Any reason ? I am Tippa fan but GC hardly need small forward if Martin and Ah Chee are fit . You also got some class cover playing in NeAfl like Powell and maybe Nutting .
Martin was drafted as a midfielder and was only played in the forward line due to lack of other options.
He is playing his third AFl season now , if you keep your young players like Powell in NEAFL you not going to see him growth to be your own Tippa. I don't expect an instant success from import , look at Weller ,stringer and saad all need time to gel with the team .
Put our faith in Wright ,day and Crossley , KPP Take time no matter how good they are , but if Lukosious somehow fall to GC pick then take him , if not Rozee ,Hately, Bailey scottand william type will improve GC HF and Mid rotation .
Why not both? Any kpp kid we draft needs time to develop so for the next few years wont be able to handle being the main man or even 2nd fiddle. Should definitely use that lynch money to add some class and keep the others happy.
Put our faith in May, Thompson, Leslie, Day, Wright, Crossley as key talls.
Maybe. I remember a game at the G when he kicked 4-5 against the Hawks early days when they were a power. He's a gun defender though and I'm really interested to see what becomes of Crossley. Just his presence out there and physicality made the team look different. At 198cms he's in between though.
The guy is in a team just make a GF , and he is playing third tall , give him the task of taking buddy , Hawkins then you will see. Of course he look good when a team blindly bomb into inside 50.
How does the SANFL stack up against the NEAFL these days? I haven't seen much of either.
It's what he does without the ball that makes him invaluable. We need a fleet of lightning fast high pressure skilful forwards which we don't have. We have fast+skilful and we have defensive but very little guys who are both.
He's only 188cm so yeah playing him on a Buddy or Hawkins probably wouldn't end well. but that wouldn't be because he hasn't had enough games at AFL level. He's already in front of the guy he replaced (lever) in quite a few statistical areas, in spite of not 'developing' at AFL level.
Do you think Tippa will play more AFL Games if not because of Essendon Drug saga or in VFL . If you use Doedee as an eg, then what about Mccluggae , Spp, Sps , berry , Rayner , Stephenson , Luke ryan , witherden, Hayward , Florent etc ?
Lets break that list down a little, given all you've done is listed a bunch of players that were both recently drafted and played AFL
Cyril , Roughead , Buddy, Hodge , Lweis hardly experience in hawthorn first premiership before their three peat.
No, I'm saying it's unlikely they'd be ready, but if they are (on form) the best for their position they should be played. like if we had witherden, we'd be playing him. he is ready. if we had Rayner or McCluggage? More time in the NEAFL son.
How you know they are not good enough ? Isn't castagna and Butler all play Mix AFL and VFL before their premiership year. One is a rookie list player as well .
With initial selections I think go for smaller players / maybe specialist small forwards - goalkickers.
