Player Watch Will Hoskin-Elliott

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He knows he is out of form.
You can see how hard he is working to try and regain his form.
But he ends up trying to hard and making basic mistakes.
I hope it can click for him, because a WHE in form is a potent weapon.

Might need a Scratch Match to get his Touch back a bit
 
Weird tonight.
He's been building the last few weeks and was excellent last start. Took a step backwards tonight.

Needs to bounce back next week.

Yeah, was an almost game. We’d normally expect to see him running away from those marking contests but this week he gets snagged, Pendles would normally find him in the goal square when he’s created that much space forward of the footy but the kick slews oob, he’d normally roost that footy long outside D50 but shanks the kick.... Almost.
 
Yeah, was an almost game. We’d normally expect to see him running away from those marking contests but this week he gets snagged, Pendles would normally find him in the goal square when he’s created that much space forward of the footy but the kick slews oob, he’d normally roost that footy long outside D50 but shanks the kick.... Almost.

Agree.

The pain on his face when he realised JS wasn't going to lay it off when he kicked his second! Just wasn't going for him.
 

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He looked pretty open in the square when Pendles put one nearly OOTF. He’ll be ok. We need more dangerous players, not fewer.
 
He and JT just need to walk away and be happy in some other aspect of life. It’s no good for any party for them to continue. They have been given more than enough opportunity.
 
Being so poor for so long, it's actually quite fascinating that he still gets a game.

A genuine quandary.
 

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Moment in the 2nd quarter, he was sitting out the back of the pack, ball went through everyone and landed in his hands, the blood drained from his face and he instantly handballs it straight to a WB player in the midfield.

Disgrace of a player, embarrassing he gets a game every week.
Hate to say it as i've always defended him but his confidence is shot, he has the talant but he needs a few weeks in the VFL, needs to learn to back himself again.
 
Hate to say it as i've always defended him but his confidence is shot, he has the talant but he needs a few weeks in the VFL, needs to learn to back himself again.

His weaknesses are well known.... but his strengths (ball handling, footskills, nous and creativity around goals, and the ability to get loose and take a mark) have also completely vanished.

I will never write anybody's career off after one game . So its back to the seconds.
 
When was the last time he played a genuinely good game? He's lived on potential and talent his whole career. It's no coincidence he's outlier year of form coincided with our best year under Buckley's reign. He's propped up by blokes around him. One of the biggest front runners/downhill skiers to play for the club in my time.
 

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