Player Watch Father-Son Pick #25 (2019) - Jackson Mead

[OneGreatClub]

 

[Smithy7]

Jackson Mead interview starts at 7.10
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[Work Hardery]

One of most underrated skill to have is being able to kick well with both feet, and it still astounds me how few players possess this skill. It was one of Tredders' biggest weapons.

 

[Holden Hillbilly]

One of most underrated skill to have is being able to kick well with both feet, and it still astounds me how few players possess this skill. It was one of Tredders' biggest weapons.

Most left footers have appaling right foot skills.

 

[HinkleysHeroes]

One of most underrated skill to have is being able to kick well with both feet, and it still astounds me how few players possess this skill. It was one of Tredders' biggest weapons.

Tredders old man would run drills where you had to use your opposite side. Clever man.

 

[OneGreatClub]

One of most underrated skill to have is being able to kick well with both feet, and it still astounds me how few players possess this skill. It was one of Tredders' biggest weapons.

Wangas taught his son, the real Tex, to kick with both.

 

[robbo1981]

Surely every kid gets taught to use both sides or they should be.

 

[DaTBird187]

Surely every kid gets taught to use both sides or they should be.

Kicking a football seems to be the least required part of AFL these days.

 

[Spadge]

One of most underrated skill to have is being able to kick well with both feet, and it still astounds me how few players possess this skill. It was one of Tredders' biggest weapons.

Tredders was better on his left than right!

 

[Macca19]

Surely every kid gets taught to use both sides or they should be.

I've been teaching my 7yo this all year

 

[El_Scorcho]

It's weird, the AFL seems to have wheeled back around on this. Unless you're especially good with your opposite, they seem to coach players not to use it under any circumstances.

That leads to weird outside of the boot chip kicks and players wheeling around or giving off because a defender is sitting on their preferred side.

 

[G3TWOTYAD3S3RV]

Most left footers have appaling right foot skills.

I’ve never seen a right foot player with a decent left either.


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[RussellEbertHandball]

I’ve never seen a right foot player with a decent left either.


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Brian Cunningham, Gary Hocking, Jason Akermanis, Leon Cameron, Sam Mitchell and Steele Sidebottom say hello.

 

[Ishikawa]

I watched Port v Brisbane from 2003 last night and the difference in kicking skills are like night and day.

I think there's a clear difference in the type of player that gets drafted these days. Back then there was a much better balance between the athlete and the footballer. You could be not particularly quick, not particularly tall, not particularly strong and still get a game in the midfield of a top AFL team. Look at Roger James, Jarrad Schofield, Josh Carr - these guys would battle to even get drafted these days.

When your drafting focus is the jock champion athletes from private schools, don't be surprised when they can't kick, not just on their non preferred but on their preferred too.

To be honest I think that's a bit of a bullshit strawman, be interested if somebody could actually come up with some evidence of this being the case in the draft as it's one of those frequently parroted lines. Yet I don't see much evidence that it is the reality, just a version that some want to hold for various reasons.

I did really like Mead's kicking in the games I've seen in the past couple of years, will have to see how it holds up in the pressure of an AFL match however as the speed, intensity and zones up ahead of him are a different beast completely.

 

[VineValerian]

Brian Cunningham, Gary Hocking, Jason Akermanis, Leon Cameron, Sam Mitchell and Steele Sidebottom say hello.

Russell Ebert and Bruce Light send their regards as well.

 

[Powerage]

One of most underrated skill to have is being able to kick well with both feet, and it still astounds me how few players possess this skill. It was one of Tredders' biggest weapons.

Yeah, I can't believe it is a draft requirement to at least be proficient on your non-dominant side.

 

[It Just Is]

Yeah, I can't believe it is a draft requirement to at least be proficient on your non-dominant side.

It’s interesting that clubs clearly don’t see it that way. Take Joe Daniher as an example, he would have been training semi professionally with an AFL club since he was 14 or 15, he looks like he can barely stand upright on his opposite right leg let alone kick on it.

 

[S.Patrol.G]

I’ve never seen a right foot player with a decent left either.


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Brian Cunningham, Gary Hocking, Jason Akermanis, Leon Cameron, Sam Mitchell and Steele Sidebottom say hello.

Russell Ebert and Bruce Light send their regards as well.

As does Stephen Williams.

 

[tribey]

Tredders was better on his left than right!

• Field Kicking Either Foot: Elite
• Goal On Run Either Foot: Elite
• Set Shot: Close your eyes and pray to Godges

 

[crows dude]

I know you all hate Tex but he’s another who’s great on both sides

 

[OneGreatClub]

I know you all hate Tex but he’s another who’s great on both sides

Good point. We do hate Tex

 

[JimmyBeerCans]

I know you all hate Tex but he’s another who’s great on both sides

He's a true great up there with Horatio Horton

 

[G3TWOTYAD3S3RV]

Brian Cunningham, Gary Hocking, Jason Akermanis, Leon Cameron, Sam Mitchell and Steele Sidebottom say hello.

So a handful out of hundreds, cool


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[RussellEbertHandball]

So a handful out of hundreds, cool


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you can add another couple of hundred if you open your eyes, but given your minimalist, approach I gave you a handful that would burn thru your eyelids.

 

[Power freak 2008]

We

I know you all hate Tex but he’s another who’s great on both sides

We are an inclusive bunch here. We do not discriminate.
"Give us your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore."
But Tex..... that's going too far