{"id":13359,"date":"2017-10-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/melbourne-legend-whacks-jack-watts-on-the-way-out\/"},"modified":"2017-10-20T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T00:00:00","slug":"melbourne-legend-whacks-jack-watts-on-the-way-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/melbourne-legend-whacks-jack-watts-on-the-way-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne Legend Whacks Jack Watts On The Way Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Former Dees champ Garry Lyon has questioned how new Port Adelaide recruit Jack Watts will suddenly become a great player after already playing nine years at the top level.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"400\" width=\"700\" class=\"media-element file-default nova-lazyload-image-wrapper lz-cont img-responsive\" data-delta=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/watts-lyon.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><h3>\u201cWhy is [the penny] going to drop in your 10th year of footy?\u201d Lyon said on&nbsp;<em>SEN <\/em>during the week.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cThere was a three-week period there\u2026 where he was backing into packs, his second efforts were fantastic, he was diving in. I looked it and thought, \u2018Yeah, hallelujah. He\u2019s back!\u2019<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cBut then it just dissipates.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cHe\u2019s been a good at times but not for long enough very good player and a popular but also&nbsp;very&nbsp;frustrating footballer.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cHe\u2019s had nine years at the elite level and finished in the top five of the best and fairest once. He averages 16 touches and 0.9 goals per game throughout his career. He\u2019s polled a total of 13 Brownlow votes in 153 games.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cPrevious regimes have been prepared to settle for less from Jack and I don\u2019t think the Goodwin cartel will.\u201d<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Garry Lyon has delivered a parting shot at Jack Watts and offered subtle advice for upset Demons fans:<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hBH14iXMg8\">https:\/\/t.co\/hBH14iXMg8<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yGci3SKMMl\">pic.twitter.com\/yGci3SKMMl<\/a><\/p>&mdash; FOX FOOTY LIVE (@FOXFootyLive) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FOXFootyLive\/status\/920442252148666368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 18, 2017<\/a><\/blockquote>&#13;\n<script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Dees champ Garry Lyon has questioned how new Port Adelaide recruit Jack Watts will suddenly become a great player after already playing nine years at the top level. \u201cWhy is [the penny] going to drop in your 10th year of footy?\u201d Lyon said on&nbsp;SEN during the week. \u201cThere was a three-week period there\u2026 where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":7908,"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-13359","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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