read a few posts here that proclaims nahas upside. could someone please tell us what that supposed upside is.
hea a small no let me rephrase. hes a tiny who is very very limited. so one sided its not funny. he lacks polish and he is forever being outbodied and falling over. his over all skills for a small are ordinary.
kudos to him hes got every skerrick of talent out of himself but there is no upside not a small at age 25 with his deficiencies.
After four seasons of AFL football, the now 25-year-old Nahas has scored a total of 97 goals from 77 games, and he’s rightfully being acclaimed as another success story of the AFL’s rookie-list system.
This year, Nahas again played all 22 games, and he booted a league career-high 34 goals, to finish second (behind Jack Riewoldt) on the Tigers’ goalkicking table.
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i agree with these comments as far as a rookie pick goes hes a success story hes actually a mature rookie pick and the comparison against young rookies is not so glamorous. to be a success story he only had to be one of the about every 6 rookies who play for a decent period. as a rookie we have got a decent return out of him thing is just because hes a rookie success story it doesnt mean hes a good footballer.
hes the perfect example of value adding its time to value add again.
you trade players that are not required, not because they have currency.
you need someone on your list remotely looking like taking over. That we dont have.
hmm a little fella called shane edwards had abetter yr than nahas who despite kicking 34 goals was quite deplorable in a lot of games.
we just drafted aaron edwards who is a medium and a different type of player. we also took chris knights who has spent a lot of time as a forward. i dont see the point in comparing them.
to me nahas is in competition with two other sml forwards for a spot. they are s edwards and kingy. we also took a far more skilled and polished player than any of them in mathew mcdonough who by all reports is ready to go.
imo we can afford to play only 1 limited sml forward that player atm has to be s edwards.
for me the sooner a kid like mcdonough shows enough to play the glass half fulls like nahas and king would go to coburg.
sml forwards - mcdonough, s edwards, king, nahas, leading contender for me s edwards.
med forwards - a edwards, o'hanlon, with martin knights deledio and cotchin all mids who play forward very well. they should rotate thru there. martin imo because of a lack of areobic capacity atm should again spend significant time forward.
so there are plenty who look more than capable of taking over his role the sooner the better imo.we cannot go with a similar sort of forward setup to last yr. simply put it was a massive failure the way our forward line functioned.
what will pee me off is if we take maric again there really is no need at the moment to target what has been a very ordinary player whos had 4 yrs in the afl and done nothing.
still think we need to play a genuine 2nd ruck/for in a pocket vickery. we need to play two genuine kpfs riewoldt and one of griffiths / astbury / elton. rotate the likes of martin cotchin deledio and knights thru there. play a genuine medium sized player who gives you the option of going smaller if you wish thru a game but he plays tall. and finally one small who for me atm is s edwards but im hoping the better skilled mcdonough can force his way in later in the yr.
