Game Day Live Draft Discussion

[eagles rule]

don`t mind Hutchings runs hard to contests to provide options and disposals are ok ..

 

[Dark Sharks]

Oh was it the draft today? I'm sorry i stopped caring when we gave away all our picks

 

[Lyyynnnchy]

Interesting, Grundy or Wellingham?

 

[Patron]

would have proffered membrey.

 

[SpaceClef]

Interesting, Grundy or Wellingham?

 

[Patron]

Interesting, Grundy or Wellingham?

Grundy.

 

[footballfreak]

Right, so I click on to our board and I see that not one thread has been made about our draftees. Lift your game posters!!!!

Brant Colledge- Surprised by this selection, do we really need another tall forward???
Adam Carter- hopefully this guy has some outside speed
Hutchings- Another inside midfielder, I don't think he will break in to the side. Less of a player than Swift and Stevens

Looks like Garlett and Nelson avoided selection. Hopefully we can pick them up?

 

[Underdog]

Depends though. We wouldn't have a Swift or Stevens to throw into the side for one or two games if one of our midfielders miss just the odd game. We can't use a rookie for the odd game here and there, as you know, only if there's a long term injury.

Swift, Stevens, Neates and Strijk all filled in for games when we were missing players in 2012, yet none of them will be available to us next year. Putting a ready made replacement on the rookie list wouldn't fix that.

We'd be left with Dalziell as our only other ready made midfielder back-up (assuming Shaz Well is in the 22 already, and Cripps/Sheppard aren't what you'd call 'ready-made' inside mid material).

Good points.

 

[bodazoka]

Did Josh Toy get drafted?? I know he wanted to go back to Vic and I dont think we should of picked him up was just curious..

 

[Dark Sharks]

Hutchings over Garlett is like picking Sheppard over Jetta all over again.

Just like Charlotte Dawson

 

[sydney eagle]

I thought that we were going to go for a speedy midfielder ? We don't seem to me to have secured one in the draft. Wellingham is the closest I think.

 

[what did you say]

Adam Carter only player who i think stands a good chance to play 100 games for WC, can kick both sides of his body, plays alot like his brother who i don't mind at the blues, but is a out an out outside player winger an half back,

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Adam Carter only player who i think stands a good chance to play 100 games for WC, can kick both sides of his body, plays alot like his brother who i don't mind at the blues, but is a out an out outside player winger an half back,

Cheers.

What do you know about Colledge?

 

[Lyyynnnchy]

Adam Carter only player who i think stands a good chance to play 100 games for WC, can kick both sides of his body, plays alot like his brother who i don't mind at the blues, but is a out an out outside player winger an half back,

Not 1 player we drafted today will play more than 25 games, excluding dick. Such a poor draft, im actually pretty devastated

 

[AnyDanger]

For #$%^ sake, can all the armchair experts take a depth breath for a second.

Dayle Garlett was obviously past up for a reason, 18 clubs seem to agree on why.

Colledge is the same height as glass and woosha just refered to him as key position on the fox sports coverage.

For those nuffys asking what hutchings has done since the U18s. Hes chopped up in the WAFL until getting injured in 2011 and finished runner up to a record breaking winner last year. Hes not slow..."Hutchings' time of 2.83sec for the 20m sprint was faster than any time recorded at the National Draft Combine". He worked his backside off and has been rewarded for his efforts, something garlett needs to learn. Sure he would have been available in the rookie draft but GUESS WHAT?...so is Garlett.

Im not claiming our picks are all gunna be guns, after all our first pick was 45.

But im sure your all correct, seeing as you work for AFL clubs.

 

[Spoon_Man]

/doesn't know who Colledge is....
/checks afl draft page...
/has a moustache...
/applauds wce recruiting team

 

[Dark Sharks]

Not 1 player we drafter today will play more than 25 games, excluding dick. Such a poor draft, im actually pretty devastated

I feel you dog. I feel you.

I think Adelaide got more out of this draft then we did

 

[sydney eagle]

For #$%^ sake, can all the armchair experts take a depth breath for a second.

Dayle Garlett was obviously past up for a reason, 18 clubs seem to agree on why.

Colledge is the same height as glass and woosha just refered to him as key position on the fox sports coverage.

For those nuffys asking what hutchings has done since the U18s. Hes chopped up in the WAFL until getting injured in 2011 and finished runner up to a record breaking winner last year. Hes not slow..."Hutchings' time of 2.83sec for the 20m sprint was faster than any time recorded at the National Draft Combine". He worked his backside off and has been rewarded for his efforts, something garlett needs to learn. Sure he would have been available in the rookie draft but GUESS WHAT?...so is Garlett.

Im not claiming our picks are all gunna be guns, after all our first pick was 45.

But im sure your all correct, seeing as you work for AFL clubs.

Sorry. I was under the impression that Hutchings was an inside player, which made me think that he might be slow. However, if he has good pace he could be just what we need.

 

[Shupe]

Im not claiming our picks are all gunna be guns, after all our first pick was 45.

If we took Garlett at 45, we would've had a gun

Sydney did very well in this draft, imo. Harry Marsh, Tim Membrey and Mathew Dick with shit picks. Very good pickups.

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Methinks Marsh was stolen from under our noses for our first pick.

 

[Lyyynnnchy]

For #$%^ sake, can all the armchair experts take a depth breath for a second.

Dayle Garlett was obviously past up for a reason, 18 clubs seem to agree on why.

Colledge is the same height as glass and woosha just refered to him as key position on the fox sports coverage.

For those nuffys asking what hutchings has done since the U18s. Hes chopped up in the WAFL until getting injured in 2011 and finished runner up to a record breaking winner last year. Hes not slow..."Hutchings' time of 2.83sec for the 20m sprint was faster than any time recorded at the National Draft Combine". He worked his backside off and has been rewarded for his efforts, something garlett needs to learn. Sure he would have been available in the rookie draft but GUESS WHAT?...so is Garlett.

Im not claiming our picks are all gunna be guns, after all our first pick was 45.

But im sure your all correct, seeing as you work for AFL clubs.

There are some of us who have watched a lot of the juniors and thus form an opinion on these draftees. IMO we have gone wayyyyyy to safe

 

[Dark Sharks]

For #$%^ sake, can all the armchair experts take a depth breath for a second.

Dayle Garlett was obviously past up for a reason, 18 clubs seem to agree on why.

Colledge is the same height as glass and woosha just refered to him as key position on the fox sports coverage.

For those nuffys asking what hutchings has done since the U18s. Hes chopped up in the WAFL until getting injured in 2011 and finished runner up to a record breaking winner last year. Hes not slow..."Hutchings' time of 2.83sec for the 20m sprint was faster than any time recorded at the National Draft Combine". He worked his backside off and has been rewarded for his efforts, something garlett needs to learn. Sure he would have been available in the rookie draft but GUESS WHAT?...so is Garlett.

Im not claiming our picks are all gunna be guns, after all our first pick was 45.

But im sure your all correct, seeing as you work for AFL clubs.

Sometimes i make sandwiches and send them to the club... that means i automatically know as much as Woosha.

Please sit down.

 

[Icanwalk]

Hard to understand why we selected someone who would almost certainly have lasted to the rookie draft and seems to be a back up mid at best when we could have got a genuine, if troubled, talent like Garlett.

As it stands, Garlett may still be available come our first rookie selection though if Freo don't take him first.

Maybe we got Hutchings to keep Dalziell company

I wouldn't mention Hutchings in the same sentence as Dalziell, and not because I particularly rate the latter.

We've lost Ebert, Swift and Stevens, in the space of 2 years, only to replace them with a similar type of significantly lesser quality. Even as midfield depth it's a wasted pick. Would anyone honestly want him lining up in our side, or perhaps replacing an injured mid in the finals. I thought we'd have more faith in Masten, Wellingham, LeCras, Sheppard, Smith to step up and provide midfield depth, but it looks like a poor man's Priddis is preferred.

I suspect that this typically conservative selection reflects the coaching staff's midfield approach for the coming season . If anyone believed there might be genuine change, they are kidding themselves. Perhaps Wellingham will rotate with Rosa on a wing, but as for an introduction of pace, I wouldn't get my hopes up.

Unless Garlett has an infectiously, degenerate personality that would devour the decency of the rest of the playing group, I will struggle to rationalize the decision to overlook him in favor of Hutchings. Even Nelson ffs.

 

[AnyDanger]

There are some of us who have watched a lot of the juniors and thus form an opinion on these draftees. IMO we have gone wayyyyyy to safe

Thats fair enough, but picks that late are still speculative in some way. I happy to go with the cliche of "I trust the club", because I'm sure they watch a lot of junior footy too. It has to be about list management too, losing ebert, stevens, swift wouldnt have been in the plan.

 

[SpaceClef]

Avoiding bringing together Garlett and Newman is not conservative, it's a no brainer. We can have one troubled kid in our side to try and fix, but having two together would be so, so risky.

I'm sure we probably would like to have both players in our squad, but their connection considering the position Newman is in means it's just not possible.