He’s definitely grown and bulked up since drafted. Genuine KP size now, but still appears that he has his mobility, and is now judging the flight better.
He’ll be in the ones soon , and may not leave. And he’ll suit our current habit of kicking to a pack contest inside 50 as the default.
The first shot he had from inside 50 didn’t make the distance. That’s a little concerning given the 50 at Windy Hill probably isn’t actually 50. Compare that to Motlop who sent one through post height from the same distance.
Fingers crossed his kicking distance will improve as he gets stronger and we can coach him to be an accurate kick. He looks like he needs to develop a good routine.
I wouldn’t worry about that, he can kick it a long way he must have miss hit it, distance on kicking is one of his strengths. The other thing i like is how strong he seems already playing against grown men, this should transfer to senior football when he ages, i really think he’ll follow a similar build to curnow. I liked at the end how he said I’m dumb, i don’t care about getting hurt on the footy field’.
The issue is if you remove 2MP (as some are suggesting) for him then you need a second ruck and you have to replace someone else and the structure can be messed up.
So you then look at replacing Jones with Caddy and 2MP with Draper (if he is ready to go). Whether that’s what Scott will do is anyones guess. He seems to be trying to give Jones every chance to get things right.
Yes but it will be quite a while before he would be ready (if he reaches that level). I assume he is meaning to get someone who is ready made if available.