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The softest player in the league. Someone most people would non-stop moan about if he was a Port player.The pick used on Bailey Fritsch.
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The softest player in the league. Someone most people would non-stop moan about if he was a Port player.The pick used on Bailey Fritsch.
FantasiaLet's go over the list of inspired signings made the AFL's answer to Carlo Ancellotti. I'm not talking about young players who are up and coming but could never quite cut it, I'm talking more along the lines of journeyman player who shouldn't be at the club.
1. Brett Eddy
2. Dom Barry
3. Jack Watts
4. Jack Trengove
5. Lindsay Thomas
6. Esava Ratugolea
7. Jimmy Toumpas
Is there anyone else I've missed?
My issue with that is I understand that in true Hinkley style all our top end draft picks were gone and our first pick was Hayes at 47.I'm okay with the Rockliff, Motlop, Watts trio.
Only costed cap space, I have no problem trying to bring in 3 first 22 players from other clubs without selling all the picks.
Hold on… we took Hayes over Xerri…My issue with that is I understand that in true Hinkley style all our top end draft picks were gone and our first pick was Hayes at 47.
Here is a list of guys who were taken after Pick 50 and in the rookie draft that year that are still on lists.
Payne Bris
Miers Gee
Miller Rich
Zerk-Thatcher Port
Moore Haw
Meek Haw
Xerri NM
Switowski Fre
Guelfi Ess
Banfield Fre
Holman GC
Mihocek Coll
Amartey Syd
Murphy Ade
So 2 possible all-Australians, one guy who we pretty much traded for a Top 20 wingman and there would be a number of those guys who would be a weekly starter in our team. I'm not saying that we'd pick the right ones because if you see who we did pick that year they are all gone. But there was quality there that we ignored or other teams are able to develop these players while our coaches can't.
The premier mid forward in the game who is good for 50 plus goals a year.The softest player in the league. Someone most people would non-stop moan about if he was a Port player.
Your point is well made but you have to remember they have the second most dysfunctional forward line in the league. And all the moaning you hear about Burton would be twice as bad with Fritsch. Anyway they can keep him.
No one has said Bailey Fritsch would solve every single problem. No over has even said he would have been a star or even the same player. If your position is that you would rather Jack Watts playing an third intercept defender role than a small-medium forward capable of kicking 59 goals in a season, I would be shocked.Bailey Fritsch would be an absolute laughing stock hack if we'd drafted him here. Our system is set up in the worst way imaginable for a player like him.
Thinking Fritsch would solve even a single problem for us is completely failing to understand why our forward line doesn't work.
Ken would play him at full back.The dude would be a complete spud in our system.
For the Magpies.Ken would play him at full back.
Is it because their other forwards tend to not do a lot of scoring?I don't get the Fritsch hate.
I think he would do well anywhere because he is efficient and just knows where the sticks are.
He is good for 2 to 2.5 goals a game.
I feel like I'm getting some Jed karma sticking up for the Fritsch.Is it because their other forwards tend to not do a lot of scoring?
By the way I'm not saying he isn't a skilled player who can kick. But so was Watts. I'm just pointing out that other players who would be comparable to his level softness have cult status on Ports Big Footy as arch enemies Bonner, Burton.
I feel like I'm getting some Jed karma sticking up for the Fritsch.
No at least Fritsch does get the ball and quite often then scores. Cheese scores about as much as I did at Jules and Sam's Disco.I feel like I'm getting some Jed karma sticking up for the Fritsch.
Nice to be on the same page, mate.I totally agree with you on Fritsch. Highly skilled, super efficient player and would be damaging in any forward line.
Also, fun fact, he's kicked 6 goals in a grand final, which is the same number of goals kicked in grand finals by every Port Adelaide player combined for the last 20 seasons.
Ken would play him at full back.
Chad Cornes would have taken an instant dislike to his hairdo and flamboyance and bullied him unmercifully until he asked to be traded to a Victorian club.
We spent our 2017 First Round pick on getting Sam Powell-Pepper in 2016. The 2017 pick ended up being Darcy Fogarty for the Crows. And I don't think I'd trade SPP for any of the players taken near that pick 12. You need to slide back 10-15 picks for Oscar Allen, Noah Balta and Sam Taylor (and the Geelong version of Tim Kelly) to find players that it sucks to have missed on. But those guys would all have been big stretches at pick 12.My issue with that is I understand that in true Hinkley style all our top end draft picks were gone and our first pick was Hayes at 47.
Here is a list of guys who were taken after Pick 50 and in the rookie draft that year that are still on lists.
Payne Bris
Miers Gee
Miller Rich
Zerk-Thatcher Port
Moore Haw
Meek Haw
Xerri NM
Switowski Fre
Guelfi Ess
Banfield Fre
Holman GC
Mihocek Coll
Amartey Syd
Murphy Ade
So 2 possible all-Australians, one guy who we pretty much traded for a Top 20 wingman and there would be a number of those guys who would be a weekly starter in our team. I'm not saying that we'd pick the right ones because if you see who we did pick that year they are all gone (edit - except Farrell). But there was quality there that we ignored or other teams are able to develop these players while our coaches can't.
In hindsight, that trade for Watts went swimmingly well.We spent our 2017 First Round pick on getting Sam Powell-Pepper in 2016. The 2017 pick ended up being Darcy Fogarty for the Crows. And I don't think I'd trade SPP for any of the players taken near that pick 12. You need to slide back 10-15 picks for Oscar Allen, Noah Balta and Sam Taylor (and the Geelong version of Tim Kelly) to find players that it sucks to have missed on. But those guys would all have been big stretches at pick 12.
I mean the trades we did around that 2017 1st pick, fed into our trades with Sydney in 2016 that resulted in sliding back for Marshall (giving up Florent, Simpkin, Venables and Gallucci), moving forward for SPP (Swans got Hayward with our pick) and gave us the 30s pick that took Willem Drew.
Bring our 2017 1st into 2016 worked out pretty bloody well.
We traded our second pick during the 2017 draft period for Jack Watts.