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All I know is he's a bloody long way away from AFL ready at this point.Was that level of uncompetitiveness evident in his U18 year? Maybe he's just struggling to fit in there a bit mentally?
I'm more in the school of thought you don't use 1st round picks on slow developing ruckmen, Dodson is already reasonably well developed physically so he might not take as long but I guess it gets down to how much you value a ruckman as part of your team. A lot of the better rucks have come from later picks even the rookie draft.
I quite like Flynn Penry who will either go late or rookie or maybe go undrafted this year but I'd be reasonably confident he'll be on an AFL list down the track if he chooses to go to the State Leagues and not back to his hometown team the Cobden Bombers.