List Mgmt. 2016 Potential Draft Picks

[raman]

Let's hope they have learned from past mistakes.

I "hope" to one day make sweet love to Natalie Portman in a Florence hotel room, but your "hope" is a stretch too far for me.

 

[snozulu]

I think 19 opens up some good possibilities. We can go best available mid with pick 9 and we could well get Marshall at 19. If not Marshall, then i'd be looking at the likes of Berry, Powell-Pepper, Witherden with 19. Gallucci another option.

30 i'd be keen on Brennan Cox, Josh Battle will be there but i've cooled on him a bit. In terms of mids, two locals in Villis and Scharenberg will be there. Someone like Dylan Clarke should be there who's a real ball magnet. There may be a slider as well, we may see someone like Simpkin, Venables slide down a bit.

I think it will take a might effort to **** this draft up.

Thanks for your thoughts. i will have to look up a couple of those lads.

 

[Zakk Wylde]

I'd still like us to go mid, Battle or Kerr, mid (and agree with your comment about no flankers).
I'd also like us to work hard to turn AhChee into Barrett in the next two days, somehow pick up Black for magic beans and then to use pick 49 on best available.

So much this.

 

[shewho]

I agree with PJ- leave the negativity and sarcasm about who we will draft to the other threads. This thread is now about our most important decisions in the next 5 years. Get them right and history won't care we gave up pick 15-18 next year. Finish high and our players have currency again.

We will go ready made mid with 9. Nothing else makes sense with our trading strategy. You don't pass up a future 1st round pick only to draft a project player.

And we clearly had targets marked when accepting 19 and 30. You don't make the decision we did based on comparing "the general strength" of the '16 and '17 drafts. Parker has told Davies that if we land 19 and 30 we are a very good chance of getting "x" and "y" who we both rate as first round quality.

These have to be players we rate more highly than others do otherwise they will likely be gone by our pick. Graham at 19 fits our leadership criteria and went up in my estimations when I heard he had no preseason. To still win the Larke medal after that is an outstanding achievement. Highly likely to be available at 19.

At 30 we may be looking at Brandon Parfitt who spent time at Port or it was posted earlier we were all over Ryan (I think it is) at the WA screening.

So Taranto or Berry, Graham and Parfitt or Ryan looks about the mark.

 

[philthy05]

Macca19 now we can get mids with our first 3 picks or a KPP and a couple of mids, it opens up the game for us to take your boy Max Lynch at 40 something.

No



Rookie list a ruck this year.


Plenty to choose from with ladhams , sweet , darcy , Goddard and lynch one or two of them will make it to rookie list so choose there.

 

[philthy05]

I agree with PJ- leave the negativity and sarcasm about who we will draft to the other threads. This thread is now about our most important decisions in the next 5 years. Get them right and history won't care we gave up pick 15-18 next year. Finish high and our players have currency again.

We will go ready made mid with 9. Nothing else makes sense with our trading strategy. You don't pass up a future 1st round pick only to draft a project player.

And we clearly had targets marked when accepting 19 and 30. You don't make the decision we did based on comparing "the general strength" of the '16 and '17 drafts. Parker has told Davies that if we land 19 and 30 we are a very good chance of getting "x" and "y" who we both rate as first round quality.

These have to be players we rate more highly than others do otherwise they will likely be gone by our pick. Graham at 19 fits our leadership criteria and went up in my estimations when I heard he had no preseason. To still win the Larke medal after that is an outstanding achievement. Highly likely to be available at 19.

At 30 we may be looking at Brandon Parfitt who spent time at Port or it was posted earlier we were all over Ryan (I think it is) at the WA screening.

So Taranto or Berry, Graham and Parfitt or Ryan looks about the mark.

Graham strikes me as a greenwood clone. Would wait and see if he is around at 49 and pass earlier

 

[Us against the rest]

Why would they? Just yesterday I'm reading on here that we've done great with later picks the last couple of years. But what player types have we picked again?

Ken must like flankers.

 

[Us against the rest]

I "hope" to one day make sweet love to Natalie Portman in a Florence hotel room, but your "hope" is a stretch too far for me.

All i can say is, it has to be deep into finals next year or we are toast.

 

[Us against the rest]

On a positive note at least this year their are some quality kids to be had and we do need a skillful mid.

 

[shewho]

Graham strikes me as a greenwood clone. Would wait and see if he is around at 49 and pass earlier

I just find it very curious that SA damn nearly won the U18s with the players that won the U16s two years earlier and yet its hard to find one of our players in anybody's top 30. This just reeks of eastern state bias.

If there is one player who dragged this bunch of list cloggers to within a bee's dick of the title it's Graham. Imagine what he could've done if fully fit.

Look, he just matches my criteria of someone unfairly underrated by other scouts who we felt we could get if we got one of those picks.

 

[simmo_bc]

Geez man the majority of this draft class was born in 1998... I feel old!

 

[snozulu]

like the sound of berry

 

[It Just Is]

Our drafting in recent years suggests we'll target 1 type of player and look for that with our first 3 picks. That probably means 3 midfielders and a ruckman somewhere late in the draft.

We must also have our heart set on a state league key forward somewhere along the line. Do any of the regular SANFL watcher think Brett Eddy can make it. He's been the most prolific forward not in the AFL system over an extended period now.

 

[Us against the rest]

like the sound of berry

Yep, he would be my choice, a good sized player.

 

[Macca19]

Graham strikes me as a greenwood clone. Would wait and see if he is around at 49 and pass earlier

Greenwood is more explosive than Graham. I like him and he's got great footy smarts, but there's also a bit of Tom Hurley about him.

 

[Needs Gravy]

Not to fussed at 9 happy with whoever slides. My main want is Powell-Pepper at 19. At 30 while I don't think we would be that lucky some mock drafts have Drew sliding into the middle of the draft. Only my opinion but I think the three lads who trained with us last year Sweet,Parfitt and Graham will all be there late in the draft / rookie selections. Not moving Lobbe impacts hear as would have liked us to grab an extra ruck at the back end of the draft/ rookie draft.

 

[Macca19]

I just find it very curious that SA damn nearly won the U18s with the players that won the U16s two years earlier and yet its hard to find one of our players in anybody's top 30. This just reeks of eastern state bias.

I dont think there is any actual bias.

 

[Macca19]

I think noting Liam Ryan is a good point. If we are super keen on him then we could well be targeting him with either 19 or 30.

 

[Portia]

I dont think there is any actual bias.

If I was going to lazily extrapolate anything from that its that SA u16s is full of players who are smaller/physically mature earlier, and they get found out by programs that develop players better long term by the time u18s comes around.

 

[shewho]

We must also have our heart set on a state league key forward somewhere along the line. Do any of the regular SANFL watcher think Brett Eddy can make it. He's been the most prolific forward not in the AFL system over an extended period now.

We may take a punt on Reynolds to be a "key" forward available in the rookie draft. I think he's 188 cm but increasingly it's becoming how you play rather than what size you are. He plays as a lead up forward not too dissimilar to Darling who is only 3cm taller. We may have Palmer (officially 188cm but listed as 191 cm when at North Ballarat- go figure) earmarked for this role too.

 

[shewho]

If I was going to lazily extrapolate anything from that its that SA u16s is full of players who are smaller/physically mature earlier, and they get found out by programs that develop players better long term by the time u18s comes around.

Does that explain why in the 2016 U18s if Vic Metro hadn't come from 35 down at 3/4 time against us or if they hadn't come from 20 something down against Country at 3/4 time (winning both by less than a kick), SA would be champions with no one rated in the top 25-30?

Having made my point that there must be an SA player or two that are chronically underrated, another player that seems to be underrated is Clarke from Vic Metro who was high in their best in both of those comeback wins. He could be our target at 19 too although I fancy North taking him with 11 to play with his brother.

 

[It Just Is]

We may take a punt on Reynolds to be a "key" forward available in the rookie draft. I think he's 188 cm but increasingly it's becoming how you play rather than what size you are. He plays as a lead up forward not too dissimilar to Darling who is only 3cm taller. We may have Palmer (officially 188cm but listed as 191 cm when at North Ballarat- go figure) earmarked for this role too.

This just seems like the ruck situation from last year all over again.

 

[Portia]

Does that explain why in the 2016 U18s if Vic Metro hadn't come from 35 down at 3/4 time against us or if they hadn't come from 20 something down against Country at 3/4 time (winning both by less than a kick), SA would be champions with no one rated in the top 25-30?

If there was any bias in how SA players usually rank in the draft, then teams drafting SA players late would be the best in the league.

 

[x_les_x]

Everyone asking for the best avaliable mid at 9 but who is realistically avaliable? Sps i firmly believe will be gone berry is a realistic chance and the rest of the top 20 are made up of flankers/talls like logue and marshall.

I like liam ryan for 30
19 id settle for venables battle kerr in that order

 

[philthy05]

Greenwood is more explosive than Graham. I like him and he's got great footy smarts, but there's also a bit of Tom Hurley about him.

Oh you threw Hurley at me cause you know I mentioned that one bit me in the arse.