{"id":38903,"date":"2018-08-17T15:45:39","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T04:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.afldraftcentral.com.au\/?p=38903"},"modified":"2021-10-06T06:26:57","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T20:26:57","slug":"the-run-home-western-jets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/2018\/08\/17\/the-run-home-western-jets\/","title":{"rendered":"The run home: Western Jets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WESTERN Jets have had an up-and-down season to date, but still loom as a dark horse in the finals series. They sit sixth, and while they would need both Murray Bushrangers and Oakleigh Chargers to lose both games to finish top four, they have enough about them to secure a top six spot and play a bottom two team in the Wildcard Round. The Jets have looked very good at times, and realistically, the blowout 20-goal loss to Dandenong Stingrays makes their points against look worse than it actually is. Defensively they stand up well, and they rate around where they sit offensively, which makes them unpredictable and good enough to cause headaches for the top sides.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wins:<\/strong>\u00a08<br \/><strong>Losses:<\/strong>\u00a06<br \/><strong>Draws:<\/strong>\u00a00<br \/><strong>Position:<\/strong>\u00a06th<br \/><strong>Points For:<\/strong>\u00a0899 (6th)<br \/><strong>Points Against:<\/strong>\u00a01001 (9th)<br \/><strong>Percentage:<\/strong>\u00a090<br \/><strong>Points:<\/strong>\u00a032<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Fixtures:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><strong>R15:<\/strong>\u00a0vs. Northern Knights \u2013 Avalon Airport Oval<br \/><strong>R16:<\/strong>\u00a0vs. Bendigo Pioneers \u2013 Queen Elizabeth Oval<\/p>\n<p><strong>National Combine Invitations:<\/strong>\u00a0[4] Daly Andrews, Zak Butters, Buku Khamis, Xavier O\u2019Halloran<\/p>\n<p><strong>State Combine Invitations:<\/strong>\u00a0[1] Stefan Radovanovic<\/p>\n<p>Five players received combine invitations, with the speedy\u00a0<strong>Daly Andrews<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Stefan Radovanovic<\/strong>, intercept machine\u00a0<strong>Buku Khamis<\/strong>, and the X-factor in\u00a0<strong>Zak Butters<\/strong>, all earning the right to test at the National and State combines. Along with the quartet, they have consistent midfielders\u00a0<strong>Connor Thar<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Jaden Rice<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Jack Watkins<\/strong>\u00a0roaming through the midfield, talls\u00a0<strong>Aaron Clarke<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Hamish Murphy<\/strong>\u00a0up either end, and a host of bottom-agers who have shown enough to suggest they will have plenty of draft potential next year.\u00a0<strong>Steven Kyriazis<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Lucas Rocci<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Emerson Jeka<\/strong>\u00a0provide a forward presence, while\u00a0<strong>Darcy Cassar<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Josh Honey<\/strong>\u00a0link between midfield and forward.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Top Fives:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><strong>Disposals:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1 \u2013 Connor Thar \u2013 355 (1st overall)<br \/>2 \u2013 Jack Watkins \u2013 284<br \/>3 \u2013 Darcy Cassar \u2013 239<br \/>4 \u2013 Jaden Rice \u2013 221<br \/>5 \u2013 Daly Anderws \u2013 214<\/p>\n<p><strong>Marks:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1 \u2013 Darcy Cassar \u2013 58 (eq. 20th overall)<br \/>2 \u2013 Connor Thar \u2013 53<br \/>3 \u2013 Buku Khamis \u2013 52<br \/>4 \u2013 Aaron Clarke \u2013 51<br \/>4 \u2013 Steven Kyriazis \u2013 51<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contested Possessions:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1 \u2013 Jack Watkins \u2013 155 (2nd overall)<br \/>2 \u2013 Connor Thar \u2013 147 (5th overall)<br \/>3 \u2013 Jaden Rice \u2013 142 (8th overall)<br \/>4 \u2013 Xavier O\u2019Halloran \u2013 104<br \/>5 \u2013 Darcy Cassar \u2013 103<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tackles:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1 \u2013 Jack Watkins \u2013 111 (1st overall)<br \/>2 \u2013 Connor Thar \u2013 77 (6th overall)<br \/>3 \u2013 Lucas Rocci \u2013 57<br \/>4 \u2013 Josh Honey \u2013 54<br \/>5 \u2013 Jaden Rice \u2013 53<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hitouts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1 \u2013 Darren Walters \u2013 285 (2nd overall)<br \/>2 \u2013 Tom Warner \u2013 59<br \/>3 \u2013 Aaron Clarke \u2013 58<br \/>4 \u2013 Ayden Tanner \u2013 31<br \/>5 \u2013 Emerson Jeka \u2013 15<\/p>\n<p><strong>Clearances:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1 \u2013 Jack Watkins \u2013 67 (3rd overall)<br \/>2 \u2013 Connor Thar \u2013 62 (4th overall)<br \/>3 \u2013 Xavier O\u2019Halloran \u2013 58 (5th overall)<br \/>4 \u2013 Jaden Rice \u2013 52<br \/>5 \u2013 Darren Walters \u2013 28<br \/>5 \u2013 Zak Butters \u2013 28<\/p>\n<p><strong>Inside 50s:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1 \u2013 Xavier O\u2019Halloran \u2013 62 (eq. 1st overall)<br \/>2 \u2013 Jack Watkins \u2013 50 (9th overall)<br \/>3 \u2013 Connor Thar \u2013 47<br \/>3 \u2013 Daly Andrews \u2013 47<br \/>5 \u2013 Darcy Cassar \u2013 45<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rebounds:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1 \u2013 Spencer Johnson \u2013 38 (12th overall)<br \/>2 \u2013 Hamish Murphy \u2013 37<br \/>3 \u2013 Jack Papachatzakis \u2013 34<br \/>4 \u2013 Stefan Radovanovic \u2013 32<br \/>5 \u2013 Daly Andrews \u2013 30<\/p>\n<p><strong>Goals:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1 \u2013 Steven Kyriazis \u2013 16 (eq. 13th overall)<br \/>2 \u2013 Aaron Clarke \u2013 13<br \/>3 \u2013 Josh Honey \u2013 12<br \/>4 \u2013 Daniel Pantalleresco \u2013 9<br \/>5 \u2013 Darcy Cassar \u2013 8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WESTERN Jets have had an up-and-down season to date, but still loom as a dark horse in the finals series. They sit sixth, and while they would need both Murray Bushrangers and Oakleigh Chargers to lose both games to finish top four, they have enough about them to secure a top six spot and play [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":35150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7949,8,16],"tags":[3834,2093,2069,3969,2731,2487,2336,4285,2187,4286,4331,2418,4046,51,6621,41,2415],"class_list":["post-38903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nab-league","category-news","category-tac-cup","tag-aaron-clarke","tag-buku-khamis","tag-connor-thar","tag-daly-andrews","tag-darcy-cassar","tag-emerson-jeka","tag-hamish-murphy","tag-jack-watkins","tag-jaden-rice","tag-josh-honey","tag-lucas-rocci","tag-stefan-radovanovic","tag-steven-kyriazis","tag-tac-cup","tag-the-run-home","tag-western-jets","tag-zak-butters"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88083,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38903\/revisions\/88083"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}