Lachlan Hunter

[doggiesin08]

Yes I could have just bumped another thread somewhere but doesn't hurt.

Just for anyone who doesn't read the Herald Sun or notice it in today's paper...Lachlan Hunter, who is eligible in a few years as a father/son selection, made his TAC Cup debut at 15 years old and kicked the winning goal as the Western Jets won 99-95 having trailed at every break.

Wasn't listed in the bests, and no stats are up as yet but will try to check out in a couple of days.

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[cecil]

as in under 16's TAC cup?

 

[DmSpeed]

Did Kingsley get on the job early or are we talking about somebody else?

 

[WWWombat]

He's Mark Hunter's son.

 

[VogonProsthetnic]

By my reckoning Geelong got 1/3 of a premiership team via the F/S rule. Hopefully we can do the same.

 

[Greystache]

as in under 16's TAC cup?

No, under 18's. He's 3 years younger than the top age group.

He also played a game back at Willi Colts in WRFL under 16's a couple of weeks back and was taken off the ground at 3/4 time with 13 goals to his name.

 

[Dogs Rule]

No, under 18's. He's 3 years younger than the top age group.

He also played a game back at Willi Colts in WRFL under 16's a couple of weeks back and was taken off the ground at 3/4 time with 13 goals to his name.[/QUOTE]

Not good enough.

Seriously, well done to the kid. Hope he joins the younger Libba and Wally at Whitten Oval in a few years.

 

[Chadley]

just hope hes not as bad as Mark Hunters tips

 

[adam10]

No, under 18's. He's 3 years younger than the top age group.

He also played a game back at Willi Colts in WRFL under 16's a couple of weeks back and was taken off the ground at 3/4 time with 13 goals to his name.[/QUOTE]

Not good enough.

Seriously, well done to the kid. Hope he joins the younger Libba and Wally at Whitten Oval in a few years.

Played agasint him that day, he vsed the worst possible team in 16a's level ever, is a gun but.

 

[cecil]

No, under 18's. He's 3 years younger than the top age group.

He also played a game back at Willi Colts in WRFL under 16's a couple of weeks back and was taken off the ground at 3/4 time with 13 goals to his name.

Thats incredible!
Mark him in for a first rounder now

 

[Unnamed1]

Bump.

This kid can really hold the willow, check out his record for the Willi CYMS juniors: http://www.vtca.asn.au/showrvconten...c=/cricket/reports/player.asp&loc1/player.asp

It'll be interesting to watch him grow (hopefully upwards) this year.

 

[Butane]

Thats incredible!
Mark him in for a first rounder now

Pipe down Mrs Panos

 

[Igloo]

It'd be great if no one bids for him, and we can take him with our last pick.

One can dream.

 

[Dogs_r_barking]

It'd be great if no one bids for him, and we can take him with our last pick.

One can dream.

We seem to always get stitched up with our F/S picks, makes me so annoyed when you look across to Geelong.

 

[StringyDog]

We seem to always get stitched up with our F/S picks, makes me so annoyed when you look across to Geelong.

I wouldn't call it stitched up we got a top 5 pick (cordy) for late first rounder, top 10 pick (wallis) for late first rounder and top 15-20 pick (libba) who looks more like top 10 pick for late second rounder and will get hunter who is likely late first round pick for second. We have been lucky to get good talent players for low cost at a time when we needed them fro being at top end of ladder and compromised drafts.

 

[100action]

I wouldn't call it stitched up we got a top 5 pick (cordy) for late first rounder, top 10 pick (wallis) for late first rounder and top 15-20 pick (libba) who looks more like top 10 pick for late second rounder and will get hunter who is likely late first round pick for second. We have been lucky to get good talent players for low cost at a time when we needed them fro being at top end of ladder and compromised drafts.

hunter is reported to be a 2nd round - 3rd round selection.

 

[TempleKelvington]

if Hunter is really good you have to grab him. Depending on where we end up this year we could have a couple of picks inside the top 10.....is Hunter worth that?

We need to put some real doubt in the minds of the other clubs so they don't play games with us. If the kids at the picks we have are better, then we take them.....simple.

 

[staphy]

We seem to always get stitched up with our F/S picks, makes me so annoyed when you look across to Geelong.

I wouldn't call it stitched up we got a top 5 pick (cordy) for late first rounder, top 10 pick (wallis) for late first rounder and top 15-20 pick (libba) who looks more like top 10 pick for late second rounder and will get hunter who is likely late first round pick for second. We have been lucky to get good talent players for low cost at a time when we needed them fro being at top end of ladder and compromised drafts.

We did get shafted when you look at Geelong, before the rule change they picked up F/S with 3rd or 4th round picks.

Under the new rules we forced to nominate our next pick if another club bids.

 

[dogwatch]

We seem to always get stitched up with our F/S picks, makes me so annoyed when you look across to Geelong.

They certainly got lucky in the last decade. Yes, we got some good picks and probably for slightly under the odds but how good is it when you can:

• pick up Gary Ablett Jr at 40 (knowing nobody else can touch him) and then get Bartel, Kelly and Stevie J with earlier picks you didn't have to use on Ablett? AND...
• pick up Tom Hawkins with pick 41 and then use your first round pick (7) to get Joel Selwood?

Take some of these players out and you are no longer a triple premiership side.


Then throw in Matthew Scarlett, David Clarke, Mark Blake and Nathan Ablett as other handy pickups late in the draft due to the old-style FS rule.


What rubs salt into the wounds is that Billie Smedts who they got with pick 15 in 2010 looks like being a good player. His old man didn't quite play enough games with Footscray for him to qualify.

if Hunter is really good you have to grab him. Depending on where we end up this year we could have a couple of picks inside the top 10.....is Hunter worth that?

We need to put some real doubt in the minds of the other clubs so they don't play games with us. If the kids at the picks we have are better, then we take them.....simple.

I agree with this but it is still a very tough call to make at the time. You'd really want to know you're getting a "bankable" star with the pick.

It makes it harder that you have to make the call before the draft. So say you have pick 9, on draft day you'd know who has gone with picks 1-8, but when you have to make the F/S decision (a week or so before draft day) you have no idea who might slip through to pick 9.

 

[Dale4captain]

he's a half forward, yes? around the 180 cm mark? how'd he go last year? seems we have a few of this type of player now with dickson, vespremi, higgins, grant, gia, even cooney will play that role this year. We have to shy away from sentiment and the romance of getting a father son and simply just pick the best. If he's worth it, go for it.

 

[dogsbody]

he's a half forward, yes? around the 180 cm mark? how'd he go last year? seems we have a few of this type of player now with dickson, vespremi, higgins, grant, gia, even cooney will play that role this year. We have to shy away from sentiment and the romance of getting a father son and simply just pick the best. If he's worth it, go for it.

Apart from 6 to 8 talls making up the key backs, forwards and rucks, the team are all around 180. It's a question of getting the best available and getting the best out of them. If Hunter is a mooted 2nd or 3rd round pick, then he won't be a Cooney or a Griffen. I'd sooner have a bloke with some connection to the club, maybe he'll be easier to get the best out of him.

 

[TempleKelvington]

As long as we put enough doubt in the minds of the other clubs so they take a gamble that we may not take him with a round 1 pick. They then have to take him with theirs. There was never any doubt we'd take Wallis, Liberatore or Cordy. But at worst we only ever had to use a late first round pick.

But really....if we end up with picks 5 and 6 this year....Hunter would need to be pretty good to use one of those. Not having seen him play, but from what I hear he sounds like a second round pick to me.

 

[Interloper]

he's a half forward, yes? around the 180 cm mark? how'd he go last year? seems we have a few of this type of player now with dickson, vespremi, higgins, grant, gia, even cooney will play that role this year. We have to shy away from sentiment and the romance of getting a father son and simply just pick the best. If he's worth it, go for it.

I am very much of this view. In the case of Libba and Cordy, I think their selections addressed a need were justified, and that the time Cordy, in particular, would need to develop was a known quantity. I am less convinced by Wallis and what he offers although he has time to dispel doubts and I hope he does.

 

[dogsbody]

I...am less convinced by Wallis and what he offers although he has time to dispel doubts and I hope he does.

There's a spot for up to 10 midfielder types in a team. Drafts are overloaded with midfielder types, the trick is to get the best of the bunch. Indications were that Wallis and Liberatore were right up there. Wallis hasn't come on as quickly as we thought he would but he still played 3 (?) games in his first season straight out of school. That's up there with Murphy & Giansiracusa, Higgins and better than Boyd and Cross. His recruitment can't be questioned.

 

[Dry Rot]

His recruitment can't be questioned.

..Why?