Despite me putting him in the cannon a few weeks ago, I actually quite like him.
Except that freaking two handed punch instead of marking! Made me furious.
I thought he did well tonight, but it was concerning he didnāt seem to go to players good in the air. I thought off-season weād brought in a Kelly replacement with kicking skills.
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Just about The whole team was an embarrassment in our first 2.6 games and he was the poster boy for it.
The whole back 6 is looking way better and he is looking better again after a vast improvement last game.
Keep going lad.
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Me too. He does it all the time. It wouldnāt worry me if he was in a pack.
If you can get 2 fists to it, surely you can get 2 open hands to it and take a mark.
Iāll bet no one else knew he was Michael Priors son.
So Iāve won that one.
He was fine last night. But seh is better and shouldnāt be sub behind this guy, albeit that seh is playing more wing
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You lose that one. There was never a player called Michael Priors.
Michael Prior agrees. So does Michael Priorās son.
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First post of the thread might say otherwise but either way go on son
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Our back line struggles when the rest of the team doesnāt or canāt defend.
Itās expected but itās not ideal that they arenāt more resilient. One of the reasons the Tigers were as good as they were was because their defensive unit was able to bail out the rest of the team when they had lapses in games.
IMO it comes down to grit, one on one stuff, a talls with leg speed and plenty of umpires who turn a blind eye to the scragging.
Thatās the biggest ? on Jaxon. Mainly because our midfield is built around Ridley, Reid, McKay and McGrath who donāt have it in spades as a group
I keep forgetting heās in the team.
I was one of the most critical of his first 2 games and wanted him dropped. He has rebounded well since then. The 2 fisted spoils are something of an anomaly. Like you db, l believe he should have taken those 2 marks he fisted out of play, as they ended up being uncontested. Maybe it is a confidence thing, or a safety first issue, or maybe a lack of talking to let him know he was in the clear. Apart from those 2 instances he was pretty solid.
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Maybe itās that heās another panic merchant.
So youāre saying heās greatly improved.
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Whoās greatly improved?
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He.
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Jaxon Prior feels like a bookmark. Heās a stop gap until we find someone better. If we can barely remember anything he does in games, but we canāt recall his opponent doing anything either then heās had a good game.
Do that 15 times in a row and weāre probably happy. I get the feeling a young half back is going to slide into the team in the next year and Prior will become a distant memory, like vaguely recalling that Aaron Henneman played 19 games in 2001.
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He has improved out of sight since Round 1.
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He has, but then he needed to.
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I guess this is why coaches donāt drop players after 1 or 2 poor games, especially a new player
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I still shudder at the mention of Henneman
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