One of my friends who is now a significant AFL recruiter, used to say the Tigers are the only club to recruit dickheads. His argument was supportive you can teach someone to be a better person but you cant coach natural talent. This was around the time of Daniel Conners. I think his attitude changed once he was working full time as a recruiter. The tigers were the example why not to recruit dickheads. 2019 and the Tigers with a great culture are the example of why to recruit dickheads "Sydney Stack". I feel bad saying this because from what I see is a happy kid just enjoying football but he did drop for a reason. Marlion Pickett will also likely make an impact. I am spewing we didnt pick Stack because you only had to watch 30 seconds of his highlights video to see he was a jet. Tigers have a great culture at the moment and Stack from what I am aware hasnt put a foot wrong. We spent two first rounders on Beams with a history of mental health issues and he is a player who has had all the support in the world. But we were not prepared to give a chance to a kid who probably hasnt had much support his whole life. Surely with the money we have and if they are confident in our culture you take a chance and could have picked him at 60!.
Re Hine; I think he does an excellent job picked Pendlebury against the grain, picked both Stephenson, De Goey and Sier against the grain. Even Sam Murray if he wasnt snorting grains. His misses could be argued because of injury Freeman and Scharenberg (although he can still go up a notch and is reaonably good). Keane and Wilson could potentially follow Cox snd Mihocek as bargain pick ups. Unless we get a bargain big monster i think it is mids and forwards we need to pick in the coming up draft and back our development of Kelly, Wilson and Keane who all look to be showing something.
Re Hine; I think he does an excellent job picked Pendlebury against the grain, picked both Stephenson, De Goey and Sier against the grain. Even Sam Murray if he wasnt snorting grains. His misses could be argued because of injury Freeman and Scharenberg (although he can still go up a notch and is reaonably good). Keane and Wilson could potentially follow Cox snd Mihocek as bargain pick ups. Unless we get a bargain big monster i think it is mids and forwards we need to pick in the coming up draft and back our development of Kelly, Wilson and Keane who all look to be showing something.