Such clean hands and couldn't be more impressive in traffic. More than happy to have him on our list. We really cant go wrong with one of Smith, FOS, Smillie or Draper.
I dunno.
The only real comp I ever see for him is someone like Serong.
But my eye is lying there imo.
I also didn't rate Serong as highly in his top age year and he's made me eat that assessment. So just as likely to happen here with JS.
I have a bit of a phobia of these types of slight, 180cm, slightly middle pace, high accumulating, "contested" midfielders who specialize mostly in ground balls rather than pure contested posessions.
His best comparison in game style might actually be Nick Daicos, but he lacks Nicks pace, his gut running and his damage by foot.
It's also hard to identify in the data, as a bit of a black spot in modern footy data is a ground ball = CP. So high contested possession mids aren't really high contested possession mids in the true sense.
I don't mind comparing combo's of hard ball gets and CP % ratio's and ground balls to cut through it.
So then who is he? I decided to build his data model. High accumulation, high ground ball, high CP, high clearance, low hard ball get ratio midfielder.
When I try and align Jagga's underage data model to AFL players, these are probably the closest comps I have.
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He's not Anderson, Merrett and Treloar. He doesn't have the same footspeed imo. He tests OK, I just don't think he has the game style of these 3. He's definitely not Daicos and Merrett in his ball use.
His ball use is comparable to Anderson and Treloar. Anderson is a completely different physical specimen.
So that leaves Brayshaw and Butters.
Butters has a physical edge for their body sizes in his game style I don't think Jagga has.
So it's probably Andrew Brayshaw that I've settled on.
Is a young Andrew Brayshaw a good fit for our midfield? I'd have thought not.
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