Weight: 81kg
Preferred foot: Right
Role: Midfield/HFF
Potential: 6-7.5/10
Style: shorter Jobe Watson
Strengths
> Sharp evasiveness and balance in close – movement through traffic is very good-excellent
> Very good-excellent ability to read stoppages – natural 1st dibs midfielder
> Very good lateral vision and decision making in traffic – clean, quick, powerful and damaging feeder by hand – capable of releasing runners very effectively
> Good strength levels and hard at the footy
> Offers good tackling pressure and effectiveness at stoppages – hard hitting tackler
Weaknesses
> Doesn’t have much of an outside game– kicking tends to be high trajectory and provides little hurt factor (conservative decision making by foot – mostly a sideways ball mover and short chipper, when he moves it forward he rarely does it well) and doesn’t have much ball carrying ability or potential
> Lacks versatility – midfield is the only position I think he is capable of playing
Other
> Can produce a good short burst of pace, but lacks pace over distance and ball carrying ability
> Fairly consistent performer game to game and within games, but not a high level
> Serviceable RF kick over short range, but lacks penetration because of this plus decision making he has little hurt factor
> Capable overhead mark – seems to play a bit taller than height?
> Played in 2 U18 championships series (2008 and 2009)
> Has senior level experience in the TSFL behind him
> AIS-AFL graduate
Overall
Harwood is a midfield prospect that has good-very good ability inside traffic – however he will need to improve his outside game a fair bit to develop into an effective player at AFL. I think at worst he should be good back up as a depth/emergency player, at best he could be a solid foot soldier for his team through the midfield. I see his value as a 3rd rounder.
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