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WE NEED QUALITY MIDS

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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?
 

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

Will Waterman eventually become an inside mid?
 
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.
 

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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.
 
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
 

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

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