Essendon’s Harry Jones wants to be remembered for having a great AFL career, and reveals the technique that has unlocked his best footy.
Harry Jones has seen this game before. He’s played one Anzac Day game in his career, but that isn’t the one he’s thinking about. It’s Thursday’s match, the one he hasn’t yet played. He’s already seen what happens.
“I wasn’t visualising and putting myself out there in that game situation,” he said of the change and improvement this year after working with psychologist Ben Robbins. Coach Brad Scott, too, is a strong advocate of visualisation and talks to Jones about it. “It’s a bit more specific than kicking five and winning the game,” he said. “There’s stuff in game visualising getting up the ground, taking marks, kicking goals, stuff to do with launching for the ball, running patterns.
“I was, what, 20 years old, and I was a little bit rattled to be honest,” he said of his first Anzac Day match in 2021.Credit:“I was standing out there, and I was just like, ‘Whoa, this is this crazy’, like, who would have thought, you know what I mean? But I think as I’m getting older and a bit more mature, it’s more about taking it in and then coming straight back to the footy because it’s a footy game as well.
That carries a weight of self-expectation that perhaps matches that of the Essendon fans who are eager for Jones and the clutch of young top draft picks who arrived the following year to achieve that level of greatness. Jones, pick No.30 in 2019, is invariably bracketed in Bomber conversation with the trio of top 10s taken the next year: Nik Cox , Archie Perkins and Zach Reid , who is now his housemate. He likes the way the group is always put together.
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