Bentleigh said:
We, Tigers missed out on KKP early on the draft but we got some good KKP which are young. We now have a handful of good young KKP which should mature together, all under 20 yoa.
Time will tell...
Of course, its one thing having a number of kpp types on your list, and its another thing to get them to the level you need.
It strikes me that painfully few gun kpp were not in a very select group of gun kpp youngsters before they made the big time; and it also strikes me that painfully few elite (ie top 5 or 6 picks) young kpp types in recent times do not go on to strong careers.
Riewoldt, Kozitschke, Brown, Tredrea, Tarrant, Lynch, Grant, Leppitsch, Neitz, Richardson, Ottens & Gaspar were all considered elite young kpp options.
In earlier times, players such as Lockett, Kernahan, Carey, Langford, Roos, Pert, Jakovich & McIntosh were all marked as champions from an early age.
The value of kpp types stems from the fact that their height requirements limits the number of available options in any given year. Within this already limited pool, you get precious few who have what it takes to be guns.
There's a big difference between getting kpp types who can play solidly at best, and those who can regularly take a game by the scruff of the neck, thus taking your side to the premiership precipice.