Collingwood Draft Discussion

[bomberandy]

******** and Goldsack in the same team. At least they'll give Rex something 2 smile about

 

[FIGJAM]

It's funny how midfielders win premierships....some times.. but then when it suits peoples arguments KPP win premierships.

Some times it's defenses win premierships.

I'm fairly sure it's talent that wins premierships!

 

[FIGJAM]

******** and Goldsack in the same team. At least they'll give Rex something 2 smile about

He'd like to take them both down an alley way and expose them!

 

[recon]

I think Brown will be a good pick up would have preferred Armitage at 8, but we will just have to wait and see.

 

[doofdoof]

Thomas has to bulk up considerably as well I don't think we're worried about him losing pace.

True, but Daisy is not 6 foot 4 inches tall.

 

[Murray]

True, but Daisy is not 6 foot 4 inches tall.

You're observant too

 

[Sanguinarius]

Reid will be a good get guys. was keen on him for the Crows.

196cm, with a 2.95(?) 20m sprint time. Give him a year in the gym and this guy will be a gem.

Brown on the otherhand is already a monster.... a damn quick monster....

 

[RetiredWombat]

Freud would have a field day with Collingwood selections.
Now there is Cox, Johnson, ******** & Goldsack in the same team.

 

[Rave Slave]

If you were ever gonna stock up on talls I think this year was the year to do it. Quality picks in Brown and Reid (I heart Reid).

 

[doofdoof]

You're observant too

I assume you were suggesting as well as being insightful.

 

[Jabso]

D/ck inside to Brown, it comes out to Cox, spills it to Goldsack.

 

[Bay Pie]

If we can draft Matthew Ball in the PSD we'll have a D1ck, Sack and Ball.

The full set. Are there any Snatches or Burgers in the PSD?

As Mick as said Daisy and Pendles won't have a huge impact until 2009. All these guys would have filled out by then and we can draft mids next year.

This years draft was very strong in the KPPs.

 

[powerpies]

Man D*ck is light on weight, listed as 68 kgs 181cm

brad go dicky is listed as 184cm 78kg. good size who kicks like maurice rioli .

 

[RetiredWombat]

brad go dicky is listed as 184cm 78kg. good size who kicks like maurice rioli .

D/ck seems to be getting bigger as we speak !

 

[parrot]

I always find Collingwoods early draft selections hugely entertaining. This year was no exception. The Pies have a slow aging midfield. Solution : pick 2 talls with the first 2 draft choices.

 

[dipper86]

I always find Collingwoods early draft selections hugely entertaining. This year was no exception. The Pies have a slow aging midfield. Solution : pick 2 talls with the first 2 draft choices.

What do you call Rocca, Wakelin and Presti!!!!! spring chickens??

 

[stui magpie]

p1ss off Polly.

parrott is a great tag for you because parrots repeat words mindlessly that others have taught them thru repitition.

remind me, which team won the last 2 wooden spoons and is going for the threepeat???

 

[FIGJAM]

I always find Collingwoods early draft selections hugely entertaining. This year was no exception. The Pies have a slow aging midfield. Solution : pick 2 talls with the first 2 draft choices.

It was three talls with the first three picks.

As Judkins said, we played to our maximum potential last season, so we're needing to rebuild in many areas.

Wakes has one year left and Clemo, Rocca and Presti have a few decent years left barring injury, but have no standout immediate replacements (well, maybe Anthony & Travis Cloke). We traded away Tarrant.

What we have done and are doing, is not building for immediate success. We can target runners next year and in the mean time, Brown can bulk up some more, Ried (youngest player in draft) can bulk up and learn the game and Dawes can get over his knee reco and should be ready for some senior time in 2008.

Not even us supporters could pick our strategy. Having seen it play out, it is a good move IMO to think long term, especially with the quality of the talls on the table.

 

[parrot]

It was three talls with the first three picks.

As Judkins said, we played to our maximum potential last season, so we're needing to rebuild in many areas.

Wakes has one year left and Clemo, Rocca and Presti have a few decent years left barring injury, but have no standout immediate replacements (well, maybe Anthony & Travis Cloke). We traded away Tarrant.

What we have done and are doing, is not building for immediate success. We can target runners next year and in the mean time, Brown can bulk up some more, Ried (youngest player in draft) can bulk up and learn the game and Dawes can get over his knee reco and should be ready for some senior time in 2008.

Not even us supporters could pick our strategy. Having seen it play out, it is a good move IMO to think long term, especially with the quality of the talls on the table.

I agree with much of that. I guess we have to place a bit of faith in our recruiters, but perhaps midfield is the Pies biggest problem. Pendlebury was your best pick last year by a long way , and he'll be a very good player. I won't comment on Thomas - because I'll get too many people upset. I'll just say that he's not a midfielder, unlike Pendlebury. Overlooking Ellis, Josh Kennedy and Dowler was a very very big call. What the Pies did do right, was offload a heap of duds. Still possible to unearth talent with latter draft picks.

 

[loki04]

After doing a bit more research and looking at it from a different veiw I think we have picked quite well (although I wasn't happy earlier) but still think we need a Ruck hopefully we use PSD10 on that 209cm ruck from WA, as Keating is too old and injury plagued and Bryan simply isnt big enough to have a dominant impact in the ruck.

 

[Lockyer24]

The talls this year aren't duds like last year (coughJosh Kennedycough)

 

[Pykie]

Nathan Brown's highlight video on the C'wood website looks amazing! congrats.

Some of those packmarks are huge! I see glimpses of the second coming of the king in that vision! Put him straight to CHF, Rocca at FF, hes a monster, at 90kg's he's easily big enough to play next year.

http://bigpondguide.com/23886v_1_5_CTV+-+Nathan+Brown+highlights

 

[Wayne91]

After watching brown's marking in the video he looks like he has a bit of chadley cornes about him.

 

[Bay Pie]

It was three talls with the first three picks.

As Judkins said, we played to our maximum potential last season, so we're needing to rebuild in many areas.

Wakes has one year left and Clemo, Rocca and Presti have a few decent years left barring injury, but have no standout immediate replacements (well, maybe Anthony & Travis Cloke). We traded away Tarrant.

What we have done and are doing, is not building for immediate success. We can target runners next year and in the mean time, Brown can bulk up some more, Ried (youngest player in draft) can bulk up and learn the game and Dawes can get over his knee reco and should be ready for some senior time in 2008.

Not even us supporters could pick our strategy. Having seen it play out, it is a good move IMO to think long term, especially with the quality of the talls on the table.

4 words come to mind= Nail on the head

Dawes won't get bashed around next year and will be huge after a year in the Lexus centre.

Ryan Cook may turn out to be very good. A bottom aged player last year and could have gone high this year much like Brisbanes comments aroung young Sheldon.

 

[who wood_collingwood]

I think we have done fantastic. With the new kids like Daisy, Pendles and Medhurst working with Leon and Didak in the middle. We have picked up some pretty good KKP's.

Well done pies!