scottydeewah said:
I think we should look to trade Haynes for another player. See he doesnt fit into our structure. Maybe a player who hasnt gone well at another club or has fallen out of favour. Basically what I am saying is a mature age player is probably about as big a risk as pick 50 so why not give it a go.
Whilst I dont disagree with Turbocat I think that as long as they are picking up 16-17 year old kids to draft there is still guess work. For example you have a player who is 17 and blitzing in the TAC cup, you draft him and he doesnt improve all that much, then you have another kid who is a bit lazy and taking life easy, you draft them and after some setbacks decided at 20 that they are going to knuckle down. How can you predict something like that?
Cant disagree with you either Scotty. Every year there kids that dont get drafted that might in two years time be well worth a place on the list.The best player I have ever seen conforms to the that mould although it was more than a couple years for him.Some guys just arnt ready to get serious untill the are 20 something
The advantage of the Nat Draft is the funnelling that it does to the talent,presenting them to all clubs under the same assessment criteria. Because of this I'd say most clubs would think they could get one player from an R1 pick and another from R2 and R3. Then the real value longshots the Rookies give more kids a chance over a longer period.
After all this do they miss players, yes. The players that miss, disperse and play at different levels all over the place. If one had the capacity to intensly scope this group of players Id think you would find a player nearly every year but of course it would be a very high cost for that player, its probably an approach for a club like Collingwood to look at. The advantage we had with Egan was he was here playing with us, and we knew his qualities as person/player. Id like to see all clubs allowed to have a tie to an other group of players to complement their Rookies. For us to get Egan , we had to risk him to all the other clubs in the draft wereas we get dibs on our rookies.
The main board has tossed up the rumour that we are looking at Teague at Carlton.To me he would be handy as a ready made option to fill Sando , 25years old,187 and 90kg,CFC B&F. If we could get him for R3 or for Haynes, I think it would be a win/win and Id bet on him as much as any R3 pick this year.