Opinion 2012 Rookie Draft

[Mego Red]

Curnow is not first 22. Skills are terrible.

 

[WaynesWorld19]

When Smack steps this year we can swing JJ back there. Was it Rendell who thought he'd be suited to the kpd role?

Yes and i agree Jenkins would be a perfect CHB

Top 10 for speed in the club, good mark .....just not sure of his defensive capabilities ...but with a basketball background you'd expect that he would have a good defensive mindset

 

[DREAM TEAM BUFF]

Curnow is not first 22. Skills are terrible.

I don't think they have improved since he was on our Rookie List.

 

[lunacy]

The one positive of the rookie list being decreased from 6 to 4 players, is that most clubs are using rookie draft to pick up one of their own players (ie transferring player from senior list to rookie list). This means a lot of draftees will again get overlooked in the rookie draft. There still seems to be a fair bit of talent left. All these guys will spill over to next years draft making next years draft much deeper. This will be very beneficial for us next year with only late picks. At least there will still be some depth around our late picks.

With Essendon set to overlook Garlett and Port to possibly overlook Jurrah, they could add to the quality of next years draft as well if they knuckle down next year.

Plus there will be the continued trimming of GC & GWS lists that will spill over to next years draft.

 

[MRB37]

Surprised about Garlett. Any chance of the Crows looking at him?

 

[Mego Red]

Honestly, once clubs start saying they don't want to risk a ROOKIE pick on someone with Garletts talent, it is starting to become completely masterbatory.

I mean, get real ...

 

[AdelaideFan14]

Honestly, once clubs start saying they don't want to risk a ROOKIE pick on someone with Garletts talent, it is starting to become completely masterbatory.

I mean, get real ...

You'd think we would have to take the gamble. If it pays off, we cover some of our losses for the picks we handed in this year. If not, just cut him at the end of the year.

 

[cmndstab]

I haven't followed the draft very closely this year. Can someone explain the reason that Garlett wasn't picked up?

 

[AdelaideFan14]

I haven't followed the draft very closely this year. Can someone explain the reason that Garlett wasn't picked up?

Off-field issues. Posts pictures of himself out drinking and smoking (a couple days before he was playing in his teams WAFL Semi-Final) and another of what appeared to be him on some sort of substance.

 

[Mego Red]

Don't think there's much to "on a substance", but posts party pictures on Facebook, acted like a tool when at the AIS (coming late to training etc).

 

[cmndstab]

Pretty fair warning flag I guess. He'd want to be doing/saying something to give clubs any hope he can stay on the straight and narrow throughout an AFL career.

 

[Mego Red]

I think once you're getting to a rookie pick, it is about mitigating risk.

The risk he isn't going to have enough talent or athletic skill next to the risk that he's going to be a dickhead.

Nothing is 100%.

 

[macca23]

Pretty fair warning flag I guess. He'd want to be doing/saying something to give clubs any hope he can stay on the straight and narrow throughout an AFL career.

http://m.news.com.au/AFL/fi1801665.htm

Garlett faces second draft snub December 9, 2012 12:00AM

GIFTED WA youngster Dayle Garlett is facing the prospect of being snubbed for the second time in Tuesday's AFL rookie draft.
Garlett, named in the under-18 All-Australian team this year, had been expected to win a lifeline from Essendon.
The Bombers invited the Swan Districts product to train with them after he was overlooked in the national draft and are yet to make a final decision but are leaning against drafting the potential star.
"No doubt there's a lot of talent there and the way he plays his football excites everyone," Essendon coach James Hird said.
"We've just got to work out whether someone like Dayle fits our group."
The Garlett situation will play out this week against a backdrop of increasing debate over the apparent reluctance of AFL clubs to recruit indigenous players.
Recruiters around the country were of the view that the 18-year-old was a first-round draft pick based on talent alone, but Garlett has been dogged by bad publicity over off-field issues.
He was kicked out of the elite AIS-AFL Academy last summer and missed several WAFL games through internal club suspensions. Social media photos of him drinking and smoking did further harm to his reputation.
No other AFL club, including local teams West Coast and Fremantle, appears willing to take a punt on him....

Given the situation we're in drafting wise as a result of our penalties, I think we should go high risk high reward here, and take Garlett with our one and only rookie pick.

Take him and allocate him to Andrew McLeod to be not only his mentor in football but his mentor in life.

If it comes off we'll have got ourselves a top ten draft pick to help cover next year's drafting losses, and if it doesn't we move him on, as the majority of rookies end up doing.

Definitely worth a crack IMO.

 

[cm_perfect]

Given the situation we're in drafting wise as a result of our penalties, I think we should go high risk high reward here, and take Garlett with our one and only rookie pick.

Take him and allocate him to Andrew McLeod to be not only his mentor in football but his mentor in life.

If it comes off we'll have got ourselves a top ten draft pick to help cover next year's drafting losses, and if it doesn't we move him on, as the majority of rookies end up doing.

Definitely worth a crack IMO.

Couldnt agree with you more !!

With the early round draft picks now gone this year and next, we need to get a lot more creative building/developing our squad. The penalties most likely wont hurt us a lot untill 2015/2016 once the drafted players would of served their SANFL apprenticeship. This is what we need to keep an eye on or we will end up with a gap in our list again.

It would be nice to see us as a club start to get a little more creative, go for the high risk strategy (within the rules of the AFL of course ) rather than just ride through the pain and trade and draft over next couple of years like nothing happened.

In regards to Garlett, we just need to put a strong program in place to provide the lad stability and focus then let Sando do the rest

 

[MRB37]

I think once you're getting to a rookie pick, it is about mitigating risk.

The risk he isn't going to have enough talent or athletic skill next to the risk that he's going to be a dickhead.

Nothing is 100%.

If I'm taking a risk, I'd take the risk on the guy behaving (as long as he hasn't done anything majorly wrong) if you can get him in the right environment (which I think the Crows can provide) over taking a choir boy and hoping he can develop some skills.

 

[spenze]

http://m.news.com.au/AFL/fi1801665.htm


Given the situation we're in drafting wise as a result of our penalties, I think we should go high risk high reward here, and take Garlett with our one and only rookie pick.

Take him and allocate him to Andrew McLeod to be not only his mentor in football but his mentor in life.

If it comes off we'll have got ourselves a top ten draft pick to help cover next year's drafting losses, and if it doesn't we move him on, as the majority of rookies end up doing.

Definitely worth a crack IMO.

A very good idea

 

[Cap]

Didn't Matty j have similar problems?

 

[Dandy_GO]

I'd be disappointed if our pick comes and goes while jurrah and garlett are still on the table. I'd probably lean towards jurrah. Readymade player who showed plenty in his time at AFL level. I'd love to see him working with Tex. The club will almost certainly decide that we can't afford more potential controversy, however. Cowards.

I rate Sumner, though, so I'm hoping those rumours are true, but I'd rather we back ourselves in, and our young leaders that the club never shut up about, to instill the right attitude into a troubled match-winner like jurrah or garlett.

They will not.

 

[Dandy_GO]

Didn't Matty j have similar problems?

Yep. Kicked out of the under 18 state team for drinking. Very similar.

 

[Firewalker]

Take him and allocate him to Andrew McLeod to be not only his mentor in football but his mentor in life.

Would maybe help on gameday but you can't just expect miracles just because someone's mentored by great players as in the end of the day it depends totally on the individual, also when it comes to the ciggy's Macca and Stiffy would definitely be taking the do as I say not as I do approach.

 

[NTRabbit]

Garlett also allegedly has other problems the recruiters know about, but nobody can talk about. The kind of problems the court seals away when a person is under the age of 18.

 

[dylan123]

I'd be disappointed if our pick comes and goes while jurrah and garlett are still on the table. I'd probably lean towards jurrah. Readymade player who showed plenty in his time at AFL level. I'd love to see him working with Tex. The club will almost certainly decide that we can't afford more potential controversy, however. Cowards.

Agreed on Jurrah, such a talented forward that we could pick up for nothing and could benefit our side greatly. If Port have had him training with them and such, it only makes me think they believe he won't do too badly in his trial otherwise they wouldn't bother wasting their time and just wait for next year. And if he was at 100% fitness, I have no doubt he could add quite a bit to our forward line and would certainly add another dimension to it.

Like you've said though, I can't see Adelaide having the balls to have a crack at him which is very disappointing. Hopefully Bailey is trying to talk him into it as I seem to recall him having a very good relationship with Jurrah at Melbourne.

 

[PyroCrow]

Garlett also allegedly has other problems the recruiters know about, but nobody can talk about. The kind of problems the court seals away when a person is under the age of 18.

And how exactly did you come across this information?

 

[NTRabbit]

Doesn't really matter.

What matters is that the AFC has absolutely no interest in Garlett or Jurrah, and both of them have but a single possible lifeline as rookie selections at one club each. Nobody else is interested, everyone else has washed their hands. Should speak volumes.

 

[NTRabbit]

Reducing the rookie list from 6 to 4 this year didn't help. Unsure of the reasons why the AFL chose to do that, surely having MORE opportunities is what they want.

It's a precursor to when they eliminate the rookie list completely and expand senior lists in the next year or two. Less hassle in terms of TPP and contracts once they finally get it done.