AFLW 2024 - Round 10 - Chat, game threads, injury lists, team lineups and more.
Yes so you must be extremely disappointed in Hamish for picking Gallucci, Jones and McHrenry.
Geez you're becoming tiresome running that same line every time I post something re the draft.
Nobody is complaining about Soligo now but people definitely were complaining about him being too short, go home factor and other things when he was drafted. Having said that, 'some people on the internet are upset' is not a high bar.
I can see it
And yet you put out provocative posts like “usual suspects” and you don’t expect a response?
No doubt. But in the end that matters little. We will accept quality drafting.
You started the baiting, ignoring the fact that Hamish hasnt been capable of drafting a midfield and keeps going to the same well which lacks speed, height and skill. Unfortunately he's had a lot of drafts and failed.
You talk about short players more than anyone else on here. No one was happy when we took a tall in Mcasey at 6
You're joking of course...
And how many of those have been available to us in recent times?
When we end up with Jones, McHenry, Gallucci, Poholke, Rowe then go small, small, small after Pedlar and Schoenberg and are sitting in the bottom 4 everyone has the right to melt and raise questions with each pick
Don't get to excited, we have a habit of doing the illogical.
Mutineer was
I think Elijah Hewett has a lot of similarities physically and game style wise to Dusty?
Yep good point, absolutely some game-breaker about him
I think the question is whether the problem with those draft picks is their height or not. I'm talking specifically about people complaining about the drafting of short players, not people complaining about drafting clear misses like Gallucci (which is a justified complaint but has nothing to do with height). Rachele, Soligo and Berry are shorter and look like great picks, McHenry and Jones not so much, though I'm still hopeful Jones might work out to be decent.
Maybe go check out the draft board from that year, I was on the Lachie Ash bandwagon actually, but I could see the club's thinking in trading back to get who they hoped would be Daniel Talia's replacement when GWS's offer was so good. I don't think too many clubs would have knocked back the deal GWS offered essentially pick 4 for 2 1st round picks 6 & 10 (Luke Pedlar).
Wouldn't necessarily have called guys like Gallucci and Jones 'slow, with poor disposal' at the time they were drafted
I'd be ecstatic to get a game-breaker, that said I'd be cool with getting any high-end young midfield talent. We're still overall lacking in that department
Bloody good overhead for his size as well.
I just want the recruiters to bring in guys that are natural footballers first and then condition them to be athletic not the other way round.
It’s more about talent the size. Neale is great, his height doesn’t matter, we have lots of misses but you can’t blame height
It’s more about talent the size. Neale is great, doesn’t matter the size, we have lots of misses but you can’t blame height or
I'm not convinced there are a lot of natural footballers who are not athletic who are available in the draft in the modern game. Without athletic abilities they're not going to get through the junior systems to get discovered in most cases, and probably won't be suitable for the AFL anyway. Obviously you might find the occasional gem but it's going to be rare and not a viable drafting strategy. That said, Pedlar is someone with some good football attributes who seems to lack the fitness/tank side of the game at the moment and he's not doing better than someone like Berry who is less highly skilled but has the physical/athletic side down and is growing in to the rest of his game. Maybe Pedlar comes good with another preseason or two and is a star, maybe not, but Berry seems to be ahead right now.
