#10 Isaac Kako

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1587

You can see it coming

Reckon by this time next year he will announce himself

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1588

If anyone is worried about kako, my god you have no idea how to identify young talent

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1589

Only has to cleanup a couple of tiny things in his game and he will be a gun. That will come by next year. I think another small forward in the side and we will terrorize a few sides. Hope Hussein can be the one.

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1590

Heā€™ll be fine. Glad to see him getting more involved. Tries to do too much sometimes - invent play, rather than the simple thing - but heā€™ll get that out of his system once he feels more entrenched.

1591

Sit him down and show him the numerous videos of Tippa tackling blokes. No short steps (if you ignore the fact that all Tippaā€™s steps were short). He really drove into it when he got within sniffing distance of catching someone with the ball. And when he clamped them, they stayed clamped.

1592

As long as he keeps chasing and tackling, im happy with him to keep building in the seniors. Having a game with a bag of 3+ will do wonders for his growth

1593

Heā€™s been getting a bit of reward for effort (goals wise) of late so let him keep building. His connection with Caddy is epic

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1594

Yep. I think heā€™s close to having a breakout game. Heā€™s building nicely.

1595

An awesome half of footy - breakout game?

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1596

Hes been doing a lot of this stuff all season, really. our fwd line looks to be actually working today is the difference. i really like what he brings. his breakout game will be when he manages to kick multiple goals.

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1597

Think its his best half of footy this year. Doubt he will be an elite small forward because of his skill set, however, as long as he masters what he is good at then he is a premiership player.

1598

He looks fkn awesome playing a bit higher up the ground

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1599

I doubt he wonā€™t.

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1600

Iā€™ve been an advocate for this since we drafted him, he isnā€™t an inside 35m player he needs to be around the flanks.

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1601

Heā€™s kind of doing everything you want from a small forward except kicking bulk goalsā€¦.and some of that I feel is because heā€™s trying to feed teammates rather going for the goal himself. He seemed more instinctual going for goal in the preseason and early season than he is now.

Happens ALOT with young players desperately trying to fit in with teammates and the overall team first ethos. I have zero doubt he will be a regular 30+ goal per season small forward after another 40 or so games, which is elite.

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1602

He definitely gives off a number of looks that he could selfishly take but Iā€™d prefer that being the defaultā€¦ Does he struggle to kick past 40m on goal though? Bit worrying that but he was really good today regardless

1603

I only saw the first half, and he was good, seemed really busy and involved.

I reckon youā€™re right here, though. His scoring potential at the moment is limited by the range of his kicking. This should improve as he gets a bit stronger.

1604

Yeah heā€™s 19 so plenty of time but it just seems for the last 10 years our small forwards really arenā€™t that much of a danger on goal from around the 50s mark

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1605

Best game for the club. Should be rising star unless they give it to the Viking.

1606

Iā€™m n the 3rd qtr there was a passage of okay where he had multiple efforts, tackles and pressure which resulted in a shot in goal.

Heā€™s growing into his body and his role and what is required at AFL level.

Hopefully gets rewarded with a RS nom this year.

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