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Adcock is a quick-running utility, able to play on a wing or in
the centre as well as down back. He gets plenty of disposals and
can burn off opponents over short distances, making damaging forays
into opposition defensive lines. He’s not tall, but not
short, either. Francis Bourke? Gary Hardeman? That would be premature.
Actually, at 1.84m
and 82kg, he’s similar in stature and ability to his team-mate
Macdonald, who’s also experienced plenty of possession in
his first full season. When Adcock’s down back, he looks
like a Scott brother. He’s most reminiscent of one of football’s
hardest men, Daniel Chick, and certainly applies the same defensive
pressure, but owns a little more skill with the ball in his hands.
Adcock is from the picturesque Victorian country town of Maryborough,
and made the long trek to Ballarat every week to play with TAC
team the North Ballarat Rebels, along with fellow Maryborough
local Troy Chaplin, who was eventually drafted at No. 15 for Port
Adelaide. Adcock was a champion sprinter and basketballer as a
junior. As a 15-yearold, Adcock was playing senior against some
hard men in the TAC comp. He played a handful of games with the
Lions in ’04 and starred with the Lions’ AFLQ reserves
side, the Suncoast Lions, before becoming a seniors fixture last
season.
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