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AFLW 2024 - Round 9 - Indigenous Round - Chat, game threads, injury lists, team lineups and more.
Wow! Good, healthy, fit, talented and TALL players. Just what we needed!
Have you been on RWO today? Someone posted a link to Jesse White's myspace. He's cute!
yeah i have. i don't rememember seeing a link. You got the link? thanks
he's okay looking. 199 cm! We need tall people and thankgod we did.
Yuh, but who knows when they will play..
I don't think we'll see any of them within the next 2 years.. hm, maybe in 2008, but not next year.
Hey, do you remember reading about how Auskick had a twin brother? He should have been in the draft!!
Aw and Daniel Currie is younger then me!
Oi! watch yourself!
For what it's worth, there are no 300 gamers younger than me
(but plenty of retired players)
Oi! watch yourself!
For what it's worth, there are no 300 gamers younger than me
(but plenty of retired players)
I would put O'Keefe in for round 1, at the expense of Ben Mathews.
Mark Ricciuto is already there, and only a couple of months older
Barnaby French is retired, and he's younger than me - much younger I'm sure (there's no way that guy is much older than 26/27 eh Charlie?)
Having seen O'keefe play I wouldn't mark him down for a place in the team just yet.
He gets a lot of uncontested ball, playing wide and I'm not sure he's a true midfielder. He does remind me a bit of R O'Keefe, but he reminds me more of a guy called Bo Nixon, who spent some time with Coll & Haw.
Some quotes from the AFL website;
Barham was effusive about Vic Country Under-18 representative O'Keefe, a dynamic left-footed midfielder and prolific possession-winner who won the 2006 Geelong Falcons Best and Fairest easily. "He's a very, very talented player, a very smart player. I rated him very highly all the way along," said Barham.
Clearly Barham rated him more highly than other clubs. But my concern is that once again (unlike say Collingwood or West Coast in this draft) we didn't draft for need. We could have taken a highly rated KPP in M. Brown, but chose a tweener.
The fact that we drafted 3 talls at picks 49+ is largely irrelevant. All 3 are development players, Currie & Faulks body wise and White skill wise. If one of the 3 becomes a regular, down the track, we'll be doing well.
I'm afraid to my mind another unspectacular draft. One pick, essentially in the first 50 and we 'reach' for a guy who is in between a midfielder and a flanker. A handy player, but not an absolute certainty to play 100 games (which a first rounder, in a super draft, should do) and a player that doesn't address a need.
Peter 'Colombo' Faulks is the lynchpin of whether this draft will be regarded as successful for us.
Daniel O'Keefe, as people have said, doesn't fill a short-term or probably even a medium-term need at the club: he was just picked on the basis of 'best available'. As long as Laidlaw, Moore, Schmidt, Thornton, Simpkin etc continue to come on, not much skin off the nose of the club if he takes several years to become a regular first-22 selection.
Daniel Currie: a 200cm+ 17yo who has shown plenty of 'potential'. Like, whatever. Project ruckmen. Gotta love 'em. Get back to me in 2010.
Jesse White: Just part of the 'get a big unit who has some athletic ability but isn't highly rated, give 'em a go and see what happens' KPP development policy. Statistically, Sydney would not be expecting that he is more than about a 10-15% chance of becoming a 100-gamer; probably not more than about a 30% chance of even playing a single game.
Whereas Colombo is a specialist full back, drafted as such. Come 2009 or thereabouts, we will be in desperate need of an automatic selection KPP defender who can play on opposition monsters and provide a bit of dash and creativity as well. That is to say, Leo Barry's replacement. If Colombo is it, then the 2006 draft has been a success. If not, it's been a failure.
From the reviews that are out there, I would have much preferred us to take either McKenzie or Mitch Brown (well-rated KPP defenders) at #15 and leave any smalls or mids to later picks.
But the reviews that were out there had Danny Roach at #7 in the 1999 draft and Ryan O'Keefe at #56; so I'm happy to suspend judgment until I actually see the kids playing a bit.