Pick 61 - Dom Barry

[rogerjames]

In terms of role in the side....Barry = White.

"I love the sexy slither of a speedy winger."

Can he kick like White?

 

[Andre]

Can he kick like White?

So your asking is he as good as a White guy?

 

[Interstater]

Good luck in the AFLX tomorrow young fellah.

 

[DonDraper]

AFLX and all but he looked good. One to watch in the JLT for sure.

 

[Willsy10]

Impey was the most overrated port player of the last decade. Barry and Neade are both better footballers

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[RussellEbertHandball]

Didn't see anything on Thursday night that said pick me for Rd 1. Will get a lot better idea in the JLT.

 

[tribey]

Impey was the most overrated port player of the last decade. Barry and Neade are both better footballers

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It's a weird one. Well, notsomuch. Had a positional switch in his draft year which resulted in considerable improvement and emphasised the eye-catching, linebreaking speed.

On balance, was probably taken a round or two too early.

Interesting that his fellow second round speedster (and combine beep test record holder), Billy Hartung, was delisted outright by the Hawks last year. It was a good TAC Cup to outshine plodders.

 

[TeeKray]

It's a weird one. Well, notsomuch. Had a positional switch in his draft year which resulted in considerable improvement and emphasised the eye-catching, linebreaking speed.

On balance, was probably taken a round or two too early.

Interesting that his fellow second round speedster (and combine beep test record holder), Billy Hartung, was delisted outright by the Hawks last year. It was a good TAC Cup to outshine plodders.

Just had a look to see who was taken after Impey in his draft. Matt Crouch, Zach Merrett, Rory Lobb, Ben Brown, Orazio Fantasia. Hooley dooley. Some serious quality on offer later in that draft.

 

[tribey]

Just had a look to see who was taken after Impey in his draft. Matt Crouch, Zach Merrett, Rory Lobb, Ben Brown, Orazio Fantasia. Hooley dooley. Some serious quality on offer later in that draft.

*screaming internally*

 

[Sleezy]

*screaming internally*

It'll be ok Tribey, just remember we have now converted that pick 14 into Jared Polec and Jack Watts.

 

[chiwigi]

Impey was the most overrated port player of the last decade. Barry and Neade are both better footballers

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Agree with first sentence, not sure about second sentence.

 

[badbeats]

I try not to look back at previous drafts to see what we could have had LOL

But I also think if we drafted X instead of Y would they have developed the same here as they did at another club.

 

[Zakk Wylde]

Pointless looking at any draft in hindsight.

 

[mic59]

Pointless looking at any draft in hindsight.

Pretty much. I look at Ben Brown's early stats and think would he have continued to get the chance to improve at Port and I answer probably not.

 

[tribey]

Pointless looking at any draft in hindsight.

I agree in that people don't really consider the domino effect of picking the star over the flop, ie: if we take Hayes over Michael Stevens and Sloane over Banner as we pledged, we probably don't suffer the dross of 2011/2, which in-turn means we don't get Wingard and Wines.

But that's assuming they develop the same at Alberton (as badbeats mentioned), or don't leave for peanuts after one or two contracts, etc.

Then there's the absolute fancy of things like "we could've got Fyfe, but we took Butcher LOL". We were never not taking the #1 KPF prospect in the draft with Tredrea about to ride into the sunset, and Fyfe looked like Josh Bootsma with a dodgy setshot, hence his second round status.

If anything, it's a good insight into how [in]effective your scouting networks, list management, talent identification/development and boneheaded/genial your coach is.

 

[Suit]

Barry = White.

"I love the sexy slither of a speedy winger."

Can't get enough, aye Janus?

 

[Pappagallo]

I agree in that people don't really consider the domino effect of picking the star over the flop, ie: if we take Hayes over Michael Stevens and Sloane over Banner as we pledged, we probably don't suffer the dross of 2011/2, which in-turn means we don't get Wingard and Wines.

But that's assuming they develop the same at Alberton (as badbeats mentioned), or don't leave for peanuts after one or two contracts, etc.

Then there's the absolute fancy of things like "we could've got Fyfe, but we took Butcher LOL". We were never not taking the #1 KPF prospect in the draft with Tredrea about to ride into the sunset, and Fyfe looked like Josh Bootsma with a dodgy setshot, hence his second round status.

If anything, it's a good insight into how [in]effective your scouting networks, list management, talent identification/development and boneheaded/genial your coach is.

Also the couldabeens only focus on the misses, but not the hits. No one ever posts “Hey imagine how shit we’d be if we took Thorp instead of Boak!”

 

[tribey]

Also the couldabeens only focus on the misses, but not the hits. No one ever posts “Hey imagine how shit we’d be if we took Thorp instead of Boak!”

How galling is it that Hawthorn were able to blow the Thorp and Ellis and Dowler picks and still cruise to their dynasty #morepicks

 

[Zakk Wylde]

How many clubs would be bringing up "Gray was available at #55 farken"??

Swings and roundabouts for sure, but with so many variables, years down the track you just can't pick apart the draft as it suits.

 

[tribey]

How many clubs would be bringing up "Gray was available at #55 farken"??

Swings and roundabouts for sure, but with so many variables, years down the track you just can't pick apart the draft as it suits.

Twink-factor is an advanced metric we should all get behind

 

[Zakk Wylde]

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Twink-factor is an advanced metric we should all get behind

Liked for "twink" usage.

 

[TeeKray]

Pointless looking at any draft in hindsight.

I should mention that I didn't bring that up to have a go at our recruiters, I was more just amazed at the number of A graders taken after the first round in that draft.

 

[Jakksynn]

Yeah we drafted Impey because we needed speed, desperately. A certain Motlop (what even happened to that guy) had just carved us up in a semi. Fantasia is probably the only other one we may have looked at and on the whole he isn’t that much better than Impey

 

[Pappagallo]

Yeah we drafted Impey because we needed speed, desperately. A certain Motlop (what even happened to that guy) had just carved us up in a semi. Fantasia is probably the only other one we may have looked at and on the whole he isn’t that much better than Impey

It’s hard to compare since we tried Impey in different positions, but Fantasia has proven himself to be a much better forward.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Sam Powell-Pepper at #18 is handy too.