Player Watch #22 Nick Blakey: 2024 All Australian

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Nick Blakey
Nick Blakey is a prodigious talent with a laser-sharp left boot, an outstanding overhead ability and searing pace. The QBE Sydney Swans Academy product booted 21 goals in 19 games in a brilliant debut season en route to winning the club’s 2019 Rising Star award, and while he added a lively element to the forward line last year, he’s likely to play on a wing or in the midfield in 2020. Nick is the son of former Fitzroy and North Melbourne champion John Blakey, who’s had a variety of roles on the Swans’ coaching panel since 2006.

Nick Blakey
DOB: 27 February 2000
DEBUT: 2019
DRAFT: #10, 2018 National Draft
RECRUITED FROM: University Of NSW-Eastern Suburbs (NSW)

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SM said:
No, just tongue in cheek after a comment on the previous page.

I think all of his attributes make him the perfect half back, I don't think every player needs to have an inevitable "move to the middle" to get the best out of them. I could be wrong and he could prove to be a gun on the wing, but I don't think his frame would ever see him become a bull through the middle like a Cripps or someone, so think he's wasted there.
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Agree. Depending on the Oppo the odd spell on the wing would be ok.

I like despite not having any, Nick has shouldered more responsibility in defence this year.
 

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What's he on, $550k? For next 8 years.
Could be worse. He'll be able to afford a 3 bed semi in Matraville with THAT much money.
 
MF said:
If you sign enough players to long term contracts it's bound to happen, but you also probably save enough money overall to make it worthwhile even with the odd one that backfires.

If you sign every player to short contracts you'll open yourself up to both your talent being poached and to overpaying players who want job security.

It's not always a good strategy obviously but I reckon a player like Blakey is the right way to do it. He's obviously going to be a very good player for a long time if he stays fit, doesn't seem to have any off field issues and has massive potential.
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All good points there. Cheers
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Good interview with Blakey on SEN. Funnily enough Cornes mentioned him playing on players such as Tom Lynch. Cornes needs to watch more football!!
 
MR0808 said:
You mean Korn?
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Yeah probably not the best go to of "See I was right" but did find it funny his playing on key forwards got a mention.
 
Awesome achievement. From one of the more uncertain (not always in a bad way) starts in the AFL to now being just the third player from his draft to reach 100 games.

I also reckon he'll go down as one of the great 'player/coach' harmonies in Swans history. Perfect mix of a wildly talented kid and a coach smart enough to find out how to get the best out of him.
 
caesar88 said:
Awesome achievement. From one of the more uncertain (not always in a bad way) starts in the AFL to now being just the third player from his draft to reach 100 games.

I also reckon he'll go down as one of the great 'player/coach' harmonies in Swans history. Perfect mix of a wildly talented kid and a coach smart enough to find out how to get the best out of him.
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No need to speculate about his best possie. Ace HBF. If we manage to get another KPD he should be AA.
 
Nick Blakey has recounted more than once that when he takes off on a trademark run from defence he has ‘no idea’ where he’s going or what he’s going to do next. Which is why in part he’ll grab an obscure place in the club record books with his 100th game this weekend.
Giving new lease to the largely forgotten AFL statistic of the ‘running bounce’, Blakey has had 116 career bounces in his first 99 games.
Since running bounce stats were introduced to the AFL in 1999, only two players in Swans history have had more at the 100-game mark.
Rhyce Shaw, a 94-game player at Collingwood before joining Sydney, had a whopping 441 bounces in his first 100 games in red and white. And Leo Barry, whose first 32 games were played before bounce stats were kept, had 174 in his next 100 games.
Already Blakey is 15th all-time for the club in total running bounces behind Shaw (484), Barry (415), Tadhg Kennelly (259), Nick Malceski (254), Adam Goodes (214), Stuart Maxfield (207), Craig Bolton (184), Lewis Jetta (174), Marty Mattner (147), Heath Grundy (126), Nic Fosdike (125), Amon Buchanan (120), Jared Crouch (119), and Paul Williams (117).

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Blakey to play 100th game

The man known as 'The Lizard' will grab an obscure place in the club record books with his 100th game this weekend.
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Player Watch #22 Nick Blakey: 2024 All Australian

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