Senior 16. Jack Carroll

[Aphrodite]

 

[RPCB]

Jack’s Dad looks like he might have have said, “Don’t heck this up, son!” pre-game.

 

[RedFury]

It's one thing to get the ball, it's another to use it well. His handpasses were to advantage. Kicks were to a target and/or advantage.

It's frustrating but I'm confident we'll get this out of his game.

 

[Aphrodite]

 

[spry]

The thing that makes me think this kid will make it is at quarter time there’s footage of a rally happy Voss patting Carroll on the back and the kid looks almost angry at himself. Super high expectations


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[The Return of the Paf]

I like how the intrinsic value of a player depends on if they play for us. Imagine if we had traded the pick that became 41 for some serviceable plodder and Carroll was picked at pick 44 (for example) by some club not involved in the trade - the serviceable plodder would have been worth pick 41 and it would have been 'Jack who?'.

 

[spry]

I like how the intrinsic value of a player depends on if they play for us. Imagine if we had traded the pick that became 41 for some serviceable plodder and Carroll was picked at pick 44 (for example) buy some club not involved in the trade - it would have been 'Carroll who?'.

the players quality is not connected with their association with us. either our unwillingness or capacity to be aware of every other player makes this difficult but whoever got this kid would be objectively profiting from it.


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[The Return of the Paf]

the players quality is not connected with their association with us. either our unwillingness or capacity to be aware of every other player makes this difficult but whoever got this kid would be objectively profiting from it.


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Precisely my point; it was a comment on how we celebrate it whenever we find a 'gem' through the draft but when we trade picks away then it's just an arbitrary number. I'm just noticing the potential for cognitive dissonance between the response to pick 10 for Saad versus our enthusiasm for pick 41 after the fact.

 

[Ricky Mott]

Love the way Carroll plays.

 

[Malifice]

how the fu** did he slip to pick 41?

guy is an absolutel gem.

such a natural footballer.

i hope we can keep him on as a one club player.

Those were the exact wraps on draft night. Steal of the draft apparently.

He was also the youngest player taken in the 2020 draft (20 December 2002 birthday, so only just scraped in) so arguably had the most upside.

Pretty accurate read here:

Jack Carroll

 

[Accidental genius]

Those were the exact wraps on draft night. Steal of the draft apparently.

He was also the youngest player taken in the 2020 draft (20 December 2002 birthday, so only just scraped in) so arguably had the most upside.

Pretty accurate read here:

Jack Carroll

Having now seen him play at Afl level those descriptions of his traits are spot on.

None more so than....

...an elite combination of decision making and disposal efficiency.

 

[agro]

In order to steal you actually have to engage in the act of stealing - cudos to Nick Austin for the steal

 

[Cripps 'n' Blue Bloods]

19 disposals
8 marks
8 score involvements
4 clearances
5 i50s
And a goal

Not a bad debut at all. The kid is going to be alright.

Those numbers are worthy of a rising... never mind.

 

[Cripps 'n' Blue Bloods]

How many times did he find himself in space? Can't teach that.

In before: scared of contact and seagulling possessions.

 

[Coops93]

I just need to confirm as I started watching the game essentially from when he kicked the goal, but was that his first kick & first disposal in footy?

 

[BluesWagon]

I just need to confirm as I started watching the game essentially from when he kicked the goal, but was that his first kick & first disposal in footy?

Yes, he did have hands on the footy prior to that but he got clobbered in a tackle over the boundary line.

 

[Coops93]

Yes, he did have hands on the footy prior to that but he got clobbered in a tackle over the boundary line.

Ta.

Joins Gibbs & Krooze that I can recall off the top of my head for Blues players to do that

 

[Blue Reaper]

A very exciting and influential debut. Just love the way he goes about it and will be fascinating watching his development.

The skill and intensity of players like Carroll, Stocker and Durdin makes for an exciting future.

 

[Elmer_Judd]

We got a first round/top 10 talent at pick 41.

Let that sink in next time you question Curly Jnr and his recruitment team, there is a good reason the Dogs were upset when he defected to us.

 

[Arr0w]

We got a first round/top 10 talent at pick 41.

Let that sink in next time you question Curly Jnr and his recruitment team, there is a good reason the Dogs were upset when he defected to us.

Austin has been very good at identifying talent, hopefully his mantra of continuing with undersized spine players doesn't continue like it also did at the Dogs

 

[Sector 7G]

We got a first round/top 10 talent at pick 41.

Let that sink in next time you question Curly Jnr and his recruitment team, there is a good reason the Dogs were upset when he defected to us.

It is more of a reflection on the other recruiters that allowed him to slide.

While I was critical of Austin giving up pick 8 for Saad, (as I think that is overpaying for a HBF based off comparable trades ), I would have been happy with using that pick on Carroll due to his exposed form and being bottom age . So overall it was a great outcome.

 

[Sector 7G]

Austin has been very good at identifying talent, hopefully his mantra of continuing with undersized spine players doesn't continue like it also did at the Dogs

He did recruit one of the dogs 2m plus defenders. Baffling that the dogs let that happen. I guess Bevo didn't rate him

 

[Juddernaut08]

Austin has been very good at identifying talent, hopefully his mantra of continuing with undersized spine players doesn't continue like it also did at the Dogs

interesting - luckily our spine was already mostly there

 

[agro]

I just need to confirm as I started watching the game essentially from when he kicked the goal, but was that his first kick & first disposal in footy?

 

[Michael Jezz]

I like how the intrinsic value of a player depends on if they play for us. Imagine if we had traded the pick that became 41 for some serviceable plodder and Carroll was picked at pick 44 (for example) by some club not involved in the trade - the serviceable plodder would have been worth pick 41 and it would have been 'Jack who?'.

Please edit your post and add. That is why you keep your draft picks

 

[El Topo]

Ta.

Joins Gibbs & Krooze that I can recall off the top of my head for Blues players to do that

and Setanta!