Is North Melbourne passing on Logan McDonald going to be the 2021 version of the Bulldogs passing on Buddy for Ryan Griffin

[Johnny Bananas]

I was right!

People can keep giving North crap about picking Will Phillips over Logan McDonald but for me. I have never thought McDonald was a great player, If North had their time again they would pick neither of these players.

KPPs can be hard to rate after four seasons. Josh Kennedy took six seasons to really break out.

 

[Daka]

KPPs can be hard to rate after four seasons. Josh Kennedy took six seasons to really break out.

The whole draft looks a dud, only a spinkle of good players in it.

I can tell you right now Logan is going to have no where near the career Josh Kennedy had.

 

[HomerJV]

The whole draft looks a dud, only a spinkle of good players in it.

This was also the draft Essendon chose to attack with three top 10 picks.

That club sure knows how to pick their drafts.

 

[bradfisher14]

I was right!

People can keep giving North crap about picking Will Phillips over Logan McDonald but for me. I have never thought McDonald was a great player, If North had their time again they would pick neither of these players.

At least McDonald is definitely AFL standard. Phillips is barely getting a game in one of the worst team's in league history.

 

[Johnny Bananas]

Not much to love. Holmes (20) looks clearly the best of the non-academy players.

Think Thilthorpe is in for a massive 2025 if he can stay injury free. Looks imposing.

Still relatively early so players could still breakout from here but looking a very weak draft

A lot of Lions fans were annoyed that we traded two first round picks in that draft (#21 & #22) for Melbourne's first pick the next year, which ended up becoming #20 as they went from 9th to winning the flag that season. But it ended up being trading Bailey Laurie and Jake Bowey for Kai Lohmann. In hindsight I'm extremely happy the Lions did what they did. This draft was poison due to Covid screwing up everyone's development.

 

[Daka]

At least McDonald is definitely AFL standard. Phillips is barely getting a game in one of the worst team's in league history.

I know Phillips is clearly a dud, Logan is better but people shouldn't be raving about McDonald when saying North stuffed up is my point. lol

 

[bradfisher14]

I know Phillips is clearly a dud, Logan is better but people shouldn't be raving about McDonald when saying North stuffed up is my point. lol

That's fair. I definitely don't think he's a generational key forward, but think he'll be solid for a long time and potentially make AA at some point in his career.