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Crucial draft day for Dockers
3:55 PM Fri 23 November, 2007 | Back
Brought to you by Tim Clarke,
AAP
News
FREMANTLE will be looking to secure their future - and repair their drafting reputation - when they go young and local in Saturday's NAB AFL Draft.
Having traded away early picks in recent years to bring in Chris Tarrant, Dean Solomon, Josh Carr and Heath Black, the youngsters the Dockers have chosen have fared nowhere near as well as the experienced recruits.
[There's a stuff up - remind me which early picks we traded for Solomon and Black??? it's carp reporting like this that keeps perpetuating the myth...
]
Last season's disappointments led to the delistings of Clayton Collard and Calib Mourish, less than 12 months after selecting them, while the club's first-round selection from 2003, Ryley Dunn, was also dumped.
That left just four of the last nine players chosen in the national draft on the Dockers' list.
So Chris Bond, Fremantle's new general manager of list development, knows he has a vital role to play at his new club, starting with picks seven, 24 and 40 on Saturday.
"History suggests that players in the top 40 can go on and have long and successful careers," Bond told Southern Cross radio.
"Overall we are going to have six picks in the draft and I think that is really positive from our point of view.
"It is at a stage where we did not need to trade, and there is no doubt over the next three years the draft picks that we bring in are going to be vital to our success.
"It is not an exact science and there is no doubt that, if you get this part right, it is going to be really important for the sustainable success of your club.
"But realistically we are going to bring a lot of young talent into this football club."
With a crop of WA talent waiting to be picked, the Dockers have said they will be taking some of it, at least with their first pick.
While midfielder Chris Masten is heavily tipped to go to West Coast with pick three, fellow East Fremantle young gun Rhys Palmer and Perth defender David Myers loom as the Dockers' likely first targets.
And Bond admitted he would be surprised if one of them did not find himself in purple come Saturday lunchtime.
"They are definitely under serious consideration because they are all quality players, but in the end you are never really sure," Bond said.
"I'd be surprised if we did not end up with one of those players."
The former Western Bulldogs assistant also gave the strongest possible hint former Essendon big man Kepler Bradley could also be handed an AFL lifeline after training with the Dockers in pre-season.
"He has been training with us, and we have been really impressed with the way he has gone about it," Bond said.
"We are going to see how it unfolds, but there is no doubt if it all goes to plan we are hoping he would be on our list come Saturday."
[Lach will be rapt!
]
Young and local - sounds like a decent plan.
Crucial draft day for Dockers
3:55 PM Fri 23 November, 2007 | Back
Brought to you by Tim Clarke,
AAP
News
FREMANTLE will be looking to secure their future - and repair their drafting reputation - when they go young and local in Saturday's NAB AFL Draft.
Having traded away early picks in recent years to bring in Chris Tarrant, Dean Solomon, Josh Carr and Heath Black, the youngsters the Dockers have chosen have fared nowhere near as well as the experienced recruits.
[There's a stuff up - remind me which early picks we traded for Solomon and Black??? it's carp reporting like this that keeps perpetuating the myth...
]Last season's disappointments led to the delistings of Clayton Collard and Calib Mourish, less than 12 months after selecting them, while the club's first-round selection from 2003, Ryley Dunn, was also dumped.
That left just four of the last nine players chosen in the national draft on the Dockers' list.
So Chris Bond, Fremantle's new general manager of list development, knows he has a vital role to play at his new club, starting with picks seven, 24 and 40 on Saturday.
"History suggests that players in the top 40 can go on and have long and successful careers," Bond told Southern Cross radio.
"Overall we are going to have six picks in the draft and I think that is really positive from our point of view.
"It is at a stage where we did not need to trade, and there is no doubt over the next three years the draft picks that we bring in are going to be vital to our success.
"It is not an exact science and there is no doubt that, if you get this part right, it is going to be really important for the sustainable success of your club.
"But realistically we are going to bring a lot of young talent into this football club."
With a crop of WA talent waiting to be picked, the Dockers have said they will be taking some of it, at least with their first pick.
While midfielder Chris Masten is heavily tipped to go to West Coast with pick three, fellow East Fremantle young gun Rhys Palmer and Perth defender David Myers loom as the Dockers' likely first targets.
And Bond admitted he would be surprised if one of them did not find himself in purple come Saturday lunchtime.
"They are definitely under serious consideration because they are all quality players, but in the end you are never really sure," Bond said.
"I'd be surprised if we did not end up with one of those players."
The former Western Bulldogs assistant also gave the strongest possible hint former Essendon big man Kepler Bradley could also be handed an AFL lifeline after training with the Dockers in pre-season.
"He has been training with us, and we have been really impressed with the way he has gone about it," Bond said.
"We are going to see how it unfolds, but there is no doubt if it all goes to plan we are hoping he would be on our list come Saturday."
[Lach will be rapt!
]Young and local - sounds like a decent plan.
