Other than North and Sydney fans, does anybody know who either of these players are?
Threads like this are a waste of time at best.
Yet here you are.
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Other than North and Sydney fans, does anybody know who either of these players are?
Threads like this are a waste of time at best.
And then Richmond tried to give Martin away but no one would trade for him.When it comes to all-time draft blunders, Melbourne don't get the credit they deserve for the 2009 catastrophe.
1. Melbourne: Tom Scully... a mediocre mercenary who took the big coin on offer from the Giants after just 2 years at Dees-land
2. Melbourne: Jack Trengove... played 86 games, but never reached his full potential due to a nagging foot injury
3. Richmond: Dustin Martin... one of the greatest players of the modern era who has led the Tigers to 3 flags
Scully and Trengove were better than timid Tambling... but fancy having 2 chances to pick Dusty and not taking them?
And then Richmond tried to give Martin away but no one would trade for him.
It was just dumb, stupid luck that he is still a tigers player.
Richmond's talent identification has never been great.
Plus who knows how Martin would have turned out if Melbourne picked him.And then Richmond tried to give Martin away but no one would trade for him.
It was just dumb, stupid luck that he is still a tigers player.
Richmond's talent identification has never been great.
Plus who knows how Martin would have turned out if Melbourne picked him.
Given their poor culture at the time, he might have gone completely off the rails and ended up as an answer to a "Greatest wasted talent" question.
You’re right nick blakey (born into an afl family), for example, wouldn’t be playing if it wasn’t for the academy
Such a dumb thread.
Let's just wait three years.
At this stage nobody has a clue
Regardless of who will be better long term I always felt from afar that pick never made any sense, at least to me.
NM surely would have known they struggle in 2021. Which meant they would have had a high pick in 2021 draft. My understanding was 2021 was all midfielders even a year in advance.
Therefore you have LDU, Thomas, Simpkin, Powell ( who looks a player) and then with a mature body of Cunnington it seemed more practical to take a tall McDonald or DGB and then use the 2021 draft on another top line mid. Even if not Horne Francis there was Ward, Callahan, Hobbs etc so there were always going to be options.
But to be fair here the Roos do have Larkey and McKay so they don’t have no youth at the posts but adding McDonald or DGB at the expense of Phillips made a lot more sense at lest to m.
Midfielders are a dime a dozen. If you're ******* up finding a star mid with an early pick you are doing it wrong. They are the safest and easiest talents to spot. Most quality mids will be up and going dominating the comp by year 3.
SA Lad Lemmey is tracking as the best Key Forward at the top end of the draft, so keep an eye out.If we pick a mid this year though I'll be a cranky man. Need a KD, Weitering/Moore type. I don't care if they're projected to be pick 5-6 and we take them 1, we can't continue to play Walker, Corr and Ziebell as our depth talls.
Laird, Keays, Lyons, Adams, Parish, Guthrie, Miller, T.Mitchell (good numbers but in and out of the side, used as sub etc), Viney, Simpkin, Prestia, Steele, Mills, Yeo...all took time, or were hidden at half back. Maybe not Oliver, Bont tier, but they are all quality mids.
Even now, we've got the likes of Bailey, M.Kennedy, Caldwell, Brodie, Parfitt, Sinclair - I'd even add Hewett as an excellent defensive mid - taking big steps as mids well past their 3rd years. Hard to see where their careers end up individually but they're all establishing themselves as bona fide centre square mids.
Petracca and Dusty were much better than the above early on but still copped huge amounts of criticism for their endurance and drifting in and out of games.
The picks in the teens at this stage seem to have a lot of tall talent around.If we pick a mid this year though I'll be a cranky man. Need a KD, Weitering/Moore type. I don't care if they're projected to be pick 5-6 and we take them 1, we can't continue to play Walker, Corr and Ziebell as our depth talls.
Having Cunnington back playing would suffice.The picks in the teens at this stage seem to have a lot of tall talent around.
You guys would have a lot of cap space too (esp. if Polec is delisted). There's always the possibility you downgrade your first rounder for a ready made player then take a KPD with your downgraded first round pick.
I do think an older 'leader' would help the kids develop too. Hodge was great for Brissie's kids. Would cost 4/5ths of SFA too - Mitch Wallis, JPK, etc
So North took Will Phillips?
Three generational forwards in the top four apparently.Couldn't believe they didn't take MacDonald at the time. Still can't believe it now.
MacDonald is a generational key forward in the making. Philips is a very good mid. It's clearly a drafting error.
Mate, seriously, my club has drafted horrendously in the past and I've copped it. This was a drafting error. They picked the wrong guy. It happens.
I hate this thread but Logan was very, very good in a beaten side tonight.