Toast Fremantle's 1st 2018 National Draft Pick: Sam Sturt [Pick #17]

[simpsonwillo]

Reminds me of the Bont

 

[Rob]

we have same amount of recruiters in the vic market

That I seriously doubt. Every Vic club would have scouts all over the place.

 

[Mags98]

That I seriously doubt. Every Vic club would have scouts all over the place.

you’d think that the top 30-50 or so would all have been looked at equally by all clubs surely


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[estibador]

Everyone looks good in highlight vids. That's why they're called 'highlights'.

In the end none of us has seen as much of him as our recruiters - what concerns me is that every other Melbourne club would have seen him a lot more than our recruiters. That's why (IMO) our drafting from Melbourne has been utter, utter ratshit since pretty much day 1, except for a couple of mature age VFL players that were drafted super late.
This idea that we can outsmart 10 other clubs in their own backyard is fanciful bullshit, and this selection reeks of that.

A closer look shows that Geelong were the only Victorian club with a pick within cooee of where we took Sturt though, and they took a WA boy we probably would have taken had we had the chance.

Collingwood at 13 matched an academy bid, as did North at 8. The rest of the picks in the block of 10 before us were all non-Vic teams.

So basically you're stressing that Victorian clubs didn't rate a guy in the top 7 that we ended up taking at 17. Have we really tried to outsmart anyone?

 

[jedi mind tricks]

Are you still homeless?

Relevance?

 

[Barls_7]

Everyone looks good in highlight vids. That's why they're called 'highlights'.

In the end none of us has seen as much of him as our recruiters - what concerns me is that every other Melbourne club would have seen him a lot more than our recruiters. That's why (IMO) our drafting from Melbourne has been utter, utter ratshit since pretty much day 1, except for a couple of mature age VFL players that were drafted super late.
This idea that we can outsmart 10 other clubs in their own backyard is fanciful bullshit, and this selection reeks of that.

So what about Carlton when they picked up Patrick Cripps (a WA) player from every other club at the time under their nose? including WA clubs?

Just cause Sturt is Victorian, how does that translate to us not potentially grabbing a steal?

 

[Docker82]

Exactly what we needed. Got too many short people already.

Now to load up on mids. Another key defender would be nice too.

 

[Rob]

A closer look shows that Geelong were the only Victorian club with a pick within cooee of where we took Sturt though, and they took a WA boy we probably would have taken had we had the chance.

Collingwood at 13 matched an academy bid, as did North at 8.

So basically you're stressing that Victorian clubs didn't rate a guy in the top 7 that we ended up taking at 17. Have we really tried to outsmart anyone?

Dunno, but there's a reason just about every Melbourne kid we recruit turns out to be underwhelming.

Hopefully he is the next Fyfe.

 

[nurries]

Extra zip and another avenue to goal! What’s not to like?

 

[Spirit Level]

He looks to me like a future attacking midfielder to me, rather than a forward.

Happy with this one, just hope Hill doesn't turn into the next Cyril now

 

[Wabjub]

I may be way off but ive compared games and clubs but im fairly sure thats Sturt getting a few leads on Quaynor in the TAC cup grand final in the first video on his welcome post.

This is the player who Collingwood rate highly and was put on Rankine and shut him down if i remember what the draft hosts were saying.

This is after being invited down to the stingrays after 6 years of cricket... we may have something good here.

 

[Rob]

So what about Carlton when they picked up Patrick Cripps (a WA) player from every other club at the time under their nose? including WA clubs?

Pretty shit example given we didn't have a pick, and West Coast's only pick was used on another WA player (Sheed).

Funnily enough, that draft we went for a Melbourne kid over Lobb. And Alex Pearce for that matter, who was 20 odd picks later.
That Melbourne kid was just delisted.

 

[UYD 4 Life]

I may be way off but ive compared games and clubs but im fairly sure thats Sturt getting a few leads on Quaynor in the TAC cup grand final in the first video on his welcome post.

This is the who Collingwood rate highly and was put on Rankine and shut him down if i remember what the draft hosts were saying.

This is after being invited down to the stingrays after 6 years of cricket... we may have something good here.

Correct -was in the TAC grand final - think Quaynor ended up getting moved off him

 

[Wabjub]

Correct -was in the TAC grand final - think Quaynor ended up getting moved off him

Leads well and protected the drop zone. Gave Quaynor no chance.

 

[sherrif]

Everyone looks good in highlight vids. That's why they're called 'highlights'.

In the end none of us has seen as much of him as our recruiters - what concerns me is that every other Melbourne club would have seen him a lot more than our recruiters. That's why (IMO) our drafting from Melbourne has been utter, utter ratshit since pretty much day 1, except for a couple of mature age VFL players that were drafted super late.
This idea that we can outsmart 10 other clubs in their own backyard is fanciful bullshit, and this selection reeks of that.

You realize we have a heap of recruiters who base themselves in Victoria. Its being reported we have the biggest recruiting department of any team in the afl. The concept that recruiters from Freo wouldnt view victiorian based youngsters as much as any Melbourne based clubs is a very strange point to make.

 

[StingBitten]

Since I’ve been on Bigfooty, at no stage has our first pick ever gone the way the majority predicted.

Getting quite funny actually.

 

[Rob]

You realize we have a heap of recruiters who base themselves in Victoria. Its being reported we have the biggest recruiting department of any team in the afl. The concept that recruiters from Freo wouldnt view victiorian based youngsters as much as any Melbourne based clubs is a very strange point to make.

So why are we so bad at drafting Melbourne kids?

 

[masai]

Was even funnier in the video. You could see the love and pride in mum and dad. Likely lad. Get him a surfboard and a nice wa girly.

Fyfe yells to Belly, “ keep him away from Blakey !!!, Langers can look after him “.

 

[Purple Jesus]

Everyone looks good in highlight vids. That's why they're called 'highlights'.

In the end none of us has seen as much of him as our recruiters - what concerns me is that every other Melbourne club would have seen him a lot more than our recruiters. That's why (IMO) our drafting from Melbourne has been utter, utter ratshit since pretty much day 1, except for a couple of mature age VFL players that were drafted super late.
This idea that we can outsmart 10 other clubs in their own backyard is fanciful bullshit, and this selection reeks of that.

You do know that our head recruiter was based in Victoria right?

 

[Ysaye]

Just finished a long meeting and absolutely stoked with this pick! Was really worried we were going to go an ultra-safe pick.

 

[One_Wing]

Since I’ve been on Bigfooty, at no stage has our first pick ever gone the way the majority predicted.

Getting quite funny actually.

The Fremantle fc subreddit has gotten Freo's first round picks right two years in a row now.

 

[Socrates2]

Great pick, this guy is a beautiful kick and has massive upside.I'm thinking Freo a great chance to imrprove to the final eight this year.Is this a good possibility gambling wise?

 

[masai]

Since I’ve been on Bigfooty, at no stage has our first pick ever gone the way the majority predicted.

Getting quite funny actually.

Brayshaw ?, I’d say he’s tracking ok at the moment.

 

[BettercallSaul]

The kid has all the tools. Please FootyInjury Gods be nice to him (and us).

 

[Rob]

You do know that our head recruiter was based in Victoria right?

I do. Which I always thought was complete madness.