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Bye Bye Jack Higgins!
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turk-d-tiger said:
Technically fine but is prone to chipping the ball sideways, similar problem to Lewis Taylor under Leppa (although under Fagan this has improved out of sight). Towards the end of the year Higgins was going a lot more direct so it's a minor flaw in my opinion. Goal kicking can be off at times but for a guy who has so many shots on goal this is forgivable.
Have you seen Higgins' legs? Quadrisaurus. Looks like every day is leg day at the gym. No wonder he has some precision issues. He'll come good.
nafe brown said:
Merrett was very outside as a junior, he's one of the rare cases of an outside player turning into a well rounded mid (Kelly another). There's a few similarities with Higgins such as body shape & that low centre of gravity impact, both players rarely go to ground and both can fish tail their way out of trouble. I'd say Merrett is a better kick at this stage but Higgins has much more potency in front of goal, probably Zorko is the better yardstick, although Higgins doesn't have that blistering line-breaking ability.
Tigertool said:
His kicking is really good, picks the right option. But is the opposite of Naish, if he can’t make the right kick he plays it very sideways. Just keep the ball moving. You want Jack Higgins kicking it inside 50. Will do damage. I’d definitely have him ahead of Prestia.
He more a Rockliff or Zorko type player?bullus_hit said:
I mention Rocky as his SC ave is basically the same. Very happy either way.
Higgins ahead of Prestia in terms of kicking inside 50, or picked ahead of Prestia in the 22?SCOOP said:
Prestia's lightning handballs out of packs to a team mate were very important to our success this year and they are easily missed even watching the replays. Could both fit into our team if everyone is available?
Jonesracing82 said:
Rocky stronger overhead and can play the role of a leading forward. Higgins is more of a pesky opportunist who can turn routine crumbing into scoring opportunities, very Zorko-like on that front. If the unofficial sprint time is to be believed pace may well be strength, I haven't seen him rip a game apart with metres gained but he's incredibly busy, always manages to get to the contest. As a best case scenario I think he can become another Marc Murphy who ran a 3 second flat 20 metres at the combine. Seems crazy to think we landed a bloke at 17 who could emulate a former number 1 but statistically there's very little separating the two.
bullus_hit said:
Although of course I understand why we use 20m sprint times as important measurements for base speed, one also has to consider reaction time, power off the mark and the first 5 steps of accelaration when considering over all dynamics.
It was interesting to watch Menedues relatively slow start to the G.F sprint and how he wound out.
In Higgins, I think it's important to consider his power burst and agility over a pure straight line 20m result. Combined with his well noted football I.Q I see him as a Paul Medhurst type player who at his peak, with Collingwood, was very hard to stop
Blind Turn said:
I know its not the point you wanted to make but going back to Menadue in the sprint, He took it very easy both at the start and the finish
Im sure if he was going 100% he would have had another 2-3 mtrs on the field - The Dew is lightening quick
