If Jack Watts was on your list what would you do with him?

[Wonaeamirri33]

Well I wouldn't play him on Sam Fisher like Neeld did last night.

Fisher killed him in the first quarter in dry conditions.

Fair point. Clearly far from being an ideal role for Watts to play, but this decision was more about development than anything else.

 

[Oh Darling]

What would I do with Andrew MacDougall II.

Trade him now and you might be lucky to get a pick in the 40s for him. Another 12 months and he won't be of any value at all.

 

[Oh Darling]

Fair point. Clearly far from being an ideal role for Watts to play, but this decision was more about development than anything else.

Development? hahaha the main reason Melbourne took Watts over Naitanui was that they didn't want to have to develop him. That he was already a ready made player. Now you are playing him as a defender in his 4th season to try and "develop" him? hahaha

 

[Wonaeamirri33]

Development? hahaha the main reason Melbourne took Watts over Naitanui was that they didn't want to have to develop him. That he was already a ready made player.

Not sure if serious...

What would I do with Andrew MacDougall

Guessing you'd probably try to **** the poor bastard

Send him off to Freo to train with Hayden Ballantyne.

No, son. Nobody deserves that

 

[Dory_77]

He was 17, still at school, and looked like he'd spent the last year in a POW camp he was so skinny when we drafted him. I think he was always in the 'long term' scheme of things rather than a ready made player. Hence why he played 1 game in his first season.

 

[Oh Darling]

Actually what I would probably do is sit Jack Watts in a dark room.... and make him watch this video over and over again for a week.

I would then ask him to write a 500 page essay on how a guy who only picked up a football at the age of 14 is already 10 times the player than you are currently showing you will ever be. If he can't give a legitimate answer then I would sack him.

[YOUTUBE]j2esSnP2eDs[/YOUTUBE]

 

[peppy la pew]

He was 17, still at school, and looked like he'd spent the last year in a POW camp he was so skinny when we drafted him. I think he was always in the 'long term' scheme of things rather than a ready made player. Hence why he played 1 game in his first season.

Annnndddd.........................4 years later ?????

Wonna, you wish. Jackie Boy could do with half the mongrel the wee man has.

 

[jonesy86]

How many years will it take Jack Watts to surpass the output that Leigh Brown dished up in just 3 years after he was taken some 70-odd picks later in the same draft?

 

[evo]

What would I do with Andrew MacDougall II.

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McDougall was way tougher in the contest.

 

[trickyonne]

I would trade him for a garden gnome

 

[Catswin12]

here are two options

come down to hawthorn and learn how to cherry pick like lance

or come down to geelong and learn how to take contested grabs like hawkins

This.

 

[Silvagnis]

Play him into form by giving him a game on Schoenmakers.

 

[hayes]

Play him into form by giving him a game on Schoenmakers.

Can't see how that could possibly fail.

How many preseasons had this hack had now? He couldn't even keep up with Fisher for one quarter. Not one quarter. He obviously isn't a big power forward, he can't run, so what is he?

To answer the question of what I would do with him I would put him in the VFL until he actually shows some sort of sign at all that he's an AFL player because I haven't seen anything yet to show me he belongs at this level.

 

[dav3]

Trade him to the Crows for a 1st and 3rd round pick

 

[1989]

A half-time run in the Little League for some confidence. Play him on a girl who's low on confidence herself.

 

[Duritz]

Toughen him up by ordering him to fart on Mitch Clark's head.

 

[jackster83]

I'd do whatever Geelong did with Hawkins. He was just as pathetic for a long time but now look at him.

 

[PieBeast]

Plums transplant would be the first thing in the course of action.

 

[DJMacca]

I'd do whatever Geelong did with Hawkins. He was just as pathetic for a long time but now look at him.

Difference being that at least Hawkins has got the size.

Watts is like a matchstick compared to him.

 

[MisterMarcus]

Can't see how that could possibly fail.

How many preseasons had this hack had now? He couldn't even keep up with Fisher for one quarter. Not one quarter. He obviously isn't a big power forward, he can't run, so what is he?

Not only that, last night his decision making was poor and some of his efforts, well...(diplomat mode on) "did not display the necessary commitment when it really mattered"....

He can be good when he gets the ball......yep he's kinda got that part of it in order. Just doesn't, and doesn't seem to show the DESIRE to, get enough of the friggin thing.

I'd drop him to the reserves until he's both bulked up and demonstrated a genuine fierce desire for the footy. There's a place for light-framed outside "over here over here" flanker-type runners, but not for a #1 draft pick taken as a KPP prospect!

 

[tête de chatte]

Dress him up as a schoolgirl

 

[Catswin12]

Dress him up as a schoolgirl

Its the St Kilda way.

 

[Milk Steak]

If he was traded to St Kilda he could manage the rape dungeon while Milne and Montagne are busy

 

[spenze]

They have to cut their losses and just play him at CHB for this and maybe the next season. Whilst it is easy, fun and enjoyable to mock the shithouse efforts of the kid so far, I've watched him play down back last year and he wasn't the worst. For a tall he has good hand below his knees and could find a real niche down back.

In saying that though, how the Melbourne Football club rated him above Nic Nat is a mystery that even Freddy, Scooby and the whole gang could never solve.