{"id":10469,"date":"2018-06-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/former-champ-says-jack-watts-will-never-be-a-key-forward\/"},"modified":"2018-06-22T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-22T00:00:00","slug":"former-champ-says-jack-watts-will-never-be-a-key-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/former-champ-says-jack-watts-will-never-be-a-key-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Champ Says Jack Watts Will Never Be A Key Forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dermott Brereton<\/strong> &#8212; five-time premiership centre half-forward with Hawthorn &#8212; says Port Adelaide recruit <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/AFL-Hall-Of-Famer-says-DO-NOT-Bring-Back-Jack-Watts-This-Week\"><strong>Jack Watts<\/strong><\/a> isn\u2019t a key position player, but it\u2019s not all bad news.<\/p>\n<blockquote><h3>\u201cWatts has some real footballing capabilities and even some true weaponry,\u201d Brereton writes for News Ltd. \u201cBut the physical presence that comes through the raw power within a man\u2019s frame is not one of them and very few (if any) have ever made it as a key forward without that physical capability.\u201d<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>But Dermie says there are other ways the \u201clightly framed 195cm\u201d Watts can become an important player for the Power.<\/p>\n<blockquote><h3>\u201cThe answer should be pressure on the opposition.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cThrough his actions, making the ball stay in his part of the ground. Harassment is just as important as tackling if is disturbs the opposition\u2019s disposal. But Jack isn\u2019t a great pressure player.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cI would love to see him utilize his fantastic pace and run down an opponent and gain a holding the ball free kick.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cIt would be beneficial to him to let his coaches see him go out of his way to lay across a boot and smother a kick as well, or at least attempt it.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cWe know that he is not a key position player, but we also know that he has some excellent talents as well. The additions that he could make to his game to make it better are all additions that are instigated by mindset.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cLike every footballer\u2019s destiny, it is up to him.\u201d<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Dermott Brereton believes Jack Watts lacks the presence required to be a dominant key forward. What does that mean for his future? MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aUfRsCavAG\">https:\/\/t.co\/aUfRsCavAG<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7XOa1t9MEi\">pic.twitter.com\/7XOa1t9MEi<\/a><\/p>&mdash; SuperFooty (AFL) (@superfooty) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/superfooty\/status\/1009941929503539200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 21, 2018<\/a><\/blockquote>&#13;\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dermott Brereton &#8212; five-time premiership centre half-forward with Hawthorn &#8212; says Port Adelaide recruit Jack Watts isn\u2019t a key position player, but it\u2019s not all bad news. \u201cWatts has some real footballing capabilities and even some true weaponry,\u201d Brereton writes for News Ltd. \u201cBut the physical presence that comes through the raw power within a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2593,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-10469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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