Rookie Draft pick #26 - Alex Howson

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yakka man said:
Lloyd on Howson:



He notes him as a forward which going on his Colts highlights package is where he looks most suited.
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McPharlin kicked 10 goals or something on his only outing for EF league before being recruited to Hawthorn. It's nice to know if he doesn't quite make it as a key forward he has a second string to his bow. Hopefully, it won't be necessary though.
 
Jezzitizle said:
Does anybody know what the knock on this kid is?

If he led the colts goal kicking and played rep footy, there is no way he wasn't noticed. Obviously every club had a look at him, and everyone passed him over. Happy with the pick up, but would love to know where he needs to improve.
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Defensive pressure, second efforts in the forward line. All the phantom drafters mentioned it, so it must have been something very noticeable.
 
rgauci said:
If you wanna see some exceptional names in the smalls department:

2000 Michael Osborne, Leigh Harding, Roger Hayden, Damien Peverill, NLM, Max Rooke, Robert Copeland
2001 Andrew Carazzo, Matthew Boyd, Martin Mattner
2002 Brad Sewell, Daniel Pratt, Mark Nicoski, Jason Porplyzia, Shannon Byrnes, Steven Dodd, Paul Bevan, Joel McDonald
2003 Aaron Davey, Nathan Foley, Brett Jones, Paul Duffield, Josh Drummond
2004 Danyle Pearce, Clinton Young, Ryan Crowley
2005 Alan Toovey, Matthew Priddis, Cheynee Stiller, Tom Logan, Ben McGlynn, Kieran Jack
2006 Clinton Jones, Jarrod Harbrow, Matt Campbell, Jake King, Sharrod Wellingham, Leigh Adams
2007 Aaron Joseph, Jared Patrenko
2008 Jordie McKenzie, Jeff Garlett, Robin Nahas, Matt DeBoer, Jarrad Blair, Liam Picken, Clancee Pearce, Greg Broughton, Matt Suckling, Luke Bruest
2009 Michael Barlow, Ben Howlett, Matthew Wright
2010 Luke Dalhous, Ed Curnow

My criteria for including them in the list above was generally 100 games played until around the 2006-7 point, then after that, players who i thought would achieve 100 games.

There are about twice as many small success stories as talls, when on face value makes you think that its easier to pick a small in the rookie draft than a tall. But in reality, there are probably 2-3x more smalls taken than talls.

So in reality, is doesn't matter if you're small or tall, if you're taken in the rookie draft your success chance would be below 20%. You're more likely to make it as a backman than a forward, and ruckman taken anywhere from top 5 pick to rookie draft seem to have similar hit rates.

In 5 years time we might look back on this draft and find our 1st choice ruckman and 2 KP defenders originated from this years crop. If that happens, we'll be over the moon.
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Nothing amazing there in one sense. There are more smalls required on a field of play than genuine talls; more a required = more are picked. It's also easier to pick a small because there's more of them to pick in the first place.

Anyway, nice post. Always like reading through those sorts of things.
 

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Bad Brain said:
Not many KPF rookies have made it but hopefully Freo's unaturally good recent strike rate with the rookie draft balances out that stat.
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EFA. Recent being since the Barlow/Silvagni draft.

Actually... picked up MDB, Clancee and Broughton the year before.
 
There's an article in The West's game section today (not online) talking about Alex Howson. He had chronic fatigue syndrome last year and he just couldn't recover from games properly and it left him vulnerable to infections, of which he had a few during the year. He delisted himself last year and took some time off footy. He only played colts A grade amateurs this year but he did win the B&F. He plans to WAFL next year with an aim to push for AFL.

Alastair Lynch stuggled with chronic fatigue as well
 
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Nickos66 said:
https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/24972745/recovered-ex-docker-still-dreams-of-big-time/

Here's the story.

Is CFS something that can be treated or cured? Or is it simply managed?
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As far as I know it can pass with time but it is usually in the years type of time frame. It is one of those awful afflictions where the more exercise you do the more unfit you feel. Others get fit doing a certain amount of training, you get worn out. Usually just needs time to resolve itself and it is important that people don't push themselves too hard physically when they start feeling better. Frustrating ++ for active people especially and can lead to psychological issues because of it.
 
Damn that's annoying. Especially when you consider what he was going through he was actually playing really well in his first season. Kicking bags of goals in reserves and then dominated one WAFL game for East Freo. But he obviously really struggled to recover.

It's nice to know the reason for his premature departure from the club. Disappointing though.
 
yakka man said:
Damn that's annoying. Especially when you consider what he was going through he was actually playing really well in his first season. Kicking bags of goals in reserves and then dominated one WAFL game for East Freo. But he obviously really struggled to recover.

It's nice to know the reason for his premature departure from the club. Disappointing though.
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It's hard to express how rat**** they feel after exertion. It is very debilitating.
 
The other issue is CFS is quite often diagnosed when they can't figure out what is wrong with you. Kind of a leftovers bucket where some common symptons go to live. Because of that how CFS affects each person can be quite different. I have been "diagnosed" with CFS but still manage to lead a fairly "normal" life :)

Hope he gets a second shot.
 
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