Plapp doesn't really talk RCD up. "Hasn't been outstanding...he's not for everyone"
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Who is Plappy sneaking him through to?
Is the statue of him on his knees in front of Gill?Gale needs the funds for the Statue of himself in the entry foyer of the new grandstand ...
I agree with you 100% though ... take two VFL jets from Geelong or Footscray ... at worst they help replace the injuries that have hit the VFL program ... at best you were wrong and they become an AFL star
I don’t understand your comment. Allen and Waterman are forwards and Culley is a tall midfielder. They aren’t competing for the same position.Jai Culley was looking ok too for West Coast until he did his ACL in 2023. However, I think with the emergence of Waterman, Ryan Maric playing ok and Oscar Allen injured his future will be clouded.
Just sheer bad luck for some players.
Pretty sure he received a rising star nomination for kicking 4 goals playing half forward last year.I don’t understand your comment. Allen and Waterman are forwards and Culley is a tall midfielder. They aren’t competing for the same position.
We missed out on Durham
We missed out on diambrosio
We can't miss another player right under our noses in sam davison. His athleticism is off the charts. And he is a smart team orientated player
Never been in an elite system just like tresize. The sooner we bring him in and he starts training with afl players in afl system the better he will get
His has tremendous potential
Let's get him now
I hope so. RCD will set them back a years recruiting. Spud.Carlton trolling us by selecting RCD
This is why I'm not overly keen on Scaife, he also had the Freo development pathway.Most of the key forwards mentioned here are not exactly blowing out of the park. Most have stats of about 1.5 goals a game. Thinking that they are going to do it at a higher level is in my opinion very wishful thinking. Imagine what a 21 year old Jack or Lynch would be doing in the VFL. Ugle-Hagen is just now starting to be a real player, and he was the no.1 draft pick. Same with all the other high draft pic talls. Not much point picking an average key forward, they rarely go on to have a career. Mihochek is one of very few who has.
Much rather go for a young ruck, as we have non, or a young player who shows something but is just starting. Have watched Davison pretty closely since his first practice match. He disappeared for a bit, but the last two weeks, every time he touches the ball something happens. Very smart natural footballer. Look at Essendon's Sam Durham, very good player. They are around.
Go back and look at previous MSDs ... virtually zero correlation between requests for medicals and who was picked ...The club clearly has more in depth knowledge than all us keyboard list managers when it comes to the depth of talent that is available. Given only 24 of the 340 odd players to nominate for the draft were asked to perform medicals it would strongly suggest that the talent we think is there, isn't really there at all.
IMO we've probably got 3-4 of those 24 in mind for the draft and will, if Yzes comments are anything to go by, likely take no more than 2 of them unless a 3rd falls through to our 3rd pick.
I know we all see it as a free swing, but the investment has got to be worth it, it's not just the $60k per player, but there is also the coaching to bring the players up to speed so they can actually be useful. IMO we'll likely take 2 players on 18 month contracts so that there is little pressure on them to come in and perform from day 1, but to allow them to be developed in the right way, so they may become players we have around for 5+ years.
What the heck ...If we walk away with Blight and one of our VFL boys I think we have had a good night.
We don’t need tall forward
Requesting medicals is just announcing who you're interested in. I reckon we'd prefer to keep our cards closer to our chest.Go back and look at previous MSDs ... virtually zero correlation between requests for medicals and who was picked ...
Appears more of a correlation between who was the flavour of the month and getting picked up ...
Scaife hardly troubled the scorers over the last three rounds, Howes missed the last month ... Thank heck he had 14p and 2 goals including the one to put them ahead for SA against last year's champion Allies on the weekend ... or we would be taking Blight tomorrow just because he can play kick to kick
What the heck ...
We just witness on the weekend that Kosi and Balta are much better backman than forwards but taking another KPD would be a good night ??? We already have 5 full backs on the list !!!
Even ignoring the fact that Blight is a complete potato how can not taking a KPF be a complete fail