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whos got the best young list
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Fremantle. They just need a younger player to really assert himself in the forward line, and suddenly it'll look very, very promising with the strength of their midfield and defense developing nicely.
Coledinho said:
It really would just be easier to say you haven't seen much of Brisbane lately. A big problem we face is that most of our list is aging (Black, Power, Brown etc) or too young (Rich, Redden, Leuenberger), there's very little in the middle, especially with Brennan and Rischatelli going to the Gold Coast.
So for the "no young" part, I'd just like to point out that Rockliff and Banfield also earned Rising Star nominations. That gives us Rockliff, Banfield, Rich, Redden, Clark and Leuenberger as notable young players.
As for Rich being more of a winger, he spent the majority of the year as a heavily tagged inside mid. So that's just plain wrong, even if it was true it would not invalidate the fact that he is a good young player.
To be clear, I don't think we have the best young list (that would be Collingwood or Melbourne depending on if you're judging by demonstrated talent or potential talent), but we definitely aren't towards the bottom end.
It almost makes me glad I didn't bother reading it.
It's irrelevant who has the best young list. The best list at present would be Collingwood, and they have the thing that matters to prove it.
This is the thing, standard sort of drafting sees every club basically end up with 2-3 good youngies from every draft (unless they either trade all their picks or completely muck them up).
It's the clubs who get a boom year (5+ good youngies: eg Reid/Brown/Dawes/Dick/Goldsack/Wellingham/MacAffer) or bust years (1 or 2 only: Billy Morrison/Brayden Shaw/Brent Hall/Heath Shaw) who define these things.
It's the clubs who get a boom year (5+ good youngies: eg Reid/Brown/Dawes/Dick/Goldsack/Wellingham/MacAffer) or bust years (1 or 2 only: Billy Morrison/Brayden Shaw/Brent Hall/Heath Shaw) who define these things.
after this draft, maybe Carlton do.
Eth
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Didn't we finish 10 points clear of you, with a team younger than yours across the stretch?
Without Fevola and Nick Stevens, two of our best 4 or so players.
ThePuppetMaster
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considering we had the 3rd youngest team this season, behind tigers and wce.... i doubt it
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Care to do the sums
Would take forever...
wowlace
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LOL what is with the North Melbourne vendetta against the Dees? You guys are starting to look ****ing crazy and obsessive like a disgruntled ex girlfriend. Move on North no one cares.
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From Footywire, I got Melbourne as approximately a month older, on average.Care to do the sums
Carlton averaged 23 years and 8 months.
Demons averaged 23 years and 9 months.
ThePuppetMaster
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really?? from some other site i got melbourne's list age as 22.8 (without Bruce and Jmac)
maybe it's wrong
maybe it's wrong
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Our average list age would probably be the youngest in the competition - all of our players during 2010 were under 31. It counts for little really, unless you are challenging for a flag and need the depth / experience.
The figure I gave is the average age of the 22 that ran out onto the park week by week. Although I think the figure refers to a date at a stagnant age - that is, the age of the player at the start of the season. Obviously, that doesn't effect the comparison.
The figure I gave is the average age of the 22 that ran out onto the park week by week. Although I think the figure refers to a date at a stagnant age - that is, the age of the player at the start of the season. Obviously, that doesn't effect the comparison.
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Care to do the sums
This is starting to sound like Hawthorn supporters 2008/09....pissing contest
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Why? Hawthorn were the best in 2008...
Carlton are nowhere near Hawthorn structurally or performance wise.
I was just pointing out the misconception that North and Melbourne are younger than Carlton, when in fact they are both older across the games played this season.
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I think the backline is a bit sketchy, especially with Brown at CHB... Carlton have suffered heavily from having a 'shaky' defence, with Bower trying to hold down a key role. And whilst Essendon's is good if not great, their forward-line is rather unexciting. Gumbleton will be a star, is there another young option, or are we inferring Hurley will play forward?
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Collingwoods goes ok too
FB:N brown (21)
CHB:Reid(21)
Ruck:Ceglar(lol)
CHF:Cloke(still only 23)
FF: Dawes (22)
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Brown looks the goods.
Cloke and Dawes provided only 17% of Collingwoods goals in 2010.
I think the Pies spine is just average.
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This same Spencer?
[youtube]zqLYGNWcpBA[/youtube]
Yeah funny vid and all, I actually think Spencer will become a good player. Heavily criticized (like Jamar was) but he's showing good development.
I know it was only an exhibition match, but seeing him run through the middle of the ground then boot a goal from 55 metres out in our last quarter comeback showed he has talent. And from the reports of training on demonland, everyone has commented on how impressed they are with him.
By the way a better video would be the one where he dropped the ball when he was about to take a set shot.
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This same Spencer?
[youtube]zqLYGNWcpBA[/youtube]
Hahahaha, gold.
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