Player Watch #41 Sam Banks

[Muddiemoose]

Banks, Clarke and Sonsie all uncontested fringe players. Our recruiting team look like they've butchered that draft completely.

Breaking news.

Undersized 2nd year players playing outside roles have low contested ball numbers!

Who would of thought

 

[RichoLedio]

Just needs to eat 10 x 1kg steaks and he'll be right.

Sounds like my typical Saturday night, what's for dessert?

 

[Lord of the Wings]

Breaking news.

Undersized 2nd year players playing outside roles have low contested ball numbers!

Who would of thought

Pissweak excuse. Good players all get plenty of contested possessions in their early years.

 

[Muddiemoose]

Pissweak excuse. Good players all get plenty of contested possessions in their early years.

Who?

 

[Lord of the Wings]

Who?

Any mid who has finished top 20 in the Brownlow in the last 25 years

 

[Muddiemoose]

Any mid who has finished top 20 in the Brownlow in the last 25 years

Got any numbers to back that up?

Not even Nick D who is one of if not the best mids drafted in the past decade has amazing contested ball numbers and he was actually drafted as a midfielder and was a brownlow fancy in his 2nd year

 

[sanaya]

Pissweak excuse. Good players all get plenty of contested possessions in their early years.

Who?

elijah hollands

 

[Madtiger2006]

Will be a star

 

[sregit]

Any mid who has finished top 20 in the Brownlow in the last 25 years

Any mid top 20.
I agree but there are others who were not great possession players early but also became stars.

 

[Grrr]

Banks, Clarke and Sonsie all uncontested fringe players. Our recruiting team look like they've butchered that draft completely.

I think Sonsie gets his fair share of the ball around the contest. He is not your first hands on it type, but he gets his fair of it in tight, especially in his first year. It's fairly normal for young mids in particular, to struggle with the rigours of coming up against seasoned big bodied midfields week in week out. Even the big bodied ones line the Hawks Newcomb or Worpel took a few years. Dow did his time in the VFL this season and benefited from it, so did Sonsie by the end of the season, much tougher in the clinches.

Banks is a wing half back who puts his head over it when needed. Clarke is a bit of an outlier because he is so light, so he might take the longest, but he is classy and knows where the goals are.

 

[Moonatic77]

If Yze wants a quick forward entry game plan I think it will suit Sam. Play him as a small forward and lets see what we've got. Next two yaears will tell us a lot - dud delist / servicable / weapon and interable part

 

[bc27]

Made great decisions with the ball yesterday but didn’t get involved as much as I was hoping. I think he did as much as he could with the amount of game time he got in the end.

Still plenty to like about Sam. Looked to be more assertive at the higher level and put himself into better positions to be used.
Went head to head with Demons number 6(?) pick for a lot of the game.

 

[Morro]

Made great decisions with the ball yesterday but didn’t get involved as much as I was hoping. I think he did as much as he could with the amount of game time he got in the end.

Still plenty to like about Sam. Looked to be more assertive at the higher level and put himself into better positions to be used.
Went head to head with Demons number 6(?) pick for a lot of the game.

His penetrating kicks combined with his run and carry is the best we have for the wing spot, should play all year. Macca and Pickett can fight it out for the other wing and after yesterday its Picketts to lose

 

[Coach_Required]

I like him, always have. Hopefully he can make it harder for McIntosh to get a regular game.

It's what we need, pressure on our older guys to perform.

 

[tiger_tough]

That 50m weighted kick to Green was special

 

[lizard man]

Tasmania is getting a licence now so they can come in and get sam banks while he’s still young and cheap to get …… operation get Sam banks is in full effect

 

[THE_GUN]

Tasmania is getting a licence now so they can come in and get sam banks while he’s still young and cheap to get …… operation get Sam banks is in full effect

They will go after both Banks & Seth in 3 years time

Incoming picks 1 & 2

 

[Serenitylater]

Another player who'll be around for 7/8 years and and everyone will still be saying, going to be his year this year.
There's nothing about this guy that suggests he'll even be best 22.

 

[db26]

Let's see and find out what's his capacity needs games.

 

[lizard man]

They will go after both Banks & Seth in 3 years time

Incoming picks 1 & 2

Ohh didn’t realise Seth was also from Tasmania …. But yes we must make them pay a kings ransom in draft picks if they want them

 

[Muddiemoose]

Ohh didn’t realise Seth was also from Tasmania …. But yes we must make them pay a kings ransom in draft picks if they want them

Surely if Gale is the CEO he wouldn’t be against Tassie paying overs if it also helps his old flame

 

[Bojangles17]

Ohh didn’t realise Seth was also from Tasmania …. But yes we must make them pay a kings ransom in draft picks if they want them

I think our Tas selections have been strategic ones , clubs will be well compensated for those that go back , Seth had a tough upbringing I wonder whether he’d prefer a new life in Melb , time will tell

 

[juss]

I'm not concerned yet, I will be concerned if by end of this year he isn't either a) cracked into the best 22 or b) one of our "bests" in the VFL most weeks.

He needs to be one or the other heading into year 4 next year. Same goes for the others from the 2021 draft (excluding Gibcus )

Basically if it's not this year, next year those guys need to be best 22 AFL players, nothing less for picks around that 30 mark.

 

[el_simo]

I'm not concerned yet, I will be concerned if by end of this year he isn't either a) cracked into the best 22 or b) one of our "bests" in the VFL most weeks.

He needs to be one or the other heading into year 4 next year. Same goes for the others from the 2021 draft (excluding Gibcus )

Basically if it's not this year, next year those guys need to be best 22 AFL players, nothing less for picks around that 30 mark.

Is 4 years the magic number ? I dont expect anything from a pick 29 tbh the odds arent great

 

[Coach_Required]

Is 4 years the magic number ? I dont expect anything from a pick 29 tbh the odds arent great

McIntosh was pick 31 when we drafted him in 2012, Going by that train of thought he should have been shipped off after 2016.

I'm not sure why all our picks have to be superstars. McIntosh's skill level isn't as good as Banks and Kamdyn was an important piece in 2 of our 3 flags.