“We want to steer clear of the older and younger and just want to be one team now,” Duncan told SEN radio this morning.
According to Duncan the new draftees including Tasmanian Jake Kolodjashnij are impressing on the track after the new year brought a new level of intensity.
“He’s been training in the backline, he’s about that third tall that could possibly play on a key player. He’s a nice size; he’s quick, got good skills so he’s been training really well.”
Former Australian junior basketballer Michael Luxford also joined the club at the end of last year as a category B rookie, but 186cm Luxford is not your typical towering basketball draftee.
“When we heard we were getting a basketballer we thought we were getting a seven-footer,” Duncan joked.
“Mickey’s been going well, he’s wanting to learn and that’s the main part because obviously he hasn’t played a lot of footy.
“We had another one, Mark Blicavs, a runner who just wanted to learn and everyone has seen what he’s done so hopefully we can get the same result.”
Duncan said the new draftees have an array of brains to pick around the club, in particular Steve Johnson’s.
Long thought of as a football mastermind, Johnson’s clever football brain has Duncan believing he is destined to take the coaching road once his playing days are done.
“I pretty much call him a coach now; he pretty much runs the show. He’s a very smart footballer and Scotty always bounces his words off Stevie so that is saying something.
“His mind goes too quick for what his body can do. It’s amazing how quick he thinks and the decisions he makes.”
