Re: VFL 2022 Rd 13 Carlton vs Footscray
Reply #45 –
You are talking mostly about his pre-Development junior career, if I applied the same logic to Weitering he should be playing as a CHF, I think he still holds some sort of junior Mt Martha goal kicking record! He was so good as a junior CHF in about u15s/u16s he kicked a dozen of more goals for his team in just a half of football, then swapped sides to play for the opposition and kicked another bag of goals for the opposition after half-time, but we play him at fullback!
The bulk of Kemps pre-draft season, the season that caught everyone's attention, he was played as a utility, he was all over the ground with the majority being on the ball or up forward. Prior to that he was a vanilla intercept defender who was going to be taken late in the draft. When he displayed his wares as a midfielder / forward he became a 1st round draft pick!
I don't see the point of denying this history, everyone can argue whether it is right or wrong as an assessment, but it's a bit ridiculous to somehow assert that it never happened.
No LP, I am talking about his immediate pre-draft footy. The narrative is that Kemp was supposed to be tried in the midfield but his ACL meant that it never happened.
More importantly, he hasn’t shown any midfielder attributes in his time with us.
Of course, Kemp could have a turn in the midfield, much like Jack used to before he became a ruckman, but it would be occasional and probably to create a mismatch or nullify an opposition mid.