Player Watch #29: Will Phillips - tags N.Daicos vs Collingwood - subbed off at 3/4 time??

[DesertRoo]

He looks ready in photos but the kid is tiny compared to our other mids.

Will walks in with all the first year players and does a PB deadlift of 100kg, high fives all round, as he put up the best numbers out of all the kids..
two weeks later when all the older boys get in, he lines up next to Cunners who deadlifts 240kg with a sore back and benches 130kg for a warm up, he slowly backs away to see LDU warming up squatting 160kg...
moral of the story, he’s still a kid, patience.

 

[Val Keating]

Will walks in with all the first year players and does a PB deadlift of 100kg, higher fives all round.
two weeks later when all the older boys get in, he lines up next to Cunners who deadlifts 240kg with a sore back and benches 130kg for a warm up, he slowly backs away to see LDU warming up squatting 160kg...
moral of the story, he’s still a kid, patience.

Pure mids always take time. Very few exceptions

 

[DesertRoo]

Pure mids always take time. Very few exceptions

so true, if you’re backing a NM kid to win the rising star it would be P.Spicer. As he can play his natural elusive game from the get go..

 

[Val Keating]

so true, if you’re backing a NM kid to win the rising star it would be P.Spicer. As he can play his natural elusive game from the get go..

Lazzro is the one. I’m not sold on Spicer getting much of a run tbh. Can’t see him getting a game in our forward line unless he rips the vfl apart. Turner is so far ahead of him it’s not funny.

 

[Skiddies]

Jamarra Ugle-Hagan (pick 1) didn't play in the Dogs/Hawks game either. He's instead playing right now in a VFL practice game.

Huge news that a couple of 18 year olds who haven’t played a game of football in over 18 months aren’t ready to play senior AFL football.

 

[Val Keating]

Huge news that a couple of 18 year olds who haven’t played a game of football in over 18 months aren’t ready to play senior AFL football.

Crazy hey.

 

[Firestarter]

Huge news that a couple of 18 year olds who haven’t played a game of football in over 18 months aren’t ready to play senior AFL football.

Poe's Law is in maximum overdrive with regards to Phillips.

 

[Frank Thring]

From what I've seen of Phillips, not getting picked for the first practice match will hurt but just make him even more determined.

He's going to have to bide his time because he has Cunnington, Anderson, LDU, Jy and Dumont in front of him and 4 of them are inside mids.

I think Noble is saying that if you want a game this year he'll have to knock the lights out in the midfield or adapt to a new position with occasional runs on the ball or play VFL.

That is of course he's not injured, because you can forget all of the above wish wash if he is missing due to injury.

Either way, I can't lose.

Bigfooty 101 right there

 

[The Nostradamus]

i expect jed to play forward soon and Will to take his place in the midfield

 

[Ether]

Will walks in with all the first year players and does a PB deadlift of 100kg, high fives all round, as he put up the best numbers out of all the kids..
two weeks later when all the older boys get in, he lines up next to Cunners who deadlifts 240kg with a sore back and benches 130kg for a warm up, he slowly backs away to see LDU warming up squatting 160kg...
moral of the story, he’s still a kid, patience.

I assume you're making those numbers up (though I get your point). I'd be amazed if Phillips could only deadlift 100 kegs.

 

[King Corey]

I assume you're making those numbers up (though I get your point). I'd be amazed if Phillips could only deadlift 100 kegs.

Here I was thinking it was a metaphor.

 

[giantroo]

 

[Flawed Genius]

Which will come as a shock to basically nobody that has watched training or recognises that he hasn't played any footy in a year and a bit. Will's time will come

 

[Firestarter]

Which will come as a shock to basically nobody that has watched training or recognises that he hasn't played any footy in a year and a bit. Will's time will come

Funny, it's like people in this thread had been saying the same thing since Noble's press conference.

*NicholasCage.jpg*

 

[scooby1279]

he has plenty of time but lets hope the club has made the right call on picking him at 3. It wont be on the recruiters if it doesn't.

 

[DesertRoo]

he has plenty of time but lets hope the club has made the right call on picking him at 3. It wont be on the recruiters if it doesn't.

??
who wanted him?

 

[Mjs94]

he has plenty of time but lets hope the club has made the right call on picking him at 3. It wont be on the recruiters if it doesn't.

Don't get this at all. He has been at the club less than 3 months FFS

 

[Sillygit]

and is looking fine, like everything you would expect from a young player

 

[scooby1279]

Don't get this at all. He has been at the club less than 3 months FFS

whats not to get? We know the kid can play and obviously has plenty of time. Time will tell in a few years though if the right call was made by the club

 

[Sphynx]

he has plenty of time but lets hope the club has made the right call on picking him at 3. It wont be on the recruiters if it doesn't.

The only possible person you could be inferring is Rawlings...

 

[Snake_Baker]

The pessimism junkies are emerging yet again.

 

[Passmore]

whats not to get? We know the kid can play and obviously has plenty of time. Time will tell in a few years though if the right call was made by the club

If he is no good, if it's not on the scouts who is it on? Or was there a typo there?

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[Snake_Baker]

He'll be a freakin' gun and anyone who has doubts right now can be written off as a footy judge.

 

[DesertRoo]

If he is no good, if it's not on the scouts who is it on? Or was there a typo there?

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I don’t think he is saying he is no good, there just might’ve been someone the recruits had their eye on and were overruled to go with Will.

 

[roos_fanatic08]

he has plenty of time but lets hope the club has made the right call on picking him at 3. It wont be on the recruiters if it doesn't.

So recruiters didn't rate him at 2 but someone else overruled them in order to take him?

Bit confused by your post