Player Watch Sid Draper

[Southerntakeover]

Gun, lock him in Rd 1 and not as sub, can seen Curtin missing, Draper has to play

Play both, **** Laird off

 

[ams4crows]

After that last quarter gee I'm excited

 

[Thylacinus]

Boy oh boy what have we here

Arguably the real number one draft pick of 2024!

 

[noobermensch]

Arguably the real number one draft pick of 2024!

I had him as my number 1 for what its worth.

 

[Danger in Texas]

 

[Thylacinus]

I had him as my number 1 for what its worth.

Good to see that they are adding more and more carriages to the Draper train

 

[Eddie Murphy]

I’ve come back around we simply have to fit this kid in.

 

[Scorpus]

I'm picking Draper over Crouch and have thought this way since we drafted him

I see our primary midfield rotation as Dawson, Rankine, Soligo, Peatling and a 5th player. Right now, Nicks is preferring Crouch as that 5th. I'm playing Draper. I don't see how we fit all six.

 

[MrBarry]

I'm picking Draper over Crouch and have thought this way since we drafted him

I see our primary midfield rotation as Dawson, Rankine, Soligo, Peatling and a 5th player. Right now, Nicks is preferring Crouch as that 5th. I'm playing Draper. I don't see how we fit all six.

Dawson for me doesn't need to be in that midfield group. Should be player a sweeper / float around role imo. He can be an icing on the cake player now.

 

[Scorpus]

Dawson for me doesn't need to be in that midfield group. Should be player a sweeper / float around role imo. He can be an icing on the cake player now.

Playing our only recent All Australian midfielder not in the midfield is certainly a choice

 

[George CantStandYa]

Play both, **** Laird off

For sure, but we ain’t doing that

 

[Danger in Texas]

I'm picking Draper over Crouch and have thought this way since we drafted him

I see our primary midfield rotation as Dawson, Rankine, Soligo, Peatling and a 5th player. Right now, Nicks is preferring Crouch as that 5th. I'm playing Draper. I don't see how we fit all six.

I think there’s room for all six to rotate through, given most of them are pretty versatile

 

[GreyCrow]

" We really liked what Sd brought to the team tonight and going forward we see someone we can work with

I would ask fans not to put too much pressure on the kid . As a coaching group we will have discussions about how best to use Sid

It may be a good month in the SANFL to build his tank would be the right thing to do

But we hope the fans are patient and wait because there is something special for sure ""

Matthew Nicks tomorrow or Saturday

 

[Scorpus]

I think there’s room for all six to rotate through, given most of them are pretty versatile

Okay so where do all the players fit? Here is the prototype Nicks team that played today with the missing players added back

B Worrell - Murray - Michalanney
HB Hinge - Keane - Laird

R O'Brien - Dawson - Rankine
C Cumming - Crouch - Sholl

HF Rachele - Fogarty - Neal-Bullen
F Walker - Thilthorpe - Keays

I Peatling - Soligo - Curtin - Milera/Nankervis

Who drops out to rotate Draper in?

 

[spenze]

Boy oh boy what have we here

You can't teach speed, it makes such a difference when a player has it

 

[George CantStandYa]

Okay so where do all the players fit? Here is the prototype Nicks team that played today with the missing players added back

B Worrell - Murray - Michalanney
HB Hinge - Keane - Laird

R O'Brien - Dawson - Rankine
C Cumming - Crouch - Sholl

HF Rachele - Fogarty - Neal-Bullen
F Walker - Thilthorpe - Keays

I Peatling - Soligo - Curtin - Milera/Nankervis

Who drops out to rotate Draper in?

Curtin

 

[Danger in Texas]

Okay so where do all the players fit? Here is the prototype Nicks team that played today with the missing players added back

B Worrell - Murray - Michalanney
HB Hinge - Keane - Laird

R O'Brien - Dawson - Rankine
C Cumming - Crouch - Sholl

HF Rachele - Fogarty - Neal-Bullen
F Walker - Thilthorpe - Keays

I Peatling - Soligo - Curtin - Milera/Nankervis

Of the at least mildly realistic options, I’d say either Curtin or Sholl as sub. Draper comes off the bench

 

[Scorpus]

Curtin

So we're playing Draper as a forward and dropping one of our most promising juniors to fit him in?

 

[Eddie Murphy]

Dawson for me doesn't need to be in that midfield group. Should be player a sweeper / float around role imo. He can be an icing on the cake player now.

It’s certainly worth seeing how a Dawson-less midfield would look. We’d give up some height (and a lot of class) but if it works, having Dawson drop back would fix our two biggest defensive issues: intercepting and playmaking.

 

[Scorpus]

Of the at least mildly realistic options, I’d say either Curtin or Sholl as sub. Draper comes off the bench

Dropping Sholl means we are short on outside players so we'd have to rotate some of our best mids (Dawson or Soligo) into that position

I don't see the point in doing that when we could just drop Crouch

 

[Eddie Murphy]

Okay so where do all the players fit? Here is the prototype Nicks team that played today with the missing players added back

B Worrell - Murray - Michalanney
HB Hinge - Keane - Laird

R O'Brien - Dawson - Rankine
C Cumming - Crouch - Sholl

HF Rachele - Fogarty - Neal-Bullen
F Walker - Thilthorpe - Keays

I Peatling - Soligo - Curtin - Milera/Nankervis

Who drops out to rotate Draper in?

I’m not disagreeing but we have a lot of options we could experiment. Rankine/Peatling more time forward, Soligo wing, Dawson backline. I could see Crouch phased out but it’s fair enough starting the year with him in the rotations.

 

[Scorpus]

I’m not disagreeing but we have a lot of options we could experiment. Rankine/Peatling more time forward, Soligo wing, Dawson backline. I could see Crouch phased out but it’s fair enough starting the year with him in the rotations.

You still have to drop one player from the above listed 22 to fit Draper in

 

[Eddie Murphy]

You still have to drop one player from the above listed 22 to fit Draper in

In a perfect world the obvious answer is Laird.

 

[cleanhands]

I’m not disagreeing but we have a lot of options we could experiment. Rankine/Peatling more time forward, Soligo wing, Dawson backline. I could see Crouch phased out but it’s fair enough starting the year with him in the rotations.

Crouch works with a good outside

 

[George CantStandYa]

So we're playing Draper as a forward and dropping one of our most promising juniors to fit him in?

Who else you dropping and put your Nicks hat on.

With Curtin up forward we have 4 talls, that’s most probably one too many. Don’t get me wrong I’d play him and find someone else.

We can rotate a mid through the half forward line. Draper just has to play, he was that impressive, to not play him or make him sub in his first game at AO would be up there with the dumbest things Nicks has done.