Most of our guys struggle on their dominant foot, let alone both
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They should kick with 2 feet.
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I’d say 80% of players drafted still struggle on their non preferred.
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There’s struggling and then there’s flat out not being able to use their opposite leg, Myers was the latter unfortunately.
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But the question is how is Archie’s non-dominant foot given this is an Archie thread.
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yeah most players now are ok on the opposite. I think left footers have a harder time for some reason, they are really really left sided.
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■■■■ i thought this was stringer thread
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Because he wasn’t playing as an inside mid anywhere. Classic disco projection based on little or no evidence
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I think I posted this sentiment over 10 years ago. So pre-Walla but still correct
Ah! At last some relevance to Archie Roberts in the Archie Roberts thread.
So Lloyd, who recommended someone who ended up a dud instead of someone who ended up a multiple Premiership winner and possibly a HoF player has now recommended someone else who our recruiting department - true to form who picked McGrath over the obvious #1 that year because of another insider’s recommendation - has picked based on his advice again.
Well, and looking at this evidence of the past twenty years of decision making by our recruiters and their scouts… what could possibly go wrong?
No.
I have never heard any claim that Lloyd had anything to do with Myers’ recruitment. It would have been strange if he had, given he was still playing for Essendon at the time, and Myers was a WA bloke who Lloyd would have little knowledge of.
The (corrected from my previous post, thanks to a correction from @frosty ) timeline is that Lloyd is at Essendon when Myers is recruited, sees the whole Saga Of Dave’s Hand for himself. At the end of 09, Lloyd retires and moved into a role with the AFL Academy. Basically as soon as he gets there, he institutes the ball handling/handball/kicking drills to make sure that it doesn’t happen again. Whether he decided to do this himself, or whether he got worded up by one of the recruitment/development staff, I have no idea.
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If I remember correctly, it was a million beers ago, the WA side smashed everyone in the national champs that year. Kreuzer and Cotchin were considered the standout talents but then it was the three WA boys - Masten, Palmer and Myers - that most of us were arguing over. Nobody knew why the doggies picked Jarrod Grant.
Most on here wanted Palmer and were really unhappy when he came out of the blocks and had a great rookie season. Unfortunately for him he plateaud. There’d be some great comments in the Myers thread early days but realistically all three had similar mediocre careers. Myers might have been the best of them if he stayed on the park.
The guy we really wanted was Dangerfield, who Rendell picked at 10, and had 80% of the crows supporters calling him an idiot for doing it.
Rance, Harry Taylor, Pears and Hooker all came out of WA that draft so you could argue it was the talent down back that made the WA mids look so good.
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The weird bit is that the only change the skills test has caused is that clubs now might know that players are horribly ine sided. It doesn’t seem to actually cause them to second guess their recruiting, and if what we hear about players being encouraged to focus on improving their favoured foot is true, it doesn’t seem to factor in to development programs either. (Ok, handballing may be different, but teams seem not to even care about one footed players)
Regrettably, it seems a dying art.
I wonder if clubs feel there’s a decreasing need for it. Do they want blokes to dish the ball out to someone in a better position rather than use their non-preferred, maybe?
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The AFL draft academy didn’t assess players ball handling/handball/kicking drills? Or at least, didn’t do it adequately?
Excited about Roberts, hopefully him and Lual keep Hepp and Hind on their toes. Can see Roberts taking Hepp’s spot next year, looks to have a lot of the required tools.
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I don’t know much about how the Academy worked, but the draft camp/combine testing was almost entirely about athletic testing and interviews up until Lloyd’s ball skills tests were introduced in 2010. I think there were some scratch matches, but nothing formalised. Mind you, the skills test doesn’t get run any more, since 2017. I’m not sure entirely sure why, but my personal suspicion is that it wasn’t really reflective of in-game conditions so high scores on the test didn’t necessarily translate to good kicking in-game. Dylan Clarke aced the kicking test, from memory, just as an example.
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Stop trying to derail whatever thread this is.
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It was the first year of Knights and he wanted Myers.Sheedy was adamant that he would have taken Cyril.He knew him as a kid and was a mad bomber.
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