\n Interview\n <\/p>\n
\n Bombers\u2019 first-round pick lapping up pre-season experience.\n <\/p>\n
It said a lot when draftee Jacob Farrow\u00a0put his arm across Sam Durham at the first bounce of Essendon\u2019s match simulation last week.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The pick No.10 is among an extensive group of teenagers being tested against seasoned starters in this pre-season, learning off experienced Dons in game settings and adapting to the increased pace and intensity of training.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Alongside Farrow, Dyson Sharp was another given lengthy matchups with Zach Merrett and Darcy Parish at centre clearances \u2013 it\u2019s evident that the Bombers want their youngsters learning quickly and it appears to be paying dividends.\u00a0<\/p>\n
As one of the standout half backs from last year\u2019s talent pool, Farrow is already working his way into conversations as one of the Club\u2019s best kicks, impressing in defence and picking up handy lessons off his leaders.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s just a great way to learn (going up against these guys),\u201d Farrow said of his match simulation experience.<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously, a few of the best players in the comp are there and they\u2019re all looking really good at what they\u2019re doing at the moment. To be able to play off them and learn while playing is really exciting.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s just the little things in their craft (that stand out). Being able to get a bit of separation playing midfield, protecting the drop zone, that\u2019s what I\u2019ve been caught out on a few times and it\u2019s obviously a step up in pace of the game. I\u2019m slowly adapting.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Despite the midfield exposure, Farrow still sees his best work coming from the back half this season after a solid block of training there in his first few months at the elite level.<\/p>\n
Over those months, the 18-year-old has grown more and more accustomed to the daily rigours thanks to both his draft class and the leadership group around him.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI think there\u2019s a lot of depth in that midfield, so if I\u2019m to play this year, I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if I was off half back in a few games,\u201d Farrow said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI trained at half back from the get-go and have only really moved into the midfield for that last week or two, but Mason Redman, Andy McGrath and those boys have been really getting around me.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s just the routine now, really. Wake up, come to work and put in the work here.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI moved into a house with \u2018Sully\u2019 (Robey) and \u2018Sharpy\u2019 (Dyson Sharp) about two weeks ago, we\u2019ve got our own little space. We\u2019re going through this together in our first year, it\u2019s exciting.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Interview Bombers\u2019 first-round pick lapping up pre-season experience. It said a lot when draftee Jacob Farrow\u00a0put his arm…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85,83],"class_list":["post-451800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}