Draft Review 2016 - Revisiting the 2016 AFL Draft

[Ambrosia]

Simpkins best is better than McGrath’s but you need to wait and watch 1 game to see if he is top 20? There is a big chance he will be the better player and your number 1 pick slides down the pecking order.

Bit of a stretch here. Not hard for Simpkin to stand out given North’s midfield drops off a cliff after Cunnington and Higgins. I expect that if McGrath was given the same midfield minutes as Simpkin he’d be putting up some very impressive numbers.

 

[Flags_In_The_Bag]

McGrath is worth more than Macrae and Naughton, you heard it here first folks

And Dunkley, hell id have Daniel before him too

 

[Flags_In_The_Bag]

Wot Bailey Smith has best player in the comp potential. He has all the tricks and is very very good

All came about because 1 poster said he thinks Andy is an average footballer so the twit stupidly attacked who he supported by saying a stupid statement.

 

[Wild Bill]

Bit of a stretch here. Not hard for Simpkin to stand out given North’s midfield drops off a cliff after Cunnington and Higgins. I expect that if McGrath was given the same midfield minutes as Simpkin he’d be putting up some very impressive numbers.

Lol what?? Lucky for Taranto he only has Kelly and Cogs and lucky for McCluggage aa he only Zorko and Neale to compete with for midfield minutes....

What a bizarre post. If McGrath could be the best player on the ground as a midfielder - he’s playing in the midfield. The all powerful ess midfield ain’t going keep him out.

 

[Wild Bill]

nah.
I did hold off to watch tonight thinking i'd missed something in Simpkin. Im not seeing that assessment
Good call on Witherden. I took him out to place him back in when i was done, and forgot. Will add back in

agreed. He is building a nice game. Once he has the tank for 4 quarters, he'll be a serious forward. Strong hands, good positioning.
Not far off the top 20.

Hope you watched today’s game. You have McGrath in the top 3.

He was horrible today. At least Simpkin laid 6 tackles - McGrath just 1.

 

[Haychh]

Bills obsession with all things Essendon is the gift that keeps on giving. I would argue about players for his club but I really could not give a single f*** about anyone at that club

 

[citizen-erased]

Hope you watched today’s game. You have McGrath in the top 3.

He was horrible today. At least Simpkin laid 6 tackles - McGrath just 1.

Trigger happy

 

[Wild Bill]

Trigger happy

So was your post at 10.26 last night...

Trigger of truth.

 

[SickQwon]

SPS overrated, Fisher underrated. That's my take, have a good weekend everybody.

 

[HeHateMe]

Mich Lewis could be anything, a junior golfer turned footy rookie.

He has exceed my expectations in 3 yrs after picking up the game. But i know im not alone.

 

[Cadillac]

And yet would be valued more highly than any player on your list not named Bont.

 

[bungalow_bill]

Bombers went with the safe option and their fans kick up a stink when you mention it. There’s nothing wrong with going the safe option, especially at a time when the club clearly needed immediate results and hope.

With the emergence of Saad and McKenna I’m not sure they need a 3rd running half back. I’d imagine they’d select Taranto, Mccluggage or bid on Setterfield if they had their time again.

To be fair most teams go the safe option with pick 1 which is one reason pick 1 is rarely the best player. Walsh while being a super player was the safe option. A good chance the best from that draft will be from the likes of Rozee Rankine Lukosius etc

 

[bungalow_bill]

From the Bulldogs, I’d take Bontempelli, Daniel, Naughton, Smith, Libba, Macrae, Hunter, English and Johannisen ahead of McGrath.

All are better players currently or will become better players. You could make a case for a few others as well. Suggesting Bont and Macrae are the only two more valuable than McGrath from the Bulldogs is absolutely laughable.

McGrath may not be the best player but he's also being seriously underrated in this thread. A few of those Dogs players were spudding it up big time V Lions

 

[Poska]

McGrath may not be the best player but he's also being seriously underrated in this thread. A few of those Dogs players were spudding it up big time V Lions

You’d want to use more than one game as a sample size to judge a player.

 

[Elmer_Hauser]

To be fair most teams go the safe option with pick 1 which is one reason pick 1 is rarely the best player. Walsh while being a super player was the safe option. A good chance the best from that draft will be from the likes of Rozee Rankine Lukosius etc

That is just hypothetical conjecture based on no basis whatsoever. The consensus around the traps is that Walsh's debut season is right up there with the greatest of all time (like Selwood in 2007)

You can bet dollars to donuts Gold Coast would gladly swap both Rankine and Lukosius for Walsh if they could.

 

[bungalow_bill]

Lol - mistake. It’s a re-do thread and I’m taking him in the top 25. Long way to go before it’s a mistake.

I’m tipping Matho gets closer to 25 than McGrath does 1 in this thread. Now that’s a mistake!!

Problem for Matho is that he's competing with the likes of Neale Zorko Lyons Berry Rayner etc and Ely Smith is also coming along nicely.

 

[Wild Bill]

Problem for Matho is that he's competing with the likes of Neale Zorko Lyons Berry Rayner etc and Ely Smith is also coming along nicely.

It thins out after the top 20.

 

[Elmer_Hauser]

Nuffies on AFL Pages would have a field day with some of the total crap posted in this thread.

 

[KermitJagger]

Gee Brisbane did pretty well out of this draft.

McCluggage, Berry and Witherden all look like long term senior players, with Cox on the fringe but plenty to like.

 

[jooce8891]

Gee Brisbane did pretty well out of this draft.

McCluggage, Berry and Witherden all look like long term senior players, with Cox on the fringe but plenty to like.

zac fisher and sps for carlton dont mind that either, plus setterfield if you want to count that.

 

[KermitJagger]

zac fisher and sps for carlton dont mind that either, plus setterfield if you want to count that.

I like Petrevski-Seton and Fisher but I'd trade them both for McCluggage.

 

[Wild Bill]

2019 Under 22 squad from the 2016 draft.

Tarranto
McCluggage
Witherden
Berry
Fisher
SPS
Simpkin
McGrath
Florent
Zurhaar
Bolton
English

 

[Elmer_Hauser]

I like Petrevski-Seton and Fisher but I'd trade them both for McCluggage.

I wouldn't. SPS is rapidly turning into Carlton's most important players, plus he has a massive upside. Not saying he will be as good as McLuggage, but he is more valuable to Carlton and our structure

 

[scott_the_man]

I wouldn't. SPS is rapidly turning into Carlton's most important players, plus he has a massive upside. Not saying he will be as good as McLuggage, but he is more valuable to Carlton and our structure

You'd be crazy not to do that swap. McCluggage is already one of the elite wingmen of the competition and still rapidly improving. He is superstar material.

 

[Wild Bill]

You'd be crazy not to do that swap. McCluggage is already one of the elite wingmen of the competition and still rapidly improving. He is superstar material.

Agree - take proven over potential.