Clancy Snell: Brave in the air, with more to unlock
Clancy Snell gives Essendon supporters a couple of easy reasons to take an interest.
He barracks for the Bombers and is a cousin of the Duursma's. But the Gippsland Power Key Defender’s football is interesting enough without those connections, given the likely need to bolster our key defensive stocks now that Jordan Ridley has found a new home.
His intercept marking is the attraction. He reads the ball drop well, has a long reach and looks comfortable leaving his opponent to attack the footy in the air.
When he decides to spoil, he means it.
I have some concern about his one-on-one defending and how consistently he uses his kicking to its full potential. In some ways, that is the interesting contrast in his game: he is prepared to take a risk in the air, but can be quite safe with the ball.
Intercept marking is his weapon
Snell is at his best when he can read the incoming ball, peel off or come forward and attack it.
He judges the drop well and gives himself a chance to arrive where the footy is going to be, rather than simply following an opponent towards it.......
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