Strategy 2022 Planning Thread

[Seymour Skinner]

 

[Maybe Tomorrow]

Gawn is nothing special in the ruck, he does his best work behind the ball and has improved his impact as a forward this year. Playing Jackson in the ruck more allows Gawn to play spare behind and roam wherever he wants. Jackson is a ******* beast too

Come on man, he is an excellent ruck with a some gun mid's to tap it too.

 

[ImissFrosty]

Come on man, he is an excellent ruck with a some gun mid's to tap it too.

his tap work has been excruciating ask any dees supporter. was good last week though, some of his best ruckwork ever.

 

[Pocket Aces]

"breakout"

If he goes 90+ you can have my socks.

 

[5ammy]

Gawn & Grundy combo gonna be a POD next year... I like it

 

[Silky23]

his tap work has been excruciating ask any dees supporter. was good last week though, some of his best ruckwork ever.

Most Melbourne supporters do not agree with you Frost man …… even all the metrics and analytics disagree with you …. what shit you smoking at boys band camp

 

[THECHIEFTON]

Watching Darcy and Nic Nat get KotD points for bugger all has me wanting to start them next year. What could go wrong! I'll pick Marshall if he has DPP as cover.

 

[rocker_oz33]

Watching Darcy and Nic Nat get KotD points for bugger all has me wanting to start them next year. What could go wrong! I'll pick Marshall if he has DPP as cover.

Darcy a beast.
I can see him eating out a whole KFC....

Inj prone beast tho.

 

[Soggy2112]

Darcy a beast.
I can see him eating out a whole KFC....

Inj prone beast tho.

Did prove this season that he’s able to play through injury and still perform really well though.

 

[BuckleysBrigade]

Freo supporters, Will Valente ever get a crack?

GnR next year IMO - will be plenty of promising rookies with a year or two in the system (Hollands, Sharp, various Crows, McInnes, Wehr, Downie, Kelly, Valente)

 

[WaynesWorld19]

 

[Maybe Tomorrow]

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Yet nuffies still think he's KOTD.

 

[pincrusher]

Freo supporters, Will Valente ever get a crack?

GnR next year IMO - will be plenty of promising rookies with a year or two in the system (Hollands, Sharp, various Crows, McInnes, Wehr, Downie, Kelly, Valente)

Freo supporters might know more, but from memory a couple of months ago he's taken leave from the club for personal reasons. Dunno if he's back in the fold or not.

 

[pincrusher]

For all the talk about rucks, nobody has mentioned Tom de Koning

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Tom De Koning

Age

26

Ht

201cm

Wt

102kg

Pos.

Ruck

Career

Season

Last 5

D

8.0

2star

K

3.0

1star

HB

5.0

4star

CL

0.5

2star

HO

1.5

4star

No current season stats available

D

8.0

2star

K

3.0

1star

HB

5.0

4star

CL

0.5

3star

HO

1.5

5star

. Averaged 68 in his last 7 games, including an injury affected 18. 4/7 of those games were 80+. Perfect age for a breakout. Not saying I'm picking him, but will be watching closely in the PS. Priced at 59.8. Dunno if he would have played enough forward early on to get DPP.

 

[Seymour Skinner]

Yet nuffies still think he's KOTD.

Think the issue is what CD interpret as a tackle now.

Steele still the best tackler hands down, but CD award some shocking stats, he was definitely gifted some.

I owned him and loved it, but not so much when Touk would get the same service haha.

 

[Maybe Tomorrow]

Think the issue is what CD interpret as a tackle now.

Steele still the best tackler hands down, but CD award some shocking stats, he was definitely gifted some.

I owned him and loved it, but not so much when Touk would get the same service haha.

How could they not love him.....

 

[Ingy]

Jy Caldwell named for Essendon on Sunday.

Free look at him for next year.

Assume he'll be priced at 70 with a discount, if's he's fwd/mid again then he's worth a good look I reckon.

Will be watching with interest

 

[Andrew Birch]

For all the talk about rucks, nobody has mentioned Tom de Koning. Averaged 68 in his last 7 games, including an injury affected 18. 4/7 of those games were 80+. Perfect age for a breakout. Not saying I'm picking him, but will be watching closely in the PS. Priced at 59.8. Dunno if he would have played enough forward early on to get DPP.

He probably won't be solo rucking when Pitto comes back. Can't see him averaging 70+ in a R/F role.

 

[WaynesWorld19]

He probably won't be solo rucking when Pitto comes back. Can't see him averaging 70+ in a R/F role.

The improvement in Draper this year has been dramatic ....3 tons this year, but highly variable scoring

Whats impressed is his leap is better, jumped over Grundy in R23 .....but importantly has started to take marks

This was the knock on McInerny ....above ave tap ruckman, but hard hands ......he's also improved in his marking
10 point jump in McInerny's ave this year ....Draper's way better, and can see a 90+ ave next year

 

[Silky23]

The improvement in Draper this year has been dramatic ....3 tons this year, but highly variable scoring

Whats impressed is his leap is better, jumped over Grundy in R23 .....but importantly has started to take marks

This was the knock on McInerny ....above ave tap ruckman, but hard hands ......he's also improved in his marking
10 point jump in McInerny's ave this year ....Draper's way better, and can see a 90+ ave next year

Not sure if the Draper chatter is correct here mate, based on 20% reduction in game time he is statistically about the same as he was last year, which isn’t a good thing. (8.3 touches, 1.9 marks, 18.5 HO’s > 9.4 touches, 2.2 marks and 22.6 touches)

He had that one brilliant game against Hawks with the intercept marking but overall I thought he didn’t show much improvement, and SC scoring wise he jumped from 70 to 72.

He still battled against the good rucks (Lycett 23, Gawn 55, Goldy 64, Mummy 61, Grundy 42). Against lesser rucks his average was 90.
Will depend on his draw but I wouldn’t think his jump next year would be anything significant, maybe 85-90 but the year after would be where I think he makes the big jump.

 

[WaynesWorld19]

Not sure if the Draper chatter is correct here mate, based on 20% reduction in game time he is statistically about the same as he was last year, which isn’t a good thing.

He had that one brilliant game against Hawks with the intercept marking but overall I thought he didn’t show much improvement, and SC scoring wise he jumped from 70 to 72.

He still battled against the good rucks (Lycett 23, Gawn 55, Goldy 64, Mummy 61, Grundy 42). Against lesser rucks his average was 90.
Will depend on his draw but I wouldn’t think his jump next year would be anything significant, maybe 85-90 but the year after would be where I think he makes the big jump.

I'll have Draper on my watch list .....who knows at this stage, how he develops

Will watch this weekend with keen interest

 

[Silky23]

I'll have Draper on my watch list .....who knows at this stage, how he develops

Will watch this weekend with keen interest

Yeah for sure mate, looking at his body, he is a beast. 205cm and huge.
Think he needs to do more around the ground to be in that ‘pick me’ category and also needs to win more HO’s but as he’s still raw can probably expect huge variance still.

 

[WaynesWorld19]

Yeah for sure mate, looking at his body, he is a beast. 205cm and huge.
Think he needs to do more around the ground to be in that ‘pick me’ category and also needs to win more HO’s but as he’s still raw can probably expect huge variance still.

Don't disagree with the scoring variance .....that's his challenge, to be consistent and take more marks

 

[rocker_oz33]

Jy Caldwell named for Essendon on Sunday.

Free look at him for next year.

Assume he'll be priced at 70 with a discount, if's he's fwd/mid again then he's worth a good look I reckon.

Will be watching with interest

He looked good vs the Cats in the praccy match before round one.

Cox was hopeless.
Trolling Kent.

 

[Maybe Tomorrow]

Not sure if the Draper chatter is correct here mate, based on 20% reduction in game time he is statistically about the same as he was last year, which isn’t a good thing. (8.3 touches, 1.9 marks, 18.5 HO’s > 9.4 touches, 2.2 marks and 22.6 touches)

He had that one brilliant game against Hawks with the intercept marking but overall I thought he didn’t show much improvement, and SC scoring wise he jumped from 70 to 72.

He still battled against the good rucks (Lycett 23, Gawn 55, Goldy 64, Mummy 61, Grundy 42). Against lesser rucks his average was 90.
Will depend on his draw but I wouldn’t think his jump next year would be anything significant, maybe 85-90 but the year after would be where I think he makes the big jump.

Best thing about Draper is watching whether the ball will hit his boot or shin when he drops it

 

[turtles]

Is Daicos expected to be on the same level Walsh and Rowell were in first season?