AFL Player # 2: Sam Draper - The mullet hath returneth - 22/6

[Dave]

Contract Status: Out of contract 2025
My Boy Draft 2024: Pick 20, TheUnicorn

 

[bacon buster]

Good battle with Grundy today. Dominated the clearances.

Against a better team, I reckon he gets caught holding the ball 3 times. Was a much improved performance, and encouraging to see. Still has a long way to go.

 

[quotemokc]

Yeah his kicking isn't pretty but not many rucks can grab the ball out of the contest like he can.

 

[brain taylor]

in a largely pretty meek, risk-averse team, watching this big clumsy stallion charge around trying to make stuff happen just makes me feel good idk i love him

 

[Lore]

 

[Zach Package]

Having to be the midfield enforcer and number 1 ruck is a lot to heap on him but **** me does he put in.

Tap work getting better and better.

 

[Schnitzengruben]

Fair credit to him, he tried all day. Loved what he's been doing. Keep it up big fella.

 

[Run and carry]

Even though it was a horrible day him and Nic Martin kept me entertained.

 

[Wahooti Fandango]

Getting better each game the last few weeks. Seems finally to be reading the play of the game as it unfolds.

 

[bennyg12]

love this bloke make him captain

 

[BrunoV]

Breaking out.

Showed he can drop the ball on his boot like a pro.

 

[yodellinhank]

Didn't see how he went today, heard about 5mins on the radio where they said something like "he's a big clumsy ruck, like mumford, where if you're within 5 meters of him you're probably a good chance of being hurt" meant as a compliment but i thought a bit unfair.

Reminded me that I don't think anyone has really mentioned the bump he put on last week (maybe the matchday thread did I dunno). Best thing i've seen all year - a bloke his size putting on a 100% legal bump.

 

[EnolaGay]

Providing a glimmer of light in an otherwise dark season.

More of the last couple of weeks please Drapes!


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[Lore]

Didn't see how he went today, heard about 5mins on the radio where they said something like "he's a big clumsy ruck, like mumford, where if you're within 5 meters of him you're probably a good chance of being hurt" meant as a compliment but i thought a bit unfair.

Reminded me that I don't think anyone has really mentioned the bump he put on last week (maybe the matchday thread did I dunno). Best thing i've seen all year - a bloke his size putting on a 100% legal bump.

Yuck, Mumford comparison. Aside from being a big lump of human that uses his 110 odd kilos to some effect in a game of footy, I don't think they have anything else in common. Mumford borders on cruel disregard for others' safety, whereas Draper always looks like he's at a rave. Only time he ever looked like something actually got to him in a negative way was when he took on NicNat in his first or second game

 

[citizen-erased]

Starting to see a crop of players who respond to bad games.

Draper leading it

 

[naraku]

Has responded to his poor start to the season very well.

If his 90% of his teammates did this, we might have more than 1 win!

 

[faible]

Yuck, Mumford comparison. Aside from being a big lump of human that uses his 110 odd kilos to some effect in a game of footy, I don't think they have anything else in common. Mumford borders on cruel disregard for others' safety, whereas Draper always looks like he's at a rave. Only time he ever looked like something actually got to him in a negative way was when he took on NicNat in his first or second game

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I often refer to him as being at his best when playing like Mumford.

He's not a graceful bloke who's going to do lots of neat things with neat kicks and tidy handpasses. He looks best when he's a big aggressive lump of a human not worried about throwing his weight around (there's the Mumford bit).

The big difference is that he's far more athletic than Mumford was, and is capable of doing things Mumford couldn't so doesn't have to rely on raw cruelty to make himself useful on-field.

 

[faible]

Also his around the ground work is starting to click since Anzac Day. Really stood up the last couple of weeks, and he's the kind of guy that drives confidence in the players around him.

As a midfielder you'd love lining up at stoppages with Draper at his raw aggressive best on your side.

 

[citizen-erased]

Also his around the ground work is starting to click since Anzac Day. Really stood up the last couple of weeks, and he's the kind of guy that drives confidence in the players around him.

As a midfielder you'd love lining up at stoppages with Draper at his raw aggressive best on your side.

so you don't have to do it yourself, yeah?

 

[faible]

so you don't have to do it yourself, yeah?

Darcy Parish likes this

 

[Petrify]

Turned it around big time after the criticism. If only more of our players did.

 

[yodellinhank]

I often refer to him as being at his best when playing like Mumford.

He's not a graceful bloke who's going to do lots of neat things with neat kicks and tidy handpasses. He looks best when he's a big aggressive lump of a human not worried about throwing his weight around (there's the Mumford bit).

The big difference is that he's far more athletic than Mumford was, and is capable of doing things Mumford couldn't so doesn't have to rely on raw cruelty to make himself useful on-field.

The bump on Anzac Day was clinical. How often do you hear "the bump is dead" because someone bigger than their opponent puts one on and it results in head contact/injury?

 

[faible]

The bump on Anzac Day was clinical. How often do you hear "the bump is dead" because someone bigger than their opponent puts one on and it results in head contact/injury?

I'd have appreciated if he could find time to lay a similar bump on Ginnivan or Weightman.

 

[NAB777]

Raw as f&^%....but I like how is trying to go about it.

 

[bombreys]

I thought he was pretty poor to start the season - but he's really starting to turn it around.

His last couple of weeks have been really solid. He's entertaining to watch

 

[essendon]

I'd have appreciated if he could find time to lay a similar bump on Ginnivan or Weightman.

The only bump any player in our team has made all year....