STRENGTHS:

+ Contested work
+ One-on-ones
+ Overhead marking
+ Clean hands
+ Strength
+ Endurance
+ Defensive pressure
+ Footy IQ

IMPROVEMENTS:

- Explosive speed
- Kicking efficiency
- Goalkicking accuracy

Huxtable certainly has the traits to make it at the next level as an inside midfielder/forward, and has shown said traits over the last few years. Around the ball, Huxtable is a consistent extractor, and boasts clean hands as well as great strength to win a hardball, and rip it from the opposition. Offensively she can clear it from congestion, while defensively she pins opponents with terrific tackling technique.

With ball in hand, her delivery through traffic is sound, and her weighting of handballs to space is a delight, able to find the right option and put it so her teammates can run onto it without breaking stride. By foot, it is a different story. Huxtable can roost it a fair way off her trusty left, but the efficiency with which it travels is not as high.

That kicking efficiency is a main improvement for Huxtable, though that is not to say she is not damaging, because her hurt factor in the front half can be particularly high. When she wins it, she puts the ball into dangerous areas, and with any time or space, can pick out the right options as she does have some terrific footy smarts. It is more a case of when she is under pressure or trying to break away from the stoppage that the inefficiency creeps in.

At her height, Huxtable is a good size to also play forward, and her hands in the air are some of the best of any rotating midfielder going forward. She can clunk grabs, and is more than comfortable competing one-on-one, and that ability both in the air and at ground level is sensational. While her contested gamestyle is her bread and butter, Huxtable spreads well and wins it on the outside too.

Her endurance base aids the Geelong Falcons midfielder in finding the ball all around the ground, and she might first win it at the coalface, but so often she will be inside 50 ready to receive off the very next kick. That endurance helps her cover the ground well late as she does lack that explosiveness that some inside midfielders tend to have. Thanks to her strength and power, she can break or shrug tackles, and her clean hands do the rest.

As mentioned before, defensively, Huxtable is also very strong, and never lets her team down. She leads by example and fits in to any midfield, making her teammates walk taller. If she is up forward, Huxtable can be the difference. At times her inaccuracy in front of goal can sting a little, but if she can sharpen that up, then as a forward she will hit the scoreboard consistently.

Quite often you hear the saying about drafting players on what they can do, rather than what they can't, and Huxtable falls into that boat. She has a lot of quality traits, and if clubs can overlook the few areas she needs to improve on - and help her get there - no doubt she will develop into a quality player at the elite level.