#6 Jye Caldwell - thru 2028

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Well fmd. I have Caldwell down as the slowest player on our list.

Watch him play, he doesnā€™t break out of a jogging state very often at all. Not sure if heā€™s just buggered all the time or what the go is.

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2.98 seconds is not especially quick over 20 metres anyhow. Itā€™s sharp-ish but just having a look over draft combine results for the last 10-15 years it didnā€™t have you in the top 10 or anything.

P.S. Tayte was as quick as Danger :zap:

Maybe his conservative approach relates to his injury history?

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Gee, thereā€™s a few names in there Iā€™d completely forgotten about.

Think maybe Bill ir is your baud rate is a bit slow. He is so quick that you miss it.

In AFL itā€™s all about the first few meters. You need that break away speed over say six to eight meters. After that you need endurance to run all day.

Nice run down tackle when stuffedā€¦did well

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Doesnā€™t get enough love this bloke.
7 tackles and goal. Iā€™m still of the opinion heā€™s ahead of Hobbs given his flexibility and kicking.

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He was lining up at CHF for a fair bit of the game and did OK. His played better as the game went on. I would like to see him rotated through the midfield more.

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Said it so many times forward

He is not getting midfield time ahead of Perkins, Durham and not to mention we have Parish, Hobbs, Shiel to come into the side. He better pull his finger out if he wants to be an AFL midfielder.

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He only got that tackle because the hawks player dropped the ball and had to stop.

Just an ordinary game from jye. Needs to pull his finger out before hobbs/shiel/parish are back

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This is going to be controversial but I would trade him at the end of the year.
Hereā€™s why he is in that smaller mid catergory which is something that has plagued us for a long time Merrett and parish are in this catergory and both those guys are locks (we should have moved parish on at the end of the year just gone in my view I know heā€™s a gun but sometimes you have to be brave).
Secondly he is a goodish player but he gets stuck playing the forward role and this I believe is detrimental to him and the team he would be better served playing somewhere else and playing in the guts and the team would be better structured with a faster small forward in the spot

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Iā€™m an unashamed Caldwell fan. I reckon heā€™s a farking gun when played in the right role. Heā€™s probably suffered from showing some glimpses as a forward.

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If you could somehow trade him and get a quality small forward youā€™d have to think hard about it. However having players of his quality not be able to play in their preferred position and wanting to stick with the club shows we are on the right track.

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Fair call.

Does that serve the team best in the long run though?

It could go either way, really

Hopefully he and Guelfi can lean on each other whilst living together.

Considering he played and Hobbs didnā€™t, you could be right.

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