I'm interested in hearing people's thoughts on who might fill the rookie list. With four to possibly six places available where are the players going to come from? Downgrades, mature agers..? Any ideas on who might be targeted for the rookie list?
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I would like to give Tyler Chalwell a shot on the rookie list. Seems to have had a fairly consistent season with East Freo reserves. A young, athletic KPD is also exactly what we need.
Going by that vid it looks like he's a fierce competitor with a relentless tackle on him. Would be very useful too. Assuming he's so hard at the ball he'd gather quite a bit of it too.
If you had the dilemma of having to choose one of Lockyer , mcinnes or kersten with our second pick regardless of who we picked with pick 16 ,
Who would you go for?
Has Shaq McKenzie nominated for the minidraft?
Number 29...it's an omen!!
There's a bit to like about Clay Smith and Julian Dobosz
Cheers. Sounds like we won't be seeing Kersten playing for freo then , unless we use pick 16 on him. Would kersten be best available at pick 16?
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Where our list is at I would hope we turn away from mature age and just lock in a few youngsters with potential.
A pre-emptive raid on likely improvers for the following draft.
out of those videos for talls i like the look of sma frost, can play at either end and very athletic, jackson paine, good contested grab and mobile, and julian dobosz very mobile also. As for mids we are really looking for clearance players and out of those i like clay smith, shane nelson and taylor adams, all looked very good in traffic and clearances. would be happy with one of those talls and one of those mids for our first two picks. What are the chances of us getting two of them Chris??
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I like Jackson Paine. Of those talls you mentioned, he'd be the most likely to go first round. Dobosz could very well go between our first and second picks, Frost has the best chance of lasting until our second.
Smith, Nelson and Adams are all sort of in that fringe first round group. Adams will probably go the earliest, with Nelson perhaps the most likely to drop to our second pick. But those types are always harder to place.
Smith, Nelson and Adams are all sort of in that fringe first round group. Adams will probably go the earliest, with Nelson perhaps the most likely to drop to our second pick. But those types are always harder to place.
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I would be sticking with kids in the national draft, but would have no problems with going older in the rookie draft. Guess it depends on if we keep Roberts (we better) and if we re-draft Houghton/Hinkley as rookies.
Think I've talked about Haydn Busher and Tom Lee enough, and there are a few mature aged midfielders I'd happily rookie list. Also get used to me talking up Cam Shenton.
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I would be sticking with kids in the national draft, but would have no problems with going older in the rookie draft. Guess it depends on if we keep Roberts (we better) and if we re-draft Houghtonas rookies.
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Really, really liked his tackling in that vid, also a couple of nice handballs. Would be nice to see a bit of kicking though.
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Do you think we could offer GWS a trade for both Mason Shaw, via the mini-draft and someone like Blackwell (who I'm not sold on) [a proven, 6' ball winning runner] through their pre-listed player allowance?
It wouldn't give us a player up front for next year, but it might allow the flexibility to pick up the best available at pick 16... if we even have it.
It wouldn't give us a player up front for next year, but it might allow the flexibility to pick up the best available at pick 16... if we even have it.
Unfortunately you can't trade directly for the U17's since they haven't previously nominated for a NAB AFL draft.
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I thought O'Meara and Shaw were two of the underage options for the GWS mini draft?
I mean;
Get the underage key position player who kicked 7 in a grand final, like Fyfe did, via the mini draft pick #2. Assuming we can't get pick #1 (O'Meara)
Then, to pick up some midfield depth, trade for a mature player that isn't a short, ball winning, clanger merchant with the prelisting option trades with GWS.
We'd go into the draft without so much pressure to pick up a key position player, unless we can get Kersten and have two WA boys who already know how to play together and are, hopefully, competitive enough with each other that they'll push the other to excellence.
I mean;
Get the underage key position player who kicked 7 in a grand final, like Fyfe did, via the mini draft pick #2. Assuming we can't get pick #1 (O'Meara)
Then, to pick up some midfield depth, trade for a mature player that isn't a short, ball winning, clanger merchant with the prelisting option trades with GWS.
We'd go into the draft without so much pressure to pick up a key position player, unless we can get Kersten and have two WA boys who already know how to play together and are, hopefully, competitive enough with each other that they'll push the other to excellence.
Yeah, i'd be cool with still going for a later minidraft pick and getting Shaw, and then getting Kersten in the draft. I could see it like a Franklin/Roughead drafting plan. At least one of them is bound to be a gem.
If this happened I wouldn't want to bother with Houghton on the rookie list though.
If this happened I wouldn't want to bother with Houghton on the rookie list though.
I can see Walters getting another year, no dramas with that.
Might have to think about seeing how Clancee goes as a permanent back pocket/defender.
Not sure if he is quick enough for it, certainly robust enough
Might have to think about seeing how Clancee goes as a permanent back pocket/defender.
Not sure if he is quick enough for it, certainly robust enough
This just makes me all the more disappointed that we're likely to miss out on Jaeger. Did you see that piece of play against Tassie? Kid is an absolute gun.
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