List Mgmt. 2021 Mid-Season Draft

In the 2021 MSD, Carlton should select...

  • Charlie McKay (F/S)

    Votes: 10 8.3%
  • Dominic Akuei (NGA)

    Votes: 9 7.5%
  • Best available mature age player

    Votes: 49 40.8%
  • Best available U19 (overlooked in last year's draft)

    Votes: 41 34.2%
  • Other - Specify

    Votes: 11 9.2%

  • Total voters
    120

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Crocker is not what we need. If Murphy’s lack of forward pressure frustrates us, why add double the frustration. If we are going to add a small/medium forward you want it to be some one that zips around with pace adding plenty of pressure and running opposition down from behind. Keeping it in our forward half is what will lead to more goals. Hoping that Durdin becomes that player. I would prefer to get games into Honey and Durdin that add Crocker.

A Bailey Fritsch prototype wouldn’t go astray.
 

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I think the issue with adding Crocker is that we already have on the list JSOS, McGovern, Charlie Curnow, Levi Casboult and Oscar McDonald in that role.. The fact 4 of them are injured is a disaster but adding another is just poor list balance when we have only 2 key defenders and zero backup, only 2 ruckmen with no backup and zero capable wingers.
Crocker is not a key position player, he's a small-mid sized forward who is able to play taller. Believe it or not, he's actually smaller than Martin, Fogarty and Cunners.
 

Don't think we're supposed to dump big slabs of text from articles. So I've skipped the write ups, but here's the names:

Jacob Edwards
Ned Moyle
Zavier Maher
Will Bravo
Felix Flockhart
Max Heath
Cody Raak
Corey Preston
Ben Crocker
Wylie Buzza
Riley Knight
Tyson Stengle
Oliver Davis
Jackson Callow
Jack Hayes
Eamon Wilkinson
Jordan Gallucci
Michael Knoll
Corey Gault
Josh Green
Felix Flockhart. Now there's a name which would keep commentators on their toes.
 
Crocker is not a key position player, he's a small-mid sized forward who is able to play taller. Believe it or not, he's actually smaller than Martin, Fogarty and Cunners.
agree on the highlighted bit but crocker is 185 cm and about same height as Martin and cunners but fog is 180 cm.

the thing i like about crocker is that he does a lot of running in the forward arc providing leads. None of our senior team forwards do enough of this. Some have suggested that crocker wont be able to replicate this at afl level but I believe he can. He plays with real enthusiasm and looks to be enjoying footy.
 
2 honest questions.

18 clubs in the league.
How many of those 18 would Levi have played more than 50 games for?

Of Levis 150 games. Over/under 49.5 games being a 6 out of 10 performance or higher?


My answers are:
2 - us and the GC

And under 49.5

Levi, as good of a bloke as he is, is the embodiment of the Carlton football club for the last decade.
Essendon wanted him at one stage he would have played 200 there , they love blokes that can play forward and back . They play blokes out of position as much as us .🤣
 

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How come we aren’t having a look at Riley Knight? Been dominating in the SANFL lately!
I saw an article talking about his frustration with being trained as a midfielder but then being played elsewhere in games.
He'd be nervous if we picked him up.

Regarding his frustration he mentioned something like that if he knew he'd be playing as a forward he would have liked more opportunity to focus practice on that aspect.
I wonder how our guys being played out position are spending their training time?
 
I think 100% we are picking up Maher and our 2nd pick will should be a young ruckman.
Edwards will goto North.
Moyle will goto either Pies or suns.
That leaves Flockhard or Heath either would be a good long-term fit for us as they can both play forward.
 
I think 100% we are picking up Maher and our 2nd pick will should be a young ruckman.
Edwards will goto North.
Moyle will goto either Pies or suns.
That leaves Flockhard or Heath either would be a good long-term fit for us as they can both play forward.

Let’s just go 3 picks (somehow), #1 a player too good to pass up. #2 Maher. #3 Mirkov or Schlensog (maybe as #1).
 
Without having seen him play, I think he needs more credit, Setters, Cunners, Dow and Kennedy have all played VFL this year, I don’t think any of those guys have had a 30 possession game, let alone 40.
That was supposedly the talk from one of his coaches, so I’d think there’s some merit in it.
The 40 was more about himself than the team. Easy, cheap disposals out of the back half, played on kick-ins and some unnecessary 1-2s, that sort of thing.
 
How did McKay go in that young guns game? Was there any standouts worth mentioning?
He did very well, again has been one of the best players for the Dragons as has Tom Silvagni for the Chargers, I think we will have those two boys wrapped up as Father Sons in this National Draft as Midfielders and damn good ones, McKay as a rotating defender/midfielder and Tom as a Forward/Midfielder. They would be two great pic ups so Austin should really focus on getting the best possible tall mobile player in this draft.
 
While Stengle is free to find a new AFL home next month, some clubs are keen to see how he performs over the length of a full season.

Should he be recruited to move to Melbourne, Stengle would likely link up with former Crows teammate and Carlton veteran Eddie Betts who remains a close mentor. Betts and Stengle also shared time together late last year.

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He may be too arrogant and heavy on the illicit drugs and alcohol. Adelaide were willing to leave him on the list as long as he got himself fit and healthy and he decided to walk away from them. Attitude is poor.
 
Don't see McDonald being part of our long term plans and
we could also be loosing Ben Crocker & Toby Wooller from our VFL side seeing they have nominated (ARTICLE HERE)

I'd be going for 2 picks even if it's just to prop up our VFL side, they'd have to be in flag contention

Would be seriously looking at
I'd love to see what Eddie could do with Tyrone Thorne
and I'd love to steal him off those Freo flogs :sneaky:
I like Aaron Gundry if he is a mobile enough ruck if he is good too run with the mids
 

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