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Welcome to Richmond - Jayden Short
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Reckon that was already started by some last year.Still think he will play a big part this year.
The baton was passed long ago. The PRE intellectual paparazzi convention decided.
Maybe. Don't forget Shorty was best & fairest in a Premiership year playing half back in 2020. HB is not the toughest role to play.
That said I do probably prefer Dan in that position mainly cause he's better defensively so we're close in thinking.
I also agree with you in that I wasn't impressed with his game yesterday.
Think he's been promoted above his abilities & looks a bit lost at the moment. Not entirely sure he'll play rnd 1 at this stage.
Still he managed the most kicks and distance gained last season.Also got 20 possessions in the last final.Seriously why bust a gut against a side like North in a scratch match?
If he’s not busting a gut, he’s too comfortable.
And he shouldn’t be
I don't reckon Short is in our best back 7, or our best 6 forwards, or our starting midfield. But I am pretty confident he will be in it best 22 to start the season, and probably stay there.
The myth that is Shorts kicking.
In isolation Metres gained is perhaps the single most useless stat there is.
Short is a terrific athlete who can kick a football a long way at great trajectory. Not always to the sides advantage.
Better options than Short on every line, which is great for the side. Reckon he’s on the bench at best come years end.
We are best served playing Shorty on the back flank where he won the b and f. I don’t like him on the forward line at all and he is not in the class of our new mids.
This. Is Rioli or Baker better than Short in the role? It's as simple as that really.
A reminder that after a year of being shuffled around Baker's last game in the final was one of the worst he's ever played.
I love Bakes like everyone else but after an interrupted pre season he might be the one that gets left out early.
Yes.
Short was great in 2020, but that B&F is morally Dustin Martin's. Short's win was a reflection of the coaches making the Jack Dyer Medal a measure of how well a player performed their role, and how well they performed against expectation. Dusty won the PRE Player of the Year, which is never wrong. (We don't care about your role here, we judge who was the best player. Robert Klomp would not win a TV from PRE.) Short finished seventh with just over half as many votes as Dusty, which was about right. The seventh-best player in a premiership year. In the best three or four on the ground in the grand final. Great achievement. But he was not our best player.
Daniel finished fourth in the PRE Player of the Year last year. He's better defensively than Short, better in the contest, a better ball user and a better line-breaking runner. Short's great weapon is the depth of his kicking, which allows him to kick over lines. Rioli can't do that. But he rarely misses a target. He slices through the opposition when he runs with the ball, whereas Short's run is around the side, always wide, on the overlap. Danny scythes through their hearts.
Oldie's right, it's between Short and Bakes. The Prince is a lock. He's the best running backman in the league.
I love your description of Rioli ...... slicing through the opposition when he runs with the ball. Perfect!
I like Short Vlaustin Broad on the hb line.
Miller Tarrant Grimes deep. Bakes and Balta changing. Balta starting to worry me though.
Miller Tarrant Grimes deep. Bakes and Balta changing. Balta starting to worry me though.
