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

 

[andleanback]

Needs a reality check. Dropped next week

 

[Old Campaigner]

Is he carrying something?

 

[Duckworth]

Is he carrying something?

Being carried?

 

[Tazdog]

A touch of Angus Monfries about him. Doesn’t quite fit in the midfield, doesn’t quite fit in the forward line. Will probably have a 200 odd game career of not doing much but occasionally doing enough.

Perfect comparison

 

[Snake Charmer]

Being carried?

That’ll be the excuse.

Needs a reality check. Dropped next week

Won’t happen is my guess

 

[andleanback]

That’ll be the excuse.

Won’t happen is my guess

Yep we know it won’t happen, but it needs to. He’s just coasting atm

 

[Just A Tragic]

What I don't understand is why there is no gameday change up. If, for whatever reason, he is struggling in the middle, we are better off with his talents elsewhere.

Why Merritt sat in the foreword line and Perkins stayed in the middle is beyond me.

I don't mind the big picture experiece etc, but there has to be room for game day changes.

 

[TheFrenchCut]

Just has to be dropped.

 

[Petrify]

Please please please please please make it stop

 

[naraku]

Should have been subbed, but he NEEDS VFL time for his sake and ours

 

[Vander18]

Dunno how many times I can say it…..has to go back and play VFL.

 

[Pweter]

This campaigner can learn to football in the magoo's for a bit.

6 days later and I haven't changed my tune at all. In fact I'm doubling down.

 

[ydc55]

His lack of defensive effort is most concerning.
For the first time in his career there is pressure on spots and I think he is fortunate parish or Hobbs isn’t fit.
However tsatsas may put pressure on him as well as setterfield.

 

[SpeckieMcVeigh]

Had a few good grabs but just fades out of games far too often.

 

[TheGrizz]

Looks devoid of confidence, I reckon he needs to either play a hyper specific role to get him back and confident (i.e tagging like he did last year) or a spell in the VFL to hone his craft.

Im still bullish, but it aint working at the moment.

 

[Snake Charmer]

Should of subbed him after he dropped the soda mid of the last. Give him a vfl block before the (hopefully) finals. Find some form come back in the last bit of the reg season. He needs it, we need it

 

[TheWeapon]

Looks down on confidence. Give him plenty of on-ball minutes in the 2s, he'll be back

 

[Mercurial89]

He did do some good things kicking wise, he has the tools so I'm ok if they keep pumping games into him.

I am curious though if his spot went to Setters how we look with Shiel and Setters running through the midfield.

 

[joey_jo_jo]

If he didn't drop that sitter of a mark that directly led to a pies goal I don't think people would be so negative. He was playing predominantly high half forward not midfield this week, had half the score involvements of gresham but more tackles and pressure acts. He's still out of form but if they're playing him in high half forward role I'm happy for him to stay in, a big performance will come.

Hopefully we see more and more kicks like the one to caddy for his goal.

 

[Red Black and Blue]

I thought he was okay. Great intercept mark late to stop their momentum, a goal assist. If hed kicked that goal and not had the blunder it would have been good for the half forward role. Putting up similar numbers in a similar role to Caldwell last year. Think hes struggling with fatigue a bit. A rest without VFL might do him good, but straight back in.

 

[FootyGuru]

Everyone wanting to drop him but for who?

 

[Red Black and Blue]

Everyone wanting to drop him but for who?

Archie for Archie.

Having Caddy and Shiel in freshened things up to a side that was looking prettt stale for the last month or so. I think its good for the side at this time of year to spread the work load and some more youthful exuberance would be nice.

 

[fairbump_playon]

I thought he was okay. Great intercept mark late to stop their momentum, a goal assist. If hed kicked that goal and not had the blunder it would have been good for the half forward role. Putting up similar numbers in a similar role to Caldwell last year. Think hes struggling with fatigue a bit. A rest without VFL might do him good, but straight back in.

This is very generous

For one, Caldwell was always a star mid in the making.. was showing elite clearance skills. Perkins just does not have that in his kit bag.

I said it a few pages back but Perkins is a stronger Zaharakis. His best skill is getting into scoring chains between wing and half forward and converting a few himself. Which makes him an old school half forward flank.

He has nowhere else to go on the ground aside from maybe wing (and I don’t think he’s ever going to be elite there).. can’t play back, can’t play deep forward, isn’t a mid unless tagging / negating.

And as Ant says, that HHF role is now a crucial one in transition defense. If Perkins is to make it IMO his key metric is tackles / pressure acts. He would need to be an endurance brute who gets games (and gets his 20 touches) on the back of fierce competitiveness.. because he’s not involved enough or elite enough to just swan about focusing on offense.

There were some knocks on his AFL lifestyle? (Or was it just that hat he wore on draft night )

For his sake I hope he is partying too much because it will give him a few more percent of upside

 

[Howard Moon]

It's tough, he's bang out of form and clearly a confidence player, but also a player who wouldn't take any confidence from being dropped- I reckon he would sad right up.

 

[ant555]

Interesting game. Thought he got back to blocking and holding his ground at center bounce and stoppage a lot better . They had been moving him off his line and out of the contest too easily. However the phase two follow up defending was all over the place .
I had previously thought he could be a good half forward. He probably can and kick 30 to 40 goals but his lack of defense will hurt the other way.
Maybe he is more a wing where the defense is simpler and you hold your side of the ground or even a half back where you can simply follow and defend and then link in.
To me he is a player who does not handle a role that has too much defensive transition. He plays a lot on instinct and not defense. Good in traffic. Decent vision when he has the footy.
Certainly not a natural midfielder.