Which team out of Adelaide, North and Hawthorn has the better youth?

[Dewyyyyy]

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Pick 2: Riley Thilthorpe

Adelaide has selected versatile South Australian tall Riley Thilthorpe with pick No.2 in the AFL Draft

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He's a forward, didn't play * all ruck all year.

 

[Dewyyyyy]

You describe Edwards like he's a rookie pick.

He's a freakish athlete for his size with a pretty great skill set.

I'd suggest watching his games vs Mac Andrew in the Nab League to get a feel of how good he might be, considering Andrew went at #5.

Of course we have to rely on him developing... We could say the same about 50 players in this thread. He was described as a mid first round pick for a reason in this draft gone, which would have placed him between Amiss and Alleer in the tall rankings......

He is very skilled, but banking on him to be the no1 and will need to develop a fair amount.

Andrew is similar if someone had just him to be the ruck you'd be banking him to fill out which will take a while.

 

[Dewyyyyy]

Haha you prefer Reeves over CCJ and Edwards? Talk about bias.

As a ruck i'd take Reeves over CCJ who is a s**t ruck and Edwards who hasn't played a game.

 

[Psicosis]

Idk playing AFL footy and doing it well.

Lynch & Reeves average 11.5/9.6 disposals, 2/1.6 marks, 20.5/26 hit outs & 0/0.2 goals, respectively. They are that far from a sure thing, it's not funny.

He's a forward, didn't play fu** all ruck all year.

Wow a 19 year old F/R didn't spend any time rucking at AFL level? Wonder why that could be!

He is very skilled, but banking on him to be the no1 and will need to develop a fair amount.

Andrew is similar if someone had just him to be the ruck you'd be banking him to fill out which will take a while.

The two hawthorn blokes you are hanging your hat on after a handful of games, also require a s*** tone more development. Luke Jackson is a sure thing quality young ruckman. Reeves & Lynch are not, and have a long way to go.

 

[Dewyyyyy]

Lynch & Reeves average 11.5/9.6 disposals, 2/1.6 marks, 20.5/26 hit outs & 0/0.2 goals, respectively. They are that far from a sure thing, it's not funny.



Wow a 19 year old F/R didn't spend any time rucking at AFL level? Wonder why that could be!



The two hawthorn blokes you are hanging your hat on after a handful of games, also require a s*** tone more development.

Lynch played a few games last year, most notable his game against Gawn where he was awesome.

But Reeves averaged 26/27 hitouts, his best work is there and was very good in there, proved how good he was at the centre bounce and how he can use his height and arm span to his advantage. He also averaged 4 tackles and 5 spoils a game which is rated elite.

 

[Dewyyyyy]

Lynch & Reeves average 11.5/9.6 disposals, 2/1.6 marks, 20.5/26 hit outs & 0/0.2 goals, respectively. They are that far from a sure thing, it's not funny.



Wow a 19 year old F/R didn't spend any time rucking at AFL level? Wonder why that could be!



The two hawthorn blokes you are hanging your hat on after a handful of games, also require a s*** tone more development. Luke Jackson is a sure thing quality young ruckman. Reeves & Lynch are not, and have a long way to go.

Thilthorpe is one developed 19 year old, he won't ever ruck much, he'll pinch as he did but nothing more he's a dominant key forward.

 

[Dewyyyyy]

Lynch & Reeves average 11.5/9.6 disposals, 2/1.6 marks, 20.5/26 hit outs & 0/0.2 goals, respectively. They are that far from a sure thing, it's not funny.



Wow a 19 year old F/R didn't spend any time rucking at AFL level? Wonder why that could be!



The two hawthorn blokes you are hanging your hat on after a handful of games, also require a s*** tone more development. Luke Jackson is a sure thing quality young ruckman. Reeves & Lynch are not, and have a long way to go.

No? Reeves and Lynch are older, Reeves 23 and Lynch 23. Compared to Edwards who's a teen.

Jackson has been phenomenal but there's a difference between they've proven they're capable and a ******* jet who is a best 22 lock in the best team in the comp.

 

[Psicosis]

Lynch played a few games last year, most notable his game against Gawn where he was awesome.

But Reeves averaged 26/27 hitouts, his best work is there and was very good in there, proved how good he was at the centre bounce and how he can use his height and arm span to his advantage. He also averaged 4 tackles and 5 spoils a game which is rated elite.

You do get that there is a difference between showing a few positive signs & becoming a consistent very good AFL player, yeah?

 

[Psicosis]

No? Reeves and Lynch are older, Reeves 23 and Lynch 23. Compared to Edwards who's a teen.

Jackson has been phenomenal but there's a difference between they've proven they're capable and a ******* jet who is a best 22 lock in the best team in the comp.

Didn't realize they were both 23 already.

In that case, I'll take Edwards.

 

[Dewyyyyy]

You do get that there is a difference between showing a few positive signs & becoming a consistent very good AFL player, yeah?

Yes, that's why i said Reeves had proved himself and most definitely in comparison to Edwards who hasn't played an AFL game yet.

Reeves has proven he's capable at AFL level.

 

[Psicosis]

Reeves has proven he's capable at AFL level.

There we go.

Agreed.

 

[Dewyyyyy]

There we go.

Agreed.

Again it's a big difference between, not playing a game and having played well at the highest level.

 

[the big lebowski]

Again it's a big difference between, not playing a game and having played well at the highest level.

Paul ahern debuted with 26 disposals, and a few games later had 40+ against the eventual premiers.

2 years later he was delisted.

Reeves is promising. And looks like he will at least be a serviceable AFL standard ruckman. But any outcome is possible. To think otherwise is blind faith and hope.

Which is fine.

 

[Shinboner1]

Paul ahern debuted with 26 disposals, and a few games later had 40+ against the eventual premiers.

2 years later he was delisted.

Reeves is promising. And looks like he will at least be a serviceable AFL standard ruckman. But any outcome is possible. To think otherwise is blind faith and hope.

Which is fine.

If ahern was 200cm+ he'd still be in the afl

 

[Drakescoffeecake]

Cripple fight!

 

[Dewyyyyy]

Paul ahern debuted with 26 disposals, and a few games later had 40+ against the eventual premiers.

2 years later he was delisted.

Reeves is promising. And looks like he will at least be a serviceable AFL standard ruckman. But any outcome is possible. To think otherwise is blind faith and hope.

Which is fine.

Anything can happen but Reeves has proven he's capable at the level, you can't say the same for Edwards who hasn't played a game and will likely need to develop a fair way as key position and rucks do.

CCJ is good as a forward aswell, proved he was capable. Any ruck talk is shocking tho, even from him he's just not a ruck.

 

[Donakebab]

Ned Reeves is now the most overrated in the competition.

 

[hawkman]

Anything can happen but Reeves has proven he's capable at the level, you can't say the same for Edwards who hasn't played a game and will likely need to develop a fair way as key position and rucks do.

CCJ is good as a forward aswell, proved he was capable. Any ruck talk is shocking tho, even from him he's just not a ruck.

It is 5 games, Reeves has proven nothing yet. If he can do it over a season then yes you could say he is a proven ruckman

 

[Dewyyyyy]

It is 5 games, Reeves has proven nothing yet. If he can do it over a season then yes you could say he is a proven ruckman

He still proved he was capable. 5 games averaging 26/27 hitouts, was able to average 4 tackles and 5 spoils a game (Rated elite).

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

It is 5 games, Reeves has proven nothing yet. If he can do it over a season then yes you could say he is a proven ruckman

We all know Dom overates Hawk players, but it’s funny how people are arguing black and blue that Reeves hasn’t proven anything in his 5 games, yet they’re totally ok with posters saying that they’d take Edwards over him, who has not even played a game.

 

[Dewyyyyy]

We all know Dom overates Hawk players, but it’s funny how people are arguing black and blue that Reeves hasn’t proven anything in his 5 games, yet they’re totally ok with posters saying that they’d take Edwards over him, who has not even played a game.

Rude, i'm not wrong at all.

 

[hawkman]

Rude, i'm not wrong at all.

How is James Cousins going?

 

[Dewyyyyy]

How is James Cousins going?

Okay, besides Cousins..

 

[Handsome.B.Wonderful]

If you want to delude yourself into thinking that, be my guest, because North hierarchy should be shitting themselves after that game if there is any honesty in that group.

Allow a lack of professionalism to be acceptable, and it does not matter who you draft/trade-in, you're failing a rebuild, and it's unfortunate that you weren't given a chance to respond to it. A complete disregard to putting in any effort whatsoever, be it round 1, or 23 tells you everything you need to know about a group, and it's they don't have it in them to be a unit that gets you through this period without serious changes, especially to the senior core/leadership side of things. Even more so in a game that's essentially a free hit, against a team that was certainly there for the taking (after all, we went in with one of the least experienced lineups in 2021).

There was absolutely nothing for Adelaide to learn, but that's not because it's round 23, just that North was so abysmal that it denied us of anything useful from that game.

We probably expected another effort like this from Adelaide TBF.

 

[JackFlash]

I think North will win 8 or 9 games in 2022, but it wouldn't surprise me if they win 10! Both Adelaide and Hawthorn will struggle to win 5?