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Player Watch #51 Jacob Blight - Re-Signed for 2025
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Debut of the season
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Extend he’s contract tomorrow
Was fantastic! Haven’t seen any VFL but the stats say he takes a fair few grabs, didn’t see that today (understandable given conditions and opposition) but pretty cool to think today will more or less be the worst he’ll be.
Looking forward to watching him develop and flourish. A Superb start to his afl career.
Good on him. What a great first game.
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Louie lining up another promising prospect for us. You can't miss your potential if you never have a chance to show it.
Great test , if he was a dud , McKay kick 6+ , he had 3 shots for 2G . Very good first up , play him out the season and his belief will build
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Toce did well finding Blight, wonder if he spotted him while still at the Saints lol
Anyway, good debut and glad he didn't start as a sub
Anyway, good debut and glad he didn't start as a sub
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Really promising stuff today. Seems a natural defender. Got his hand in a couple of times to spoil the mark, which are usually those ones we don't spoil for some reason resulting in some ordinary forward kicking a bag. Good positioning, good desperation. He's been developed well. Big thanks to whoever did that, reckon he can be a good player for us. Nice to be able to move on from Young, who's not got it at all.
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Blight, Miller, Gibcus, Young, 3 tall defenders and a backup all aged 22-26 next year. Sorted.
Lynch, Balta, Kozdog/Ryan, 2 key forwards and a secondary ruck/forward. Latter trio 24-25yo next year. Then we have Lefau 26 next year, Gray(21 next year), possibly Fawcett(20 next year) to add as and when necessary.
Nankervis transitions to Ryan, Hayes-Brown or whoever else emerges.
Work on a Lynch replacement, next 2 years. Key forwards will be sorted medium/long term as well. So list wise all our talls seem to be in position maybe bar a replacement for Lynch, a 200cm odd class key forward.
Of course you will never have enough key position players when 3 do knees and 1 of those plus your marquee guy essentially miss the majority of 2 consecutive seasons with long term injuries. But the key position players almost all seem to be on the list already to make us strongly competitive in these areas over the next 5-10 years if they get a good run at it.
Blight is younger than Miller was in 2022, and would be amongst the very youngest players from the 2019 draft crop, so has not even entered his prime yet. Early days but he looks like he can stand up to the big key forwards for strength and judgement in the air already. Just need to focus on getting a couple of gun explosive ball using mids in from this draft in particular. Then focus our free cash on a free agent to replace Lynch when the time comes.
Blight is most similar in age to these promising key position types:
Ollie Lord, Mitch Georgiades, Nick Cox, Daniel Turner, Heath Chapman, Ugle-Hagan.
He already seems to have more physical strength than all of those guys. But he looks a great gift for us Blight. And we have recruited him at an optimal time in his life cycle.
Lynch, Balta, Kozdog/Ryan, 2 key forwards and a secondary ruck/forward. Latter trio 24-25yo next year. Then we have Lefau 26 next year, Gray(21 next year), possibly Fawcett(20 next year) to add as and when necessary.
Nankervis transitions to Ryan, Hayes-Brown or whoever else emerges.
Work on a Lynch replacement, next 2 years. Key forwards will be sorted medium/long term as well. So list wise all our talls seem to be in position maybe bar a replacement for Lynch, a 200cm odd class key forward.
Of course you will never have enough key position players when 3 do knees and 1 of those plus your marquee guy essentially miss the majority of 2 consecutive seasons with long term injuries. But the key position players almost all seem to be on the list already to make us strongly competitive in these areas over the next 5-10 years if they get a good run at it.
Blight is younger than Miller was in 2022, and would be amongst the very youngest players from the 2019 draft crop, so has not even entered his prime yet. Early days but he looks like he can stand up to the big key forwards for strength and judgement in the air already. Just need to focus on getting a couple of gun explosive ball using mids in from this draft in particular. Then focus our free cash on a free agent to replace Lynch when the time comes.
Blight is most similar in age to these promising key position types:
Ollie Lord, Mitch Georgiades, Nick Cox, Daniel Turner, Heath Chapman, Ugle-Hagan.
He already seems to have more physical strength than all of those guys. But he looks a great gift for us Blight. And we have recruited him at an optimal time in his life cycle.
Matty Clarke would never. Well done Toce!
Just keep playing him, that was a furnace down there and he battled really well , would be kicking himself he dropped the easiest mark that came his way , was game no 1 . He ll learn heaps and will continue to learn what he can do , when to hold when to fold . Look forward to seeing him play v freo next week
We would have got some 5”2 FP from The Amos
“I saw him hiding behind a tree”
Time to tie him up for a few seasons, before WA teams get in his ear. Have the liked the look of him in the VFL & transitioned well today to the higher level. One of the better debuts I've seen for a few seasons. Hopefully they will now give Gray a few games before the season finishes.
great debut. Everyone please stop posting like our next premiership backline is already on the list. It isn’t, not even half of it.
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