News Tom Scully signs with West Adelaide

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Sounds like the perfect bloke to play CHB for 3 years and then throw forward. Basically the opposite to Lord.

Send him back to develop.

Lord didn’t need to develop the facets above, needed to Chad Cornes multiple efforts himself as a key forward.
Sounds like the perfect bloke to develop as a forward for his whole career.

Developing as a KPF is hard enough without, ya know, actually getting to play as a KPF.
 

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Port have always done it.

Im saying he sounds a more pressing need/better benefits to playing CHB than Lord.

Reality is the KPD we are looking for we are simply going to have to buy.

Regardless of promise Scully may be showing at the moment he's years off being an AFL player. I'd be absolutely wrapped for him if he's competitive at sanfl level next year.
 
Came late to footy from Soccer background , seems a mobile, leading type forward. Read from others who saw hm as a junior, that he was a poor mark but good at ground ball with good recovery. Will watch with interest as to how his marking goes in the contested stuff at this higher level. More Westy type then Dixon perhaps.
Westhoff was a great mark. Dixon has concrete hands.
 
Just my thoughts after watching him over the past two or so years:

At 204cm is more a lead up forward that can have some impact at ground level. Won't crash packs or haul in pack marks due to his lack of strength and unwillingness to do so. Goes to ground far too often and often flails his arms in attempt to milk a decision. Gifted ground level take for his size but double-clutches a lot of aerial balls and has weak hands under spoiling pressure. Very much a confidence player whose disposition can fluctuate in-game, can play a poor half but bounce back and get on a run. This is reflected in his set shot goal kicking which can be streaky. Body language can suffer too, very lanky and needs to improve his posture and keep his head up. Failed to dominate despite his size and talent at school level, albeit in a poor CBC team. Had 10-15cm size advantage in some situations but regularly lost one on one contests to beefy private school scrappers. Will require patience and heavy investment. Best case scenario is that he pans out into a player similar in style to Rory Lobb.

Excellent summary of your observations and you'd assume spot-on otherwise he wouldn't have fallen to pick 53.

Hopefully now that he's in the AFL system he'll develop his potential. At 204cm we need him to clunk pack marks too. Don't need to be 204cm to be a lead-up only forward.
 
If he does grow to 207cm as has been mentioned, I would be quite happy with a Rory Lobb trajectory from a player taken at #53.
 

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Anyone have access to the article? Post it on here please :)


Reporter/subeditor have stretched things a bit:

First-year tall forward Tom Scully’s reach, timing and goalkicking stood out during the match simulation. “He’s looking really nice,” Duursma said. “He’s got a really good jump and times it pretty well too, which is a big thing for a young forward. He’s got strong hands as well.”

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If he's still kicking goals in march no real reason not to give him a run. If he's physically up to it he's going to learn more playing games at afl than sanfl level.

Have to admit I'm surprised he's up and running so early though. Would have thought he would be a couple of pre-seasons away at least. He's thrived since being drafted and would laugh if he's the player GWS should have been chasing.
 
I reported that he impressed me in the 20 January Open Training thread. My impression was that he could be ready to take over from Dixon in a few years time as that monster forward- he does have big shoulders.

But playing AFL this year is a huge stretch ( even though he has a huge stretch).
 

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