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But but we needed a defender...
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Player Watch #28 Josh Gibcus
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No point risking injury in the VFL when the benefits of any conditioning cannot be transferred to the AFL.
This is not the case in the previous 23 weeks of the season.
I guess it depends what he can get out if it.
If there's a tactic or a skill the club wants him to work on, it's absolutely worth it.
Settle your hate boner for him. He's a real talent, plain and simple.
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He's good but he's been kissed on the wacka by the injury fairy.
Yeah and it's not like a lennon/cripps scenario because gibcus is still a pretty good player in his own right.
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But we picked for needs not best player available and you shouldn't do that in the first round.
And all the arguments from all the people saying he should've played in the VFL are what?
There isn't some magical spell that gives a player protection in the VFL.
If he played 5-6 weeks in the VFL, and then got injured in the AFL, that is quite literally bad luck.
Such a bizarre take, he's not playing his first Aussie Rules game of the season lol.
Gibcus was best available at pick #9 and was expected to be taken higher
NAS was a 60kg flanker nobody rated as a top 10 and Toce did well with that selection
Gibcus needs to be happy with what he has done this season and take 3 months off and rest relax and get excited to come back to pre season fresh and motivated. Nothing to gain but everything to lose playing him in the VFL now on.
What a load of absolute baloney. We were so desperate for tall key position players when we picked him and know for a fact the Aints would have taken him if we didn’t.
You’re a hindsight king with your view on his drafting. Yes, NAS has been great for the Aints but Gibcus was rated extremely highly in his draft, and will be a very good player imo.
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Ok point taken but in hindsight we were horribly wrong.
I don’t recall NWM being mentioned as a potential draftee for us. We probably had Hobbs or Amiss or Ward on our radar if Gibcus wasn’t available. I wouldn’t lose sleep over any of those players. Forwardsight might show Gibcus becomes the gun CHB we drafted.
Just needs a full pre-season and an event free 2026, and in 2027 he is a fully mature 50 gamer ready to really assert himself on the competition.
But if he is keen to play VFL, and he is in the best available team, he should be playing. The more footy he plays the better.
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My recollection was he was touted at the Suns pick (3rd open draft pick)
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Going back in the archives 4 years ago , nice detective work sherlock.
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Yeah and if the Suns took him then we likely would have ended up with Mac Andrew certainly not NWM
Hey I’m a big fan of history… thought you were too?
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I did say I don't know the players that well that time 4 years ago. Leek and Hobbs will be good players imo.
Look up my Tom Brown posts as well.
So you didn’t know the players very well but definitively NWM was the best player?
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We only wanted a defender. I don't think Gibcus will ever be worth $2 million a year.
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Plus at the time we desperately needed key position players and he was clearly the best option on both fronts
As far as picks go based on the info at the time and what we needed it was absolutely the correct call
Even after his 1st year before the injury roller coaster we were wrapped with how he was progressing
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