draft nominees/recycled players

[Croat tiger]

Draft nominees: Cain Ackland (Port Adelaide), Kris Barlow (Hawthorn), Callan Beasy (Carlton), Justin Blumfield (Richmond), Blake Campbell (Carlton), Trent Carroll (West Coast), Wade Champion (Port Adelaide), Shane Clayton (Kangaroos), James Condos (Western Bulldogs), Ben Cunningham (Fremantle), Brent Doswell (Fremantle), Greg Edgecumbe (Fremantle), Tim Fleming (Richmond), Rob Forster-Knight (Port Adelaide), Anthony Franchina (Carlton), James Gallagher (Adelaide), Mark Graham (Hawthorn), Daniel Haines (Fremantle), Chris Hall (Port Adelaide), Adam Houlihan (Richmond), Josh Houlihan (St Kilda), Darren Hulme (Carlton), Heath James (Sydney), Stephen Kenna (Carlton), Jon McCormick (Carlton), Mark McGough (Collingwood), James Meiklejohn (Sydney), Brett Moyle (St Kilda), Luke Mullins (Collingwood), Mark Porter (Kangaroos), David Spriggs (Geelong), Josh Thewlis (Sydney), Lachlan Veale (Western Bulldogs), Darren Walsh (Essendon), Luke Weller (Richmond), Patrick Wiggins (Western Bulldogs).

 

[Darth_Tiger]

isnt it amazing how many absolute hacks with no chance AT ALL of being drafted throw their names in the ring. dont think there would be too many i would be interested in. dont see mckees name there. guess he is waiting for the pre-season draft.

 

[madtiger2005]

If we are considering getting Graham, I don't know why we didn't just keep Fleming instead

 

[sante]

yeh i hope we dont go for Graham

 

[Tambo]

If we are considering getting Graham, I don't know why we didn't just keep Fleming instead

or even luke weller..... we delisted players like him because we dont wanna stop the likes of hartigan, roach, raines, moore, jackson etc from getting a game...... and then we have grahm training with us?! i really hope or pre-season draft and late national draft selections are used on young guns and not players like grahm. if they wanna try and get ONE back up ruckman i wouldnt mind so much. but to get someone who struggle to be in the 22 for a full season its not worth it. they may last one or 2 years, where we can select a 17,18,19 year old and have them for up to ten years.

 

[sante]

this is why we should look at Ackland (he is young)

 

[Darth_Tiger]

the idea is to recruit a couple of older experience players to help with the development. i would guess a ruckman and a key defender, that would be there for a couple of years to stop the young players bodies and confidence getting battered week in week out. we are all going to have to accept it, this is part of the long term plan and will happen. accept it.

 

[Tambo]

yer fair enough darth..... i just get confused as to why we would delist weller and flemming to get another 2 players that are no better than them.... weller was barely given a chance.

 

[sante]

yeh well in that case go for Graham and Knobel

 

[Punt_Road_Roar]

the idea is to recruit a couple of older experience players to help with the development. i would guess a ruckman and a key defender, that would be there for a couple of years to stop the young players bodies and confidence getting battered week in week out. we are all going to have to accept it, this is part of the long term plan and will happen. accept it.

i agree Darth, we will have a tonne of kids taken this national draft not to mention also the ones we picked up last year.

It's a thing called team balance.

But hey if it fails, I'm sure Gaspar wont mind that there is someone else around who can take away some of the heat directed at him during the season.

 

[Darth_Tiger]

yer fair enough darth..... i just get confused as to why we would delist weller and flemming to get another 2 players that are no better than them.... weller was barely given a chance.

i understand your thinking but i think you are missing the point slightly. If weller had proven he could hold a key defensive position then maybe, but what they want is someone experienced who they know they can put back there and even if he wont last long or do a super job, they will do the job and not get blown out of the water. im not a fan of graham but he does the job. if they think he has a couple of years then fair enough. weller didnt show enough imo for us to know he could do it. fleming is a different case as the other player we are targeting is a ruck, and flemming was a midfielder. also graham can be put on a cheap one year contract so its cheaper than drafting a kid as well.

 

[Bentleigh]

Look like a pack of duds.

Whats Ackland like?

 

[Nbrown7]

You guys have to understand to trust every decision tW MAKES. He knows alot more than any of us. He said to my club 80 group that drafting grahem is for only one year and he will not be our key defender. A specific role that TW has designed. We should trust him with his decision to most probably draft grahem

 

[Bentleigh]

You guys have to understand to trust every decision tW MAKES. He knows alot more than any of us. He said to my club 80 group that drafting grahem is for only one year and he will not be our key defender. A specific role that TW has designed. We should trust him with his decision to most probably draft grahem

wtf is a club 80 group?

Id be happy if we signed someone on a 1 year contract.

 

[Tambo]

i wonder what grahm feels if we do select him....(one year contract) i spose he would give it all he has to prove he can play for more than one year! but i hope you darth are correct! tw is a coach i completely trust! he might not do everything the right way, but he is the best coach we can possibly have for the next 5 years...... my trust is on tw to do the best for the richmond footy club! and im sure he will!

 

[cairo tiger]

wallace is coach give him respect.
we have no backline and the duds that are there are going to be smashed,
play the kids sure but give them some guidance along the way.
lay of tw hes the future

 

[Tambo]

i dont kno much about grahm..... would he be a good role model at all? or would he be too interested bout geting his footy right?

cheers hf