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Player Watch #7: Zane Duursma - out for 2024, undergoing shoulder surgery
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He’s no good and/or he’s leaving 
- Apr 19, 2019
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It's not really about the other blokes and I agree with TPA's point in general. When you're behind the 8 ball on both mass and tank, it's a bloody hard task to get to where you need to on both those fronts, when the rest of the competition continues to improve.
For the blokes who come in with a tank they can put more emphasis on muscle gain, for the blokes with a mature physique they can put more emphasis on running.
Doing both is pretty ****ed and only a special few can truly get there.
He has a few attributes though that are great. Anyone who can take a contested mark like he can usually has a career as an AFL footballer.
Think this was a bit too on the nose for Ross :/He’s no good and/or he’s leaving
- May 27, 2019
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So excited for this kid next season. I’m putting together all his draft hype + a year in the system with a wake up call + a pre season next to jack darling and Luke Parker and in my mind it = surprise packet and big improver next year. Going to be like a new recruit.
Pity his mentor was Sleevo. However, there is no doubt he is a potential A grade talent. More tank and he’ll be in the rising star mix
Agree. We haven’t had anyone like him with that sort of size and class for a long time. Makes it look effortless at times. Wait till his tank and body are up to speed. Gezuz.
Waithe like potential
Needs the nasty side that W80 had
This shits me, if I'm honest. Aside from the fact that this exact sentence has been used in reference to God knows how many of our players since the end of 2022, where was that from him this year. Why does he need a wake up call. Colby didn't/doesn't need one.
Comes across as laid-back to me, and that's the sort of trait that veers into lazy territory unchecked. He won't turn 20 for another nine months, which works very much in his favour, but his year irritated me. Gonna need to see quite a bit from him to come round to the belief that he takes this shit seriously
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Is there a chance he gets used as a loose man across half back this season?
It would ease him into his career & he seems to have the traits to be a damaging, intercepting defender - he is an exceptional reader of the ball in flight, great hands & silky skills.
If Chom plays forward (as hinted at by Clarko) alongside Larkey, Darling & Zurharr, I can’t see a place for him in our forward line.
Opposition will continue to waltz the ball out of our backline if they all play.
Can any of our resident draft watchers tell me if he ever played down back in his junior career?
It would ease him into his career & he seems to have the traits to be a damaging, intercepting defender - he is an exceptional reader of the ball in flight, great hands & silky skills.
If Chom plays forward (as hinted at by Clarko) alongside Larkey, Darling & Zurharr, I can’t see a place for him in our forward line.
Opposition will continue to waltz the ball out of our backline if they all play.
Can any of our resident draft watchers tell me if he ever played down back in his junior career?
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Will he be on a modified program till Xmas.
Should still be able to get a ton of running done
Should still be able to get a ton of running done
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Has potential to be a star 
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Leg or lower injury? Or is this still because of the shoulders
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Surprised by your take Zoomba, feel it’s one of the worst I’ve seen on here. How many top 4 draft picks do we have on the list? To not be excited by any of them would most likely mean you can’t be that invested in footy in general let alone our club.
The kid was 18 for the majority of the season, 6 months prior he had to put his hand up to go to the bathroom, not everyone matures at the same rate in relation to your example of Mckercher
If you were referring to mentally.
Or on top of that if you were referring to footballing ability and out put, it goes with our saying Mckercher is a mid and we all know they come on much quicker. Duurs is likely or probably going to end up being a hybrid key forward of some sorts, Jack Gunston probably at a minimum type of player and who knows maybe someone even bigger. This year our forward line was like a grave yard for our forwards, our forward 50 entires were disgusting when we eventually had one. Even if you don’t want to grant him the grace of a developing key forward, perhaps understanding that the HFF in our team this year was an absolute no man’s land and probably the hardest position to play in the AFL for any player let alone a player in their first season.
As I say, for these reasons, head screwed on after a talking too, another pre season (and next to a couple of the best trainers in the business) plus his natural talent and draft hype, he is the player im most excited about on our list for 2025
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Yep there are some harsh task masters on BF. A tough year for any player where he had only tasted one win (Tigers) and had a injured wing for many games that ended up needing surgery.
Better to assess him after 3 years when he has been given a decent run of training, support and confidence to see what his ceiling can really be.
I have no idea if he is cocky, lazy or a young country FIGJAM who has been told some honest truths in his 1st season. He is only 18 and they don’t all come with Sheezel/Wardlaw/Kerch level of maturity and ready to play qualities.
I’m sure being surrounded by a trio of premiership winning veterans will help immeasurably here. He also needs a forward coach who can identify how best to use him once we sort out how to deliver the pull effectively into the F50. This year was like a friggin lottery.
Better to assess him after 3 years when he has been given a decent run of training, support and confidence to see what his ceiling can really be.
I have no idea if he is cocky, lazy or a young country FIGJAM who has been told some honest truths in his 1st season. He is only 18 and they don’t all come with Sheezel/Wardlaw/Kerch level of maturity and ready to play qualities.
I’m sure being surrounded by a trio of premiership winning veterans will help immeasurably here. He also needs a forward coach who can identify how best to use him once we sort out how to deliver the pull effectively into the F50. This year was like a friggin lottery.
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Thought it was just his shoulder
You can feel anything you want, but I think you're giving him way too much credit. And making a strawman argument in addition to that.
Nowhere did I say I wasn't excited by his talent. His talent isn't my point. Anyone with half an eye open can see he's an extremely skilful footballer. It's his attitude and your churning out of the same old 'will be like a new recruit' sentiment which we've applied to all in Sunbury at this point that irritate me. Will Phillips was going to be a new recruit after coming back from glandular. Charlie Comben was going to be like a new recruit in 2023 and 2024, and thankfully delivered to a decent extent the second time round. Wardlaw in 2024 was going to be like a new recruit. Josh Goater in 2024 was going to be like a new recruit. Tom Powell after Noble left was going to be like a new recruit. Tarryn Thomas after his initial legal stuff was going to be like a new recruit. Brayden George in 2024 was going to be like a new recruit. And what do we have to show for any of that? Absolutely **** all. It might be my negative emotions getting in the way, but forgive me if I scoff now at that line.
Duursma literally disappeared for quarters on end. Whenever the ball did miraculously make its way inside 50, it was Curtis and Larkey doing the hard yards to get to it. I don't really care if our team is a graveyard. Bobby Hansen got a gig and he managed to put it together and pop up regularly. He's about as physically developed as Duursma. And he's on the other side of the country from his family.
Duursma was in control of his pressure and gave none of it. He was in control of his ground-level efforts and gave none of it. He's not a 198cm beanpole who can't bend down to pick the ball up, he's a 189cm athletic specimen. Maybe he'll become a third key forward, maybe he'll invent a new position, but I'm not treating him like I would a big man.
I'm not writing him off or anything like that, I'm just expressing my displeasure that a kid like that apparently needs a wake up call at a club where the preceding season should've been the only required wake-up call. It's blokes like him that have the power to change things for this club but if the prerequisite effort isn't applied, then what's it all in aid of?
Parker, Daniel and Darling have bigger jobs ahead of them than they thought if they're going to have to convince the dozen or so players in our top 30 who don't seem to realise the privilege of their position, to do so. Of course, if they can do that purely through applying themselves at training, then we're laughing, but I don't trust too many of our best 23 at the moment if I'm honest. It's just a nightmarish loop we're in
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