AFLW 2024 - Round 10 - Chat, game threads, injury lists, team lineups and more.
Fair enough but maybe it’s easier to teach a forward to play mid than teach a mid to be genuinely dangerous in front of goals? A lot of mids are touted as having the ability to drift forward but honestly only a few actually scare me. Dusty, Petracca, Danger (kicking is iffy). A lot of the others go up and just get a pump up from commentary.
Might be confirmation bias but I do think it gives them extra weight to throw around. At a certain height there really is a ceiling to how heavy you can get. Tall people are naturally heavier at similar proportions. If they can maintain endurance and fitness they’re just gonna be impossible to move. Patrick Cripps is 195cm and 95 kg. Doesn’t look incredibly huge cause he’s tall. Gives him that power to just run through blokes in a stoppage. Fyfe is 191 and 92kg. Outside of a stoppage the height means they have that marking power around the ground and if they drift forward. And if they actually know how to kick goals they’re a threat.
If you are reffering to dicussions around our selections in last year's draft you might want to go back and read the threads from the days after the draft.
I read the threads. I was surprised when Allison’s name was read out. Then again I was surprised when Brad Howard’s name was read out years ago. But what do you expect when our picks were diluted to bring in mature recruits. Essendons recruiters look like genius’ but they had pick 6 and 7, you and me could’ve read those names out.
Well I expected us to take a mid.
I reckon if you plot the average games played from players taken p45 onwards, this would present as fairly normal.
I'm pretty happy with that after 2016
We said before the draft that we were looking for another key forward to develop since that was a hole on our list. A lot of clubs were looking him in that part of the draft, we just happened to take him first. He's also different from Battle since he is a genuine key position size at 195cm and could still be growing.
By your standards these days, everyone is a gun if they are wearing a different jumper. Hopefully for Poulter's sake, he goes on to having a very good and long career. But that has nothing to do with Allison and his development.
This current wave of writing off a kid whose been in the system for 5 minutes started off someone comparing him (plus King and Battle) to a key forward who is in his 2nd year and yet to debut, one who played his first game in his third year and one who has played 25 games in 5 years. But yes, ours is still finding his feet at rd7 of his first season after not playing last year due to Covid and growing about 6cm, and must be a complete failure because he isnt reaching the lofty heights of those Hawthorn players
30 to 50 games is a pretty good outcome but that is bolstered by the occasional 200+ gamer.
Gee pick 80 is cursed
You might not have known he before the draft, but the the relevant people must have considering he was in the Vic metro squad, at all the testing days, was invited to the training day pre draft for all the top Victorian draft prospects etc. It's not as if they were looking at the Morwell 3rds squad and picked someone at random.
The only one I’d say we should have taken was Lachie Sholl. 2 rising star noms and most weeks one of Adelaides best. He’s an elite kick off half back and his preferred position of winger. People are saying he should have been taken much much higher up in the draft.
The thing about mids is that outside of a few inside mids, most can play other positions.
So why didn't you drive down to Moorabbin and demand to speak to Satan rather than just emailing your suggestions to the Trainee Membership lass?
we should sticky this in every draft and trade thread we have for perspective - great work Bergholt
