yep, we've lost some depth but they were also 'known players' - talent, abilities and limitations were well known and the mix is clearly off. This is a calculated effort to bring some change to the list at the risk of our depth being exposed through injury next year. Payoff is of course, as you say a new mix. Pick 3, billy wilson, Hollands boys, docherty even C durdin can make our midfield less predictable
2014 was a very interesting draft. Outside of De Goey and Petracca no absolute elite players. Heeney, Steele and Moore father son / academy players but otherwise a handful of good but not great options.
Nick Daicos was pretty much touted as a top 5 draft pick that year anyway, regardless of F/S (and pick 1 according to some folks). So if the conventional thinking is that the Campo bros are 2nd and 3rd round chances, regardless of F/S, then there's a lot of pressure on them to achieve great things with a moneyball tactic like that (despite pick 3, who is going to have a mountain of pressure and expectation to perform) - moreso given that we've traded Kennedy and Carroll has been delisted... The commenter has a fair point imo.
I was shocked that he got essentially zero minutes on ball in 2024. He was dominant from what I saw in preseason training.
It sounds like we are happy to try things in the preseason but when it comes to the crunch and the main season starts that all goes away. It's a bit like when we brought players in and tried things at the end of last season and the end of this season and that went well, when finals came we cracked under pressure and put those things away.
Add Deer to the list
I do like Olly off HB. Adds mobility and even if he doesn't have a Houston like peg on him, he does appear to look for the attacking option.
Will be an awesome list piece going forward. Think plenty on here will be surprised what he offers with maturity. Too many undersell his skills which are blunted by his current role and focus. He has excellent game sense which will become more apparent when his role switches from running machine with defence first as his focus.
Why's that?
The 2014 draft was a trainwreck for a lot of clubs: 17 of the top 30 picks are no longer playing (I'm counting Durdin at this point), including 6 of the top 10, and 3* of the top 5.
His kicking became a lot cleaner and his top speed went up after he got to relax a bit more playing from HB. I think the kid is like his brother: his speed/endurance mix suffers too much when deployed on the wing, and his strength isn't quite there when on-ball.
Thanks
remind me what we got for Mitch Robinson too..
Including a B&F.
We could put an asterisk next to that one though. It was a four way tie.
Sorry but what were these failed decisions that Voss “choked” in 2023? If memory serves me correctly we won 2 finals and performed at a high level.
He's a gutsy little bugger as well.....never seen him shirk a contest against bigger, harder bodies.
We chose a totally cooked version of Cincotta who was horrible and Kennedy as sub who was horrible. Dropped fit, form players who brought much needed pace and run for other fringe players who were not fit and brought no run at all.
A lot of people blinded by winning a couple of finals. If 2023 was successful then the bar most certainly is low. We would have been marginally better with more pace. My opinion won't change on that. The last two seasons, every time we inject even a little pace into the team it improves significantly. We picked the slowest side we could for finals, struggled through two finals, won with a lot of luck involved and were outpaced in the prelim. Melbourne and/or Sydney don't have a mare in front of goal in 2023 and there would be more people agreeing with me.
