Daniel Jackson [merged]

[Ruanaidh]

Bleeds yellow and black and is providing grunt in close but I worry that he will cost us dearly come finals time.....then again, he may improve with further marquee games under his belt.

[the claw]

Bleeds yellow and black and is providing grunt in close but I worry that he will cost us dearly come finals time.....then again, he may improve with further marquee games under his belt.

lol theres no improvement left in dan what we got against the saints is him at his optimum level and that was barrely good enough.
hmm i wonder has anyone ever called him a dud. if they have one can understand why.

[Penelope]

It is these high intesity games that you really can see what a liabilty Jackson is.

he is just clueless when he gets the pill, so slow of mind. a number of times you see a chain of instinctive handballs in congestion and it ends up with dan. you can see that blank look come across his face as he tries to work out what to do with the ball and that pause means it's back to a high pressure disposal.

so painfull to watch

[tony_montana]

It funny to watch. He picks up the ball ignores the teammate behind him tries to get through traffic, realizes he can't and then quickly hballs back to a player who is now covered .

I also love how long he takes to unwind with his kicks, instead of banging it quickly on the boot, he unwinds and you can just see the opposition player will spoil even though he has no right too,takes a bigger back swing than long John daly. Am stunned this guy got 2 years

[Penelope]

probably the only people that think its funny are the opposition supporters, tony 

just a dumb footballer

[WA Tiger]

probably the only people that think its funny are the opposition supporters, tony 

just a dumb footballer

rubbish al go watch the replay again, watch how frustrated he got when no one presented, go watch how they handballed to him continually when he had 3 men on him.....

Have a bloody go at the team, every week someone blames Jackson, it's becoming a very weak excuse....very weak!

[Penelope]

im not blaming jackson, but he is a slow minded footballer. he often breaks down a chain of of clearing handballs because he pauses rather than takes the instincitve option in the same way as the players early in the chain did.

what tony said is also spot on. he just doenst know when he needs to put boot to ball quickly, and struggles to do so anyway.

of all the regular players who cop critisism, his negatives outweigh his positives to me more than any of them.

he is slow of mind, a poor decision maker and not an instinctual footballer. He has even admitted he is not an instinctual footballer;

Instinct for Jacko is just jumping on the ball when it's there. He has no instincts so he'd rather be told exactly what he has got to do.

http://oneeyed-richmond.com/forum/index.php?topic=10853.msg179733#msg179733

[Smokey]

Spot on Al.  Arnot is the one I hope moves past him in the next 12 months to take on his role and remove him from the side permanently.

[WA Tiger]

im not blaming jackson, but he is a slow minded footballer. he often breaks down a chain of of clearing handballs because he pauses rather than takes the instincitve option in the same way as the players early in the chain did.

what tony said is also spot on. he just doenst know when he needs to put boot to ball quickly, and struggles to do so anyway.

of all the regular players who cop critisism, his negatives outweigh his positives to me more than any of them.

he is slow of mind, a poor decision maker and not an instinctual footballer. He has even admitted he is not an instinctual footballer;

Instinct for Jacko is just jumping on the ball when it's there. He has no instincts so he'd rather be told exactly what he has got to do.

http://oneeyed-richmond.com/forum/index.php?topic=10853.msg179733#msg179733

Mate, 90% of our players were "slow of mind" yesterday.....Dea, Grimes, Griffiths, Rance, the list goes on....Jackson gets the bloody blame too much.

[TigerTimeII]

jackson should never play again. full stop

[WA Tiger]

jackson should never play again. full stop

Neither should the team.

[Smokey]

im not blaming jackson, but he is a slow minded footballer. he often breaks down a chain of of clearing handballs because he pauses rather than takes the instincitve option in the same way as the players early in the chain did.

what tony said is also spot on. he just doenst know when he needs to put boot to ball quickly, and struggles to do so anyway.

of all the regular players who cop critisism, his negatives outweigh his positives to me more than any of them.

he is slow of mind, a poor decision maker and not an instinctual footballer. He has even admitted he is not an instinctual footballer;

Instinct for Jacko is just jumping on the ball when it's there. He has no instincts so he'd rather be told exactly what he has got to do.

http://oneeyed-richmond.com/forum/index.php?topic=10853.msg179733#msg179733

Mate, 90% of our players were "slow of mind" yesterday.....Dea, Grimes, Griffiths, Rance, the list goes on....Jackson gets the bloody blame too much.

Difference WAT, is that Jackson is part of our senior group and has been in our leadership group in the past (not sure if he still is), and as a player of that ilk he should be leading by example with positive efforts and outcomes, not being one of the players that lets the side down in pivotal moments.  I can excuse young players for that as they are still on large learning curves and may or may not eventually rise above that but Jackson now is as good as he's ever going to get and his current level is just not good enough for a player of his standing.

[Penelope]

Mate, 90% of our players were "slow of mind" yesterday.....Dea, Grimes, Griffiths, Rance, the list goes on....Jackson gets the bloody blame too much.

i'm not just talking about yesterday, but week in week out. in games that dont have the high intensity it doesnt stand out.

nor am i talking blame. blame is for narrow minded simpletons who are not interested in the big picture.

I can see plenty of reasons why we lost yesterday, and jackson is only a small part of that puzzle, but he will always be a liability in high intesity games, the sort of games you need to win to make finals, and the sort of games that finals themselves are.

[WA Tiger]

Yeah well al, he is a small piece of the puzzle, I agree. But the puzzle is bigger and it involves more players than Jackson, that's all I am saying.

[the claw]

sheesh i think someone has slipped happy pills into me drink.
 jackson has been passable the last 3 or 4 weeks imo. still has the same old flaws and we all know he will drop off and revert to type at some stage but just a bit of credit to him hes been okay recently has eliminated a lot of mistakes from his game.
thing is i am 100% sure jacko is operating at or near his optimum and it just isnt sustainable. theres no more upside to this bloke there hasnt been for yrs.

if given enough games, he  will play the odd blinder but his norm is somewhere around average to mediocre. his whole career reflects this.

to me he continues to get a game because there are no other mids in the twos only helbig and arnot and both have been injured.

our first rounder and maybe second rounder with hopefully a mature mid along with a fit arnot and helbig will finally put enough  pressure on  blokes like jackson next yr and force him out.

for now i think in fairness its right to say hes been okay lately.

just to finish lets not forget we are stuck with jacko at least till the end of 2013/14??  thanks to a shiny new contract this yr that was for more than 1 yr.