Golumless
A bigger deal out west.
Watching how the draft unfolded I'm wondering if the depth aspect was over-hyped. There are a lot of talls in the 30-60 range, and I hazard a guess talls tend to not be too successful out of the first round.
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A great story seeing big Jay Polkinghorne drafted. Injured early season and missing state selection.
Fought his way back - Collingwood believed he would slip through to rookies but the cats have pounced.
Just a great lad and I wish him the very best
Fought his way back - Collingwood believed he would slip through to rookies but the cats have pounced.
Just a great lad and I wish him the very best
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Still going at pick 70 and likely a dozen go in the rookie draft. No way it was overhyped.
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Having a great draft now they’ve lost someone from their recruiting team
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Given we’ve dropped our lead ruck 2 years in a row, you don’t think we could do with a better ruck in 2025? You know one that we’ve been developing and one that doesn’t knock us back like Moyle.
And take into account when you’re in your “club defender” mode, we don’t drop a club leader and key position after one bad game, we’ve endured numerous bad games to get to that position.
So do you think that’s good business?
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lol, no one is forcing clubs to keep drafting players, they would have stopped like previous years if it was not deep.
Odd take and you’ve got likes from odd posters.
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How many SA kids were taken overall?
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About 6 or 7 on a very rough count of mine....
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11 I think, couple more rookie chances probably, Jacob Newton surely gets a rookie spot and possibly Phoenix Hargrave?
Golumless
A bigger deal out west.
You can't tell if a draft is overhyped on draft day. That's for five years in the future when every career is all but sorted.
I just wonder ahead of time.
Of course, it's clear clubs rate these players.
That said, and I'm happy to be wrong here (I'm not particularly for any draftee failing), but a lot of talls in the mid-part of the draft isn't what I'd expect from a draft that ends up living up to it's billing as a deep one.
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Is that more than expected?
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Camporeale x 2
Clarke
Mollier
Polkinghorne
Dodson
Welsh
Nicholls
Bowman
West
Camporeale x 2
Clarke
Mollier
Polkinghorne
Dodson
Welsh
Nicholls
Bowman
West
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And yet you’ve just called it overhyped, which is it? You can’t tell until 5 years and yet just because talls are going deep it could be overhyped?
Maybe the mids and smalls were better prospects and the sheer quantity of talls has resulted in clubs still picking them.
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Probably though I always expected Polkinghorne and West to get drafted when a lot didn't.
Mollier did get a National Combine invite as did Charlie West so they were rated by clubs.
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& 2 to the Crows with 100% local this draft.
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Pretty happy that after the to and fro over Wayne Carey and North that they took his son in the draft
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Interest now in how the media rate each club's draft haul?
Bombers did exceedingly well considering where they were picking IMO.
Richmond of course had a blinder as expected.
Bombers did exceedingly well considering where they were picking IMO.
Richmond of course had a blinder as expected.
Golumless
A bigger deal out west.
I think you're overthinking this, because it's both. I respect that this isn't skepticism that can be answered for ~ 5 years, as these kids need to have a career first, but that skepticism is there.
Did Barrett get a bid or do the pear get to take him as a rookie?
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