Player Watch #46: Robert Hansen Jnr - Extends to End 2025

[The acurate one]

Started off well enough but I think was subbed out for Spicer after halftime

 

[TheKanga]

Not ready yet

 

[nicko74]

Sums it up. Worst thing we could do is drop him and crush his confidence

Sums it up. Worst thing we could do is drop him and crush his confidence.

We won't need to worry about crushing his confidence...... Melbourne will do a good enough job of that

 

[Better Loosen Up]

So are we over the stupid calls of giving this kid a game now? Seriously!

 

[The Nostradamus]

Cooper is ahead of him

 

[hoffseason gains]

So are we over the stupid calls of giving this kid a game now? Seriously!

Clearly wasn’t ready, needs a preseason and some more time in our structures. Plenty of raw talent though. The problem is that there is f all forwards to come in. Sugar, Stevo and him, none of them did enough, but we have no one to replace them.

 

[Better Loosen Up]

Clearly wasn’t ready, needs a preseason and some more time in our structures. Plenty of raw talent though. The problem is that there is f all forwards to come in. Sugar, Stevo and him, none of them did enough, but we have no one to replace them.

Should never have been played today.

Just a stupid, unnecessary, warm & fuzzy moment for a game we should be desperate to win.

 

[krakouers]

Clearly wasn’t ready, needs a preseason and some more time in our structures. Plenty of raw talent though. The problem is that there is f all forwards to come in. Sugar, Stevo and him, none of them did enough, but we have no one to replace them.

Well he gave exactly as much as Stepho and only slightly less than Turner
We have posts & posts about lack of forward pressure, which he applied, then want him gone after 1 game?

 

[scottywiper]

Mates son played with him and said he's worst player that he's played for or against that's been drafted!

 

[The Filth Wizard]

Mates son played with him and said he's worst player that he's played for or against that's been drafted!

Well if mates son said it. He busy in November? Will be handy at the draft.

Good chance for the kid to get a taste, finish the season in the VFL and train his arse off.

 

[tazaa]

Congrats on the debut but bloody hell looked a long way off it.
Didnt impact the game at all. Anyways back to the VFL and we say good luck in preseason like Norths preseasons are good lol

Larkey looked nowhere near it in his debut game against the Pies so its not all lost

 

[Billy Not Really]

I’ll be honest forgot he was even debuting that’s how unsighted he seemed Today.

 

[koshari]

Mates son played with him and said he's worst player that he's played for or against that's been drafted!

Ha ha, the jokes on him, clearly hasnt seen our drafting of last 10 years.

Fwiw, alrady played better in the 1s than jacob edwards has in 4 years in the 2s

 

[apollo_creed]

Another Brady special. The guy could spot a spud from a hemisphere away.0

 

[Ischenko]

Yeah not close to AFL standard. But that’s not a surprise. Why we played him though??

 

[amaz199]

Look, he didn't look ready out there but he was actually one of the few blokes that positioned himself for the ball out the back when it did get past. I was amazed when that happened. Amazed.

 

[Arthur Cloke]

Was the pictionary for fish out of water. It's his first game, I get it. But gee, I couldn't see him being ready for AFL action until 2025 at the earliest. You really have to wonder what the thought process was in drafting him.

 

[Blightys Barrel]

I just hope he is not Phoenix Spicer #2

 

[roos_fanatic08]

Thrown in the deep end far too early. Should’ve been given plenty more time in the VFL to build his game.

 

[Roosurgence]

Not ready yet

We all knew it.

But when your desperate, you make those types of calls.

We forget he was playing Colts only a few months back and wouldn’t have done anything near an AFL level preseason.

Not sure playing him next week will help his development, but in the same breathe will it do any harm?

Wouldn’t mind seeing Cooper given another shot. Had that one stinker last week but looked ok in his other two outings.

 

[r_boy]

Reckon he's a good test for our ability to develop players.

Seems like a nice kid with plenty of talent who needs a bit of help finding his feet.

 

[King Corey]

Crikey bit of gun jumping!

Kid is 1.5 months in the AFL system, no preseason, under a beaten down interim coach, little credible on-field leadership and playing for our worst side in modern history.

Might ease on the valuations until he has a fair go at it.

 

[Psicosis]

Crikey bit of gun jumping!

Kid is 1.5 months in the AFL system, no preseason, under a beaten down interim coach, little credible on-field leadership and playing for our worst side in modern history.

Might ease on the valuations until he has a fair go at it.

I'd understand criticism if the other forwards set the standard for him to thrive. 5 tackles in the f50 for the game. Wtf was Hansen supposed to do?

 

[Ischenko]

I'd understand criticism if the other forwards set the standard for him to thrive. 5 tackles in the f50 for the game. Wtf was Hansen supposed to do?

Lay a tackle?

 

[speedy]

I'm not passing judgement on Hansen.
Do we even have scouts? Been at the pointy end of the midseason draft and don't have much to show for it so far.