Recruiting AFL Draft Watch 2024 - What do we do, we don't have a top 10 pick?

[Blind Turn]

Jacko is probably the most Aussie name he could get, Jackoff probably the funniest. I’m sure BT will find a way to make a mess of it regardless.

He’ll just call him Archie Perkins or Denis Pagan.

 

[Duckworth]

pretty disengenious since the 11-20 range has 10 people a year vs 5 in the range before and only 1 pick 2 and 5 times more likely then the 6-10 range

So your almost 10 times more likely to have a 300 gamer at pick 2 then at any given pick in the 11-20 range

It's written as a percentage, so number of people in each group is not a factor.

 

[jdstorm]

It's written as a percentage, so number of people in each group is not a factor.

It's written as a percentage, so number of people in each group is not a factor.

Yeah my bad

 

[Snake Charmer]

Dont know anything about Jack Ough, what I do like about the reading is the meat and potatoes type of player we have avoided under lord Voldemort

Taking one every draft should almost be mandatory and cut the lowest denominator at years end

Hobbs was exactly a meat and potatoes type. He has 0 parts to his game that set him apart. I don’t mind looking for role types but you still need to target guys with elite types to there game. Stuff that can be a pov for them

 

[ant555]

Hobbs was exactly a meat and potatoes type. He has 0 parts to his game that set him apart. I don’t mind looking for role types but you still need to target guys with elite types to there game. Stuff that can be a pov for them

Hobbs is more than a meat and potatoes guy in my opinion. He is a very good inside midfielder. He is just another we are not playing there.

 

[Blind Turn]

I don’t mind him, not the quickest but can play a range of roles and is fairly clean and composed with the ball. He sits in the 25-45 range for me

Funnily enOUGH, this link popped up in my news feed today. Just so happens that he’s a mad Essendon fan. Might be a bit of an OUGHmen. Welcome to Essendon Jackoff.

The draft hopeful who grew up a “mad Essendon supporter” and idolises Merrett and Bontempelli

Jack Ough speaking to Tom Morris about the upcoming AFL Draft.

www.sen.com.au

 

[Lore]

Funnily enOUGH, this link popped up in my news feed today. Just so happens that he’s a mad Essendon fan. Might be a bit of an OUGHmen. Welcome to Essendon Jackoff.

The draft hopeful who grew up a “mad Essendon supporter” and idolises Merrett and Bontempelli

Jack Ough speaking to Tom Morris about the upcoming AFL Draft.

www.sen.com.au

“I’m a tall midfielder at around 194cm, I started on the wing in the first half of the year, then moved more inside in the back-end of the year, so I’ve got that inside and outside balance, and I’m versatile as well,” Ough said on SEN Afternoons.

Hm. key defender it is

 

[King Patty]

Same height as caddy.

 

[Blind Turn]

Same height as caddy.

Same height as Cripps…

 

[Vindicater]

Same height as Cripps…

Which is 4cm taller than Tony Lockett

 

[Blind Turn]

Which is 4cm taller than Tony Lockett

And 8cm taller than Dermott Brereton

 

[Nifft]

And 8cm taller than Dermott Brereton

Makes you wonder what position some of these guys would play now if they'd grown up in this era.
Gary Ablett Sr 185cm
Glenn Archer 182cm
Dermott Brereton 186cm
Wayne Carey 192cm
Terry Daniher 188cm
Jason Dunstall 188cm
Ross Glendinning 188cm
Tony Lockett 191cm
Tony Modra 188cm
Paul Roos 188cm
Stephen Silvagni 191cm

 

[Blind Turn]

Makes you wonder what position some of these guys would play now if they'd grown up in this era.
Gary Ablett Sr 185cm
Glenn Archer 182cm
Dermott Brereton 186cm
Wayne Carey 192cm
Terry Daniher 188cm
Jason Dunstall 188cm
Ross Glendinning 188cm
Tony Lockett 191cm
Tony Modra 188cm
Paul Roos 188cm
Stephen Silvagni 191cm

Roos became the prototype attacking HB so that’s a given. SOS would’ve struggled against the talls now but always held his own against the bulky full forwards so he’d have been a defensive utility. TD a hf or hb. Modra excelled when one-out so not sure how he’d have gone as a focal point. Might’ve struggled a bit in the modern game I reckon. Carey still a CHF. Ablett, whatever he likes. Lockett would still be a FF. Dunstall too as he got separation and his leading patterns were spot on. Glendinning a flanker. Archer would still hold his own. Brereton, a third tall forward. He was handy at ground level too before injury caught up with him.

They were all instinctive players though and I’m sure they’d have adapted their game to suit.

 

[Old Campaigner]

Makes you wonder what position some of these guys would play now if they'd grown up in this era.
Gary Ablett Sr 185cm
Glenn Archer 182cm
Dermott Brereton 186cm
Wayne Carey 192cm
Terry Daniher 188cm
Jason Dunstall 188cm
Ross Glendinning 188cm
Tony Lockett 191cm
Tony Modra 188cm
Paul Roos 188cm
Stephen Silvagni 191cm

Ablett, Lockett etc would still play forward, there'd just be some lumbering 200cm dinosour getting in their leading lanes.

 

[Blind Turn]

Ablett, Lockett etc would still play forward, there'd just be some lumbering 200cm dinosour getting in their leading lanes.

Modra would have better step ladders I guess.

 

[jdstorm]

They’d mostly play 3rd tall. Or HB.

Imagine Jake Stringer

25

Jake Stringer

Age

30

Ht

192cm

Wt

92kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

12.9

3star

K

8.5

3star

HB

4.4

3star

M

3.3

3star

T

2.5

4star

G

1.8

5star

D

8.5

2star

K

7.0

3star

HB

1.5

1star

M

2.8

3star

T

3.8

4star

G

2.5

5star

D

7.2

2star

K

4.8

2star

HB

2.4

3star

M

2.6

3star

T

1.4

4star

G

1.4

5star

back then he’d be unstoppable as the biggest player on the field

 

[Nicholas61]

Roos became the prototype attacking HB so that’s a given. SOS would’ve struggled against the talls now but always held his own against the bulky full forwards so he’d have been a defensive utility. TD a hf or hb.

Roos was amazing - saw him dominate for Fitzroy at the WACA one night when WCE were virtually a state of origin team. Under severe heat most of the night, didn't fumble, good decision maker and just kept clunking them and repelling attacks.

Not sure how SOS would have been viewed had the umps actually applied the rules properly. No doubt a very good player and even put up some exceptional match winning performances up forward but got away with ridiculous stuff he shouldn't have.

I think the incredible natural power unique to Dunstall, Lockett and Ablett they could still play FF. Like when Dangerfield would get thrown full forward forward it was a nightmare matchup. Too quick for KPPs and too strong for flankers to deal with. The increased congestion would be harder for them but would still be guns there.

 

[Snake Charmer]

Hobbs is more than a meat and potatoes guy in my opinion. He is a very good inside midfielder. He is just another we are not playing there.

What sets him apart from other 180cm inside mids? Durham went past him pretty quick and Caldwell is keeping him out. Not much room for him because he isn’t better then those we have