Player Watch Rookie Pick #45 (2015) - Dan Houston

[Doctor Feel]

Keninly

 

[RangaInTeal]

Gotta be Kozzie.

It’ll be Josh Schache and Angus Brayshaw… you know it will be!

 

[PA88]

Houston the next player to pay for another failing season? The Davies-Hinkley-Cripps internal review at work again?

 

[DaTBird187]

Speaking of C4. Where is he at? Since Brisbane, the last time, I’ve heard from him.

In our hour of need, he will appear.

 

[HugeJohnson]

Houston expendable for a late first round draft pick
Now I have truly heard it all

 

[Peninsula Boy]

Every year (even if you meant the last 5 years) is a wild exaggeration

2019 - 2 first rounders (14 & 18)
2020 - 1 first round pick (Granted, NGA)
2021 - 1 first round pick (12), then went on
2022 - Sure we didnt get anyone here, but our picks went in getting JHF who is a no.1 pick with a year under his belt
2023 - The only draft where we started at pick 48

If there's one thing this club has done right, its nailing the draft and list management until last year, where we mortgaged our future for Ken.

There was a similar top up of players which didn't work out in 2017 which also didn't work albeit not as costly but I guess it is to be seen.

 

[JUSTWORK]

He’s one of our best players and contract until 2027. He’s pretty much totally off the table, if a Melbourne want us to talk trade I’d be suggesting Koseie Pickett and a pick upgrade.

Anything less and they can wait until he’s out of contract.

 

[Schulzenfest]

Houston expendable for a late first round draft pick
Now I have truly heard it all

We could get the next Todd Marshall with that pick, TeeKray would love that.

 

[chachi11]

Lol

 

[JohnHinckleyJr]

Yeah he ain't going anywhere

 

[TeeKray]

We could get the next Todd Marshall with that pick, TeeKray would love that.

Hot Toddy

 

[Schulzenfest]

Or better yet, Troy Chaplin

Troy Chaplin

Age

38

Ht

195cm

Wt

97kg

Pos.

Def

Career

Season

Last 5

D

15.8

4star

K

8.8

3star

HB

6.9

4star

M

5.5

5star

T

1.8

4star

MG

194.4

3star

No current season stats available

D

13.2

4star

K

7.2

3star

HB

6.0

4star

M

5.4

5star

T

0.6

3star

. We have picked some great players with late first round picks over the years, I'd much rather have one of them than an All-Australian half back!

 

[Ford Fairlane]

This is way off topic, but I was looking to see who our last first round pick was*, went down a rabbit hole and did you know Joel Patfull

Joel Patfull

Age

39

Ht

189cm

Wt

89kg

Pos.

Def

Career

Season

Last 5

D

11.3

3star

K

6.0

2star

HB

5.3

4star

M

3.9

4star

T

2.4

4star

MG

161.1

3star

No current season stats available

D

8.6

3star

K

5.0

2star

HB

3.6

3star

M

2.6

3star

T

3.4

5star

has the seventh longest AFL career after being delisted? He played 220 games after being delisted by Port after 0 games.

*Josh Sinn btw

 

[TeeKray]

Or better yet, Troy Chaplin. We have picked some great players with late first round picks over the years, I'd much rather have one of them than an All-Australian half back!

Clubs can and do pick bad players with every pick, you could use this argument to justify never trading any player for any pick ever.

I'm not a fan of our list. I don't think a player of Houston's age is likely to play in a grand final for us so that's why I said he's expendable. To be clear, I know he's a very good player. I'd like to see us make a conscious decision to hit the draft hard over the next few years. Most here would rather blame Hinkley and that's fine.

 

[JimmyBC]

I'm not as attached to players as I used to be & I'd listen to offers on almost anybody, but TeeKray 's list is bad rhetoric is rubbish it's a good list a decent coach will maximize.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

When there's this much smoke out there ... usually means the player is gonski

You know that is Kym Dillon who just makes up shit about Port.

 

[Schulzenfest]

Clubs can and do pick bad players with every pick, you could use this argument to justify never trading any player for any pick ever.

I think you should go and have a look at the players taken between, say, 13-18 in any given draft and think about how many of them you'd trade for Houston. If it's more than 20% I'd be amazed.

From Port alone, our history with those picks is Barry Brooks, Stephen Gilham, Troy Chaplin, Matthew Lobbe, Jasper Pittard, Ben Jacobs, Todd Marshall, Sam Powell-Pepper, Xavier Duursma, Miles Bergman, Mitch Georgiades, Lachie Jones, Josh Sinn. There's 13 players on that list and Georgiades is the only one I'd even half consider keeping over Houston.

I'm not a fan of our list. I don't think a player of Houston's age is likely to play in a grand final for us so that's why I said he's expendable.

For the right price, maybe. A late first rounder is not the right price.

 

[Mr Gui Guojie]

Lol

That's HumanMeatball, he also believes Richmond have a top 4 list.

 

[elbarton]

Can we please reach some form of agreement hat some Twitter nuffy posting cringe into the void is not news or noteworthy

 

[Janey]

You know that is Kym Dillon who just makes up shit about Port.

I was wondering who it was, now I know, I’ll definitely ignore it.

 

[EskimoPAFC]

I think our defence and mids could perform at a level way higher with a better coach. The players are largely there but the structure and gameplan isnt.

The forwardline is another story. MG is good. Pep is decent. Rioli is good when he gets on the park. Marshall and Fin are good when they are on. Lord and Scully arent at peak. After them we have battlers but not raw talent. Gameplan wise the Dixon plan has failed for so long that many of our mids barely even have AFL experience playing to a functional forward line. Its a problem.

 

[x_les_x]

Lol

whats funny is we’re so derived if having any balls in our recruiting team that cd probably has some gambling debts to pay off and bend over and take the deal. Didnt go hard enough for ratagoleua, bent over in the duursma/bzt trade and folded for soldo

 

[Lefti93]

Or better yet, Troy Chaplin. We have picked some great players with late first round picks over the years, I'd much rather have one of them than an All-Australian half back!

I see your Troy and Todd, and raise you 1 Matty Lobbe.

 

[Lefti93]

I see your Troy and Todd, and raise you 1 Matty Lobbe.

And Jasper McMillan-Pittard.

 

[RangaInTeal]

And Jasper McMillan-Pittard.

He wasn’t all that bad, played in a diabolical system and coached by arguably the worst coach in the last 20 years.