There is a reason a midfielder is touted as no1 selection compared to a No 21 or 22 selection.
Petracca will be way ahead of anything we get @ 21 and 22.
To get a KP when we have a 6 time AA and five time B&F just signed on for another two years is madness.
If we do get McCartin, I hope he loves zoning back to the defensive fifty because we wont have the midfield to get it to him.
You may not have watched the Saints this season, but we got smashed out of the centre even with Lenny in the middle.
We are now without Lenny, How do you reckon we will go next year?
Absolute idiocy to chose PM over CP for the Saints.
Of course there is more hype for Petracca at 1 vs anything we can get later. We are a 50/50 on Petracca so he is a known value.
Pick 21 could be any of a dozen players, makes it hard to get long concentrated conversations going.
As for not drafting a KPF because we have Roo - THAT it madness. There is no level of certainty that any of Lee, White, Bruce, Hickey, Longer or Pierce hold down FF in our team come 2020.
Everyone is hung up on getting McKenzie at 21 or poaching Jeremy Cameron. There is no certainty that either of these are possible.
McCartin is a certainty.
As for next year... LMAO! You really expect Petracca to be dominating centre clearances from day 1?
We were shite in 2014 even with Lenny Hayes. What the hell is Petracca going to do for our midfield in 2015 without Hayes there?
Be prepared to be smashed out of the middle regardless of who we pick.
Dont get me wrong. Id take Petracca too but this is why we arent in the position of building a list over 3, 4 or 5+ years.
We dont have that scope or that patience.
Grab McCartin. Give him 2 years learning from Riewoldt. Over that time we can draft more ready made mids alot easier that we would be able to poach a premiership ready FF option.
But Lord help the kid if he comes to our club at #1 with "supporters" like this...