speed ?
Some of the best wingers playing the spot are not quick.

 

[DERO]

Half forward flank.

 

[Red Black and Blue]

Despite him going missing for a few periods of the game he still did some pretty clever stuff. Maybe we can slot him onto a wing for a bit.

I thought we looked best when he was getting involved at half forward. I think we are playing a bit quick and pointlessly long into our forward line and would probably benefit from hitting up that lead up player more. Would not be opposed to Perkins getting a solid look there again.

 

[faible]

Does not have the endurance or speed to play on the wing. Should be playing as a high half forward for us at the moment.

He came in as a pretty solid endurance runner, not elite, but certainly not poor.

Seems to have become a bit of a meme that he's a bad runner rather than a decent runner who's running to the wrong spots. Cox is a genuinely elite runner and does exactly the same thing, though he's improving.

 

[ghostdog]

He came in as a pretty solid endurance runner, not elite, but certainly not poor.

Seems to have become a bit of a meme that he's a bad runner rather than a decent runner who's running to the wrong spots. Cox is a genuinely elite runner and does exactly the same thing, though he's improving.

Agree. There are times Perko looks a bit lost with positioning and it can make him look slow, but when he has the ball and needs to go he can scoot. Needs better stoppage craft as well. Jacobs has done some good work with him so far though. No doubt we'll seem him shine again soon, probably when we play Hawthorn.

 

[faible]

Agree. There are times Perko looks a bit lost with positioning and it can make him look slow, but when he has the ball and needs to go he can scoot. Needs better stoppage craft as well. Jacobs has done some good work with him so far though. No doubt we'll seem him shine again soon, probably when we play Hawthorn.

I'm not sure he has that 360 awareness the good midfielders have, you can already see Tsatas has that awareness, Parish always had it too despite needing to work on his running patterns.

I think Perkins is more a straight-line player - like a Stringer. He moves the game forward when he has the ball and has strength to hold his feet in tackles. He can sometimes do a role at centre bounces as ant has said, due to working off the position of an opposition player, but sometimes it doesn't work at all e.g. Rowell just running off him.

I'd say at this stage he's probably a HFF kind of guy who can be damaging from a stoppage more than he is a pure midfielder.

 

[ghostdog]

I'm not sure he has that 360 awareness the good midfielders have, you can already see Tsatas has that awareness, Parish always had it too despite needing to work on his running patterns.

I think Perkins is more a straight-line player - like a Stringer. He moves the game forward when he has the ball and has strength to hold his feet in tackles. He can sometimes do a role at centre bounces as ant has said, due to working off the position of an opposition player, but sometimes it doesn't work at all e.g. Rowell just running off him.

I'd say at this stage he's probably a HFF kind of guy who can be damaging from a stoppage more than he is a pure midfielder.

Yeah I can definitely see that. If he's going to play stoppages though, he does need to develop a stronger sense of where his opponent is. I don't mind if he doesn't take possession - a bonus if he does - he does need to ensure it's a contest though. He was a ball watcher against Rowell on the weekend. If he's not checking his opponent and keeping body on body he needs to straight line the ball before his opponent does. He can do it, but Jacobs has more work to do with him yet.

In any case, I'd rather he were a forward mid pinch-hitting in the rotation.

 

[faible]

Yeah I can definitely see that. If he's going to play stoppages though, he does need to develop a stronger sense of where his opponent is. I don't mind if he doesn't take possession - a bonus if he does - he does need to ensure it's a contest though. He was a ball watcher against Rowell on the weekend. If he's not checking his opponent and keeping body on body he needs to straight line the ball before his opponent does. He can do it, but Jacobs has more work to do with him yet.

In any case, I'd rather he were a forward mid pinch-hitting in the rotation.

I think we need to bring in a pure midfielder (e.g. Shiel or Setterfield) and let Perkins play off a HFF.

 

[ghostdog]

I think we need to bring in a pure midfielder (e.g. Shiel or Setterfield) and let Perkins play off a HFF.

I'd be happy to see both brought in. We looked shallow through the middle against GC.

 

[Gabe251]

Hopefully he's the opposite of stringer and explodes this weekend.

 

[Nicholas61]

Yeah I can definitely see that. If he's going to play stoppages though, he does need to develop a stronger sense of where his opponent is. I don't mind if he doesn't take possession - a bonus if he does - he does need to ensure it's a contest though. He was a ball watcher against Rowell on the weekend. If he's not checking his opponent and keeping body on body he needs to straight line the ball before his opponent does. He can do it, but Jacobs has more work to do with him yet.

In any case, I'd rather he were a forward mid pinch-hitting in the rotation.

Would we have been better getting him to play stopper on Rowell once he started getting loose? Archie probably has the strength to limit the number and quality of those possessions.

 

[joey_jo_jo]

Would we have been better getting him to play stopper on Rowell once he started getting loose? Archie probably has the strength to limit the number and quality of those possessions.

Ive been really baffled by the lack of a tag last few weeks. It worked so well against the dogs and giants.
I was thinking maybe with the roos and tigers game they knew we could get result without stopping the opposition but I really thought we would clamp down on anderson and rowell this week.
Its not like they are un-taggable either, other teams have shown they can be successfully negated.
Hopefully this week someone puts the breaks on walsh, Swans sat jordon on him all game to great effect.

 

[naraku]

Happy to keep Perkins!

FWIW, I would think Perkins should stay HF and he can drift around the midfield/wings.

 

[NoWuckingFurries]

I'd like to give him a go in the ruck.