Mega Thread Delist/Trade/Draft Supermegaultrathread - Who will we draft? edition

[Truckosaurus]

Quayle's phantom out yet?

 

[eagles rule]

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2014-11-10/17-days-to-the-draft-meet-jayden-laverde

So it's pronounced La-ver-dy. I was hoping it'd be La-var-day. I am disappoint.

Hopefully it doesn't end up

Lav-at -ory .

 

[Marlin01]

Geez that Laverde is a decent unit. Not short on ego either, which could be big plus for our group who seem a bit shy and retiring to me.

 

[SpaceClef]

Surely the timer was broken haha

No, i remember the media talking about how he was training for the sprint to raise his draft chances.

I'm sure if you trained for it, you could shave off quite a bit of time. I'm also sure if guys who were already quick (i.e. Pickett) wanted to get the best possible 20m time, they could run quicker than 2.83 sec, but what would be the point?

It's basically just a way for players to allay fears about their pace. I'm sure those who are already quick don't take it anywhere near as seriously. It doesn't say anything about how quick you are on the footy field.

 

[steve hucka]

So they say but he didn't finish in the top times for any of the sprinting or repeat sprinting tests. He looks like a sub 3 second guy but I wouldn't say much more than that. Has excellent evasive ability though.

I don't think Laverde did any physical testing at the combine ?

 

[Spartan]

Duggans highlights are good and a few of his peer draft nominees rated him as a #1 pick

Kids these days and their drug use.. makes me sad.

 

[Lyyynnnchy]

Kids these days and their drug use.. makes me sad.

boondy I'm pretty sure a few of them rated him as a good chance for the rising star award, not the #1 pick

 

[Spartan]

Yeah that isn't happening, he wasn't invited to the draft so no team in the top 10 are looking at him. Also we aren't into him more than any other player, that's just bs.

We'll be taking best available and have serious concerns about his foot, regardless to how he finished the year and his potential it's a big injury and one we can't afford to take a risk on if any risk exists.

I reckon if Cockatoo didn't have the injury risk and didn't miss the last year due to injury he would easily be a top 5 pick.. has all the tools (and from the sounds of it attitude) to be an elite player. Exactly what our vanilla midfield needs. I'd rather take the risk and he struggles with an injury than draft another safe option that adds to our list of 'decent' players.

 

[Suma Magic]

Lav-er-dEE is a stupid way to pronounce it. Works for the poem though:

Twas the day before draftmas and all through bigfooty, we were hoping for a slider by the name of Laverde.

 

[pantskyle]

I reckon if Cockatoo didn't have the injury risk and didn't miss the last year due to injury he would easily be a top 5 pick.. has all the tools (and from the sounds of it attitude) to be an elite player. Exactly what our vanilla midfield needs. I'd rather take the risk and he struggles with an injury than draft another safe option that adds to our list of 'decent' players.

That's very speculative.

I understand the fascination with Cockatoo but I don't think we are in the position to take a risk. We'll get a decent player at 11 either way and I won't be upset if it is Cockatoo but if it was Cockatoo instead of say Laverde I'd be querying it.

A team up top like the Hawks can afford to take risks. We're middle of the road.

 

[eaglespremiers]

I reckon if Cockatoo didn't have the injury risk and didn't miss the last year due to injury he would easily be a top 5 pick.. has all the tools (and from the sounds of it attitude) to be an elite player. Exactly what our vanilla midfield needs. I'd rather take the risk and he struggles with an injury than draft another safe option that adds to our list of 'decent' players.

Who knows? There's every chance if he'd played all year more weaknesses might have been identified and he'd go somewhere in the third round.

 

[Art OF war]

That's very speculative.

I understand the fascination with Cockatoo but I don't think we are in the position to take a risk. We'll get a decent player at 11 either way and I won't be upset if it is Cockatoo but if it was Cockatoo instead of say Laverde I'd be querying it.

A team up top like the Hawks can afford to take risks. We're middle of the road.

It is speculative but I won't be disappointed if we take Nakia. Looks good in a contest with good spread.

However if we pick him at #11, it means he would have gone #1 with a full season and I will declare that we won the draft

 

[Swervability]

Swervability?

Hello.

 

[eagles rule]

Who knows? There's every chance if he'd played all year more weaknesses might have been identified and he'd go somewhere in the third round.

It could have emerged positively for Cockatoo too.

 

[Adzam]

I may have rose coloured glasses on but a while back now we were talking up waterman as being our saviour. So with him locked in I want to take the risk on cockatoo

 

[SpaceClef]

That's very speculative.

I understand the fascination with Cockatoo but I don't think we are in the position to take a risk. We'll get a decent player at 11 either way and I won't be upset if it is Cockatoo but if it was Cockatoo instead of say Laverde I'd be querying it.

A team up top like the Hawks can afford to take risks. We're middle of the road.

He'll most likely go to North IMO, five spots after us. Can they afford to take risks?

 

[Prem87]

Will Laverde ever play as an inside mid or will he be the Embley type on the outside?

I love the fact that he loves to kick goals - we need more players like that!

 

[bombard]

Hello.

Anyong.

 

[Adzam]

He'll most likely go to North IMO, five spots after us. Can they afford to take risks?

Probably not. May sound silly but I would really hate him to go to north. Just like with Pickett I'm not hugely disappointed with missing out on him but I will be if he ends up at collingwood

 

[Boss Rarkley]

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2014-11-10/17-days-to-the-draft-meet-jayden-laverde

So it's pronounced La-ver-dy. I was hoping it'd be La-var-day. I am disappoint.

Was really hoping it was La-Var-Day so if we drafted him I could declare it a Laverde Holiday, but here we are

 

[Bender_]

You guys have filled my head with so much shit I'm going to be disappointed with whoever we draft!

 

[pantskyle]

He'll most likely go to North IMO, five spots after us. Can they afford to take risks?

Well they think they are in premiership mode so yes they can, they also may look to take them with there early second rounder, pick 25.

 

[eagles rule]

Jon Phelan on Twitter had said "Saints deny changing their minds on pick 1 "

 

[Spartan]

That's very speculative.

I understand the fascination with Cockatoo but I don't think we are in the position to take a risk. We'll get a decent player at 11 either way and I won't be upset if it is Cockatoo but if it was Cockatoo instead of say Laverde I'd be querying it.

A team up top like the Hawks can afford to take risks. We're middle of the road.

I would pick Laverde over Cockatoo without too much thought, however believe Cockatoo to be a much better pick for us than Weller, Duggan, etc.

As a counter argument I'd say that we need to be taking risks and finding that elite player, especially in the midfield, to go from middle of the road to premiership contender.

Who knows? There's every chance if he'd played all year more weaknesses might have been identified and he'd go somewhere in the third round.

Very true, however as I said when you look at his tools and his attitude I think its more likely that his value would be higher than lower.

 

[Mattman93]

Jon Phelan on Twitter had said "Saints deny changing their minds on pick 1 "

This doesn't matter to anyone but Melbourne.