Unrelated league, but i have Liba ine the BFFL and really want to push for a flag this year, i hope this serious injuries stop soon, 2 ACL's in the first 4 NAb games plus Petracca 2 weeks ago doing one
Looking at your list Rockford you have Libba covered. Langford, Taylor and Martin sitting on your bench.
I was going to post on Hallahan. Great preseason. Could be a premium midfield. Great signs from your squad. Going to be an interesting year. Our league has never been so even, it is great!
He needs to be an accumulator though because he is behind, Ablett, omeara, Prestia, Bennell and swallow ect
I noticed you took him when I logged on to take him
lol
He played a great game yesterday, don't know how much he ended up with but I only tuned in and out and noticed him a handful of times, ran and carried the ball took the game on. Could be a super pick up.That's just it! I wanted to wait to have some more information to go off, but thought that if he is on my radar he is likely to be on somebody else's too!
I take that as a vote of confidence in my selection
13 touches (8 kicks, 5 handballs, 2 tackles) in 67% game time, with most of those I am guessing coming in he second half. Not a hugely impressive effort stats wise, but you have to be quick around here to grab a good prospect as a FA!
This is too true. With only 5 FAs for the whole season, i like to take my time, think over a player, maybe even sleep on it before i select someone. But you people are animals. The minute someone shows a glimpse of form, bam! Taken!
Aren't we all!
I have to say, I'm a bit disappointed that there isn't more tearing out of hair and lamenting of everyone's women that I snagged Amon.
In terms of the decision to pick him up now, I feel like I was correcting a decision made during the draft (and I was pretty sure he'd go during our draft). He was actually top of my list with my last pick but I went with Finlayson as he's likely to keep B/F status as he develops. I'd kept an eye on Amon in the SANFL last year and his last 5-7 games were pretty damn good. He'd had the occasional impact throughout the season but seemed to pull things together as the season reached it's end and became a lot more consistent which is a good sign IMO. All the reports on his character are that he trains hard and wants to challenge himself (another good sign). Then all the bloody preseason press got me really nervous, had been hoping to leave him sitting in FA until I saw him named during the regular season.
His NAB game made the difference. I just expected someone to make the move eventually and I didn't want to miss out like I did with Brad Hill (and I think they could develop in very similar ways). His 15 disposals, 3 marks and a goal are fairly decent stats on their own. That was with 53% time on ground which suggests he's at least capable already of the ocassional 20 touch, 5 mark and 1 goal a game sweet spot (would like some tackles too). More than that though, he looked from what I saw of the game like he belonged at AFL level. His goal was really good I thought. Anyway, just wanted you lot to know it wasn't a decision that hadn't been planned ahead of time, or made because of the pre-season hype. The pre-season hype forced my hand so as to stop him going to a different team, which I probably didn't need to worry about based on no one noticing he's unavailable now
I have to say, I'm a bit disappointed that there isn't more tearing out of hair and lamenting of everyone's women that I snagged Amon.
In terms of the decision to pick him up now, I feel like I was correcting a decision made during the draft (and I was pretty sure he'd go during our draft). He was actually top of my list with my last pick but I went with Finlayson as he's likely to keep B/F status as he develops. I'd kept an eye on Amon in the SANFL last year and his last 5-7 games were pretty damn good. He'd had the occasional impact throughout the season but seemed to pull things together as the season reached it's end and became a lot more consistent which is a good sign IMO. All the reports on his character are that he trains hard and wants to challenge himself (another good sign). Then all the bloody preseason press got me really nervous, had been hoping to leave him sitting in FA until I saw him named during the regular season.
His NAB game made the difference. I just expected someone to make the move eventually and I didn't want to miss out like I did with Brad Hill (and I think they could develop in very similar ways). His 15 disposals, 3 marks and a goal are fairly decent stats on their own. That was with 53% time on ground which suggests he's at least capable already of the ocassional 20 touch, 5 mark and 1 goal a game sweet spot (would like some tackles too). More than that though, he looked from what I saw of the game like he belonged at AFL level. His goal was really good I thought. Anyway, just wanted you lot to know it wasn't a decision that hadn't been planned ahead of time, or made because of the pre-season hype. The pre-season hype forced my hand so as to stop him going to a different team, which I probably didn't need to worry about based on no one noticing he's unavailable now
). Not saying he won't become good for you but he's against the odds which is why I suspect no-one was that disappointed on missing out!
Ha its like the perennial "I can't believe he was available at my pick" post. We all build these FA guys up and probably get a little blinded by our hope but the reality is very few actually pay off. Given we all get 5 per year, that's around 70 FA that get picked up and I'd imagine only around 10-20 actually become starters, with maybe 5 becoming really good players (Brad Hill for me springs to mind
In saying that, Amon was definitely on my radar and I was tossing up between him and Prudden. At the end of the day, I just can't see Amon breaking into that Port side (at least with any decent kind of role), whereas Prudden has been touted as one to step into Libba's midfield role. Will be fun to watch throughout the year but as I said, I'd be surprised if either of them made a big difference for us!
It is against the odds, FA selections are long-shot lottery picks but other than Ashby who I picked up last season (and Blicavs before that, and how I would've felt about Whiley except I missed out on him) I haven't had a FA selection that I've felt this good about. As always, I'll wait and see
