I hate people coming on here and claiming to be connected to somebody on the footy system with inside info on something and most of the time when i see people claiming it on here i don't believe it. And so people are free to take this as they will.
But my old flatmate from London is from a footballing family in Melb and has a brother who works in the collingwood recruiting dept. Strangely enough though he is a mad keen eagles fan even though he is not West Australian. Anyway, his brother reckons that the reason Smith slid so far in the draft is that he is a complete loose unit mentally. He reckons we need to be careful with him or he could end up hanging around with the Cousins/Chick/Kizon crowd within a few years.
He said that of the 500 odd players that Collingwood have psychologically tested over the last 10 years Smith has almost the lowest score of all of them. I am still not unhappy we drafted him because when you draft a bloke a 36 your never going to get perfection. They are always going to have some kind of deficiency whether it be pace, kicking, psychological etc that you are going to have to work on. But it sounds as though Coxy and Glass might need to give him the New Breed speach nice and early on.