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Geary, based off his form and best attributes, would be better on all the players you listed than Wilkie.firstly, charlie cameron towels up everyone, but compared to other smalls wilkie could definitely play on them. Liam ryan isn't a classic small forward, wilkie would go alright on him IN the fifty, but ryan runs the wings like brad hill, geary would get burnt on the wings along with wilkie.
So lets look at some reasonable match ups from the two GF teams, GWS and richmond
rich: Rioli, castagna, martin, caddy, bolton
Wilkie is a great matchup for almost all of those players. Rioli aint that explosive despite his namesake. Only bolton would really put him to the sword, but I'm also not particularly worried about bolton taking us to the cleaners.
GWS: Toby greene, daniels, .. umm.. daniels might get a metre or two on him but again, not particularly concerned.
So back to your weak argument, yes wilkie is tall, but that does not mean he can't play small. You should watch his game rather than just relying on the stats in his bio. The game has a history of in between sized defenders playing tall and small, robbo, wilkie, gilbert, do you remember the 'DEMPSTERED' meme? Betts was one of his victims. Oh, but dempster's too tall! spare me
The amount of players that wilkie would get towelled up by are small, and those players towel up everyone. Cameron, Betts (when he was good), Gray maybe. Mercurial small forwards.
Either way as I said before, they're both in my best 22. My point was merely if it was down to geary or wilkie, I'm taking wilkie. Also,the way your posturing it sounds like geary is a lock in your side... ok
Sure, Wilkie is capable of playing small if he need to but that isn't his best position or what he is best suited to do.
In this hypothetical scenario where all players are available, do you select the best small defender on the list or do you pick a taller guy who can play on a small if needed?
You pick the specialised small defender, who happens to be Geary which is probably why you dislike the idea of picking him ahead of someone you obviously like better.