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Is McLuggage the kid that's being touted as the no.1 pick?
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Is McLuggage the kid that's being touted as the no.1 pick?
Very classy, clean overhead and ground level and gets involved all around the ground despite his skinny frame, would unleash him on a wing and let him just own it. Wouldn't say his kicking is elite but his footy IQ and ability to win the footy around the ground is top notch.
Not sure I would pick him that high but there is a long way to go to figure out who goes at 1, I would take Bowes and Petrevski-Seton ahead of him at the moment it's a pity that Bowes is tied to the Gold Coast.
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Simpkin with our second.
Imagine McCluggage along with Will Brodie is right in the mix for the top pick.
Scharenberg Jnr sounds likely to drop in between our first and second.
As much as I'd like Simpkin at our second would you go Simpkin if someone like Battle was also available? There will be a lot of good players available at our second pick I reckon so should we go needs based or best available?
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Tough question.
The next two drafts are set to be laden with key position players so perhaps we can get a bargain KPF later (pencilling in Karl Brown's name into our third pick) and load up on talent early.
Imagine a draft like this;
1. McCluggage/Brodie/SPS
19. Scharenberg/Simpkin/Poholke
38. Karl Brown/KPF
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would be good to trade for a pick in the 10-15 range and pick up someone like Rotham or another KPP who looks set to go at that stage aswell. Could really set up our future with this years draft after whats looking like a good draft last year also.
If we can manage to get another top 20 pick from some where that will be good.
Wouldn't mind any of those selections could even add Zac Sproule(would have to hope a bid isn't matched for him)later in the draft as a tall forward to work with or maybe even Strnadica.
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would love to bag Strnadica with one of our 2nd-3rd rounders. Kid will be a gun
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Hugh McCluggage missed a chunk of pre season with a back injury and the Werribee game was just his 2nd game back, 5 days after his 1st game, was not match conditioned. not an excuse for him but just expect better showings now he is at full fitness.
There is a bit of Rory Lobb about him if he has a good championships will most likely go in the first 25 picks.
He still played fantastic in the game I watched he just didn't look as good as others, plays very similar to Bowes and will be interesting to see how both go in the champs.
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The club has never been bold enough to even go after draft picks.
3 top 20 picks would be brilliant. Doubt it'll happen though
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Does anyone know anything about Tim English. On the afl site he was mentioned alongside Jeremy Goddard for WA ruck/tall prospects. English is listed at 204cm.
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Brett Anderson has him rated at 14 on his big board for 2016.
"A long-term ruck prospect who’s form in the WAFL Colts has been strong having come in as a 19-year-old. He is averaging 26 hit-outs (24 per cent to advantage). He shows good touch at the stoppages with his hits where he can go forward, back, 9 o’clock and 3 o’clock, and he can get involved around the ground, displaying good kicking skills for a player of his size, and is a capable tackler." - what Brett wrote about him
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I reckon our best outcome would to end up with Prestia, whilst offloading higher picks and kids who can't make the seniors.
If we can do a huuugggee trade/s with gc then I would be stoked.
We need to offload players like ashby, ambrose, Edwards, if we want to be serious about our list future. Give them to Gold Coast for matera. If we are gonna delist them for free then may aswell give them away, let them continue their careers and also get some value out of them.
MY ideal trade/draft period (which is realistic) would be to get rid of around 8 players via delist, retirement or trade.
If we could trade pick one for prestia + one of their 3 first rounders and maybe a 25-40 pick. This gives us an assured star and a gun in a top pick. I think we could snag a Todd Marshall or a powell pepper or a will Brodie with this, all of the above with great futures ahead of them.
If we could get matera for really cheap that would also be super. If we get him for players that were going to be delisted like ashby and Edwards, it's like getting him for free, filling a need, and also creating space on our list.
The trade would go a bit like: abrose + Edwards + ashby for matera.
If we could also trade our later picks for early ones to GWS or Gold Coast, that would be handy. If we trade our fourth and fifth rounders to one of them + future fourth we could get an early 20s pick due to their need of points for academy picks.
I also expect us to trade some other players who aren't best 22 for like pick~50.
Say we come last, that leaves us with entering the draft with pick~10, pick 19, pick~22, pick 38, pick~50.
Ideal Senior list in:
Tippa
Prestia
Matera
Marshall
Jye Simpkin
Berry (I think he will slide to the 20s)
Strnadica
Karl brown
Total of 8.
Delistings/trades/FA/Retirement
Pears
Ashby
Edwards
Kommer
Ambrose
Gwilt
Cooney
Dempsey
Hams(r)
2 Free rookie spots.
This is entirely in my opinion.
If we can do a huuugggee trade/s with gc then I would be stoked.
We need to offload players like ashby, ambrose, Edwards, if we want to be serious about our list future. Give them to Gold Coast for matera. If we are gonna delist them for free then may aswell give them away, let them continue their careers and also get some value out of them.
MY ideal trade/draft period (which is realistic) would be to get rid of around 8 players via delist, retirement or trade.
If we could trade pick one for prestia + one of their 3 first rounders and maybe a 25-40 pick. This gives us an assured star and a gun in a top pick. I think we could snag a Todd Marshall or a powell pepper or a will Brodie with this, all of the above with great futures ahead of them.
If we could get matera for really cheap that would also be super. If we get him for players that were going to be delisted like ashby and Edwards, it's like getting him for free, filling a need, and also creating space on our list.
The trade would go a bit like: abrose + Edwards + ashby for matera.
If we could also trade our later picks for early ones to GWS or Gold Coast, that would be handy. If we trade our fourth and fifth rounders to one of them + future fourth we could get an early 20s pick due to their need of points for academy picks.
I also expect us to trade some other players who aren't best 22 for like pick~50.
Say we come last, that leaves us with entering the draft with pick~10, pick 19, pick~22, pick 38, pick~50.
Ideal Senior list in:
Tippa
Prestia
Matera
Marshall
Jye Simpkin
Berry (I think he will slide to the 20s)
Strnadica
Karl brown
Total of 8.
Delistings/trades/FA/Retirement
Pears
Ashby
Edwards
Kommer
Ambrose
Gwilt
Cooney
Dempsey
Hams(r)
2 Free rookie spots.
This is entirely in my opinion.
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SPS all the way, he looked like he could have been drafted last year in the top 10, his WA performances were insane.
We can cover needs with trading, take the best available. I think he or McLuggage will be the best kids in the draft at this point.
We can cover needs with trading, take the best available. I think he or McLuggage will be the best kids in the draft at this point.
List management is going to interesting this year because we have found a few good players that will easily be in our best side next year.
Reckon Freo will nab SPS if they end up with pick 1.
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More people need Walla-vatars.
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Probably just straight up tanking as they think he's worth it.
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