Pure_Ownage
TheBrownDog
Or it indicates we want to see who is still available and create the option. When you do a mock, it is unbelievable the quality of the players still available in the 50/60/70s. If we miss out on Simpson, no big deal as there will still be good players. The loss is minimal on the potential that a higher rated player is available. In saying that, I'll be surprised if Simpson isn't taken in the national draft.
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Yes and no-I think it is a very good draft but not so for our needs. When you look at most mocks having guys like Clarke and Fisher and Graham and Scharenberg and Atley and Poholke being taken outside the top 30 clearly it's a deep draft but the issue for us is most of those guys are inside mids and the best available player with our later picks is likely to be an inside mid which we don't really need. So the recruiting team will need to talk this week and decide whether we take slightly inferior players at those later picks to cover needs or whether we take a couple of inside mids and accept it means we will be trading another inside mid out in 1-2 years like with Caddy. The issue is the draft doesn't have hugely good depth in key forwards which we really need (the top 3 or 4 kpfs are good but there is not much beyond that) or in really skilled wingers/outside mids which are our biggest needs, the better depth is in inside mids and key backs neither of which we really need.
On Sam Simpson I like him as a player but he is small and doesn't have a lot of exposed form, I wouldn't realistically rate him in the top 5 small forwards in this draft and most small forwards go as rookies anyway. I think it's pretty likely he will be passed over especially if there is only around 70 live picks on the night. That said I do think our decision to only nominate him as a rookie is curious, it makes me think we have a player or two specifically in mind for our 3 4th rounders as we did with Menegola last year, and we want maximum flexibility to take that player.
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