Jarryd allen

my les foote · Mon 23 Jun 2008 6:55am

Of the three debutants, I was most impressed with Allen.

He's got footy smarts. Very good at ground level for his size. Not so sure about overhead but I'd like to see him in the team for the rest of the year.

There was one very good move in the first quarter where he just tried to push the ball into the path of Gram? in the goal square. It didn't come off but I think he's a keeper.

vacuous space · Mon 23 Jun 2008 10:02am

It will be interesting to see if he holds his spot. He looked uncomfortable at times with the ball, although I can't fault his effort without it. He's big, mobile and while he's not great overhead, he's still relatively new to the forward caper, so he should improve.

As for his speed, he ran around 2.93 in the 20 at draft camp - similar to Dempster and some of our other faster players. He's got plenty of speed, he just needs to use it when he gets the opportunity.

Armoooo · Post: # 592962Post **Armoooo** » Mon 23 Jun 2008 12:49pm

Allen showed enough to suggest he will be a keeper, while he wasn't a world beater he did show signs and more importantly they were signs of things that can't be learnt, those things that just come naturally to a natural football player.

Give him time and his confidence will grow, He will play 22 games in '09, hopefully he can get a few more this season too...

True Blue Sainter · Mon 23 Jun 2008 12:54pm

Armoooo wrote:Allen showed enough to suggest he will be a keeper, while he wasn't a world beater he did show signs and more importantly they were signs of things that can't be learnt, those things that just come naturally to a natural football player.

Give him time and his confidence will grow, He will play 22 games in '09, hopefully he can get a few more this season too...

Agreed. I am beginning to think he was quite a steal at pick 59 (?) or whatever we got him at... He runs very hard and presents well, which is a good sign of his effort and work rate. Laid a crunching tackle a few minutes into the last quarter too.

supersaints · Mon 23 Jun 2008 12:56pm

He presented well enough, I like what I saw............

spert · Post: # 592998Post **spert** » Mon 23 Jun 2008 1:57pm

We must persist with Allen as a forward, he didn't look any worse than Kozi in the forward line so far this year, as is more mobile anyway.[/quote]

saintbob · Post: # 593116Post **saintbob** » Mon 23 Jun 2008 5:39pm

13 Disposals, 7 marks and 1 tackle I'd say thats a pretty good first up effort.
Would probably be more at home playing out of the square, has pretty good hands and would be more comfortable inside the 50m arc.
Wouldn't mind seeing him and Charlie work out of the square together, at least then we could go long out of the middle.

saints11 · Post: # 593285Post **saints11** » Mon 23 Jun 2008 9:38pm

saintbob wrote:13 Disposals, 7 marks and 1 tackle I'd say thats a pretty good first up effort.
Would probably be more at home playing out of the square, has pretty good hands and would be more comfortable inside the 50m arc.
Wouldn't mind seeing him and Charlie work out of the square together, at least then we could go long out of the middle.

8 marks to be precise