Who will we take with our first selection in the 2019 draft? Have your say by voting for your shortlist (you can select 3 options above).
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Where is the "****ed if I know" option mate?
C'mon mate, we're all experts this time of year....I was looking for that too but went for Gould as the only person I’ve read a few things on.
I don’t deserve an opinion on this stuff but he looks the part and appears to have some X factor about him.
Basically I have no idea but ..,
C'mon mate, we're all experts this time of year....
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Looking into the breeding. I like it. No significant wet track form on either side. Should go well under the roof.First selection in the late 20’s has even us experts scratching our heads!
I went for Taylor because there was an article on him a few days ago and his bloodlines are amazing, seems he’s related to just about every star indigenous family there is.
Mitch O'Neil
Trey Ruscoe
K. Pickett
Ok I’ll put mine in order we need that type of player then a replacement as likely our first option be gone but is an adequate replacement
Pickett then Taylor
Gould then rantall then Stephens then Sch
Bianco then Rivers
Rantall then Stephens then Schoenberg
1 - De Koning
2 - Gould
3 - Taylor
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Why would you want 2 KPP Defenders?
On form today KC, kudos.
Matt Rowell for me. Make it happen Heath Scotland.
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This is more my order of preference if one or two are already off the table.
In saying that I wouldn’t be at all upset if we took both De koning and Gould with our earlier picks. I don’t really see Gould as a key defender and they will both play different roles in the back 6.
We could potentially have our defence sorted for the next 10 years and add a couple of mids with our two 1st rounders next year.
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Or we could potentially repeat what we did in the 2014 and get minimal input out of 3 well placed picks by trying to have our "defence sorted".
We need to learn from our mistakes, we have been unable to nail a KPP in the first/second round since Tarrant (2007), and he took 5+ years to deliver. It's quite clearly a problem area for us.
I'm happy to use 1 of the three picks on Gould, as you mentioned he's not a full KPP (Although the same could have been said for Neilsen/EVW) - however to use 2 out of those 3 picks on defenders would be idiotic.
It's a midfielders game and despite adding some talent to our midfield group the last couple years (LDU, Ahern, Simpkin, Bonar, TT), none of these are a sure thing to be elite midfielders. History shows you need multiple elite mids to win a flag and we need to keep adding talented mids till we nail one.
So how do you address our KPD then ? The only way I see is to keep going back to the well until you get it right. The only other option is to poach them from other clubs. You won’t win a flag regardless of how good your midfield is if you have a poor defence.
I think recent history suggest you need elite defenders too. Look at the last two sides that have won the flag.
We have drafted a lot of poor mids over the journey too. Remember Clarke, Hibbered, Mountford from the one draft, yet only McKay remains from that draft year. Do we give up on drafting mids?
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