Welcome With pick 52 Geelong Football Club select: Jacob Molier

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With pick 52 Geelong Football Club have selected: Jacob Molier, a young developing ruck



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If you are taking talls at this spot in the draft the really raw athletic types are the way to go.

Said in the draft thread he might end up a key back prospect. All those athletic ruckman sized key forwards getting around these days. This guy would have the height and speed to go with them.
 
Molier's footage isn't bad either:



Drafting another developing ruck is strange… don’t see why we’ve gone this way either from the highlights… strange considering Dodson is light years ahead (despite missing a year) and I was against the Dodson camp.

Good luck to the kid, is up against it being behind Conway and Edwards all the same age. Odds are against it
 
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Drafting another developing ruck is strange… don’t see why we’ve gone this way either from the highlights… strange considering Dodson is light years ahead (despite missing a year) and I was against the Dodson camp.

Good luck to the kid, is up against it being behind Conway and Edwards all the same age. Odds are against it

How is drafting another developing ruck strange?
 

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How is drafting another developing ruck strange?

Stanley has 1 year left, Conway is a couple years away as rucks come on when they are at least 25. Conway is highly rated and probably our next decade ruck.

Then we drafted Edwards. Also a developing ruck. Being the same age as Conway, if Edwards makes it he can’t play with Conway as you can only play 1 (or vice versa).

Then we draft a third developing ruck who again, if he does make it, will be ready the same time Conway and Edwards are ready.

1 out of 3 can play. 2 redundant. I get having back ups but a third who is the same age is list mismanagement… unless we think Conway or Edwards won’t make it… otherwise it can only logically be a strange selection for the above reasons.
 
Never heard of him.

Old Mate Place is another Wells secret special!!
My cousin's son, so he comes from a great family. :)

They live in Woodside in the Adelaide Hills, but he played for Sturt this season.

Rapped to have 1st relative go to a quality football club.
 
Stanley has 1 year left, Conway is a couple years away as rucks come on when they are at least 25. Conway is highly rated and probably our next decade ruck.

Then we drafted Edwards. Also a developing ruck. Being the same age as Conway, if Edwards makes it he can’t play with Conway as you can only play 1 (or vice versa).

Then we draft a third developing ruck who again, if he does make it, will be ready the same time Conway and Edwards are ready.

1 out of 3 can play. 2 redundant. I get having back ups but a third is list mismanagement… unless we think Conway or Edwards won’t make it… otherwise it can only logically be a strange selection for the above reasons.

Conway played 9 games this year (4 VFL, 5 AFL), Edwards played 3 games. It's not "unless we think they won't make it," it's contingency planning for when/if Stanley/Conway/Edwards get injured/suspended/other. It's not that hard to understand.
 
All Australian Ruckman ain't F all
Some years it is, some it isn't. Plenty of U18 AA players don't make it at AFL level. Some of the rucks succeed, some do average, some don't do anything. Given Dodson lasted as late as he did, I doubt many recruiters expect he's going to be reaching tremendous heights. Evidently we believed Moiler presented more scope for growth. In the 50s of a draft, no pick is a certainty, and if a player with such significant exposure as an AA selection has not been picked by that point, it's fair to question the outlook for them.
 
I dont get this one, Dodson the All Australian Ruck went the next pick after, surely he would be a better option, we need a real bloody ruckman not these pinch hitters
Unless they don't see him as a ruck.

I kind of discount the ruck work I've seen for Molier on the basis of him being a massive size outmatch in what I saw.

What I do see is a great leap and huge agility on a guy that can kick alright. Seems a pretty good facsimile of the draft description of Neale replacing leap with speed.

Maybe it's a case of drafting raw and trying them out in roles, seeing what sticks.
 

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