The 2018 Jim Stynes Community Leadership award winner, Neville Jetta struggled to get going as he battled a series of knocks culminating in a season-ending knee injury. Over the previous three seasons, the Dee had played in 98% of matches. Jetta has overcome the knee injury and is enjoying an untroubled preseason. A fantastic defensive asset, he has never translated that to the desired statistician sweat. Find that permanent marker.
Jetta to exit hangar
The 2018 Jim Stynes Community Leadership award winner, Neville Jetta struggled to get going as he battled a series of knocks culminating in a season-ending knee injury. Over the previous three seasons, the Dee had played in 98% of matches. Jetta has overcome the knee injury and is enjoying an untroubled preseason. A fantastic defensive asset, he has never translated that to the desired statistician sweat. Find that permanent marker.
Neville ain't nobody
For the past two years running, Neville Jetta has given exemplary service in the Melbourne backline in every game, though he dropped two disposals and a mark off his game last season to fall well below the back baseline. Jetta is of All-Australian calibre as a lockdown back pocket, with little licence to create on the rebound. Enjoy his play from a purist footy follower's point of view, and forget him for fantasy purposes.
The niftiest Neville
It was his teammate Michael Hibberd that eventually made the cut in a back pocket but Neville Jetta's name wouldn't have been out of place in the All-Australian side either, in more of a deep defensive role taking the best opposition goalsneak. His game is not built around getting the ball himself, however. It wasn't looking that way early in 2017 as Jetta started with three excellent scores, then his role shifted more onto locking down the likes of Michael Walters, Eddie Betts and Robbie Gray, at which he can excel. The Demons have enough ball-carriers on their half back line to consign him to defensive 50.
