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List Mgmt. 2014 Draft
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He's 5 foot 5. He is tiny. He's shorter than Lionel Messi!
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With those test numbers I think someone might be prepared to risk a second rounder on him. Frankly if you're under 180/178 cm in todays landofthegiants game what difference does another 5/10 cm shorter make? You still can't reach.
ah, I was going off the 175cm quoted above. He is 167.
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To clarify what I'm saying is that if a team is going run 2, 3 or 4 guys on the field who are under the 178 mark (we have three from memory in our best 22), I don't see that it matters how far under they are provided that it is balanced off in other areas.
Though his first 20m's are elite, I don't think his top pace is that great, which will see him go undrafted. I'd love to be proved wrong as I'm only a few inches taller, go the little blokes!
I thought Adelaide would take him with pick 10 but I doubt he will get to them now.
I can't see Geelong taking him as they already have too many talls on their list, he may well fall to the Dockers at 13 & I would rate him above Goddard & Marchbank who are similar types.
We should have taken Lewis Taylor last year. I don't think we'll take a small mid. It doesn't really suit Lyons gameplan and with Lachie we already have one undersized mid.
You can't train the kind of stuff Caleb was doing, that's just sheer talent.
Grab him for his ability. If he's there at our second round then he's a steal.
Recruiters passed on lachie because of his height - and they're kicking themselves for it. He's learnt to see things out of the corner of his eye, he had to in order to survive.
I have never seen someone handle the ball like that before... but there's no other players his height out there.
Spud Webb was shorter than Caleb and he could slam dunk and played in the NBA ffs. Talent is talent and height don't mean shit if you can't play.
Caleb is really bloody good! Grab our much-needed kpp first, then snap him up if we can.
Grab him for his ability. If he's there at our second round then he's a steal.
Recruiters passed on lachie because of his height - and they're kicking themselves for it. He's learnt to see things out of the corner of his eye, he had to in order to survive.
I have never seen someone handle the ball like that before... but there's no other players his height out there.
Spud Webb was shorter than Caleb and he could slam dunk and played in the NBA ffs. Talent is talent and height don't mean shit if you can't play.
Caleb is really bloody good! Grab our much-needed kpp first, then snap him up if we can.
Barry Cable's height was 168cm
And what was the average height of an AFL player back then? Quite lower than now, that's for sure.
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Yeah agree. I think the question is how many can you fit on the park at the same time. We really need to draft a player at 13 that plays 10+ games next year IMO.
Barry Cable would be even more of genius in today's professional football world.Just as Sir Viv Richards would be destroying bowling attacks with today's bat technology.
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Just heard lloyd on the radio
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No interest in delisted FA like Lucas or Petrenko
Delighted to have pick 13, hasn't had anything that low for 5 years. You can sense he would have been desperate not to trade it.
We will take a midfielder at 13 if he is best available, have loaded up on talls the last 2 drafts
In the 2011 AFL draft they had their list of players and Sutcliffe was in their top 25, couldn't believe his luck when he dropped to 71
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No interest in delisted FA like Lucas or Petrenko
Delighted to have pick 13, hasn't had anything that low for 5 years. You can sense he would have been desperate not to trade it.
We will take a midfielder at 13 if he is best available, have loaded up on talls the last 2 drafts
In the 2011 AFL draft they had their list of players and Sutcliffe was in their top 25, couldn't believe his luck when he dropped to 71
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Did anyone see 9 sport just then. They did a draft expose on Mitch McGovern who is on the draft radar.
He said it would be his dream to be picked by Freo.
He said it would be his dream to be picked by Freo.
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I love Sutty, and in hindsight, that's a worthy statement, probably higher than that even. But let's be honest, they took 4 players before a guy they rated in the top 25? Must have rated all the others in the top 10 or something.
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Who knows? Didn't even mention Sutcliffe by name, just was using it as an illustration that sometimes in the draft you get lucky "like the time in 2011 we picked up someone at 71 that we rated in the top 20 to 25". Maybe he was just exaggerating for effect.
It's also possible that they went in with particular types in mind in 2011. He did say for pick 13 this year they will only seriously short list 3 or 4 players as they have a fair idea who will go earlier, I imagine it's the later picks that are more of a lottery
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