Universal Love Welcome to Freo - Heath Chapman (Pick 14 2020 National Draft)

[eastfreo75]

Great pick.

I would play him back for the following reasons:
1. Cox can be moved forward to replace Hogan
2. Hamling, Logue, and Pearce won't all play 22 games. Chapman can be a replacement. If the three are not injured we can load management.
3. Hamling is 29 next year.
4. Similar to point 2. Hamling, and Pearce are still not out the woods with injuries. Would have been handy if we had Chapman last year.

 

[theGav56]

Great pick.

I would play him back for the following reasons:
1. Cox can be moved forward to replace Hogan
2. Hamling, Logue, and Pearce won't all play 22 games. Chapman can be a replacement. If the three are not injured we can load management.
3. Hamling is 29 next year.
4. Similar to point 2. Hamling, and Pearce are still not out the woods with injuries. Would have been handy if we had Chapman last year.

Do we ever load manage?

 

[eastfreo75]

Do we ever load manage?

We should.

 

[Gekko71]

Do we ever load manage?

We can now... we've got the depth to do it.

 

[Joao]

If we didn't load manage going through the congested fixture this year there is no way we bother in a normal season.

 

[eastfreo75]

If we didn't load manage going through the congested fixture this year there is no way we bother in a normal season.

We did have the second highest injury list.

 

[Dale147]

Jesus look at the size of his hands! Marking a footy must feel like plucking grapes.

Ala Ivan Glucina.

 

[MadMundy]

Let him dominate at Peel Thunder for most of the season and bring him in if either someone goes down or his form is too good to not bring him in.

 

[Redgum]

He does look a lot like Weller. Does anyone else see the resemblance

 

[Wabjub]

Let him dominate at Peel Thunder for most of the season and bring him in if either someone goes down or his form is too good to not bring him in.

That sounds like a waste. The forward line has holes to be filled. Put either Him, Cox or Logue with the forward team and let them have a pre-season learning the trade up front.

 

[Joao]

We did have the second highest injury list.

There were blokes we could have played but didn't. We aren't going to load manage.

 

[eastfreo75]

There were blokes we could have played but didn't. We aren't going to load manage.

Shame that we don’t.

You are right that won’t. It’s poor player management and is stuck in the past.

Load management is the way of future. They do it in the NBA and NFL.

 

[Pussinbootz]

I reckon half-forward/wing & see what happens. Similar to how Fyfe started out.

 

[Mogumber]

Fyfe had kicked 6 goals in a colts GF for Claremont though.
He had played forward, Heath will probs start on the bench and move back when needed to start

 

[Joao]

Reckon he goes bananas at Peel racking up marks and possies.

 

[Bring back Drum]

Hes played 1 WAFL senior game, how about we let him play half back, the position he’s comfortable with & let him gain confidence playing senior footy & put on some bulk.

 

[bone2468]

Hes played 1 WAFL senior game, how about we let him play half back, the position he’s comfortable with & let him gain confidence playing senior footy & put on some bulk.

He’s only recently switched to playing back he grew up playing forward n midfield

 

[Bring back Drum]

He’s only recently switched to playing back he grew up playing forward n midfield

Sorry I didn’t realise he was drafted on his form as a 15 year old junior.

Edit, apologies that was rude. My point is let’s let him gain confidence playing senior footy in the position he has excelled at the highest level he’s played, before moving him around the field.

 

[Pussinbootz]

Sorry I didn’t realise he was drafted on his form as a 15 year old junior.

You have a fight with the missus?

 

[Bring back Drum]

You have a fight with the missus?

See above.

 

[Pussinbootz]

See above.

Sleep it off mate. Don’t let her get to ya

 

[Swan Districts Kid]

He looks a smooth mover - a young Mundy anyone?

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[theGav56]

Sorry I didn’t realise he was drafted on his form as a 15 year old junior.

Edit, apologies that was rude. My point is let’s let him gain confidence playing senior footy in the position he has excelled at the highest level he’s played, before moving him around the field.

I see two issues.

If he's going to be given games as a hbf/kpd then it could be quite a while before he gets a debut at AFL level.

If he is kept in that position at Peel it will hold back his development in other positions, something that both he and Bell are openly asserting that he is capable of.

I would put him forward at Peel with some runs in the middle and see how he goes.

Crowden Treacy Chapman
Colyer Cox Western

 

[Mesc]

He looks a smooth mover - a young Mundy anyone?

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A "younger" Mundy perhaps ? The evergreen freak that he is.

 

[Dockeroo]

Not sure his kicking is at the level of Mundy. Is anyone’s though?!