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Or perhaps he is just a spare….Something about two being better than one…
Feel like he could kick 100 in the WAFL and still not get a look in. Just one of those guysTyler Keitel killing it in the WAFL, kicked 43 in his last 10 games including 2 bags of 7 and an 8.
Still only 25 years old, 196cm which is slightly undersized but would have been happy picking up Callow in the MSD.
Would like to see what he can do in an AFL system.
I mean Fyfe was not a top 5, let alone top 10 pick. That was my point. What about Lachie Neale, what about Tom Lynch, Touk, Miller, Maynard, Crisp, Grundy? Dane Swan? Where did our premiership captain go again? There are as many stars with lower picks than top 10s. It's funny how Boone mentions Bachhar Houlis draft range given how good he was in their 17 flag.
Show me a club that can constantly pluck Dane Swans and Sam Mitchell's with picks in the late draft....those situations are luck.
Hahaha.
There are heaps of generational talent taken outside the top5, you even had to include Fyfe (pick 20) in your list!
Will always be happy with Swan from the 01 draft at 63 without him we don't do anything.
But on the flip side here are chumps taken with top 5 picks
01 - Polak, X.Clarke
02 - Brennan, T.Walsh
03 - 1AW, Col Sylvia, F.Ray, B.McLean
04 - Tambling
05 - X.Ellis
06 - Gumbleton, L.Hansen, Leunberger
07 - C.Morton, J.Grant
08 - J.Watts, S.Hill, H.Hartlett
09 - Trengove, Morabito
10 - D.Swallow, Bennell, Polec, S.Day
11 - Patton, D.Tyson, WHE, Buntine
12 - O'Rourke, Plowman, Toumpass
13 - Boyd, Billings, K.Kolo
14 - McCartin, Pickett
15 - Scache
16 - Ainsworth, Setterfiled
Won't go further as not fair to right off a guy like Dow as a bust just yet. But drafting isn't getting better, just as many top5 busts recently.
Imagine strategically wanting to lose just so you could pick up one of those highly rated kids. It is a flawed strategy.
Only if you can show us a successful club that doesn't have a tiny strawman hidden somewhere in their training facilities.
We madI still think the Pies pulled the right move last draft trading this years first pick for Poulter & McMahon.
No way I'm classifying taking a kid the is presenting to be at least as good as his father if not better in his draft year as low expectations.Well, at least we're going into this year's trade period with very low expectations...
Only if you can show us a successful club that has had heaps of top 5 picks and doesn't have a tiny strawman hidden somewhere in their training facilities.
Tyler Keitel killing it in the WAFL, kicked 43 in his last 10 games including 2 bags of 7 and an 8.
Still only 25 years old, 196cm which is slightly undersized but would have been happy picking up Callow in the MSD who is a similar build.
Would like to see what he can do in an AFL system.
Feel like he could kick 100 in the WAFL and still not get a look in. Just one of those guys
Few things.
Campaigner huge ego.
Had his tyres blown up to the max as a nipper and bought into the adulation, but he never quite got the bit where raw ability only gets you so far.
Floats in and out of games and quarters, capable of a four goal quarter or ten minute burst, then rests on his laurels and does nothing else for the rest of the game.
His effort and concentration is inconsistent which is very frustrating and comes across as lazy.
Loves to remonstrate with the umps and big on the theatrics, which in itself isn’t that bad, but it can overwhelm him and when that happens it appears to knock him off his game - again a concentration thing.
Dominates against weak defences , struggle some what when he has a quality lock down defender on him.
Rarely fires in big games.
Flat track bully, who too often prances around like a show pony.
Shame because:
He really is a huge talent, has all the tools, all the ability but just not the mental application .
If someone could get his head right , I have no doubt he could be a good AFL player.
My critique may seem harsh, but it’s said as a former under 18 / Colts coach who has seen so many kids with all the right attitudes not make it, or miss being drafted due to lack of ability, so to see such a talented kid lack application both annoys and frustrates me.
He has been given developmental list places at State and National level and not fully utilised or grasped the opportunities.
My view is that if you're looking at draftees to become the core of a team, you're generally looking at a minimum of a 6 year wait. You might get one or two of them to be ready to really be core players earlier, but the bulk of them will take longer. In 6 years time, the advantage of an extra 2 years in the system will be diminished and you really want to just have the more talented player on your list - hopefully that will be Poulter, but I'm not hugely confident that he'll be as good as you'd expect from a top 10 pick in 2022.
Don't be too confident. We could trade our 2022 first for Daicos points so we can get 5 in the top 51.On the contrary, I’m buoyant that almost whatever we do it will surely be an improvement on last year!
In what world is 196cm undersized…?Tyler Keitel killing it in the WAFL, kicked 43 in his last 10 games including 2 bags of 7 and an 8.
Still only 25 years old, 196cm which is slightly undersized but would have been happy picking up Callow in the MSD who is a similar build.
Would like to see what he can do in an AFL system.
Apparently, these are some of the reasons why he doesn’t get drafted.
Don't be too confident. We could trade our 2022 first for Daicos points so we can get 5 in the top 51.
Don't be too confident. We could trade our 2022 first for Daicos points so we can get 5 in the top 51.
I think 6 years is optimistic, when you consider that our midfield will need to be totally rebuilt. Doggies flunked a flag with a young group of mids. But generally winning midfield are 24+.Yep 6 years plus is typical. But I bet some nupty will throw in an outlier side to prove that's BS lol
Bit like I dont know using Dane Swan to say that top 5 picks don't provide access to guns and any old pick will do....
I think 6 years is optimistic, when you consider that our midfield will need to be totally rebuilt. Doggies flunked a flag with a young group of mids. But generally winning midfield are 24+.
I once sold a Nirvana ltd edition box set for $500, ($200 more than I paid for it.)...I couldn't predict the guy would blow his head off two weeks later, and the price went to $1500! Ces la vie.
Any good will that we built up over last decade by being bent over at trade period is now gone. With Wright on board we take on the Hawks bad karma.
what a disaster
Not a disaster at all - players have attack dogs on retainers - they call them player agents.Any good will that we built up over last decade by being bent over at trade period is now gone. With Wright on board we take on the Hawks bad karma.
what a disaster
Potentially, but I reckon there is something in it. Every negotiation I’ve been part of you take past relationships into consideration. Being beyond fair suggests you should expect fairness in return. Dodorro for example can’t expect people to be fair when he is a flog.That good will is a fairy tale anyway.
That good will is a fairy tale anyway.