- Aug 25, 2012
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Sorry for the intrusion on the Lions' board, but Mad Monday Show did an interview with 2014 Academy Prospect Liam Dawson and I thought you'd find it interesting.
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No pressure on himself then.Really excited about having Liam on the list next year. I'll happily take a hybrid Patfull/Mundy/Gunston like he says in the interview
Only a bit more certain than we would pick up Tickner and Conway, I'd have thought. Nothing's a given.Aside from any major catastrophe's i.e. opposition clubs nominating higher picks than we're willing to use; is it pretty much a given the Lions will claim Hammelman and Dawson with 2nd - 4th round draft picks?
This is our dream scenario. A combination of Hammelmann and Dawson for third and four round picks is a huge win. Unfortunately it sounds like Freo/Hawthorn have interests in Hammelmann with their first rounders. Fingers crossedseems to be the general perception. Assuming the rules aren't changed for this year I am hoping we might get to use our 2nd pick live in the draft as only Saints, GWS and Melb could currently force us to do it, but i think that will be more of a case of a surprise bonus if it does happen. I'm running off the assumption we will have 1 live pick this year, which is our first.
Hammers write up on Bound for Glory.
http://boundforglorynews.com/2014-draft-profile-matthew-hammelmann/
Maybe to just put things into perspective. Hammer sounds quite vanilla and in comparison Andrews sounds like the second coming almost. Quite a big discrepancy and as much I like reading about our Academy boys through other people's eyes going to take things with a grain of salt and wait until lodgement day to see where they fall.
As much as there was hype about Tickner and Conway last year, I don't think it was anything like that high that late in the year on the few boards I read. Maybe the Heeney halo-effect is causing draft watchers to overrate academy kids all of a sudden, but I'm really interested to see how it all plays out.
Hammers write up on Bound for Glory.
http://boundforglorynews.com/2014-draft-profile-matthew-hammelmann/
Maybe to just put things into perspective. Hammer sounds quite vanilla and in comparison Andrews sounds like the second coming almost. Quite a big discrepancy and as much I like reading about our Academy boys through other people's eyes going to take things with a grain of salt and wait until lodgement day to see where they fall.
I only started following this board with any interest last year around trade/draft time (for obvious reasons). I don't remember any discussion/hype at all about Tickner and Conway anywhere aside from within the Lions Forum itself. At the time I thought maybe the 'phantom drafters' were just ill-informed and didn't know much about the queensland prospects but on bidding and draft day it became apparant that perhaps the Lions forumers were too familiar with the players and overrating them.
I agree this year it almost looks the reverse! I noted Knightmare's assessment which listed Hammelman as 13th talent in the draft (and I think Harris Andrews and Dawson at about 40-50).
My take as noted above is the performances of Queensland against TAC Cup teams has been a driver of recognition of Hammelman and Andrews at least.
^ much better researched then my post. I wasn't referring to mock drafts on the brisbane board I was referring to the general banter about the players in discussion threads (such as the equivalent of this one) on the board where many posters were practically saying tickner was ready to replace goose in the 22.