Excellent effort mate! I've been hanging out for your take and you certainly exceeded expectations! A real bonus for the additional analysis on the rooks too!
From a Pies perspective, you have Leverde at 5 (fingers crossed we get him) and that's a no brainer, although I'd take Pickett (no worries) if GWS snared Leverde @ 4. However, and more interesting you suggested Dillon Viojo-Rainbow might go @ 30 when many believe someone like Cavka or Blakely will slide and fall around that location. You must really rate Cavka thinking he could go as high as the teens? I guess that was the biggest surprise for me in your top 30.
Personally, I'm a real fan on Connor Menadue, and I think he'll develop into a long lasting and regular player in any senior AFL team that select him..... Do you really think he'll slip through to 29? (I'm hoping he may go one further and we get him @ 30), but realstically I'm thinking he might fall as high as 20-25.... Placing Menadue at 29, is that because you believe he is a longer term prospect that might need building up/developing over a couple of years cause he's basically a featherweight @ 69kgs? He did blitz @ the combine too! I think he would be a terrific acquisition @ Pie land as a line breaker/link man through the midfield!
Bampton is an interesting prospect at 48. I'd certainly rather be playing with him than against him!! Put it that way. A big Rene Kink type bodied lad like him would be awesome on the inside and the 'footsteps' factor may make a lot of opponents near him think twice about physical contests too.
My big concern however is his disposal. I know he has a lot of potential, but I'm just not sold that he could go as high as 30 as efficient disposal is a key area of focus these days and it's a basic essential that may outwiegh his positives. Do you think he could improve in this area enough to make the grade?
By the way (and soz for the rant), who do you think are the Gems in this draft? i.e. Just a handful of guys that have possibly been overlooked thus far as low draft picks (40 - 60 range) that may surprise and be picked up heaps early?
From a Pies perspective, you have Leverde at 5 (fingers crossed we get him) and that's a no brainer, although I'd take Pickett (no worries) if GWS snared Leverde @ 4. However, and more interesting you suggested Dillon Viojo-Rainbow might go @ 30 when many believe someone like Cavka or Blakely will slide and fall around that location. You must really rate Cavka thinking he could go as high as the teens? I guess that was the biggest surprise for me in your top 30.
Personally, I'm a real fan on Connor Menadue, and I think he'll develop into a long lasting and regular player in any senior AFL team that select him..... Do you really think he'll slip through to 29? (I'm hoping he may go one further and we get him @ 30), but realstically I'm thinking he might fall as high as 20-25.... Placing Menadue at 29, is that because you believe he is a longer term prospect that might need building up/developing over a couple of years cause he's basically a featherweight @ 69kgs? He did blitz @ the combine too! I think he would be a terrific acquisition @ Pie land as a line breaker/link man through the midfield!
Bampton is an interesting prospect at 48. I'd certainly rather be playing with him than against him!! Put it that way. A big Rene Kink type bodied lad like him would be awesome on the inside and the 'footsteps' factor may make a lot of opponents near him think twice about physical contests too.
My big concern however is his disposal. I know he has a lot of potential, but I'm just not sold that he could go as high as 30 as efficient disposal is a key area of focus these days and it's a basic essential that may outwiegh his positives. Do you think he could improve in this area enough to make the grade?
By the way (and soz for the rant), who do you think are the Gems in this draft? i.e. Just a handful of guys that have possibly been overlooked thus far as low draft picks (40 - 60 range) that may surprise and be picked up heaps early?
