Melbourne key ahead Jack Watts, 1 of the most scrutinised people in the AFL, has shrugged off the most recent criticism about his actively playing intensity.

Former Collingwood mentor Mick Malthouse and ex-North Melbourne premiership captain Wayne Carey have been unimpressed with Watts for the duration of Melbourne's pre-time of year win more than Collingwood on Saturday evening at Etihad Stadium.

But Watts had the robust assist of mentor Mark Neeld post-match.

On Sunday, the twenty-yr-outdated stated the views of Neeld and Melbourne forwards mentor Leigh Brown had been the only views that mattered to him when it came to his enjoying type.

The factor for me is listening to my mentor - I am certain there are many other people out there with several other thoughts and that is fine. I am great with that,　 Watts said.

I am employed to that by now, that is for certain.

(I will) take it on board and move on to up coming week.

Watts was the No.one draft pick in 2008 and provided his large-profile function as a crucial ahead his type will usually entice loads of community scrutiny.

When you see　him engage in, he lacks ambition - and that's damning,　 Malthouse said on 3AW.

Neeld worked under Malthouse as an assistant coach at Collingwood till late very last 12 months, when he took the Melbourne task.

While www.cheapoakleys1.com noting he had not heard what Malthouse and Carey had mentioned, Neeld did not reject their points of watch in his submit-match media conference.

But he also backed Watts to the hilt.

There are a number of premierships between those two and they do know what they're conversing about,　 Neeld explained.

I see Jack as a quite talented younger footballer who's played　forty online games.

Men and women discuss about 'his whole career' - properly, his total profession is about two years' lengthy.

He's received some unique talents - there are way too a lot of gamers who can affect a recreation with low possession counts (and) I believe he can.

Neeld stated Watts was being asked to perform a diverse role this season and extra his human body was even now creating.

He is obtained some tricks - I assumed his defensive perform (on Saturday night) was actually excellent,　 Neeld said.

He had www.discount-oakleys.com a substantial within 50 rely for someone who a lot of the time was actively playing deep, so he makes the most of his possibilities.

Neeld himself publicly took Watts to process in a newspaper job interview late final yr, calling on him to concentrate on his football.

I mentioned 1 comment in October that is been replayed about 35 instances, so it looks I talk about www.discount-oakleys.com Jack all the time,　 Neeld stated.

He trains truly hard, he is a great youthful talent and I'm pretty happy to have him on our listing.