No Gold1 Short has made my opinion clear enough. .
getting boring nowNo Gold1 Short has made my opinion clear enough. .
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Welcome to Richmond - Jayden Short
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Watched a game recently from 2019. Shorty seemed to be moving a lot better across the ground than he is currently. Was honestly like watching a different player.
He is. In 2019 he was still hungry. Now he is just going through the motions
Agree, totally different player this year Tooheys. Didn’t see this decline coming.
The usual good stats but poor visual performance with ineffective ball use. Not the player of a couple of seasons ago
Too late now. Should have been done weeks ago. Because of his contract we’re stuck with him, but should be removed from the leadership group.
This is a situation that shows that you just can't slap a VC next to someone's name and expect them to suddenly show leadership.
I'm sure Jayden is a great guy off field, but he hasn't shown leadership qualities on field previously.
Aggression, tackling, 1 percenters. These are the DNA of leaders.
Short isn't a leader.
I'm sure Jayden is a great guy off field, but he hasn't shown leadership qualities on field previously.
Aggression, tackling, 1 percenters. These are the DNA of leaders.
Short isn't a leader.
This bloke is stealing a living as an AFL footballer. An absolute embarrassment. He should be the first one out the door, he’s got no ticker for the fight.
And this club is going to be in one hell of a fight for the next half-decade.
And this club is going to be in one hell of a fight for the next half-decade.
I reckon Dye'ere made a great point about Short being poorly coached a few weeks ago. Short has plenty of AFL quality attributes. His running efforts are great and he is (generally) a very good kick when he has a target. But he so often runs to the wrong side of his teammate, and often looks like he is simply padding his stats with possessions and metres gained. He rarely lowers his eyes when looking forward (he does for the sideways stuff in the back half, often because he wants the ball back). I cannot recall seeing him look to hit up a leading forward target when kicking forward of centre. It is almost exclusively a long bomb to a contest. He is playing like it is still 2019 or 2020, bomb it long and trap it inside 50. So in some ways it probably is on the coaches that he has not appeared to adjust his game.
FWIW, IMO he has always been a poor defender and soft at the contest. That has never changed. But it stands out even more now that we have the ball camped in our D50 more.
The tackle on Marbs was insipid. Should have been benched for that. Completely unacceptable for a senior player to do that.
I don’t think we have any genuine leaders, and Short is definitely not one.
It’s like he has forgotten how to play football
