pick 6 is a dud

[true blue19]

1986-chris lindsay-footscray
1987-andrew roges-essendon
1988-ray sterrett geelong
1989-mark brayshaw-north
1990-allen jakovich-melbourne
1991-paul burton-sydney
1992-robert pyman-north
1993-treat cummings-fitzroy
1994-robert mcmahon-fitzroy
1995-daniel healy-st kilda
1996-john rombotis-port
1997-james walker-freo
1998-murry vance-carlton
1999-damian cupido-brisbane
2000-dylan smith-north
2001-ashley sampi- west coast
2002-steven salopek-port
2003-kepler bradley-essendon
2004-tom williams-bulldogs
2005-beau dowler-hawthorn
2006-mitch thorp-hawthorn
2007-david myers-essendon

so far there has not been a great player at pick 6 i hope we have the first. pick 7 or 8 looks like the better pick maybe we should have traded with brisbane or richmond.

 

[Jeremias]

I agree we should have given pick 6 to Brisbane for pick 7.

 

[blues4flag]

pick 7 or 8 looks like the better pick maybe we should have traded with brisbane or richmond.

For your sake, I hope that's a joke.

 

[Blue Dimension]

* BD hides

 

[Cruiser23]

I so hope you aren't serious.

 

[blues_gibbzy]

lol.......there was a thread on this ages ago with pick 4 aswel anyhow with the depht in this draft there'll be something good at pick 6

 

[CarltonFan]

imo we should of had a straight swap of pick 6 for pick 1, but i must stress it is just imo.

 

[BlueYoss]

No doubt we'll pass

 

[diesel1]

I don't normally reply, but i just couldn't help myself this time.

LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Post of the year!!!!!!!!!

 

[Team Mo']

Yeh i'd much rather have pick 8 then 6.

The quality is just much greater

 

[mightymightyblues]

AFL recruiters are consistently saying that this is one of if not the deepest drafts in AFL history.
Players to around pick 30 could all go in the first round.

Watch videos of Hurley, Harlett and Ziebell which are the 3 most likely candidates of whom we will pick and tell me again if pick 6 is gonna be a dud.

 

[TGR]

 

[The Cranium]

Tickle your @rse with a feather

 

[krayfesh]

Blah blah blah blah blah. Pick 6. Blah blah eeky eeky wiki waka woo.

Hmm. You're right. Maybe we should blah blah blah.

 

[Warsaw]

**** YEAH WE Put it OFF. PICK 6 Is like man walking on water. It looks good but in the end it's fake. FAKE I TELL YA.

 

[BLUE BLEEDING]

this is a tad old.

 

[encino_]

Salopek proved this year he is a gun.
And Tom Williams has shown that he might be.

 

[Silvagnis]

true blue19 as a kid.

 

[btdg]

One thing I've noticed about pick 6, is that the players taken are often 'tweeners'; tallish, versatile types, but who don't fit a clear position. It seems to me that amongst the top prospects, the clear KP players and ball-winning midfielders go first. Then go the utilities, then back to KP and midfielders who have question marks over them, then its usually the specialist/limited types.

I did an analysis of draftee types in each round of the draft for a different thread last year, and utilities are by far the biggest risk - in the first round, and right throughout the draft. The other standout for failures was risky KP prospects. Far better to go for players who have a clear position that they will slot into at AFL level - even if they have 'risks' attached to them (think Selwood...). That means midfielders at pick 6-8, or a clear specialist (like Rioli last year).

When you check out the list of pick 6s - there are a lot of utilities and risky KP prospects in that spot: Murray Vance, Myers, Dylan Smith, Dowler, Bradley, Walker.

Luckily, this draft has plenty of midfielders predicted to go in that spot. So we should get the best out of pick 6, and hopefully beat the curse.

 

[Pick6]

i am confident that this years Pick 6 will be a quality player whether it will be my personal favourite hurley, ziebell or even johnstone. we have made our mistake once with pick 6 amd WH will not repeat this mistake again.

 

[Barry Zuckercorn]

Can we decline pick 6? Just say "pass" when it's our turn? Cause looking at that list in the OP, I think thats the only sensible course of action we can take.

 

[HBF]

Given what I know about the kids this year, we are very much right in there with a very very good chance of selecting a 150+ game player for the Carlton Footy Club.

 

[jonoman89]

I'd be very happy picking up a player as quality as Salopek at pick 6. I love the way he goes about his footy.

 

[thylacine60]

I'd be very happy picking up a player as quality as Salopek at pick 6. I love the way he goes about his footy.

 

[whelan=legend]

1990-allen jakovich-melbourne

54 games, 208 goals.

Made people come from everywhere to watch him, my favourite memory is when he kicked 11 goals (including a miraculous scissor kick), 7 behinds and one out of bounds on the full against North in 91.

Or when he kissed he brother Glenn after kicking a great goal on him.

Or when instead of running through the banner he went around it and started high fiving the fans.

My favourite player of all time