Toast Welcome to the SUNS - Ben Ainsworth
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Solid is probably a fair description. But a pick 4 in his 4th season you’d probably want more.
The graph Mt Isa Mustang produced is telling with the distance of his shots. When we improve you’d think he goes deeper
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Cheers all. Where do you see his best position? My only knock on him was his height in his draft year, but looked a professional from the get go. Also looked a great pick up for you guys with his willingness to go interstate.
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Played easily his best game for the club last night!
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Great to see!
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Loved Big Ben's season, finally an injury-free season and he smashes it out the park.
Borderline A grader, just needs that All-Australian Jacket.
Loving the AFL's feature length highlights package of niche players
Borderline A grader, just needs that All-Australian Jacket.
Loving the AFL's feature length highlights package of niche players
I've been meaning to post this comment since the end of the 2024 season, but I finally remembered this afternoon. 2024 was another disappointing year for Ainsworth up forward, with his set shot accuracy continuing to suck. This was exemplified with him missing that late goal in the "we need to grow the f**k up" game against the Kangaroos. However, 2024 was the season that the on-off wing experiment started to bear fruit. He was able to show his best attributes; endurance and workrate. Building off this, he should remain a wing full-time. However, I think he should be trained in a very specific role, the defensive winger.
Gold Coast are moving past the "world's slowest midfield" era of Fiorini and Ellis on opposing wings. Clohesy has established himself as the #1 wing, and should remain so. What I think Ainsworth should do is model his game off a forgotten man of the Tigers dynasty: Kamdyn McIntosh. The role of McIntosh was not to gather possession and launch scoring opportunities, it was to run 50m off-camera to prevent the opposition from switching the ball to the fat side. All his efforts were only visible to the coaches and the attentive fans in attendance, but they were vital to his team. I'm suggesting this role because of Hardwick Tigers history, I just think Kamdyn McIntosh should be the model.
Gold Coast are moving past the "world's slowest midfield" era of Fiorini and Ellis on opposing wings. Clohesy has established himself as the #1 wing, and should remain so. What I think Ainsworth should do is model his game off a forgotten man of the Tigers dynasty: Kamdyn McIntosh. The role of McIntosh was not to gather possession and launch scoring opportunities, it was to run 50m off-camera to prevent the opposition from switching the ball to the fat side. All his efforts were only visible to the coaches and the attentive fans in attendance, but they were vital to his team. I'm suggesting this role because of Hardwick Tigers history, I just think Kamdyn McIntosh should be the model.
