Player Watch 2023 AFL Draft Pool Discussion Thread

[Strapping Young Lad]

Same rule applies to this thread as other years, keep it on topic about the kids.
Don’t get bogged down on what other teams might do or where they will finish.

Trade speculation belongs here.
That's also where you can discuss your mock drafts or pick trades.

Any McCabe, Dear or Maginness talk belongs here.

 

[TazHawk15]

I think they are a very very very good chance to go back2Back, only the Shinbeggers can save them.

They are almost no chance. seriously go and have a look at their spine in their best 22 and then tell me that is the 18th best team in the competition.

I have had a look at their spine and I still think they will be neck deep in the Spoon race.

BTW it’s just an opinion.

 

[Dewnior]

With the talls, kosi Jeka and Ryan out, Chol McCabe dear in may have influenced the recruiting team team that young talls was less of a priority, but getting match winners such as Watson, Ginnivan was

It didn't and wasnt, the recruiting team tried valiantly to trade our F1 for access to Curtain and then O'Sullivan.

 

[Dewnior]

Shinbeggers to concede a score just about 100% of the time from opposition’s forward entries. The tin rattling will be on from round 5.

When was it off?

 

[hawkinoz]

It didn't and wasnt, the recruiting team tried valiantly to trade our F1 for access to Curtain and then O'Sullivan.

Maybe if we had a F3, it could have been easier sell.

PS : I do think we could have negotiated our trades better and got a F3 but mentioning this seems to upset people. We did well with trades overall but this was one of the small slip ups.

 

[peetoo]

It didn't and wasnt, the recruiting team tried valiantly to trade our F1 for access to Curtain and then O'Sullivan.

They tried to get one of those as well as wiz was my reading? Could have just taken curtin istead?

 

[Dewnior]

They tried to get one of those as well as wiz was my reading? Could have just taken curtin istead?

Why when we could have had both? (Insert Mexican girl meme here)

 

[StackedHunch]

My line of thinking is that both Duursma and Watson are going to be awesome talents but with Watson being the one that will come in from day 1 and contribute right away. This is not saying that he'll end up being better than Duursma but just that he'll take a similar amount of time as say someone like McCabe to fully develop to be able to contribute. IMO this is just another reason why I want us to draft Watson because if he comes in and kicks a goal or 2 a game he's going to make our side look so much more dangerous + exciting and push us into that group of teams just on the cusp of the top 8. The reason I feel this is so important is because it will give us a better shot at getting a commitment from pending free agents to join us and no I'm not talking about B / C grade FA's but good ones.

Anyways we only have 12 days to wait now so not too long to see what we do.

My God this post has aged well.