Hot Topic 2016 DRAFT

[FlowersByIrene]

Brodie is the ONE

 

[The Smoking Gun]

Powell-Pepper's disposal marks him as a Rhys Mathieson for mine. Likely to slide unless he improves his decision-making and execution.

Underage player who participated in a very weak WA side in last years carnival. Wouldn't read too much into those results.

Powell-Pepper's decision-making and disposal are reportably on the improve after today's championship match.

If he can improve those facets of his game I could quickly become a fan

If there's something that the Norf game showed up is our over-reliance upon Cripps.

Will Brodie and Joshua Battle are the two I find the most interesting. If we could pick up Josh Battle with our first pick I would be pretty excited. He's everything you want in a key forward except he's "only" 192cm tall.

The rest of the elite end of this draft have issues or flaws that I find concerning for an top line AFL prospect.

If we scored Tomlinson & Stewart via trade why would we need Battle??? Just a thought

@The Sheik, wouldn't think that Brodie or Battle will slide enough for us to take. Powell-Pepper just might though.

 

[1981]

Brodie is the ONE

Chief Brodie.

 

[1981]

Seriously, if that 4 for 2 trade goes down, that along with the deal last year is the sort of stuff that sets a club up for serious success.
Unless you regularly ace the draft inc your 3rd and 4th round picks, reality is you need some sort of luck to build a great list.
Kangas have been patient but even they are arguably carried by their older players.
Get Stewart, Marchbank and Tomlinson and we will be the envy of all clubs bar GWS in terms of tall players.

 

[LordLucifer]

@The Sheik, wouldn't think that Brodie or Battle will slide enough for us to take. Powell-Pepper just might though.

Tend to agree, think our first pick will be #7 or #8, cannot see Brodie lasting that long unless we can get him to do a Charlie Curnow in the lead-up to the draft.

Battle looks a player but at 192cm, he is no better than say Tomlinson (if we were to in fact trade him in) so unless he has a serious growth spurt, we would be better off targeting a pure midfielder.

 

[Mezzoculo]

Explosive contested ball winning beast mid please. At minimum their skills should be above average and preferably can find the ball often...not asking for much

Like this guy?
http://www.gwsgiants.com.au/player-profile/jack-steele

 

[FlowersByIrene]

Powell-Pepper cooked the vics yesterday according to my WA media sources anyway.

 

[zeeCFC]

Like this guy?
http://www.gwsgiants.com.au/player-profile/jack-steele

Dyl Shiel was the dream

 

[Mezzoculo]

Dyl Shiel was the dream

Dare to dream, zee. Dare to dream.

 

[I bleed Blue]

Brodie is the ONE

 

[FlowersByIrene]

You read my mind. I was going to photoshop a snap of Brodes onto neo when I posted it haha.

 

[I bleed Blue]

Hahaha if I had the slightest idea of how to use photoshop I probably would have tried to as well

 

[Mezzoculo]

Wait. I'm confused. Didn't one of our posters say we had a player who was already playing like Keanu on a thread here????

 

[HBF]

I'm always scared of players who miss entire u18 seasons to injury.

But if we had a 12-15 id definitely look to him in that bracket.

Lever and Stringer did, and they're going ok. All depends on the injury and how the player recovers.
And Joel Selwood missed the entire year he got drafted as well.

 

[The Smoking Gun]

U18s: Powell-Pepper's power on show for WA
Sounds like a pretty damaging prospect who's not just inside mid clearance machine. I like. Make it happen SOS.

 

[FlowersByIrene]

Lever and Stringer did, and they're going ok. All depends on the injury and how the player recovers.
And Joel Selwood missed the entire year he got drafted as well.

Im not sure about Lever, but I know Stringer was a top 1-3 prospect who slipped to 6 because of his injury and Selwood the same who slipped to 7.

I might have been unclear, but I meant I wouldnt be looking at Simpkin in the top 10 which was probably his level after his 2015 season, but would look at him if he slipped to 12-15.

 

[therubbernub]

Seriously, if that 4 for 2 trade goes down, that along with the deal last year is the sort of stuff that sets a club up for serious success.
Unless you regularly ace the draft inc your 3rd and 4th round picks, reality is you need some sort of luck to build a great list.
Kangas have been patient but even they are arguably carried by their older players.
Get Stewart, Marchbank and Tomlinson and we will be the envy of all clubs bar GWS in terms of tall players.

When is enough enough? We went hard for rucks a few years ago hampson, warnock, jacob, kreuzer. Now we are doing the same with our talls seemingly. We have up our sleeve
Charlie. The "excitement machine"
Mckay . Traded hard to get the picks , to get him. Sos must like him big time.
Sos- showing all the hallmark of a very clever medium kpf . Kicked 4 on the weekend
Then we have the likes of jaksch, jones, foster.
All to add to casboult and gorringe and everitt who did the job on sunday.
Why do we have to be the envy of all clubs? Lindsay fox has an envious collection of cars all housed in museums and garages. But you can only drive one at a time.
We need three top line , mobile, fit , clever forwards.
Casboult, mckay, gorringe
Casboult, mckay, charlie
Casboult, mckay, sos
Mckay, charlie, sos
Etc etc.

 

[Stig O'Hara]

Heard Sanderson on one of those Fox footy shows tonight, saying you could throw a blanket over the Top 20 right now.

 

[KohPhi]

So if this "2 for 4" deal does eventuate, how do we plan on drafting any of these names mentioned in the last 4 pages considering as it stands, we wont enter the draft till around pick 45 odd?
Does the 2017 first come into play to be traded/packaged to keep us in the top 15 or so for this draft?
If a blanket can be "thrown over" the top 20 or so this year, is the 4 for 2 deal significantly better for our re-build than trying to manouvre for 4 picks in the top 20 odd of this draft?
Interesting trade period ahead me thinks..

 

[Voss the boss]

Stll pretty keen on Ainsworth. Could very well be a modern version of Boomer Harvey?

Sorry to intrude - but just on this I know Carlton are into him at the moment.

Benny plays his first vic country game next week after being out for 4 weeks for suspension. He said it has been hard to sit out the last few weeks so he keen to get out there. Anyway you would think he would fall around your pick at present - however lots of footy to be played yet.

Oh and well done on the weekend really happy for your club to be moving forward.

 

[No1Suspect]

Powell-Pepper cooked the vics yesterday according to my WA media sources anyway.

He's my pick this year.

McCluggage will be gone and probably a tad early for Gallucci....

 

[HBF]

Im not sure about Lever, but I know Stringer was a top 1-3 prospect who slipped to 6 because of his injury and Selwood the same who slipped to 7.

I might have been unclear, but I meant I wouldnt be looking at Simpkin in the top 10 which was probably his level after his 2015 season, but would look at him if he slipped to 12-15.

Lever did his ACL in his final year.

 

[checkpoints]

Anyone know how Battle or Kerr are going in the tac cup?

 

[BluesRule]

Anyone know how Battle or Kerr are going in the tac cup?

Battle kicked 4 in U18's for Vic Country on the weekend - off only 8 touches - and all his Gaols in the first half.
Second half WA ran away with the match, but he kept them in the game in the first half.

 

[BluesRule]

Will Brodie and Joshua Battle are the two I find the most interesting. If we could pick up Josh Battle with our first pick I would be pretty excited. He's everything you want in a key forward except he's "only" 192cm tall.

The rest of the elite end of this draft have issues or flaws that I find concerning for an top line AFL prospect.

If SOS can get three picks in top 20 would like Brodie, Battle and SPP.
Would add nicely to GWS4 and last years 5 picks.