Traded Luke Dunstan

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Armitage2Riewoldt said:
This is the one thing that I hate thinking about. As much as I'm optimistic about every single player we pick. There's no way every one of them can become an out and out gun, much less even make it into our best 22 in time.

Is there?

We all have high hopes for Ross, Newnes, Markworth, Webster, White, Wright, Saunders, Murdoch, Billings, Dunstan and Acres.

But the chances of all of them making it are surely smaller than winning the lotto? Has any team every had 3 drafts in a row - with 11 players. Nailing each one of them? Not to mention we've brought in Lee, Hickey, Bruce, Delaney, Longer and Savage in the past 2 years via trades. That's 17 players in 3 years.

All the best to them, will bring out a competitive edge for sure.
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Yep, the chance of them all making it is remote in the extreme. It's exciting right now, but we were excited around 2004 when we had an armful of "gun kids" but then about half of them had their careers derailed by injury over the next few years and didn't have the careers they were looking like happening and others just didn't live up to expectations, while others ended up much better than we probably expected when they were drafted, so it's now time to wait and see and that is half the fun of it, seeing who steps up to the plate. The good thing for me though is that we have a really good number of them and that will create good competition and gives us more chances for some of them to really make it.

Time will tell though. Looking forward to it!
 
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akeliz22 said:
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Once again well done to the club for sharing phone calls with all three players. Love the Montagna call to Billings last night and also the two from Richardson as well.

These are the small things that supporters LOVE. Fantastic trading period, followed up with an amazing draft and the club clearly happy to share what is going on with their supporters. All looking up.
 
Some won't make it, some will surprise. That's usually the way it goes. Think it's fair to say that most of our recent draftees have shown a lot more than guys like Winmar, Smith, Begley, even Cripps. Would be interesting to see what Geelong's recent draft record looks like.
 
hayes said:
Some won't make it, some will surprise. That's usually the way it goes. Think it's fair to say that most of our recent draftees have shown a lot more than guys like Winmar, Smith, Begley, even Cripps. Would be interesting to see what Geelong's recent draft record looks like.
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When you look at Cripp's stats, he's not tracking any worse than Webster, Newnes, Webster, etc, but he should be tracking better given the draft pick he was taken from.
 
hayes said:
Some won't make it, some will surprise. That's usually the way it goes. Think it's fair to say that most of our recent draftees have shown a lot more than guys like Winmar, Smith, Begley, even Cripps. Would be interesting to see what Geelong's recent draft record looks like.
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The difference is, we used to feel an almost relief when some players got cut before ("Polo is gone... phew..."). But now, I think we'll really feel like they were hard-done by.

Having said that, if Pelch is as good as he may be, we won't have to delist any. We'll just trade 3 players to upgrade our three picks. :thumbsu: How awesome would that be: every year, trading out three players that we have spare to go up at least 3-4 spots in each draft, trading out another two or three to pick up necessary role players... drool....
 

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Sunshine Saint said:
Once again well done to the club for sharing phone calls with all three players. Love the Montagna call to Billings last night and also the two from Richardson as well.

These are the small things that supporters LOVE. Fantastic trading period, followed up with an amazing draft and the club clearly happy to share what is going on with their supporters. All looking up.
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yep, what a change. let us hope that the club continues on like this.
 
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St Kilda’s next selection after pick three was 18, and it was used on South Australian midfielder Luke Dunstan – who, like Billings, displayed excellent leadership and emotional stability to complement his elite on-field talents.​
“Luke’s a big-bodied inside midfielder from South Australia. He captained the SA team that won the championships this year and shared the MVP honours for the state. Again, he’s a fantastic player, a very good ball-winner, elite decision-maker particularly with his hands and a leader in the making.”​
Dunstan is a born midfielder who racks up substantial numbers at will, but he is far from a Billings clone according to Bains.​
“He’s more of a traditional inside midfielder, more physically developed and probably more of a genuine ball-winner in a midfield sense,” he said.​
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