AFL Player #23: Harrison Jones

[Lore]

Contract Status: Out of contract 2025
My Boy Draft 2024: Pick 22, Duckworth

 

[naraku]

Can't see it happening for Jones. Has some good traits but just doesn't have the right mix of skills/strengths for any position on the field. Bit of an Aaron Francis in that regard.

like Cox too. We don't know what to do with Jones/Cox/Francis type of players and yeah...we pay for it.

 

[P Money]

like Cox too. We don't know what to do with Jones/Cox/Francis type of players and yeah...we pay for it.

Yep. We don't know what to do with them because they're not a good fit for any position, regardless of being good at playing footy. We draft them and we pay for it.

 

[Beerfish]

Strolls around the wing like a munted stranger at a music festival who can’t find any of his friends.

Now this is the kind of comedy gold I come here for.

 

[Old Campaigner]

Strolls around the wing like a munted stranger at a music festival who can’t find any of his friends.

Turn your monitor on

 

[nipst@r]

I don't know why he hasn't been thrown to chb in games more. McKay, Reid and prior getting smashed and Jones unsighted. Why not give it a crack.

I think the only way he makes it is by adding the ability to cover key back if needed. A true utility.

 

[Yoda_]

Square peg, round hole


when will we learn

 

[yodellinhank]

Square peg, round hole


when will we learn

If he were a square peg he'd have a harder edge.

 

[Zach Package]

It’s become evident that he can seriously play but the whole key position winger thing is gimmick shit of the highest order.

 

[ant555]

Makes too many dumb mistakes on the wing and can only take a mark when he can drift in from the side. Would sooner let Shiel run up and down and play bruise free footy on the wing.

 

[Vindicater]

3rd tall forward or 3rd tall back


Nothing else.

 

[ant555]

Can not mark so he is no good as a forward.

 

[yodellinhank]

Can not mark so he is no good

Enough said

 

[Lore]

Can not mark so he is no good as a forward.

Never used to have that problem. ditto whoever was saying he has shit agility on the previous page.

Injury mismanagement? Still recovering?

 

[Nifft]

Can not mark so he is no good as a forward.

I thought he looked ok early on in his career in that roaming half forward type role like a Nick Riewoldt. The way he was playing it was like he was trying to run his opponents off their feet.

It seems a lot of our young players burst out of the gates and then go into their shells. Cox and Perkins also in the same boat, they showed quite a bit early and now not so much.