AFL Player # 1: Andrew "Pidge" McGrath (VC)

[Beerfish]

Contract Status: Unrestricted Free Agent 2030
My Boy Draft 2024: Pick 13, Vindicater

 

[Runk]

That is perfect vision of what he does to clubs. He turns their zone into a cluster**** with his run.

 

[yaco55]

Will end up an endurance beast - He's naturally gifted aerobically and is already running out games to the end.

 

[blitzer]

Will end up an endurance beast - He's naturally gifted aerobically and is already running out games to the end.

Yep its pretty exciting when you think that the coaches have all said he did about half the training that Parish did as a first year player last year during the preseason. He just has enormous potential to develop in the next few years.

 

[kleanr]

Got a good set of Bendix brake pads on him.

 

[Doss]

I feel so secure when he has ball in hand, already.

 

[BomberFan36]

Yep its pretty exciting when you think that the coaches have all said he did about half the training that Parish did as a first year player last year during the preseason. He just has enormous potential to develop in the next few years.

Does anyone else think he is holding himself back in the first half of matches. Almost, just being sure he is defending his opponent, and not taking the game on as much?

After half time, he appears to be really letting the shackles go, and getting lots of penetration from his run out of defence. Not sure if this is by design (given his low fitness base), or just what I am noticing. But at the moment it is definitely working for him, and can't wait until he has the fitness base to do it for four quarters!

 

[daffo]

Another great game by McGrath. He keep this up and he is a good chance of rising star.

 

[Run and carry]

Yep its pretty exciting when you think that the coaches have all said he did about half the training that Parish did as a first year player last year during the preseason. He just has enormous potential to develop in the next few years.

Didn't take much notice of the preseason (injuries and so forth) so why did he only do half of the training that Parish did? Core strength and fitness base at least equal to Parish in his first year I would have thought.

 

[Rack Watts]

That is perfect vision of what he does to clubs. He turns their zone into a cluster**** with his run.

I went ****ing nuts when he did that, but nobody around me made a peep. I don't know how people that go to the footy every week, don't know how amazing that is!

 

[blitzer]

Didn't take much notice of the preseason (injuries and so forth) so why did he only do half of the training that Parish did? Core strength and fitness base at least equal to Parish in his first year I would have thought.

They never really told us why exactly because he was fit as were all our first year players from memory. The only comment I heard from the coaches was that Parish did more than first year players normally would (because of all our suspensions last year) and therefore all our first year players this year did far less than Parish last year. This wasn't specific to McGrath either - it was true for all our first years: McGrath, Ridley, Clarke, Begley, Mutch etc.

 

[Zach Package]

Daniher the selfish prick robbed him of goal of the millennium, he was on for the return handball and had an acre in front of him, and he wanted it as well.

 

[Kong]

Seriously did we even consider anyone else for the first pick, the guy looks like being the best first draft pick in the game's history.....

Whoops!

He does look like a really great player, though.

Smart, self-driven and highly skilled.

Looks like a genuine leader; not just a token football club leader, but a leader.

He and Merrett are refreshingly measured people for their ages.

 

[Kong]

Who is McGrath's competition for rising star? Is Clayton Oliver eligible?

Has Liam Anthony won the award yet?

 

[BomberFan355]

Daniher the selfish prick robbed him of goal of the millennium, he was on for the return handball and had an acre in front of him, and he wanted it as well.

Southern Stand would be a pile of rubble right now if that had happened.

 

[GUMBLETRON]

Has Liam Anthony won the award yet?

Right behind Jarrad Waite.

 

[Laverde2Smack]

Another great game by McGrath. He keep this up and he is a good chance of rising star.

If he keeps this up it will be the most emphatic rising star victory ever.

 

[Summer Nights]

I tipped McGrath and Taranto to be the best two of the draft. The former suits our needs better but I reckon the latter will be the best of the lot in a couple of years.

 

[Hamster14]

I tipped McGrath and Taranto to be the best two of the draft. The former suits our needs better but I reckon the latter will be the best of the lot in a couple of years.

So you picked the players that went 1&2 in the draft to become the 2 best players from the draft. Interesting

 

[eth-dog]

So you picked the players that went 1&2 in the draft to become the 2 best players from the draft. Interesting

He said it pre-draft.

 

[eDPS]

He said it pre-draft.

He just copied me

 

[TheGreatBarryB]

Think most had McGrath ahead of Taranto, even the Giants if we'd selected McCluggage at #1

 

[Skipper_]

I believe we had Taranto fourth behind McGrath, McCluggage and Setterfield.

 

[MightyDons4]

I tipped McGrath and Taranto to be the best two of the draft. The former suits our needs better but I reckon the latter will be the best of the lot in a couple of years.

I reckon SPS and Andy will be the top two in a redo, quietly confident of that.

 

[Lore]

I like the idea of Taranto, but I have to wonder whether that might be bias due to a James Hird comparison at some point prior to the draft? At any rate McGrath is our boy and I very much doubt we'll be disappointed by him if he keeps going the way he has been going.

 

[VelvetSledge]

I'll tip Andy to slot his first goal this week.