Travis Tuck has impressed in the SANFL this season. Picture: Sarah Reed Source: Sarah Reed / News Limited
HAWTHORN premiership player Andy Collins says the 18 club recruiters should do their due diligence and at least interview Travis Tuck who he believes deserves another chance in the AFL.
Collins, who coached the 25 year-old at West Adelaide this season, described Tuck as the SANFL's best clearance players and a walk-up start for a club looking for a big-bodied midfielder.
He said Tuck, who became the first player to record three strikes under the AFL's illicit drug policy in 2010, had not put a foot wrong since moving from Hawthorn to Adelaide, and has a steady job and girlfriend as he completes the rebuilding of his life both on and off the field.
"If any recruiter just met with him, he would see that Trav is in such a strong position and he would be a totally different person to what he once was and he is a very impressive young man right now," Collins said.
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"He is probably the best clearance player in the SANFL and he had an early ankle injury ankle which didn't allow him to maximise his fitness, but he is a V8 who operated on six cylinders and he has got a huge engine capability."
Collins, who has been appointed coach of VFL club Williamstown after six years with West Adelaide, said niggling injuries prevented Tuck from performing like a "V8'' and there was obviously a huge upside to him if went back into the AFL.
"He has got elite foot skills and there's his physicality and he is very different as a player to his father (games record holder Michael) and his brother Shane (recently retired Richmond on-baller)," Collins said.
"He is a left footer, while the other two were right footers and he has got deft foot skills and is deceptively big and strong which is the modern midfielder that all clubs are looking for."
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Collins, who has a teaching and psychology background, said Tuck was the best state midfielder he'd encountered and was laughing that he got him to West Adelaide this year.
He said that unlike other players who had encountered drug taking during their careers, Tuck no longer "touched it" and was ticking all the boxes in regards to employment, his professionalism and his whole life.
Tuck's manager Liam Pickering, who said everyone deserves a second chance, says there's no doubt the former Hawk was better than some current league players.
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