Player Watch #20: Nick 'Souva' Larkey - '23 AA & '24 NM VC

[SonofSamsquanch]

Nick Larkey – 100 games

The 134th player to play 100 games for the North Melbourne Football Club

Played: 99 Won: 20 Drawn: 1 Lost: 78
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Game 1 – Round 18, 2017 v Essendon (Docklands). Essendon 20.12-132 d. North Melbourne 16.9-105
Game 50 – Round 22, 2021 v Sydney (Docklands). Sydney 13.13-91 d. North Melbourne 12.5-77

Disposals
Game High: 21 (Round 24, 2023 v Gold Coast)
Season High: 216 (2023)

Kicks
Game High: 18 (Round 24, 2023 v Gold Coast)
Season High: 152 (2023)

Handballs
Game High:10 (Round 8, 2019 v Geelong)
Season High: 87 (2021)

Marks
Game High: 11 (Round 24, 2023 v Gold Coast)
Season High: 97 (2023)

Goals: 201 Behinds: 72

Brownlow Medal Games
Round 19, 2021 v Carlton – 3 votes
Round 17, 2022 v Collingwood – 1 vote
Round 21, 2022 v Sydney – 1 vote
Round 1, 2023 v West Coast – 2 votes
Round 11, 2023 v Collingwood – 2 votes
Round 24, 2023 v Gold Coast – 3 votes

Finals:
Nil

Most Consecutive Games: 32 (Round 20, 2022 v Essendon to - )
Has played 99 of 139 games since debut

Honours
2019 Rising Star Nominee (Round 16, 2019 v St.Kilda)
2021 Leading Goalkicker – 42 goals
2022- North Melbourne Vice Captain
2022 Leading Goalkicker – 38 goals
2023 Leading Goalkicker – 71 goals
2023 All Australian (Interchange)

Records
Most NMFC goals in a game v Gold Coast (9 – Round 24, 2023)

And a talented artist...

 

[gerry101101]

Due.

 

[koshari]

thought the same. Couldn't recall a time where he's had a decent day against Hawthorn. That and we never have anyone else for Sicily to worry about so he always has a field day chopping everything that enters our F50.

Was 1975, oh sorry that was we...

 

[DuckYeah]

His 100 game jumper is at $2200..

 

[tazaa]

Reckon hes on for a big bag today

 

[FootySmartSimpson]

Whilst he speaks very well, forget the rhetoric and deliver on the field.

Our midfield has been pox, but he will want to kick a bag soon, lest last seeming like an anomaly.

 

[Chadwiko]

Doing my head in today.

 

[Ligma]

Pick 76 in 2006

 

[SammyRoo]

Pick 76 in 2006

That would make him 36yrs old

 

[Ligma]

That would make him 36yrs old

That was according to Kellie underwood lol

 

[RossHenshaw]

Larkey is playing like pick 76 or whatever he was . Can’t take an overhead mark , stages for frees continuously.
Other teams have worked him & us out…

 

[SammyRoo]

That was according to Kellie underwood

Kelly :

 

[muttley45]

Once upon a time, it was the unwritten rule that forwards should always play in front, however, since he doesn't have the frame of the Tomahawk, Larkey is regularly way too easily pushed under the ball in a marking contest, usually only about 1 in 10 or so drawing a free kick.

Maybe he should play from behind to get around this tactic, or play the Jeremy Cameron

5

Jeremy Cameron

Age

31

Ht

196cm

Wt

94kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

12.5

3star

K

9.0

3star

HB

3.4

3star

M

5.4

5star

T

1.6

4star

G

2.6

5star

D

10.0

3star

K

7.1

3star

HB

2.9

2star

M

4.6

4star

T

2.0

3star

G

1.9

5star

D

8.2

2star

K

5.0

2star

HB

3.2

3star

M

4.6

5star

T

2.4

4star

G

2.0

5star

style of getting up the ground and beating his opponent back using his pace and tank.

 

[King Corey]

He's bloody mobile for his size, was trying to get things going like a giant midfielder yesterday.

 

[Kciza]

Is he actually our best ruckman?

 

[tazaa]

Is he actually our best ruckman?

Yes.

 

[SammyRoo]

Is he actually our best ruckman?

His ruck follow-ups would be better than X

 

[Kciza]

Yes.

Damn

 

[koshari]

Once upon a time, it was the unwritten rule that forwards should always play in front, however, since he doesn't have the frame of the Tomahawk, Larkey is regularly way too easily pushed under the ball in a marking contest, usually only about 1 in 10 or so drawing a free kick.

Maybe he should play from behind to get around this tactic, or play the Jeremy Cameron style of getting up the ground and beating his opponent back using his pace and tank.

Never had exveptional mitts and even today the few oit on front grabs he took were juggling efforts but he is as efficent as a honda civic. Booting bbb without having a marking foil is sheer neglect.

 

[archereleven]

That was according to Kellie underwood lol

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[amaz199]

Needs to take the easy ones. Makes things more difficult for himself.

 

[Possession]

Some pretty unacceptable dropped marks and a burning of a certain Zurhaar goal yesterday. Just be reliable, Souv.

 

[Chadwiko]

Some pretty unacceptable dropped marks and a burning of a certain Zurhaar goal yesterday. Just be reliable, Souv.

Agree, but what annoyed me more was the playing for frees/flopping.

And he got rewarded for it late in the game so it worries me he thinks it's a viable tactic.

Gotta cut that shit out.

 

[Chadwiko]

Incredibly frustrating game.

 

[Errol Street]

This bloke has got ahead of himself. He made the AA last year he thought he had made it and didnt work hard enough to keep improving. This is the culture of the club. He has no strength i dont think he has won a 1-1 all year. He has gone backwards, terrible year. Yeah some of the kicks to him (and there are far to many thats another story) but he doesnt have any idea about trapping it in the 50 its like a slingshot.