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Player Watch Luke Pedlar
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Looks exciting but we need an elite midfielder as a priorityRankine, Rachele and Pedlar rotating through the forwardline and midfield
At the time I would have liked to have traded up for Hollands, but even he's played less than Pedlar.
Might have meant we might have lost our Rachele pick in the process. Hopefully Pedlar and Rachele ends up being better than going all in for Hollands.
I'd hope we don't have our eggs in the basket of a pick 11 to become our next elite midfielder in the first place tbh.
Must admit I didn’t know exactly what pedler brought to the table before yesterday. After yesterday though I can why the scouts compared him to a Toby Greene type. Had 11 possessions but felt like 25 because he was so damaging. Didn’t realise his kick was so penetrating, hard as nails and also has some pace. We will have the most damaging forward in the league soon. The midfield however is still a worry
Southerntakeover
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We haven't drafted any midfielders higher, so what other eggs do we have?
Midfielders can come on quicker than key forwards and defenders.
I think we had a very solid strategy to go the midfield last in the rebuild.
Compare to North who have gone midfield first. They get more pick 1s though with this approach, don't they?
The next 2 years will demonstrate which approach is better, in the meantime its now we need that elite midfielder.
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Righties have "booming"Out of curiosity, why is it only left-footers that ever seem to have "raking" kicks? I don't think I've ever heard a single right-footed kick described as "raking", but lefties can't seem to avoid it!?
Southerntakeover
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Quicker than small forwards? We didn't have that strategy at all.
Wait, I thought the goal was to develop a premiership quality list by nailing draft picks? If a pick 11 turned out to be Jordan Dawson quality that's a successful pick, whether you consider Dawson to be 'elite' or not. If you set the bar for elite high enough that Dawson doesn't make it you're talking the best players in the league, in which case you certainly don't expect that level at pick 11.
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I still see Pedlar a MID / FWD ......not the other way round
Might take another 3 years for those mid minutes to grow, and his body really harden up ......that's 23 YO target
Yeah he plays like a midfielder imo. Has all the traits. I don't think he'll be playing majority forward for long given he gets a clear run with injuries.
Just on forwards/mids...
Am I right in saying Rozee won the u16 championship medal playing midfield? Then played mostly forward and now has moved back to midfield? Look at him now.
Rachele also won the u16 championship medal playing as a midfielder, no reason he can't follow the same path.
Am I right in saying Rozee won the u16 championship medal playing midfield? Then played mostly forward and now has moved back to midfield? Look at him now.
Rachele also won the u16 championship medal playing as a midfielder, no reason he can't follow the same path.
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It’s almost mandatory now for the young kids coming through to play multiple positions. Rozee made his name at SANFL league level playing across half back.
Apart from obvious ruck or key position players pretty much all others coming through the systems will have or should have played a variety of roles.
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Two of the greatest midfielders of the century (Ablett and Dangerfield) spent a lot of their early years playing forward.
Rachele needs to get on the park next year and put a season together.
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