Player Watch Luke Pedlar

[Kane McGoodwin]

Anywhere on the field is bad. That’s Hinge’s and Milera’s spot. Both a lot more potent than Sloane.

Hinge, Milera, Nankervis & Jones should all be ahead rotating between HBF & wing.

Would even be looking to play Ryan ahead of Sloane.

Only consideration would be if both Hinge & Milera are unavailable & we need the experience.

 

[Jeffcrowe]

JHF has all the talent in the world, however, his problems are 99% between the ears and unless he starts owning that and getting the right mentors around him, he won't reach 50% of his capability

Don’t understand peoples negativity around JHF ( other than the fact he plays for Port )

Interrupted pre season due to serious vascular surgery ( which also affected his season at North ) and comes out and polls 16 Brownlow votes and finishes pretty high up in ports B and F

The guy is a serious player and I reckon he will be Ports best player within 3 years , maybe sooner

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

Don’t understand peoples negativity around JHF ( other than the fact he plays for Port )

Interrupted pre season due to serious vascular surgery ( which also affected his season at North ) and comes out and polls 16 Brownlow votes and finishes pretty high up in ports B and F

The guy is a serious player and I reckon he will be Ports best player within 3 years , maybe sooner

Will be a good player, but does he have the mental side of things to be a gun of the competition?

 

[Jeffcrowe]

Will be a good player, but does he have the mental side of things to be a gun of the competition?

Yep , why not ?

This mental side theory is overblown re JHF I reckon

His body hasn’t been right through not much fault of his own , but it’s about to be

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

Yep , why not ?

This mental side theory is overblown re JHF I reckon

His body hasn’t been right through not much fault of his own , but it’s about to be

I think he will be at least a very good player.

Still need to be convinced he will be a gun of the competition.

Clearly has potential.

 

[Jeffcrowe]

I think he will be at least a very good player.

Still need to be convinced he will be a gun of the competition.

Clearly has potential.

I reckon Nick Daicos has clouded expectations on young players

He was drafted ready to dominate

 

[ftmch]

1. We have some promising kids
2. Other clubs also have some promising kids
3. Opinions differ on the extent of promisingness of the various kids

Giving you a like for using promisingness in a sentence

 

[Sanders]

Once again your assumptions of my posts are just that, your assumptions.
It was not an attack on Sloane, just my personal opinion that we have better players in EVERY position in the field than Sloane.
His only role should be getting drunk at the pub on game day and cheering the team on. Ffs…

You get more sense out of a Swifty than that guy

 

[Golumless]

JHF has all the talent in the world, however, his problems are 99% between the ears and unless he starts owning that and getting the right mentors around him, he won't reach 50% of his capability

No, all of JHF's problems start and end with he's still a kid.

He's flashed an elite clearance game and once his fitness/body catches up, he'll be elite.

 

[MarcusP2]

If we had JHF playing for us the language on this board would be very different.

I don't really see anything to suggest he's going to be anything except elite.

 

[baldandbroke]

Stop talking about JHF in the Pedlar thread!!

The initials will be just fine as an AFL footballer, every team would add him to their midfield in half a blink.

Our man Luke might end up in a similar ball park in terms of his desirability. He will provide plenty that will catch the eye.

 

[Rory Walkerfield]

If we had JHF playing for us the language on this board would be very different.

I don't really see anything to suggest he's going to be anything except elite.

It’s the Crows coloured glasses on here. JHF will be top 5 in the comp for a long time and may well be head honcho.

But it’s a team sport, GCS had peak GAJ and it meant Jack for them.

 

[Jeffcrowe]

It’s the Crows coloured glasses on here. JHF will be top 5 in the comp for a long time and may well be head honcho.

But it’s a team sport, GCS had peak GAJ and it meant Jack for them.

Agree … top 5 player of comp potential and will overtake Rozee / Butters

 

[GameofSloanes]

Yep , why not ?

This mental side theory is overblown re JHF I reckon

His body hasn’t been right through not much fault of his own , but it’s about to be

Also he's 20
If we had a 20 year old polling 16 Brownlow votes we'd think he was the second coming

 

[Crow till I die]

Agree … top 5 player of comp potential and will overtake Rozee / Butters

Screams Nathan Buckley type player. For us going forward I would love to see us run Rankine on him head to head - lets see how he goes against absolute pure quality and trickery.

The other player type I would like going head to head is a Dawson or maybe down the track, Curtin - big big bodied evasive type players - need to make someone like JHF get away from what he wants to do best and make worry about his man

 

[ABAB]

Also he's 20
If we had a 20 year old polling 16 Brownlow votes we'd think he was the second coming

And we wouldn't call those 5-6 votes dodgy but then Bergman would have to also play for us lol.

 

[Mr_Moogle]

Agree … top 5 player of comp potential and will overtake Rozee / Butters

I think so. Only thing that might hold him back is if he ****s up his body up trying to break every tackle. Definitely needs to learn how to play a little smarter.

 

[Jeffcrowe]

I think so. Only thing that might hold him back is if he *s up his body up trying to break every tackle. Definitely needs to learn how to play a little smarter.

That part of his game reminds me of Dangerfield who needed to do the same at same age

He eventually learnt subtlety

 

[Alwaysacrow]

Stop talking about JHF in the Pedlar thread!!

The initials will be just fine as an AFL footballer, every team would add him to their midfield in half a blink.

Our man Luke might end up in a similar ball park in terms of his desirability. He will provide plenty that will catch the eye.

I agree, however it would be interesting to see JHF and Pedlar play against each other in the middle. Hopefully we'll see it sometime this season.

 

[Peter Doherty]

Yeah, no doubt JHF will be a fine player, there's a reason everyone wanted to trade for him.

That being said, I'm sure some of the attention he gets here is people wanting to be on record as a fan.

No one wants to be the poster still hating on him years down the track, especially if he ends up having the career that's expected.

 

[cleanhands]

I agree, however it would be interesting to see JHF and Pedlar play against each other in the middle. Hopefully we'll see it sometime this season.

Pedlar to me appears more mature

 

[StonesThrow]

Yeah, no doubt JHF will be a fine player, there's a reason everyone wanted to trade for him.

That being said, I'm sure some of the attention he gets here is people wanting to be on record as a fan.

No one wants to be the poster still hating on him years down the track, especially if he ends up having the career that's expected.

I think most of us just remember how much of a freak he was as a junior and how players with his traits tend to dominate.

He is the exact type of young mid we need and would be frothing over if he was a crow.

 

[Peter Doherty]

I think most of us just remember how much of a freak he was as a junior and how players with his traits tend to dominate.

He is the exact type of young mid we need and would be frothing over if he was a crow.

Yeah, it can be both.

 

[jenny61_99]

Taken at Robe

 

[Crow till I die]

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chewing a wasp is he?