AFL Player # 8: Ben "Goblin" Hobbs

[VelvetSledge]

Contract Status: Out of contract 2025
My Boy Draft 2024: Pick 12, Schnitzengruben

 

[Runk]

Player most likely to break out for us next year would be a pretty interesting discussion.

100%

I genuinely feel much like Duz and Calders this year, we'll have another new name, perhaps two, to be talking about glowingly next year as well.

 

[jdstorm]

100%

I genuinely feel much like Duz and Calders this year, we'll have another new name, perhaps two, to be talking about glowingly next year as well.

Tsatas, Caddy and Kako the prime candidates

 

[Rick Ross]

Tsatas, Caddy and Kako the prime candidates

Big Cox is rising…

 

[jdstorm]

Big Cox is rising…

I’m personally more optimistic about Reid and Hayes right at this moment.

not sure what position Cox would even be playing to break out.

 

[windyhill]

Why did he not run in the sprint ? Late out ? Sub ?

 

[eth-dog]

Why did he not run in the sprint ? Late out ? Sub ?

Lost in the heats I'm guessing

 

[FlyingV]

Big Cox is rising…

I hope I’m wrong, but he’s the one I’m most worried about.

It’s all well and good to have a big cox, but you need to know how to use it

 

[MattyB3150]

Why did he not run in the sprint ? Late out ? Sub ?

We love putting in average leg speed players into the grandfinal sprints. Surely we try and win something on grand final day!

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Could honestly be a massive bolter next year (pardon the pace pun). You just never know.

He’d have to play for that to be the case.

And play where he was picked to play, in the midfield.

If these stats are right - I think they are - it shows exactly where he is.

Centre Bounce Attendances (2024)

Zach Merrett (23 matches) 521
Sam Durham (22) 305
Jye Caldwell (23) 300
Darcy Parish (12) 212
Jake Stringer (23) 204
Archie Perkins (18) 178
Dylan Shiel (9) 137
Will Setterfield (4) 70
Ben Hobbs (12) 21
Nic Martin (23) 11
Jade Gresham (22) 6
Elijah Tsatas (7) 0

Who is he displacing? Stringer and Shiel, sure - though even that’s up for debate.

But he’s behind Merrett, Durham, Caldwell, Parish, Perkins.

He’s not going anywhere as a 6th midfielder. He knows that and so does everybody else, hence a little bit of trade interest.

As for Tsatas, he doesn’t even get a look in.

We simply don’t have a spot for either of them.

People talk about trading Parish - that’s because he’s slipped behind Caldwell and Durham. But he’s a massive roadblock for Tsatas and Hobbs.

 

[ant555]

He’d have to play for that to be the case.

And play where he was picked to play, in the midfield.

If these stats are right - I think they are - it shows exactly where he is.

Centre Bounce Attendances (2024)

Zach Merrett (23 matches) 521
Sam Durham (22) 305
Jye Caldwell (23) 300
Darcy Parish (12) 212
Jake Stringer (23) 204
Archie Perkins (18) 178
Dylan Shiel (9) 137
Will Setterfield (4) 70
Ben Hobbs (12) 21
Nic Martin (23) 11
Jade Gresham (22) 6
Elijah Tsatas (7) 0

Who is he displacing? Stringer and Shiel, sure - though even that’s up for debate.

But he’s behind Merrett, Durham, Caldwell, Parish, Perkins.

He’s not going anywhere as a 6th midfielder. He knows that and so does everybody else, hence a little bit of trade interest.

As for Tsatas, he doesn’t even get a look in.

We simply don’t have a spot for either of them.

People talk about trading Parish - that’s because he’s slipped behind Caldwell and Durham. But he’s a massive roadblock for Tsatas and Hobbs.

Of course this is only the case if nothing changes. No one gets injured. Someone else gets moved to another position.
Would have have put Durham in as the leading player for center bounce attendances at the end of 2023 ?
Anything can happen.