Brent Moloney

Beamer played through the middle, and ended up with 22 possessions and seven clearances. Of those, he only had six kicks, so we’d probably like him to use the football a bit more. He’s covering plenty of ground during games, but just needs to have more impact in terms of efficiency and ability to put ball inside 50 – particularly as he’s a senior experienced player. He’s been steadily improving over the last three weeks.

Jack Crisp

Really showed some positive signs. He had 23 possessions, playing that mid/back role in rotation with Nick Robertson. Jack has shown that his ability to run and carry the ball is one of his greatest assets. But we still wanted to see more of it. Had four contested and 19 uncontested possessions, so needs to win more of his own footy. But 12 handball receives shows that he’s working hard to get in the right positions.

Ash McGrath

Ash played more on the wing and across half-forward this week. In the last quarter, we tried to isolate him up forward as he can be a match-winner, but we just couldn’t get the ball to him. He finished with 13 possessions and no goals, but the way we moved the ball didn’t give him many opportunities. With each week he is getting one step closer to his AFL return.

Nick Robertson

Played a similar role to Crispy. Found 29 possessions and had three inside 50s and four rebound 50s, which shows us he’s working hard at both ends of the ground. We’re still trying to work on his defensive ability, that is finding an opponent and being accountable for him as well. One great thing you know with Robbo is that you’re always getting 100% intensity and effort every week.

Jordan Lisle

Jordy took a step in the right direction, and showed a bit more urgency and intensity. He helped generate a lot of offensive ball movement from defence, and had 25 possessions and four rebound 50s. What was most pleasing was his spoiling at the contest. He rarely lost one-on-one contest, and his ability to bring the ball to ground was a highlight of his game.

Daniel McStay

Played down back. Dan’s greatest strength is run and carry, however he was let down a bit by his skills. When he does provide that run and carry, it makes us a much better side. Because GWS had so many tall forwards, he was forced to play on a tall – as were all our key defenders. With guys like Boyd, Giles, McCarthy, Phillips, Downie, and Lobb in the Giants forward line, all our backline players were giving away more than five centimetres. It was a good learning day for Dan.

Tom Cutler

Tom’s offensive game was really pleasing. His ability to find possessions and generate offensive movement is a real strength of his. He also had nine contested possessions, which was good as it’s an area he’s been working hard on. The area he probably needs to improve most is finding an opponent defensively.

Andrew Raines

Rainesy played on the wing mainly and ended up with 23 possessions. He was probably a bit let down by his kicking, but he certainly runs really hard and works hard. He’s really stepping up and becoming a leader of our younger guys.

James Polkinghorne

Played up forward for most of the day, and spent a bit of time in the midfield in the second half when Lester came off. He worked really hard, and that was reflected in his GPS data. Although he probably didn’t get bang for his buck with just 15 possessions for the day. So he needs to make sure he puts himself in dangerous positions so that his hard work is rewarded with more of the ball.

Jonathan Freeman

Jono looked lively and dangerous down forward. He only had five touches for the game, but kicked three goals. It’s important for Jono going forward that he battles games out for the full four quarters. He looks dangerous at times, but just has to do that more consistently within games.

Ryan Lester

Only played half a game as he was the carry-over emergency player for the senior team. Had a good start to the game, and gave good drive and shape out of midfield with seven contested possessions, six uncontested possessions, and four clearances.

Jackson Paine

Played down back again, and was lively despite punching out of his weight division in terms of who he was playing on. He battled manfully and made some good spoils. He’s been playing a new role in recent weeks, so is still learning the starting positions, but it was certainly a pleasing game from him. He was another who was probably let down by his skills. Provided good run with 22 possessions and has shown enough o suggest we need to keep him down in defence for a little bit longer.

Isaac Conway

Izzy went OK when on the ground. He only played 75% game time, but finished with a game-high five tackles. His ability to side-step and get out of traffic was impressive. He’s starting to work a bit harder and his GPS figures are showing that.

Nick Hayes

Nick was a bit unwell on the day, so his running ability and offensive output was down from previous weeks. He was still able to battle through the game though, which is important as players need to learn how to compete under duress.

Archie Smith

Archie was another who was unwell, and has a really hard task against GWS’ mountain of talls – guys like Giles, Lobb, Downie, Phillips and even Boyd occasionally, all of whom are 200cm-plus. He’s continuing to develop. We need to be a bit patient with Archie because he’s coming from such a long way back. But he’s doing things in games that are really  pleasing – it’s now just a matter of getting that consistency of effort.

Jordon Bourke

Bourkey played forward agains and had four shots on goal, but didn’t get the reward with just one goal and three behinds. His ability to mark is a real strength, but he needs to improve his defensive ability, particularly once the ball gets lost in our forward half.

Sam Michael

Sam looked lively. He kicked two goals up forward and did a bit of the ruck work as well. He gave us genuine effort, with six marks – two of which were contested. His positioning at stoppages was good. It was probably one of his better games for the year. His energy and voice is really important, and he always has a huge work rate.