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Leading into the 2006 draft, the Hawks were advised to select Riewoldt with their No. 6 pick, but instead went with Riewoldt's Tassie Mariners' teammate Mitch Thorp, who played just two games in three injury-riddled seasons for Hawthorn before being cut last year.
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http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/a...o-irritate-hawks/story-e6frf9jf-1225879654642


Finally things are swinging our way, Mitch Thorp, Ben Reid & Nathan Brown over Jack Riewoldt is starting to look like a bigger drafting tragedy than the infamous Buddy-Bling selection.

Edwards, Riewoldt, Martin, Cotchin, Nason, Deledio, Webberely, Graham...these guys are Richmond picks that are doing rather well.

Hopefully we pick up a few more Nason's in the draft, as evident by Kosi, Fiora and so on, a high draft pick doesn't mean a great player.

It involves lots of work and effort by the recruiters and a lot of luck. Lets hope more things start rolling our way, carn TIGERS!!:thumbsu::thumbsu:
 

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The Herald Sun pull a Reverse-Tambling. RE: Riewoldt vs Thorp

IMAGINE a Hawthorn forward line containing Lance "Buddy" Franklin, Jarryd Roughead and new Coleman Medal leader Jack Riewoldt.

Leading into the 2006 draft, the Hawks were advised to select Riewoldt with their No. 6 pick, but instead went with Riewoldt's Tassie Mariners' teammate Mitch Thorp, who played just two games in three injury-riddled seasons for Hawthorn before being cut last year.

"The comparisons were always Thorp-Riewoldt, who would you take? I don't want to pop Mitch because things haven't worked out for him, but I can remember saying to Hawthorn, 'Riewoldt clearly for me'."

Full Story: http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/a...o-irritate-hawks/story-e6frf9jf-1225879654642
 
Re: The Herald Sun pull a Reverse-Tambling. RE: Riewoldt vs Thorp

tugga said:
It's not like they desperately needed Jack with Buddy and Roughy already there. Bit of a stupid article really.
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lvt06 said:
Then why did they need thorp?
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Yes, the irony is that they selected Thorpe, who would be considered a similar type player to Riewoldt. The article makes it sound as if they were specifically making a decision on one of the two, no idea if that was in fact reality.
 
Re: The Herald Sun pull a Reverse-Tambling. RE: Riewoldt vs Thorp

We have copped so much crap over the Tambling-Buddy decision, let's run with this for a while! :) :)
 
Re: The Herald Sun pull a Reverse-Tambling. RE: Riewoldt vs Thorp

Thorp was a poor pick but I think the one that got away for them there was Selwood (went the pick after). They don't really need a Riewoldt.
 
Re: The Herald Sun pull a Reverse-Tambling. RE: Riewoldt vs Thorp

fact is they still won a flag with 'just' buddy and roughead, so all this is just BS talk.

a poor puff piece and take no satisfaction from it. 6 weeks ago Jack 'had a poor attitude' and should have been dropped :rolleyes:
 
Yeah, I think Thorp one before Selwood is funnier, but in the same draft they took Garry Moss 2 picks before Daniel Connors and passed on the pick before Andy Collins. Hopefully those decisions will look just as bad in a couple of years time.

Does it mean anything? No. And they've got a very nice new premiership flag in their clubrooms (wherever they are now), but we can have a bit of fun can't we?
 

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Haggard H said:
...in the same draft they took Garry Moss 2 picks before Daniel Connors...
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Not really a mistake Haggard as Connors would have struggled to get a game with the Hawks just like Moss has, for the same reason...they have an abundance of that type of player (even left footed like Moss and Connors) and there's others with more maturity, size and experience who are ahead. Also no guarantee that they wouldn't have already delisted Connors for his off-field antics. On the flipside, Moss would have been pretty comfortably in our best-22 for the last 2-3 years when not injured and played a lot more games than Connors has so far. Connors has the edge in raw talent perhaps, but Moss has him beaten hands down for work ethic, leadership, and coachability.

As to the OP article, Thorp was considered considerably more athletic and more capable of holding down a genuine KP position than Reiwoldt. Thorp was already almost the perfect AFL frame and physique, Reiwoldt was hunched over, scrawny and ran like a duck (as Weaver famously observed ;)). I thought he was going to be comfortably the better player comparing them at 16/17 just on his footy brains and natural skills, but physically he was a bit of a Phar Lap as a colt. ;)

Thorp was also considered more a CHB type at senior level than a CHF, he lacked the brilliance and agility to be a top-class CHF, so it wasn't like the Hawks were after someone to play forward, he was drafted to be the main man to fill the now gaping hole in their key defender stocks.

Right down to Gumbleton/Hanson/Hawkins (the latter would have gone top-5 if not F/S), Reiwoldt has been the best tall from the '06 draft, ironically, Frawley at 12 would probably be 2nd pick ATM.
 
no excuses for hawthorn they clearly stuffed up 2 years running, they went after tall foward because they wernt confident in both roughead & buddy making it !

why els would they continue to select 2 more kpf in the next 2 years with theire 1st selections when they clearly bew their defence was in dire straits at the time.

they were very well coached in 2008 with clarko and thecluster , zone, flood what ever you like to call it....................they suprised everybody &had above average years from their core players

end of the day ...................they have a flag....bradbury flag........but still a flag.
 
Re: Tigers Getting Their Picks Right

Dustin Credible said:
All teams have stuff ups. In a few years time people will look at Melbourne and realise they could've had Naitanui, Martin and Scully:eek:
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You can't possibly make a call on who will be better out of Martin or Trengove at this stage. They're such different players. Just let them develop and know both clubs have a gem on their hands.

I'd not be so quick to write off Watts either. If I could have a bloke from that draft it'd be Hill or maybe even one of Hurley/Watts, not Nat.
 
first year we draft well and people wanna bag a premiership team silly

this years steals were worth celebrating as teams were passing before we selected them

Teams passed before both webberley and nason were selected
for us to get them and both look like they could potentially make it
is great recruiting
 
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