WE NEED QUALITY MIDS

[Stinger7W]

Our Back 6, and Forward 6 are good enough to compete with the best, but i feel our mids is where we need improvement!

Selwood, Shuey, Wellingham, Priddis & Masto are very serviceable.

But i feel we need an out and out star A+ grader to make our midfield competitive. We don't stack up to Sydney, Hawthorn, Collingwood, Fremantle. If we want to finish top 4 we either need Shuey or Masto to totally take the next step and become elite, or need to source that player.

To win a premiership we have to finish top 4 and to do so, we need a midfield that can match it with the best, because we are certainly good enough with our Def & Fwds.

Thoughts?

 

[Milenko]

Throw the kitchen sink at Jaeger O'Meara.

End thread.

 

[WCE_phil]

Offer JOM 4 mill over 6 years and see what happens.

 

[TOA.]

Offer JOM 4 mill over 6 years and see what happens.

If anyone should get a 9 year offer it is JOM. Just do it.

 

[Prem87]

We need to sell off Priddis and try to get Coniglio + Bennell Home.

Will Waterman eventually become an inside mid?

 

[INSANE]

We need to sell off Priddis and try to get Coniglio + Bennell Home.

Will Waterman eventually become an inside mid?

That's easy to say but hard to do. Bennell would be ideal though. From what I've seen Waterman is a well-rounded mid, good in close and dangerous in space.

I believe EasternHills is going to the Claremont colts game tomorrow , so will be good to hear how he's tracking as well as possibly Jake playing the 16's game beforehand.

 

[Hap Hapablap]

is waterman available for selection this season or next?

 

[The_Eagles]

There are so many exciting young WA midfielders at GC and GWS, the draft beats zones anyday but it's still a dayum shame

 

[INSANE]

is waterman available for selection this season or next?

This year

 

[ziad]

the world needs quality mids - you can never have enough

 

[INSANE]

the world needs quality mids - you can never have enough

Especially if they're the big-bodied kind

 

[Hap Hapablap]

This year

i just jizzed

 

[Eastern Rangers]

Yeah we need quality midfielders. Who doesn't?

But our spread of talent is getting better and that's just as important.

 

[Eastern Rangers]

We need to sell off Priddis and try to get Coniglio + Bennell Home.

Will Waterman eventually become an inside mid?

Bennell would probably be ideal.

I don't think we're short on inside types. But high quality high meterage outside types or players with genuine game breaking ability when given a yard of space.

Waterman already is an inside mid, only a versatile one. Just needs to prove he can play a central role there at higher levels.

 

[smiths]

still a bit dirty that the club let go of Ebert.

 

[Dark Sharks]

I was thinking that the other day about Bennell, i think he would be a pretty damn important peice to our puzzle.

Has all the quality's we need.

He's out of contract as well at the end of the season.

 

[Jarlcorbz]

Someone give this man a raise!

 

[mick06]

Bennell would probably be ideal.

I don't think we're short on inside types. But high quality high meterage outside types or players with genuine game breaking ability when given a yard of space.

Waterman already is an inside mid, only a versatile one. Just needs to prove he can play a central role there at higher levels.

While not a big name i think an isaac smith type would be great for us right now

 

[Spooky17]

This topic sounds familiar.....?

 

[SpaceClef]

This has been the topic of a million posts since late 2012.

 

[SpaceClef]

While not a big name i think an isaac smith type would be great for us right now

I wanted Smith so bad the year he was drafted. IIRC he fell between our first and second picks though right? Was that the Gaff year?

 

[mick06]

I wanted Smith so bad the year he was drafted. IIRC he fell between our first and second picks though right? Was that the Gaff year?

Yeh late teens i reckon. Though we picked up Darling next so i don't think we missed out. Though i think Smith wouldn't be overrated if he had gone pick 4. He came from nowhere though, i think he played amateurs then picked up after very little vfl exposure

 

[SpaceClef]

Yeh late teens i reckon. Though we picked up Darling next so i don't think we missed out. Though i think Smith wouldn't be overrated if he had gone pick 4. He came from nowhere though, i think he played amateurs then picked up after very little vfl exposure

The footage of him around draft time was very exciting though, and I think i remember watching the VFL grand final that he starred in.

4 was def too early. Should have traded it for pick 11

 

[Keys]

Isaac Smith is a good player that is used very astutely by Hawthorn such that I don't know if he would have the same sort of impact with another club.

If Simpson pushes Yeo more into the midfield I think he's quite capabale of playing that Smith type role

 

[mick06]

Isaac Smith is a good player that is used very astutely by Hawthorn such that I don't know if he would have the same sort of impact with another club.

If Simpson pushes Yeo more into the midfield I think he's quite capabale of playing that Smith type role

yeah i could picture this