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Well we are a third of the way through the season. our team in on the decline and we are likely to occupy one of the bottom places unless our slide stops. We can now make a fairly accurate assessment on which players are worth keeping and which are looking down the sights of being traded or delisted.

What type of player should we be looking at in the next draft, position, size etc. Any particular TAC players essendon should look to draft next year that would fill our requirements in the next few seasons. Our guns are on the decline, who will replace these types. any upcoming F&S's? Is there a ready made player, like a Davey or Aaron Edwards who might have slipped through previous drafts?
 
Well we are a third of the way through the season. our team in on the decline and we are likely to occupy one of the bottom places unless our slide stops. We can now make a fairly accurate assessment on which players are worth keeping and which are looking down the sights of being traded or delisted.

What type of player should we be looking at in the next draft, position, size etc. Any particular TAC players essendon should look to draft next year that would fill our requirements in the next few seasons. Our guns are on the decline, who will replace these types. any upcoming F&S's? Is there a ready made player, like a Davey or Aaron Edwards who might have slipped through previous drafts?

FFS, no more KPP.

Have been saying this for two years now.
 
Midfielders and ideally a ruckman. Hille is ok but lets be frank here..is David Hille going to win a premiership as a starting ruckman..in all likelyhood probally not. And the quicker we get rid of Peverill the better, I lost count of how many clangers he managed tonight!
 

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Love him, love him, love him.
Can I repeat I love him....

The facts are though we are getting slaughtered out of the middle nearly every week now.

Its a running game now - no more KPP's......
 
Love him, love him, love him.
Can I repeat I love him....

The facts are though we are getting slaughtered out of the middle nearly every week now.

Its a running game now - no more KPP's......

Just stiring...

I don't think it's too many KPP's, I reckon we have too many pockets/flankers.

Now, can we please get Sam Longergan in the side.
 
Love him, love him, love him.
Can I repeat I love him....

The facts are though we are getting slaughtered out of the middle nearly every week now.

Its a running game now - no more KPP's......

A couple of explosive tall defenders would be nice. they are the types of players you can get late in the draft though. Take a punt on an athlete and hope it pays off. We certainly have been spanked by explosive kp forwards of late. Gun midfielders early and project talls late.
 
Just stiring...

I don't think it's too many KPP's, I reckon we have too many pockets/flankers.

Now, can we please get Sam Longergan in the side.

Exactly.
Get players who earn their place.

Houli was never ready.
Unbelieveable to me that he was picked in front of Sam in the first place.

Is Sheedy running the Australian Democrats or the Essendon Football Club ?
 
A couple of explosive tall defenders would be nice. they are the types of players you can get late in the draft though. Take a punt on an athlete and hope it pays off. We certainly have been spanked by explosive kp forwards of late. Gun midfielders early and project talls late.

marcus,

That is exactly the drafting philosophy we should be taking.

Athletic midfielders first (Pendlebury's), KPP's later.
 
I reckon we need to focus on a gun ruckman. Hille is an average ruckman at best. Laycock is shiite. Maybe we should hold off and give mckinnon a run. havent seen him yet so cannot comment on him. we havent had a gun ruckman since Madden.

A midfielder with pace and smarts would be nice, cant ask too much can I???

p.s. when do bendigo play and where?
 
McKinnon is a spud.

Bendigo play in Geelong at 9.40 Sunday morning.

We have the midfielder you're asking for, he's got a groin injury at the moment.
 

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9.40 a.m????? are we playing the geelong under 18's?? geez thats early :(

well discount mckinnon then. i had only read the essendon website propaganda and the usual bf reports.
 
9.40 a.m????? are we playing the geelong under 18's?? geez thats early :(

Curtain raiser to the Geelong v West Coast game.

It was meant to be played at Bendigo but because of the ground condition, it was switched.

The Geelong/WCE game starts at 1pm, hence the early start for the VFL game.
 

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I hear kreuger.

I'm tipping you mean Matthew Kreuzer from the Northern Knights.

He's probably the number one pick at the moment, a ruckmen.

Given we'll most likely have Darcy Daniher at the club next season, I doubt we'd target a tall with our first pick.

Trent Cochin is probably the standout midfielder at the moment, but I haven't seen a lot of him.
 
We definitely need either a readymade ruck that can instantly support Hille and be challenging him for the #1 spot or the best available midfielder. perhaps we could look at trading with Brisbane to get either mcDonald or Wood and then just go for midfielder/utility types in the first couple of rounds.
 

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