Hot Topic 2016 DRAFT

[Prem17]

Pick 4 in the bag now means one of McCluggage, Brodie, Ainsworth, Petrevski-Seton is ours.

Now all we need is a pick around 8 for Marshall and a pick around 16 for battle.

Do we need a Battle type with Silvagni and Curnow in the side?
Silvagni is already showing signs that he will be a star, even with the extra size that he needs to add to win the one/one contests.
I think I would rather have a mid than Battle. I know he's good but our midfield is shite.

 

[Prem17]

Thought he was from country WA

He is. Sth Eastern WA farming region.

 

[Styxx]

Daisy's ankles were always going to be an issue. All it will take is one more medium grade 2 tear and his career will be over. Patella tendonitis isn't really structural like grade 2/3 ankle ligament tears are. If there is no structural damage to the knee itself, then there will not be any issues as the tendonitis will eventually correct itself. You can't regrow your ligaments.

As for the money that his management is throwing out, I reckon that's just to try and scare off the tyre kickers. Once negotiations really start, the price will come down dependant on the length of the contract.

Thank you for that, I can see your point however it is a gamble.of some sort and we probably need some assurances going forward.

 

[Chasing 17]

Anyway, I think we will lose our pick this year and start the draft with the pies first so we won't even get the chance to draft Ainsworth.

I can see this happening.

Something like our picks #4 and #31 (from the Dogs) to GWS for their pick #7 (from Collingwood), Caleb Marchbank and James Stewart. That'd give us a quality defender to replace Michael Jamison and the extra forward we've been after.

[...] the most logical destination for Stewart, should he choose to go, would be to follow the path of other decamping Giants and reunite with former GWS recruiter Stephen Silvagni at Carlton.

Silvagni clearly liked Stewart – he took him with pick 27 – and the Blues would like another tall able to relief ruck. Harry McKay will miss months this year with a back stress fracture but he is viewed as a long-term key forward along with Charlie Curnow. Stewart would potentially complement that pair.

We then take a class midfielder in the Scrimshaw, Venables, Berry, Simpkin, Taranto range. Still having picks #22 and #40 for SOS to improve on as we further clear out the list.

2015: Weitering, McKay, Curnow, Cuningham, Silvagni - Plowman, Phillips, Sumner, Lamb and Kerridge.
2016: Venables (?), midfielder (?), midfielder (?) - Marchbank and Stewart.

 

[HBF]

Do we need a Battle type with Silvagni and Curnow in the side?
Silvagni is already showing signs that he will be a star, even with the extra size that he needs to add to win the one/one contests.
I think I would rather have a mid than Battle. I know he's good but our midfield is shite.

I wouldn't take Battle at all.
Our forward line looks ok, and with Ben coming in a couple of years i'd be looking at building our midfield and backline first.
Would also look at taking a ruckman as well, perhaps later in the draft.

 

[Blugazi]

I can see this happening.

Something like our picks #4 and #31 (from the Dogs) to GWS for their pick #7 (from Collingwood), Caleb Marchbank and James Stewart. That'd give us a quality defender to replace Michael Jamison and the extra forward we've been after.


We then take a class midfielder in the Scrimshaw, Venables, Berry, Simpkin, Taranto range. Still having picks #22 and #40 for SOS to improve on as we further clear out the list.

2015: Weitering, McKay, Curnow, Cuningham, Silvagni - Plowman, Phillips, Sumner, Lamb and Kerridge.
2016: Venables (?), midfielder (?), midfielder (?) - Marchbank and Stewart.

Where has pick 31 come from in the scenario, we got the Bulldogs' 2016 third rounder not there second rounder.

 

[Dramoth]

I wouldn't take Battle at all.
Our forward line looks ok, and with Ben coming in a couple of years i'd be looking at building our midfield and backline first.
Would also look at taking a ruckman as well, perhaps later in the draft.

Wood is gone this year, for sure, so I would be looking at potentially getting another rookie ruckman. But this time around go for someone bottom age.

What's happened to Goddard from WA? He looked good last year as an underaged kid at the championships.

 

[The Bighouse]

Honest question...how is his circumstances different to Daisy's considerong the money he is possibly asking?

+ FA status, not having to trade for Daisy gave it the legs as a free kick we couldn't refuse. Not sure if JOM is an introvert or an extrovert either...

 

[FlowersByIrene]

+ FA status, not having to trade for Daisy gave it the legs as a free kick we couldn't refuse. Not sure if JOM is an introvert or an extrovert either...

Dunno about introvert or extrovert but he's a bloody alpha.

 

[BluesRule]

+ FA status, not having to trade for Daisy gave it the legs as a free kick we couldn't refuse. Not sure if JOM is an introvert or an extrovert either...

Daisy was not a free kick as we lost Betts We lost a FA deal

 

[BluesRule]

Dunno about introvert or extrovert but he's a bloody alpha.

Judd and Ablett are introverts and both have flags.
JOM is a huge risk at $700Kpa plus trade cost so I hope full DD is done and we do not destroy the rebuild.
Most likely JOM stays at GCFC or if traded will end up at Norfs or the Hawks as they will be more desperate for a one player solution to rejuvenate their list.

 

[FlowersByIrene]

Judd and Ablett are introverts and both have flags.
JOM is a huge risk at $700Kpa plus trade cost so I hope full DD is done and we do not destroy the rebuild.
Most likely JOM stays at GCFC or if traded will end up at Norfs or the Hawks as they will be more desperate for a one player solution to rejuvenate their list.

700k+ was a rumour spread by Robbo, i dont think that number is anywhere near confirmed.

 

[thylacine60]

He is. Sth Eastern WA farming region.

country wa? yes please......

 

[The Bighouse]

Daisy was not a free kick as we lost Betts We lost a FA deal

Unfortunately was not viewed like that by the powers that be at the time.

 

[Prem17]

country wa? yes please......

Lake Grace, I think from memory.
Massive broadacre cereal cropping and large scale sheep farming.
During his time off he likes to get involved on the farm, including driving a road train, so maybe he wants to go and explore life in the home of footy?
Let's hope so.
Sharpen up your steak and coffee skills Melbourne restaurateurs!

 

[Old navy]

GCS did us no favours losing to Essendope today. Still hope pick 4 will be ours, any lower and we have to think about trading down.

 

[thylacine60]

Lake Grace, I think from memory.
Massive broadacre cereal cropping and large scale sheep farming.
During his time off he likes to get involved on the farm, including driving a road train, so maybe he wants to go and explore life in the home of footy?
Let's hope so.
Sharpen up your steak and coffee skills Melbourne restaurateurs!

sounds a little like a previous Pick 13........

 

[Cringle]

GCS did us no favours losing to Essendope today. Still hope pick 4 will be ours, any lower and we have to think about trading down.

Reckon Bowes will be bid on before GC first anyway.

 

[Chasing 17]

Where has pick 31 come from in the scenario, we got the Bulldogs' 2016 third rounder not there second rounder.

Get a load of me drinking and playing Fantasy SOS at 4 in the morning...

You're right, in that scenario we'd need to make up another roughly 300 points.

 

[Masqualero]

700k+ was a rumour spread by Robbo, i dont think that number is anywhere near confirmed.

Pretty sure that number is 23.





Oh wait, turns out it is 11.

 

[Old navy]

Reckon Bowes will be bid on before GC first anyway.

Yeah Bowes could easily be bid on with a top 3 pick. Don't think any of the Giants academy players will be bid on in the top 10, possibly Settlefield.

 

[Pafloyul]

More than likely unfortunately... we had a habit of taking AA u18s and turning them into hacks.

Probably hack-worthy in the first place because a lot of them were overlooked by a lot of clubs at least once. If the likes of Davies, O'Keeffe and Browne were not All Australians in their draft year, they virtually were and yet all were favourites before the draft to reach us with their respective picks. You could write a thesis on how that all went to plan and how none of them made it. I find it curious as to what it tells us about our tactics and mindset at the time.

 

[HARKER]

Probably hack-worthy in the first place because a lot of them were overlooked by a lot of clubs at least once. If the likes of Davies, O'Keeffe and Browne were not All Australians in their draft year, they virtually were and yet all were favourites before the draft to reach us with their respective picks. You could write a thesis on how that all went to plan and how none of them made it. I find it curious as to what it tells us about our tactics and mindset at the time.

Whichever team labours on the bottom of the ladder, the same questions will be asked of them.
Selecting players is vitally important but it's not quite everything.

In the names you've put up, O'Keefe seemed capable of developing into a good player, although injury didn't allow him to be.
Browne was an average footballer that may have had a role in a good team................Davies though?

Davies, McCarthy and Temay are the three that just didn't show anything from early training days.....and the club were seeing McCarthy as a captain?
Walked away from a beep test because it was too hard........A captain here?

 

[Matty411]

McCluggage, McGrath, SPS or Brodie pls.

 

[mediumsizered]

McCluggage, McGrath, SPS or Brodie pls.

McCluggage, McGrath, Brodie & Ainsworth all had good games in the TAC Cup this weekend. McCluggage (4) & Ainsworth (3) got among the goals.