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5"8 at age 21You don't generally stop growing til your 25, so very possible.
Except if you're me. 6 foot at age 13 and never grew another cm
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5"8 at age 21You don't generally stop growing til your 25, so very possible.
Except if you're me. 6 foot at age 13 and never grew another cm
Looks to be a similar size to Zac Butters, not so much tonight, but he generally go's alright.I can’t be the only one who is a little concerned about his stature. He looks a bull but he’s gunna be getting outsized every week.
If we picked up McDonald, you'd be in awe of him, and you'd be quite happy we passed on Phillips.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder is the best way to describe this forum.
5"6 at 14.5"8 at age 21
He's not getting beaten by anyone in the contest once he's fit and ready, I don't care how outsized he is.
You're right, but it's all a question of mid field balance. Lachie Neale, Dion Prestia, Matt Rowell - they're all in the Philiips athletic template, 175-180, 75kg to 85kg. A brilliant footballer in that category will be a brilliant footballer, and you can always dream for what I would call an artistic ball player, someone who can make the ball talk with their incisive ball skills (whether by hand or foot). I think Phillips has that, so it will be a question of his durability (injury prevention) and tank - and, what a bonus, joy, oh joy, I also think Powell has that artistic ability, which should make an outstanding partnership.
So a couple of them is great, but really competitive midfields have what Nick Riewoldt -borrowing from soccer - is calling a striker, the power goal scorer. Riewoldt is making the analogy between a soccer #9 and the AFL power midfielder, the explosive type in w the 188 - 190 cm and 85 - 95kg range. This is the Dangerfield, Fyffe, Martin and above all now, Bontempelli cohort.
The closest we have to that at the minute is LDU (188 and currently 85kg), which makes his progress in the next two years absolutely critical - if he turns into an explosive midfielder, we'll be cooking. In the reverse, if he got badly hurt, or has a form slump, what are the options? Not many, which makes the 2021 draft is still a midfield priority, with a bias to the type who might fit the power model. Get two of them, with ball users like Phillips and Powell, and we'll have KPP players queuing up to join
Was going to say this.You're right, but it's all a question of mid field balance. Lachie Neale, Dion Prestia, Matt Rowell - they're all in the Philiips athletic template, 175-180, 75kg to 85kg. A brilliant footballer in that category will be a brilliant footballer, and you can always dream for what I would call an artistic ball player, someone who can make the ball talk with their incisive ball skills (whether by hand or foot). I think Phillips has that, so it will be a question of his durability (injury prevention) and tank - and, what a bonus, joy, oh joy, I also think Powell has that artistic ability, which should make an outstanding partnership.
So a couple of them is great, but really competitive midfields have what Nick Riewoldt -borrowing from soccer - is calling a striker, the power goal scorer. Riewoldt is making the analogy between a soccer #9 and the AFL power midfielder, the explosive type in w the 188 - 190 cm and 85 - 95kg range. This is the Dangerfield, Fyffe, Martin and above all now, Bontempelli cohort.
The closest we have to that at the minute is LDU (188 and currently 85kg), which makes his progress in the next two years absolutely critical - if he turns into an explosive midfielder, we'll be cooking. In the reverse, if he got badly hurt, or has a form slump, what are the options? Not many, which makes the 2021 draft is still a midfield priority, with a bias to the type who might fit the power model. Get two of them, with ball users like Phillips and Powell, and we'll have KPP players queuing up to join
5'6 at 155"8 at age 21
That's probably a fair call, Arthur.
5"8 at age 21
My brother is 6”0 at 15, both my parents are short ://
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How tall's the milkman..?
If he was it would be premature.If we picked up McDonald, you'd be in awe of him, and you'd be quite happy we passed on Phillips.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder is the best way to describe this forum.
I'd look down on you for such a meanspirited comment, but I'm too short.Wow, didn't know I was posting alongside so many pathetic shortarses!
Look...it's not the size, it's how you use it.Wow, didn't know I was posting alongside so many pathetic shortarses!
No, with the way we have played, he would be goalless through 3 games and we would be calling him a spud, and another top pick wasted on a key position playerIf we picked up McDonald, you'd be in awe of him, and you'd be quite happy we passed on Phillips.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder is the best way to describe this forum.
If we picked up McDonald, you'd be in awe of him, and you'd be quite happy we passed on Phillips.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder is the best way to describe this forum.
Only people who are little say this..Look...it's not the size, it's how you use it.
Love the kid already. Who gives a **** about Logan. The only McDonald I care about is getting Lukey backYou misunderstand the criticism of our choosing of Phillips. He may be a good future player - let's hope so. But as you can see we need a marking forward much more than another midfielder, especially as we drafted 2 others. Next year is a midfield draft, and we can get the best. But we gave up McDonald for an untried speculative midfield pick.
The bad decisions multiplied: get rid of Ben Brown for no proper reason; think Comben will be anywhere close; and then go a small midfielder with pick 3! Last, you don't draft at 3 for leadership, whatever that means.
Love the kid already. Who gives a **** about Logan. The only McDonald I care about is getting Lukey back
Wow, didn't know I was posting alongside so many pathetic shortarses!
Speculative because he didn't play at under18s. McDonald did. And given the midfielders draft this year it was ill-considered. I don't know how you can deny either of those points. Not to mention we need a key position forward more than a midfielder.The point is, you can't have both. Teams don't give away top 10 picks, so all the talk about "trading up" in the draft is hollow.
So, we chose one and it's farcical to call that choice "speculative". It was well considered and we now wait and see how it turns out. Like many, I'm confident it was the correct choice.