He has genuine and rare skills. They may not be exactly what is needed in our current setup, but they are there.
Yes, he compliments our backline with his line breaking speed, thatās his strength and itās a valuable weapon in modern footy because you can break through zones or whatever the op has set up.
When you take the risk of charging up the field and leaving your defensive post you can get caught out very quickly if it doesnāt work out, looks bad, a properly structured team would fall back to support and cover the risk but unfortunately our team likes all run forward, itās a shame Truck couldnāt address that.
Anyway, his positives outweigh his negatives and i can see him having a big year under BDB.
Agree, though he also has a few other skills. He is a good kick of the footy - long and accurate. He is a good set-shot kick. He has saved a number of goals running back (arguably - he shouldnāt have been forward of the ball anyway, but that is a team structure thing and I put it on coaching). He is a decent intercept mark.
Rather have line breaking through the quality of delivery from Massimo.
Itās a lot quicker and you arenāt going to lose defensive structure.
Less predictable when you have more than one option.
Itās worth keeping an eye out for.
I think heās essentially ineffective at defending in the air. And his defensive running always looks laboured. Sure he mightāve just run 100m in the other direction, but not always. It feels like he would be an old school forward flanker.
Sadly for me, I would suggest now have a bias against him. And donāt get me wrong, Iād love for him to do well, and heās all weāve got.
Agree. I think what he lacked last year that he had in spades in 2021 was his desperation not to lose any contest. If he can get that back he is a lock in the team.
I wouldnāt bet on it, I could see a scenario where a decision is made to go with eg Masimo, leaving Hind outside the 22.
But on balance, youāre probably right.
Heās poor overhead. Donāt think heās too bad on ground ball contests.
Hindās ten times the player Masimo is right now.
players like hind arenāt taking us forward though, and players like mass are. i get your point but i reckon the first form drop from hind and youāll see mass in pretty quick
Depth only
Itās not necessarily ability that will see him out of favour. In my mind itās age. Not too old to still play good footy, but not likely to still be around when we are ready to challenge for a flag.
So play the kids.
Hinds lack of endurance and repeat efforts keeps him from getting to the defensive contests and he always trials his opponent to the fall of the ball or into our defensive half causing issues if there is overlap from opponents. Offensively he runs stronger but canāt repeat effort defensively.
He is a good VFL player and reasonable AFL depth player and thatās how I want to see him utilised on our list.
Probably - and vice versa, guys like Hind will be the backups when kids get out of form, beaten up, tired etc.
(Which does happen)
I like Mass but at his stage of development, heās not going to play 22 games next year.
A white Jarrad atkinson
Haha, thereās a blast from the past.
Did Atkinson make it to his 3rd preseason?
I was so disappointed that Atkinson didnāt apply himself. He had something special about him!
Pace. That was essentially his one trick. He was very farking fast.