Pick 1 Essendon
Will Brodie 189cm 82kg Murray Bushrangers
Brodie has many things the bombers need.
Ball winning, inside/ outside midfielder who will provide lots of drive and grunt.
Natural leader and very solid citizen who is a country boy who is acclimatised to the city by boarding at Scotch.
His kicking is solid without being spectacular. His speed average, endurance above average. He has a nice change of direction. He is a tall midfielder who is a marking threat.
Would play round one and be hard to dislodge from the side.
Rationale
Brodie in front of sps and mccluggage. The other two blokes are more talented but Brodie is very good and safer than a Swiss bank. We were smashed by Brisbane in the middle and need more good soldiers. Of the returning players Heppell helps a lot, Myers is injury prone but useful, Watson was declining and may not return, Hocking injury prone and seen best days and howlett is average at best.
However a core of a midfield is developing. Heppell, Merrett, parish, zaharakis and Brodie should be around in three years time when we are challenging to be a top six side. Second pick is likely to be a midfielder again as I don't rate a lot of this years prospects. I am also comfortable that if Hurley stays we can play hooker as a swingman and play tall utilities such as Langford, laverde, Francis and redman forward with Joe Daniher. There are some exciting talls in next years draft.