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Thoughts on his game vs Rowan Marshall? Don’t disagree with the low football Iq, his timing was off last season but it’s a very easy fix. The reason he has high potential is his athletic profile, you simply can’t teach the leap he has.Williams had an abortion of a season last year with a redeeming final game where he played far and away his best game. Still one of the worst shots on goal i've ever seen. Doesn't read the play well even at Wafl level in regards to his timing for tapwork, marking etc. etc. Low football IQ and can't kick for goal and is undersized for a modern ruck. He is up against it, has some attributes that may be impossible to overcome in regards to making it at AFL level. At best now looks likely to be a border line second ruck choice.
IMHO he's lucky he's got this year on the list to show something and if it wasn't such a shallow draft pool last year he was the most likely of the remaining talls to lose his list spot.
Also so far Exxon would be lucky to have shown a similar level of output to Williams at AFL level. Everyone has talked up his game against Collingwood however our midfield got absolutely monstered, he was nowhere near best on ground, didn't win his match up and if not for abominable finishing from collingwood and bad luck would have just been seen as an average performance in a 6-10 goal loss. He has the size and body now to be a starting mid. Does he have the ability, we'll see this year. Has no elite attribute but also doesn't seem to be lacking in any key area. This is the year to show he has what it takes in regards to footy iq and inside craft. Likely to be at best a stop gap until someone more talented takes his place and then depth. If he shows that much it will be a decent career all things considered.
Also someone earlier mentioned Luke Edwards as a comparison to Gaff and Tyson Edwards. He is so much more like a young Sam Butler than Tyson Edwards. I think people forget just how good an all round player Tyson was slightly undersized but a strong mid who regularly got forward and kicked a goal. Was really the crows second picked mid after Riccuito during the Crowbot era. Luke Edwards whilst he doesn't have any truly outstanding attributes does seem to have close to that level of of footy IQ, is the right height, size and has the marking, running and kicking ability to be a good hard wing player for us. A couple more injuries or some serious talent around him and he's borderline midfield depth or primarily a HBF or even a lock down back pocket.
Ginbey is going to need to show more. His work rate is elite and he will get everything out of himself but so far from what i've seen he has two limiting factors. His footy IQ and his kicking. He is reactionary which is why even with his absolute top tier athletic abilities he doesn't come across as quick on field and also hasn't been a heavy accumulator. His kicking is also average at best for an AFL player. He will however continue to work on his kicking and will get the best out of it he can but it is a genuine weakness. His athletic profile is truly elite (top 1% of AFL players) as is his workrate which is why he was drafted where he was.
Ginbey like a lot of others and I said this during most of last year that every one of the top picks has at least 1 major question mark to their game. There didn't seem to be a complete package in the draft and in comparison to other drafts whilst a lot of the top 10 picked don't necessarily have some of the potential weapons of players drafted last year they haven't also come with one or multiple major question marks on their game. I hope for Ginbey as well as so many of the others they can overcome their junior game deficiencies / inconsistencies and become great players.
If he times his leaps and starts converting shots at an average rate that’s the makings of a very good key forward.
O’Neil impressed me in the dockers game, he certainly won’t ever be elite but there’s a place in a premiership team for a clean big mid that is very good defensively.