Some scattergun thoughts:
Will Brodie reaching our first pick is sounding like a chance. This is exciting but it also permeates that he's a 'flight risk'. He says he understands the nature of it and is approachable about playing anywhere, but it seems this question comes to him a fair bit and I think it is something clubs regard.
“You’ve got to understand that it’s out of your control. The possibility of moving interstate, you’ve got to grasp that."
“We’ll see what happens, but it’s the sacrifice you have to make if you want to play AFL footy.” [foxsports]
This, along with his late-season physical duress are what seem to have diminished his standing as a certain top 10 pick.
I think he's a better prospect than SPP (more of a guarantee of midfield aptitude to the level), Gallucci, Berry and probably Simpkin (hard to establish). Hayward being a projection and very much chiefly a forward, if with contemporary midfielder traits to this date make for a tricky comparison, but I'd say there's more substance evident with Brodie.
Outside of Taranto, SPS, Logue or maybe Scrimshaw sliding (all of which seeming outside chances), I think my current draft wish would be for Will.
This said, I can't think of any believable prospect that I would be supremely disappointed with. Gallucci probably the most but that said it sounds like this board misappropriates his attributes to a degree. He has a slight upper body, couldn't be described as tall and often plays in quite mute roles/doesn't offer the requisite production regularly, but he lends speed, power, a reasonable longer kick, leadership and a good leap. I suggest that most of the denouncement from folk in this thread so far spawns from the fact that we're all looking for a player to in some way pose or at least represent a transformation of our midfield unit as a brand (Berry: resolve, size SPP: dynamism, pure physicality, tenacity, can pretend he looks like Dustin Martin SPS: skill, physicality, vision Venables: pace, momentum out of stoppages, goal-kicking Bolton: blistering skill, speed Hayward: power, overhead ability, quickness etc.) At our pick there ought be a handful of players that have displayed one or two of these traits, and I understand and it's probably fair that Jordan isn't likely to be a candidate for this, though it wouldn't outright make him a faulty pick as some suggest. Similarly someone like Ollie Florent, though classy and athletic, probably is going to leave us non-plussed if selected.
This isn't resolving anywhere so let's bundle in to a wishlist slightly bound by realities.
Dream: Taranto
Remarkable and wonderful: SPS, Brodie
Curious and exciting: Logue, Scrimshaw, Hayward, SPP [also belongs below, sorry]
Not to be pessimistically dismissed: Berry, English, Gallucci, Florent, Venables, Simpkin, Perryman
Speculative/Mildly Iffy: S. Bolton, Marshall
Thanks for helping defer my study of complex variables (enough of them in the draft).