List Mgmt. 2024 Mid Season Draft
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Probably plays half back or wing at AFL level not inside
Surely that's a good thing? Given his speed and kicking are listed as his strengths everywhere else, the fact he is showing aerial ability, interceptions through reading the play, tackling and inside strength in the video suggests a pretty well rounded player.
There was this other running half back that couldn't get a game at Geelong for years, as their back 6 was so set. Came to Freo and he goes allright. Clark or something. There's talk he could be All Australian this year.
Geelong don't always get it right, particularly with a tendency to hang onto their older players a little too long, at the expense of youth. Their head of recruitment has also recently said they missed one in Sean Darcy, who was as local as they come. There's a bit to like in Ling, and if one of he and Wagner pop this year, could really help us in the footskills and speed department.
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We also recently poached one of the Geelong scouts.
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Surely they'd be thinking outside mids if they are bringing one in. Not a role those two can play.
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Ask yourself what an allegedly pinpoint kicking, speedy player would need to be in order to go from being a first round draft pick to playing out his two year contract extension and four games total.
If you're fast and can kick it's like being 205cm tall and could catch it ten years ago.
If you're fast and can kick it's like being 205cm tall and could catch it ten years ago.
I would have thought it was pretty obvious, based on the info out there. He was pretty much injured the whole two years. There was a perception his body wasn't cut out for AFL footy.
He's light of frame and some players (especially the slighter ones) take longer to get their body right.
Every person delisted from an AFL club feels disappointment but former Sydney defender Matt Ling felt a deep sense of frustration too as his body has finally shaken free of the injuries that denied him from training and playing consistently in all but the past 12 months.
Ling understands and accepts Sydney’s decision to cut him without any rancour, but he hopes to get another crack at an AFL club where he can show the speed and dynamic left foot that saw the Swans use their first round pick in the 2017 national draft to fill a need for run out of defence.
And he wants to shake off the perception that he is forever injured, an overhang from his first two years that were derailed by a persistent foot injury that is, to Ling, ancient history.
Matthew Ling and Lance Franklin at training this week.
That injury kept him sidelined for most of 2018 as he required an osteotomy - surgeons basically reconstructed his big toe to give it more flexibility - which stopped him from being able to run for six months. That interrupted the next year’s pre-season then a plantaris tendon injury meant more time in rehab.
It was a tough initiation for the youngster who grew up in Geelong, but his teammates warmed to Ling’s upbeat nature with Sydney veteran Dane Rampe praising him at the club’s 2019 jumper presentation.
“The energy and excitement with which he bounces into the club each and every day despite repeated setbacks shows a resilience I would not have been capable of at his age,” Rampe said.
Ling made his AFL debut in round eight 2020, playing three games on the trot before going back to scratch matches, an unwanted COVID feature, alongside many other AFL-listed players trying to impress in a series of half-baked practice matches.
But with a taste and a chance to complete a full pre-season ahead of 2021 he hit the season running playing as a medical sub in round two before losing his spot as the Swans went on an early season rampage with selection tight.
At training on the morning before the team flew out of Sydney to escape being locked down Ling rolled his ankle competing for a ground ball and in a case of bad luck combined with bad timing was sidelined.
Matthew Ling not long after he was drafted.CREDIT:GETTY IMAGES
He returned to play scratch matches injury free late in the season as the Swans charged into the finals with a young, dynamic list.
“It gets so frustrating because you want to get back to your best straight away, but you have got to accept you have missed eight weeks,” Ling told The Age.
Now he has his fingers crossed he can find his way on to an AFL list and if not, he’ll play state league football, his love for the game he fostered on a small ground in the shadows of Kardinia Park undiminished.
After a couple of weeks off, the 22-year-old has been back following the Swans’ program to be ready for whatever lies ahead, fresh, fit and wiser about what football clubs require to succeed.
“I’m running fine and everything is going really smoothly,” Ling said.
Yep, read the article, he was still banged up with bad luck in the following two.
I'm just answering your original question.
"Ask yourself what an allegedly pinpoint kicking, speedy player would need to be in order to go from being a first round draft pick to playing out his two year contract extension and four games total."
One word. Injuries.
He's now 3 years older and has put together consecutive seasons, including a runner up best and fairest last year in the VFL and a great year this year in the SANFL.
I guess the argument is his body is right, and he finally has some continuity in his game.
I've been saying for a while I'd prefer for us to use our best picks on our biggest needs. Those are in the National Draft whether we use them or trade them.
Tbh the MSD outside of 2021/2022 which were heavily COVID influence has been poor. Getting a top 30-odd player that fills a need, even if not your biggest one, is a massive win.
Doesn't the MSD dropping off coincide with the SSP coming in?
Blokes like Pat Voss would otherwise be eligible for the mid-season draft.
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Has the club confirmed that they are taking a pick?
I see Teakle has nominated for the mid season draft again. Impressed at Port last year. If no one else in the draft appeals we could select him with a view to delisting Reidy at year’s end and trading Darcy to Geelong.
Solves a couple of problems
Solves a couple of problems
Impressed at port? He was terrible. Port didn’t have a ruckman for a lot of the season as didn’t even get a look in. He’s no where near it
Well that's a buzzkill.
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Fremantle have opted to pass on a pick in the 2024 AFL Mid-Season Rookie Draft which will be held tomorrow.
Head of Player Personnel David Walls has confirmed the Club will keep a spot on the list open for a player returning from injury.
“At the moment we have Sebit Kuek and Josh Corbett on the long-term injury list,” said Walls.
“They are both recovering well from surgeries and at this stage are ahead of schedule.
“We want to give them every opportunity to play again in 2024.”
Uncapped forward Kuek suffered a ruptured ACL playing in the WAFL last July, while 28-year-old Corbett underwent hip surgery in November.
Fremantle selected wingman Ethan Stanley in the 2023 mid-season draft and Kuek in 2022.
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Head of Player Personnel David Walls has confirmed the Club will keep a spot on the list open for a player returning from injury.
“At the moment we have Sebit Kuek and Josh Corbett on the long-term injury list,” said Walls.
“They are both recovering well from surgeries and at this stage are ahead of schedule.
“We want to give them every opportunity to play again in 2024.”
Uncapped forward Kuek suffered a ruptured ACL playing in the WAFL last July, while 28-year-old Corbett underwent hip surgery in November.
Fremantle selected wingman Ethan Stanley in the 2023 mid-season draft and Kuek in 2022.
Mid-Season Draft update
Fremantle have opted to pass on a pick in the 2024 AFL Mid-Season Rookie Draft
