Was he touted to go very high last year?
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Think was talked up before injury, I’d say would have still got to 40, but definitely worth a punt
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Why do all these reporters think our 1st pick is 44, the whole write up is completely wrong if you ignore pick 30.
I was watching foxfooty at the gym a few days back and they also were suggesting 44 was our first pick, so maybe it is just a follow-on error?
Talls will not contribute next year. Sure take some but I think the pick 30 needs to be able to play if needed.
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How did our NGA boys test anyone know?
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Hope so. Love a fee hit
Scaife didn't do any of the physical tests (Bevan, not NGA, didn't test either) - 9 of 12 tested at the State combine. Draper did but don't know his results yet. Connor Williams was top 3 for 20m sprint (2.986s).
What position do we need someone to be able to play next year? Freo are short on talls.
Why would freo take Frederick? We have too many the same kind of player
We probably need a KPD and a ruck that can play next year if required. They’d be real depth options but we don’t have enough KPDs or rucks on the list.
For a KPD would be to get one of the best mature aged KPDs in the country. Ideally they’d be 20-23 and still have some development left. I’d be happy enough to use pick 30 or 44 if it gets us that player.
For a ruck, Jackson and Darcy will be here for ages so we’re looking for a last resort type and probably have the luxury of not really needing to give a **** about age. The best state league ruck available at pick 76 (maybe pick 67) would do the job. Not really interested in using a pick before pick 67 but some may disagree.
We have enough options for KPFs in terms of quantity. It’s quality that’s a concern there. If the quality isn’t there I’m more than happy to draft something else.
Looking at our smalls Walters and Colyer are both 32 next year. That’s probably around a quarter of the small/medium forwards on our list. Maybe it’s not as bad if AMT joins but I’d still say we need to add talent in this area. Small/medium forwards is where I see us using pick 30 or pick 44 tbh.
As long as we get a KPD, ruck and small forward I’m happy. I could justify us drafting a player in any other position on the ground if I wanted to - no part of our list is in such great shape we can’t improve it.
I agree bout the ruckman but more chances they’ll be a late pick or a rookie pick,
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Agree with everything you’ve said above but still feel we need more midfield depth, particularly in the wing, we’ve lost Mundy, Acres, Tucker, Crowden and Blakely and only brought in JOM and perhaps some minutes from Jackson when he’s not in the ruck or forward line.
I think pick 30 needs to be best available, would be ecstatic if Ed Allan was still there.
With 44 (40 ish on the night) it will come down to who’s slid Lemmy could still be there or Phillips is my guess.
67 which could move up as high as 50’s with F/S bids and teams starting to pass, would think a mature ruck.
76 I think we’ll use to match a bid for scaife or Draper, if none come it really depends on what’s happening with Kelm, if he’s coming we likely pick one of them anyway as we’ll only have 1 cat B rookie spot available.
Tbh I think we’ll draft a midfielder with at least one of our selections.
This board seems keen to write off every KPF/third tall we have that isn’t Amiss. Whilst Amiss is an extraordinary talent imo it’s almost like the rest of our KPFs/third talls do not exist. Taberner, Amiss, Treacy, Corbett, Kuek, Sturt, Banfield. Throw in whichever of Jackson or Darcy who isn’t in the ruck it’s almost a fifth of our list to fill maybe three spots in the best 22.
Not sure the club will see the above situation the same way as a lot of this board does. I don’t think we’ll select a KPF (non-NGA) unless top 20 talent somehow drops to pick 33.
The section of this board that wants KPFs so desperately is going to explode.
We can’t just take a bunch of tall forward and nothing else. Where would they all even play each week?
We have Tabs, jackson and Amiss in the ones next year.
Then at peel we could have Treacy and Kuek playing as KPF, and what then? Lemmey and Scaife and Draper all playing WAFL reserves? Not going to happen.
We are after quality not quantity.
We have a credible chance of building a list with genuine speed to burn. Adding more speed (Kelm, tippa when fit, fredericks mk2 - backline unlike his brother) and similar draft picks provides us with a real advantage. Do you think this is where the list build might be heading?
We will need a KPD.
We’d need to rate Lemmey as top 20 talent imo.
TBF Lemmey is probably more a KPF, Adams a KPD and Broadbent a ruck.
I just don’t see us drafting that many talls tbh. We’ve lost three talls and have already brought in a ruck/forward and a guy who’s spent most of his career as an undersized KPF. We’ve also lost/delisted a heap of midfielders and HFFs over this off season - we’re not replacing them with nothing.
We’re certainly not stacked for mids. Let’s say Fyfe and JOM come in for Mundy and Acres from our finals side. That leaves Erasmus and Johnson as mids and maybe Henry and Worner as wingers. Four mids outside the team when we’re playing around seven of them each week… don’t see how you could argue that’s enough tbh.
Kelm and Frederick are both defenders aren't they? Wilson probably plays ahead of either of them, and they would all be cover for Clark, Walker or Chapman.
We may be slightly faster if they came in I guess.
Frederick is a half-forward but for some reason PTA played him as a half-back... As if PTA didn't have enough of them..
If Kelm comes in he’s gets an automatic 2 year deal. All the Irish boys that have come on on Cat B lists have previously.
They are seen as longer term projects and not likely to play much in year one for the AFL team.
