Knightmare
Brownlow Medallist
- Sep 22, 2010
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- AFL Club
- Collingwood
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- Chicago Bulls
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IMO Collingwood has one of the most unbalanced, talentless lists in the comp. I'm sniffing real spoon potential in 2018
Unbalanced I'd mostly agree with, with Collingwood's KPP stocks the worst in the competition and Moore the only worthwhile young one.
Outside of Collingwood's KPP stocks. Collingwood have a solid list, filling most other list needs and having enough talent and good young players coming through.
Good youth has never been an issue for Collingwood. Only the continuation of quality play of their veterans - Paul Licuria, Josh Fraser, Alan Didak, Nick Maxwell, Dale Thomas, Alan Toovey, Brent Macaffer, Sharrod Wellingham, Chris Dawes, Heritier Lumumba, Dane Swan, Travis Cloke, Ben Reid.
de goey is easily collingwoods most talented young player. the worrying thing for collingwood is that he has hardly put together a string of good matches let alone good seasons as i would argue mills, heeney and jones have.
do you have a link to your final power ratings for 2016, as i would be interested to read what you had to say about florent and hayward?
De Goey I liked in his first season with his contested work particularly impressive.
2016/2017 I mostly wasn't as enthused as I had hoped, though his close to 2017 with some match-winning performances late season leaves optimism high that he will become a very good mid/fwd.
From the same draft, Maynard has done more and is one of a few in the conversation of Collingwood's better young players.
Sean Darcy surpassed Grundy’s first year record (especially in hit outs and tackles) and has come back to pre season training a completely different body shape. Watch this space!
Sean Darcy was the big surprise last year.
Didn't rate him going into last years draft. Wasn't a standout in the TAC Cup. Went boom this year.
It will be great to watch his progress in 2018. Have no doubt he's putting in the work after being an average production, fairly low impact player in the TAC Cup in 2016.
It's pretty staggering (even taking out his one disposal, two hitout game) that a guy who kicked no goals from seven games and averaged from those other games 10.33 disposals, 3.67 tackles, 2 marks and 33.83 hitouts per game has achieved better numbers at AFL level in his first season, with only his marks per game from those categories lower at AFL level.