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Recruiting AFL Draft Watch 2024 - What do we do, we don't have a top 10 pick?
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Pretty good today in windy conditions.
At least he has some X factor.
Not many on the bombers list do.
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He looks a good mover but I’ll admit it’s off the back of limited viewing so I’ll back you on that.
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his fwd craft and ability makes him valuable then.
leadership
kicking skills
big body
fwd craft
he'll go inside 30, sneaky chance to go inside the first 20 imho
I'm not sure in Armstrongs kicking style, it's very high, it looks like a style that fall apart under AFL pressure and will need some work
I’m not too sure about the leadership yet, he seemed rather negative last week with his teammates whenever they don’t give him the ball.
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he is captain for a reason
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Saw that video of one of the Whitlock twins taking a set shot, admittedly it was in very high winds but his kicking action looked pretty dreadful as well. Very loose and limbs going everywhere
Probably comes with the terrain of your 200cm types, I guess most of the best or most accurate full forwards in history were probably in the 180s so they had mid type skills. Now they are all ruckman sized with skills that match. Salmon probably the first of them and he was hardly trustworthy, although madden was but he was a freak player
It was mentioned on Zero Hanger that the Eagles pick 3 could be on the table. Would we consider pick 8 + F1 for picks 3 + 23? Maybe we add an F3 to get it over the line. Gives us a potential gun at 3 and we’d have 2 x 2nds to cover Kako.
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I would prefer more picks to less picks
Which one
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Our future 1st next year should be about pick 3.
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Where was zero hangar stealing the content from?
He has a lot of nice traits, will take ahwile to impact at AFL level but a very handy key forward who can ruck when needed. His twin brother Matt is a different style of forward but is also talented and versatile.
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Yeah, nah…
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Leadership in under age is almost a dirty word for me. Pretty sure that’s why we picked McGrath number 1. Leadership overlay…
Is right up there with good family & private school.
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But is he a good captain or an average one.
Jayden Nguyen shredded for the Cannons today in a loss to Sandy. I don’t think you’ll be getting him as a rookie pick but you’ll gladly snap him up with a bid in the 3rd round onwards anyway as he’s a gun.
Haven’t seen a whole heap of discussion on him on here but you guys should be almost as excited about him as Kako. Built for the modern game with his lightning speed and agility/evasiveness.
I can see Lual & Nguyen providing plenty off half back for the Bombers in a few years
Haven’t seen a whole heap of discussion on him on here but you guys should be almost as excited about him as Kako. Built for the modern game with his lightning speed and agility/evasiveness.
I can see Lual & Nguyen providing plenty off half back for the Bombers in a few years
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most things happen for a reason, they are not necessarily good reasons though
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So we’re trading a F1 to move up 8 spots at the top of the draft (in a deep draft) and to get points that will be absorbed by a bid match that we could just as easily get by trading pick 28 down a few times. (Or just get taxed on it if we can’t get enough points)
Seems like throwing away a top pick for little gain.
You may prove to be right but I'm just concerned we might lose our first matching a bid on Kako. There are a couple of teams that may end up with multiple picks before our first. Also, we don't have the points to match a Kako bid at present.
