Player Watch Ash Johnson (Delisted 2024)

[jmac70]

It's surprising how surprised someone can be when they're suprised. Surprisingly enough I was quite surpised abuot how surprising it would be for you to be surprised by a surprising individual surprising the rest of us.....I think .

 

[Drought Break]

I don’t think us punters can really get a proper sense of how a player performs (good or bad) unless they’re we’re at the game.

When we’re watching on TV we don’t have any sense of what is happening off the ball. Which players are running back to defend. Which players are running forward to create opportunities. Which players are busting their gut to do things that are get unrewarded (but are still able to take opposition players out of the contest). Which players are making space and which players clogging up space.

Cameron Wood’s GWS game is the worst live game I’ve seen from a Collingwood player. By far. Johnson’s more recent games didn’t look as bad but I concede I was watching those on the telly and maybe I’d have a different opinion if I saw them live.

I was at Johnson’s GWS game last year and had seats on the boundary. The most pathetic display I have seen live from a pies player

 

[sr36]

I was at Johnson’s GWS game last year and had seats on the boundary. The most pathetic display I have seen live from a pies player

Judgement of it is harsh. Tough gig. He will have been trying to drag Taylor to the goal square away from intercepting, not getting it right and ending up looking like he wasn't trying, because he was standing in no man's land as Taylor impacted.

Checkers never looks like he's not trying, but when Macgovern was at his best, he had some shockers where he didn't get it right whilst trying to move MacGovern away from the hotspot.