Live Chat 2017 AFL Draft - #2, #5, #42, #60, #66, #70, #77, #80, #90

Which players do we take with #2 & #5?

  • Luke Davies-Uniacke

    Votes: 128 77.6%
  • Cameron Rayner

    Votes: 25 15.2%
  • Darcy Fogarty

    Votes: 42 25.5%
  • Adam Cerra

    Votes: 12 7.3%
  • Jaidyn Stephenson

    Votes: 8 4.8%
  • Paddy Dow

    Votes: 28 17.0%
  • Andrew Brayshaw

    Votes: 56 33.9%
  • Jack Higgins

    Votes: 3 1.8%
  • Sam Hayes

    Votes: 1 0.6%
  • Jarrod Brander

    Votes: 1 0.6%
  • Aaron Naughton

    Votes: 8 4.8%
  • Oscar Allen

    Votes: 4 2.4%
  • Nick Coffield

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Charlie Constable

    Votes: 1 0.6%
  • Hunter Clark

    Votes: 2 1.2%
  • Noah Balta

    Votes: 2 1.2%
  • Aiden Bonar

    Votes: 2 1.2%

  • Total voters
    165
  • Poll closed .

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Based on a population of people who for the most part have approx 5 mins worth of YouTube for knowledge and some notion that having a girlfriend makes you more of a ‘flight risk’.

I would be stoked with Cerra at 5.
Nobody here is experts. It’s a poll based on opinions and clearly he ain’t that popular. Just like everyone else your entitled to your opinion too.Nobody is right or wrong at this stage. The draftees haven’t even made it onto a afl training track yet.
 

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Nobody here is experts. It’s a poll based on opinions and clearly he ain’t that popular. Just like everyone else your entitled to your opinion too.Nobody is right or wrong at this stage. The draftees haven’t even made it onto a afl training track yet.
This is not correct some of them have trained with afl clubs
 

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Based on a population of people who for the most part have approx 5 mins worth of YouTube for knowledge and some notion that having a girlfriend makes you more of a ‘flight risk’.

I would be stoked with Cerra at 5.
As I said before:

Look at the players that left this year due to partners wanting to return home:

Wilson - Partner got pregnant, so she wanted to leave
Leaver - Left primarily for money but partner was from vic who wanted to come back
Cameron - Partner wanted to come back to QLD
Ablett - Came back for family reasons but his partner hated GC
Weller - Returned to GC where his GF was from
Gibbs - Returned home, but his partner also wanted to return

The evidence speaks for itself: Heterosexual relationships are dangerous.
 

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I understand the caveats. But I'm still yet to hear a tangible upside to Andrew's game versus Hamish's, apart from the year of age difference and the fact that Andrew's combine results were outstanding (as compared to Hamish being in the same gene pool, but unable to test last year due to injury). It seems the established view is 'Andrew is better' - however, I can't help but feel that during Andrew's meteoric rise, their relative values have fallen out of sync. In September, Andrew "bolted", by all accounts, into top 10 contention. After his combine testing he bolted, yet again, to #1 calculations. At least with, say, the Swallows and Kolodjashnijs there was tangible, relatively objective strengths and differences - I'm just hunting for what people think those differences are here.

[edit: also Hamish missed 12 TAC games, which kind of renders the championships moot.]
You make some excellent points - add the fact that Hamish stands a few cms taller at 188cm.
I was disappointed we didn’t pick him up last year late.
 

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Prediction:

1- Rayner
2- LDU
3- Dow
4- Cerra
5- Brayshaw (I would rather Fogarty in this scenario)

Wishful thinking:

1- Brayshaw
2- LDU
3- Rayner
4- Cerra
5- Dow (I would be very happy with Fogarty here too)

Nightmare (considering the above mentioned)

1- Anyone
2- Cerra
3- Anyone
4- Anyone
5- Naughton
 

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At the members' meeting tonight Ross said that the best players in this draft are mids so that's what we 'll be taking at 2 and 5. Maybe consider a ruck at 62 or beyond.
The draft doesn't totally line up with our needs... But as much as we need a gun kpf, the game is won out of the midfield.

2 gun mids for the next decade and beyond, I'm not unhappy with that outcome - but in saying that, it's also possible that I'm happy with that outcome :)
 
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