Conca the low-light in that list, i would argue that pick has cost the club dearly. The rest of the footy world said Heppel=best available, we complained Conca=vanilla, RFC said Conca =elite psych profile/interview.
But surely the vanilla fears re. Conca have been realised. Seriously , the only extraordinary thing I can remember him doing was not a good thing.
But I said the phantoms, not actually where they went. The fact they were 1 or 2 picks off is close imo. Plus adding in our draft position made it harder. If we had pick 6, then there would have been more speculation on who we pick.
I still think Conca can become a very good player. Remember a 200 gamer is this definition imo.
Not really !!
Fair point, he is a solid contributor, and the day he is pushed out of the best 25 at the club, we will really be going places!
Fair enough. I just think its too simplistic to suggest everyone knows who we get. The ferreting that the journo's do with all people involved in the afl sphere, is pretty good imo, but doesn't reflect we are the leakers internally.
I don't think we would have that in our testing and probably cant actually devise a test to test for it. I know some poster call them vanilla players but imo a 200 gamer isn't vanilla, and we did go for solid types who we know can build our team around. We also couldn't afford to have a fail by selecting real high risk high reward types, given our situation at the time. Around now is the time for that imo. If vanilla is a euphemism for solid types the I say do it again. Imo Ellis looks like a Tyson/Black type.
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Why do you keep going on about x factor/vinalla? Pretty sure we are talking bout reaching for players, when apparently there were better available.
But hes so "Vanilla", everyone knows that x-factor is what wins you premierships. Solid contributors are worthless. *Cough* Mitchell, Hodge, Lewis, Bartell, Kelly, J.Kennedy, K.Jack, Hannebery *Cough*
I believe the Conca pick cost us. he damaged the RFC brand last year. Heppell on the other hand is a marketers dream. Hope Conca can go past Hep and be a superstar in his own right, let's see.
That's conceivable. We are so well placed for KPFs and were well known to be targeting mids, they may have been discussing whether it was worth the risk of not picking him at that point.
