AFLW 2024 - Round 10 - Chat, game threads, injury lists, team lineups and more.
Not sure that's a great comparison tbh. Dev is listed at 185cm and 85kg. Cousins 179cm and 78kg. Dev could very well mature around the 90kg mark. Seems a much heavier build to me and more of a power athlete than an athletic (running power) freak like cousins.
I just said his size and build. Yeah taller people are generally heavier.... Don't care for running power. I doubt Cousins was playing at 79 kg too.
Yeah I'm sure we are splitting hairs, but I just wouldn't describe Dev as not being overly big. Think he will end up/ already is quite a beast.
I'm hopeful he can get above that 88kg mark. I was just more commenting on his draft year. From my eyes he didn't look overly large and I speculated he might have trouble being adding mass to go with his inside game. Then again I said the same for Clugga and he's seemed to be on some decent size.
as long as body is the only trait he ever gets from Ben Cousins
When it came to running - real gut running, then Cousins was the example you could use. I watched him one night at the Gabba, last Qtr, gave a handball in the defensive goal square that started a break out play and he followed it all the way down the field always in a position to be involved and finally was involved again in the goal square for the end to end goal. He promptly turned around, hand on hips, and threw up with exhaustion. (That was in the add break on TV) That's what I remember of him, he was certainly one of my favourite players back then. Assisted in some way or not, he could just push and push. I reckon Harry Sharp could have his running ability then you would have to add someone else's ball winning ability in traffic, maybe even Lachie Neale. If Dev was that combination, I'd sell my Ben Cousins signed jersey from his Brownlow year and buy Dev's.
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I didn't follow football as closely during his time at Brisbane, but I remember thinking or hearing J Sherman was potentially that style of player?
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Come on you know how it goes ..no flags brah
I'll be happy if he also gets his football ability...
I've read a few jibs on here about Sherman over the years. He certainly did like to run and had great leg speed, sometimes in the wrong places and without the ball. He was one of my favourites at the time with his line breaking but a little less reliable than Cousins and he probably didn't work back in defence like Cousins did. It could have been said Sherman was more about himself, was more flamboyant externally than Cousins who fought his demons inside his own head. Sherman played on the outside and had a similar kicking action to Ben Keays with the ducking of the head at impact, in fact he played a lot like Benny Keays does now although Sherman was more outside where Keays does more inside and tackles better. Cousins was a full field player, Sherman looked good in the forward half. So after 100 games or so he was traded to the Bulldogs where his flamboyance (mouth) got him in some trouble and nothing more became of him.
That's good to hear at least, just was little bit concerned of him not being in any of the photos throughout the pre-season & maybe having an interrupted pre-season as a result of the new baby and everything associated with that (given he is one of our mature players at the club), but at least he is still training with the rest of the players which is a good sign for him, thanks for the update
given a good percentage of his games he was likely high on coke, not sure how we should rate his football ability
