I think we are too far out from the draft for the scribes to know who we are interested in. Usually the mail comes a day or two before the draft. I am hoping we swing for the fences with our 1st pick regardless of whether its a tall or small. I like the sound of McKenzie. I think his upside is huge and he fits our need starting in 2016 when Pods won't be around any more. He reminds me of Tippett in his draft year. Raw, basketball background, great size and athletic abilities and fantastic contested mark. Both have great work ethic. We need that contested marking beast and we like going left field.
Agreed, within a week of the draft is where reporters like Quayle and a lesser extent Twomey get their goss.
Its interesting going back and seeing how these two have done in recent years with regards to their mail.
In 2012, Emma Quayle had the players going to the right teams up until pick 15, she got McCrae and Stringer around the wrong way with 5&6, then with 12 and 14 she had Corr and Jaksch around the wrong way. She then got Hrovat wrong at 15, but got 16 and 17 right, before getting the next few mixed up a bit, although most went there abouts.
In 2012, Twomey got the first 4 right, then messed up 5, 6, 7 and 8. He got Vlastuin right at 9, Daniher was FS at 10, but from there he got maybe 1 in 3, 1 in 4.
Oddly enough both were smack on right up until pick 14 in 2013, where GWS's pick 14 seemed to shape the rest of the draft, as neither got much right after that.
I looked at 2011, couldn't find anything for Twomey, however Quayle had the 15 all going to the right clubs bar Longer to GWS(went to Brisbane) and Greene to Brisbane (went to GWS). Note that GWS owned 11 of those 15 picks, so its pretty difficult to judge, however her top 15 all went in the top 15 on draft day.
All of this says to me that we probably won't be too much the wiser as to who we will pick come draft day, however we will have a pretty good idea of who will be available.
Certainly if there were a draft where it was a good idea to drop down 4 picks from 10-14 for 12 picks later in the draft, this was probably it. The proof of the pudding will obviously be in eating though.
The more i read about this draft the more our controversial pick swap makes perfect sense. Sounds like you can almost throw a blanket over the 1st round and plenty of very good prospects will slip into the 2nd/3rd round. Even if we don't know who's going to be there at 14 i still think this was a good move.
The only way for mine that it would make sense is if we certainly weren't after a key defender as many feel we are. There seems to be little consensus about where players go in this draft, but what people do seem certain about is that a bunch of key defenders will go between 8 and 14. If we're specifically after a key defender, then you don't go giving a bunch of clubs also keen for one a leg up.