Player Watch #20: Nick 'Souva' Larkey - 23AA/24 NM VC

[domiroo]

Trade him .

 

[gerry101101]

No doubt he is playing injured, and assume he has been instructed to just make a contest and bring the ball to ground. Unfortunately the obvious problem is that he’s not great at a physical contest and we have no effective crumbers (honourable mention to Curtis’ efforts notwithstanding).

So what do we do? CCJ in for Larkey does seem the only answer. At the very least he’ll come in with expectations a lot lower than when he started with us, and given the same ‘just make a contest’ orders he with Chim might at least solve half our current basic problem around half of the time. Who crumbs then? Phoenix is not ready, and we’d be risking playing a forward line with a combined 60 odd games of experience. So for me it’s WillPhil roving to their feet if Simpkin is back.

Yes, not ideal - but lets face it… nothing about this situation is.

 

[ferball]

Chim. LOL.

 

[gerry101101]

Chim. LOL.

Players you can make a typo on and it suits them:

Kayne Turnover
Nick Lurkey
Hack Ze-ball
Daniel How?
….

 

[ferball]

Players you can make a typo on and it suits them:

Kayne Turnover
Nick Lurkey
Hack Ze-ball
Daniel How?
….

When I read stuff sometimes it "sopunds" a certain way in my head. "Chim" sounds its being spoken by Erkle. "Chom" by whoever played Conan.

Don't think Kayne get's it enough to turn it over tho.

 

[LuvtheKangas]

When I read stuff sometimes it "sopunds" a certain way in my head. "Chim" sounds its being spoken by Erkle. "Chom" by whoever played Conan.

Don't think Kayne get's it enough to turn it over tho.

Maybe Kayne TurnItUp?

 

[Harris 10]

Interesting comparison:

Nick Larkey and Todd Marshall AFL Stats Comparison

Nick Larkey and Todd Marshall AFL Stats Comparison.

www.footywire.com

 

[BigRedRoo]

Larkey caught behind.

 

[The acurate one]

Larkey isn't a shitmen like McKay, Brown and CCJ.

He cost 2 dollar at the reject shop. Yeah he can be frustrating but will be ok in our finals season of 2025

 

[Sheezel2Wardlaw]

Has he got a haircut yet?

 

[DunderHead]

He’s never going to be the contested KP forward. Need one more tall forward that can take big grabs and split packs. Then let Larkey use his smarts to find space and slip his opponent.

 

[Waynesworld]

Players you can make a typo on and it suits them:

Kayne Turnover
Nick Lurkey
Hack Ze-ball
Daniel How?
….

Nick Low-key?

 

[FootySmartSimpson]

Larkey isn't a shitmen like McKay, Brown and CCJ.

He cost 2 dollar at the reject shop. Yeah he can be frustrating but will be ok in our finals season of 2025

Brown cost a third rounder and kicked more goals in three seasons than anyone since Carey.

 

[R00StaR]

Needs a haircut

 

[The acurate one]

Brown cost a third rounder and kicked more goals in three seasons than anyone since Carey.

I don’t care it’s the vibe.

 

[FootySmartSimpson]

He’s never going to be the contested KP forward. Need one more tall forward that can take big grabs and split packs. Then let Larkey use his smarts to find space and slip his opponent.

Can we just cut all the pretence. He is a tall flanker in the Brown and (much less athletically) Buddy mould. We need another contested-marking KPF. Someone who could develop into a Lynch-type would be ideal (I realise Lynch is an excellent footy player). Larkey would completely get off the chain and kick bags much more often if we had another KKP (190-200cm) who could compete in the air and work up the ground to find space. This ability to make space and synergise was one of the reasons our 2014-2016 forward line was so effective. We had big guys (Black, Hansen, Wood, Petrie, Waite, Brown, Daw) who were mobile, would repeat lead, block space and work up the ground in order for one or two of them to kick multiple goals each game.

The ability to take a contested grab better than 50% of the average is invaluable at ensuring goals are against the momentum or simply make sure that the ball can be controlled across HF for better entries.

F:Curtis ????(H.Himmelberg) Larkey
HF:Stephenson Comben ????? (Watson?)(Sheezel)

R: Zurhaar

 

[roomagic1984]

Why doesn’t he get frees that the 99.9% other players would get? That Grundy free was soft and Larkey gets his jumper pulled constantly and nothing.

Larkey clearly injured out there too.

 

[FootySmartSimpson]

Why doesn’t he get frees that the 99.9% other players would get? That Grundy free was soft and Larkey gets his jumper pulled constantly and nothing.

Larkey clearly injured out there too.

We have no choice but to play him. Our addiction to drafting inside mids and half-back flankers has forced our hand.

 

[Greater Gattsby]

Needs some mongrel about him. No use getting edged under the ball every contest and out marked. Take out a body, give away a free kick - just have some sort of presence

 

[Horizons_00]

He’s definitely playing injured

And can’t do it well at all

 

[hellas_johnny]

Thought he was better on Saturday in that he as least presented properly

 

[Makeshift Park]

I really don’t get a sense of his work rate from watching tv but wow

 

[Devil Fish]

He’s definitely playing injured

And can’t do it well at all

Fair effort to be running 15km “injured”.
He’s not “definitely injured”. You’re hoping he’s injured to explain his form slump.

 

[TennisPlayerAndy]

I really don’t get a sense of his work rate from watching tv but wow

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You rack up a lot of k’s trying to get the over the back kick.

 

[Makeshift Park]

You rack up a lot of k’s trying to get the over the back kick.

Apparently so!