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Analysis 2024 National Draft
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Lalor
Dawson actually does run, carry and bounce as well despite not being the fastest. Pure speed isn't the only way about it.
Do you think he will be available?
The star Blue top draftee has modelled his game after and his draft top 5 prediction
"He's a great inspiration for me."
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Can't remember Mt. Martha winning a game when I played junior footy for them.
We were the St. Kilda of our time... might have been a poor choice of team colours to borrow.
Cal Twomey's Phantom Form Guide October extra: The 10 next best
AFL.com.au's draft guru Cal Twomey looks at the players who were unlucky to miss being in October's Phantom Form Guide
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Twomey’s 31-40.
Campos not mentioned, but some good tall defenders.
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The star Blue top draftee has modelled his game after and his draft top 5 prediction
"He's a great inspiration for me."
Brilliant. Love the confidence he'll be a blue.
Or he can’t count…Brilliant. Love the confidence he'll be a blue.
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That would be nice!
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I was just reading that article and came in here to comment - but have to admit, I did have to read it again to make sure I read it correctly the first time. Just loved it.
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With regards to Langford, can people elaborate on, not quick? In relation to who? Is he faster than Hewett, Cripps, Doch, Hollands?
We have a few players with average pace, we dont need players who are super fast, we just need a few players who are faster.
We have a few players with average pace, we dont need players who are super fast, we just need a few players who are faster.
a_shot_on_ehlo
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Brilliant. Love the confidence he'll be a blue.
"O'Sullivan also weighed in on how he sees top 5 draft of the draft playing out after SEN's Adam Cooney asked him to list himself at pick three, and fill in the blanks around that...."
lol, I missed that bit
Jimmae
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Langford is a more powerful kick here and now and gets more ball speed that makes him more deadly when kicking over 40 metres, but to decry Smith as not being elite with the ball in hand is absolutely ridiculous.
You're making him sound like Richard Tambling. Smith will put on a bit of size very quickly, he's almost got the body of a marathon runner at the moment, and it shows in his work rate and time trials.
I expect Smith to get notably quicker and more agile in an elite program, and that's saying something because he's already zipping about.
In our midfield mix, he's not going to get enough time and he's going to get scragged. He will break more tackles than Kennedy, but he won't break or escape as many as Cripps.
I like him, but I think he will be made to look a lot more ordinary a lot more often at AFL level. Expecting him to slide, and at this point Twomey would be the only one who is big on his draft rating, probably because he'd love him at Essendon.
You can see how hampered he is there by hip and hamstring concerns. Broke through tackles because he's probably over 90 kgs playing against kids, but he needs to trim down and do more focused conditioning work.
As for Dusty MK II, I think there's a Stingrays player a little outside the top 10 who plays a lot like Dustin too, but I'm sure Richmond are keeping quiet about that so he's there for one of their later picks.
Now what were the strengths of Ben Cousins, Chris Judd, Jason Akermanis, Adam Cooney etc? There are many different types of successful midfielders. We already have a couple of slower, elusive, powerful types.
Interesting that the Bombers delisted one of the Davey twins. 2 very similar players who haven't shown a lot and with list spots tight one had to go due to Kako coming in.
The Campos at least seem to be different types of players. There is a risk taking F&S just because they are. Despite this I think it is crazy how far they seem to have dropped off the radar.
The Campos at least seem to be different types of players. There is a risk taking F&S just because they are. Despite this I think it is crazy how far they seem to have dropped off the radar.
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we already have elusive types who distribute and read the play? Generals? Who? Where? If there was a Judd or cousins in this draft you'd take them. They have all of the above.
We have Walsh - who doesn't read the play well at all. He runs all day and needs to be directed. He needs to be a receiver and cosntant link player.
We have Cripps who is all power and burst and a freak. But not a cerebral player.
We have Hewett. The defensive minded piece.
We have Cerra who is reserved and not a leader. Doesn't have those traits.
Throwing in a bloke who's primary attribute is leg speed doesn't make sense to me. We have heaps of run. Midfield generated speed on the ball more efficiently more often through good distribution to fast flankers/ moving talls/ good handball patterns. Not by running a little bit quicker. We don't have enough footy IQ in the middle. Not even close. Lachie Neale, Dunkley, Ashcroft... These aren't fast midfielders. They're strong runners, they're intelligent. They're good distributors.
Pendles, Swan, Beams, Adams, sidebottom..... Speed was brought by Varcoe types on the outside.
Dow was fast. Fast gets blocked at stoppage. Draper reads like dow to me, maybe not even that good. Good stoppage player average vision average disposal. Not a cerebral player. I'd hope we go for one of these pure midfielders. Langford, jagga, Lalor if there.
I'm really not fussed by speed. Good rotations and fast flankers - which is all the hawks have done - is a method that continuously works.
Richmond had prestia Grigg cotchin etc running around. Dusty power but not fast. Then the flankers brought the crazy speed.
Jimmae
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This is a bit disingenuous from you: timed speed from a dead start in a testing environment is not the same as consistency of performance on game day across a season, across a junior career. Sometimes the day and conditions are right and it confirm what you see on tape, sometimes it causes concern. This is a nothing result.
Yes they get 3 attempts, but not everyone is a track star, not everyone bothers to train in runners on a basketball court. I think the testing shows that with his current frame and technique, he's not particularly strong through the legs and benefits a bit from the softer surface.
I think he'll time quicker after a bit of specialised sprint work in pre-season, and he'll go from strength to strength. As I said above, currently built like a marathon runner, but the tap shows borderline elite pace and agility.
He's got a lot of development scope, and may never be a pure on-baller, but we don't need that from him. Happy to have someone who can burn away on the wing, HF, the centre bounce, or in on-ball stints with the kind of read and execution he has in the heat of the moment.
Draper is leagues ahead of Dow at stoppage and in terms of pace.
It's derivative to say Draper fast, so Draper Dow, so Draper fail.
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The 'injury plagued' star blue top draftee?
The star Blue top draftee has modelled his game after and his draft top 5 prediction
"He's a great inspiration for me."
So it's decided?
Just the words you want to read after our 2024 season.
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Langford plays against schoolboys champ.
It’s not good running. 6’24” is not “great runner” standard.
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