All is quiet on the December front
Whilst the media swallow the excitement of the Docker’s off-field success, the Eagles have been taking a quiet backseat. No one’s interested in yet another Eagle’s profit, I guess.
By the way, we have some new players on our list for 06. Why not acquaint yourself with two of them, Shannon “the hitman” Hurn and Ben McKinley courtesy of the infamous Wisbey reports.
Hurn:
187/96 mid-age right foot HBF/Midfielder
STYLE LIKE: Hodge/M Voss
PROBABILITY OF AFL CAREER: Definite. Ready year 1.
TRADEMARK: - Confident, balanced one-grab mark or spill-gather through good reading of the play behind the pack. Then a thumping 60m accurate pass, with little apparent effort, to a well-spotted target at half-forward.
SUMMARY ASSESSMENT, RECOMMENDATION: - “Big stage” big-bodied utility seemingly biding time. The time to unwrap the pressy has arrived though. My #1 but probably go around mid 1st round.
McKinley:
184/82 top-age right foot (dual-sided) forward/utility.
STYLE LIKE: Russell Robertson
PROBABILITY OF AFL CAREER: Likely. Ready year 1.
TRADEMARK: - Vice-grab mark, perhaps on a hard lead or sitting on a pack of talls. Then a powerful, probably accurate, kick for goal.
- Hard running and aggressive attack on the ball, even at ground level.
SUMMARY ASSESSMENT, RECOMMENDATION: - Hard at the ball, kicks the goals that even some name AFL key forwards too often miss. He offers much more than a sure-hands strong mark and goal-kicking capability. Runs hard, works hard. Might be fairly versatile. Build up endurance and he is clean enough and smart enough for inside mid down the track.
- I compared his style to Robbo’s because McKinley has mainly played similar roles to what Robbo can play and both play such roles in a similar manner (although Robbo is genuinely quick). However, ignoring roles, there are shades of Glen Archer or Hamill in McKinley’s style of footy generally and especially in his marking aggression.
That’s it for now.
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