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Player Watch Welcome to Hawthorn: Pick 23, Sam Butler
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I thought it he nailed that one he might have been a show for a rising star nomination!
Think Moores’ sprints were from coming off & on the ground
Had a lot of efforts that went unrewarded but not unnoticed.
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We need a small forward, so he should play out the season from here. It could allow Wingard and MacDonald to play a little more time up the field.
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Kingy has likened him to Zack Butters on First Crack tonight. Said we got a draft bargain and will be nominated for the Rising Star in the next 6 weeks.
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Literally what i've said. Zak Butters is a star and it's what Butler is, both move smoothly across the ground, great pace and good users of the footy, really tough and hard at it and yeah perfect.
thats impressive!
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Oh, Kingy’s saying something positive about Hawthorn, best we all agree with him this time
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He has actually been pretty positive on us this year. Seems to get along well with Sam Mitchell when him and Kane Kornes interview him fortnightly. Understands where we are and is excited by our youf.
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If we can can get a Butters/Gulden out of Norm/Butler I'll be very happy.
Might be our best selection from last years group He has something. I'm not sure what it is but yesterday when he wanted to go he got the ball and something happened. Now we just need a specialist fwd pocket in this draft and then our fwd line is looking really good for the future.
Going early... we nailed the 2021 draft in a way that I've not seen our club do ever.
I seriously can't remember us getting 4 from 4 to land such high quality players. Have been waiting to see Butler since he was drafted, and he's shown a lot in just his second game.
Against the Lions Butler looked like McDonald has all season - just class and composure with the ball in hand.
Has the physical attributes and smarts to ensure that the goals are going to come, along with great strength at a young age to lay a couple of tackles when he needed to.
Such an exciting time for the Hawks, and going to be a lot of fun watching Newcombe, Ward, McDonald and Butler develop together. That's going to be a heck of a midfield core right there.
I seriously can't remember us getting 4 from 4 to land such high quality players. Have been waiting to see Butler since he was drafted, and he's shown a lot in just his second game.
Against the Lions Butler looked like McDonald has all season - just class and composure with the ball in hand.
Has the physical attributes and smarts to ensure that the goals are going to come, along with great strength at a young age to lay a couple of tackles when he needed to.
Such an exciting time for the Hawks, and going to be a lot of fun watching Newcombe, Ward, McDonald and Butler develop together. That's going to be a heck of a midfield core right there.
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2004 went alright.
We didn't have 3 picks inside the top 7 in 2021 though.
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If Duke, Bramble, Callow, Ward, CMac, Butler, Serong and Long all end up best 22, that'd be some year for drafting! 5/8 are looking pretty set so far.
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Will be good to see him run out games better. 55-60% time on ground at the moment, but still managed 2 goals is a great result.
On weight of talent, that's the best draft haul any club ever had at a guess. 2 Coleman winners, 4 time and a 2 time premiership star, multiple club champions etc.
I can't remember us nailing picks like we did last year though, pre-season, mid season, and deep into the main draft. We only had one top ten selection too.
The odds would be pretty long that we'd be staring down the barrel of the quality we have likely got.
Objectively there's a lot of water to go under the bridge, but I believe the signs are there.
4 hard nosed players with elite traits that will just need exposure at the highest level to develop, and another in Bramble who showed last year that his best is upper B grade quality.
I'm thinking McKenzie might have to change his last name to MacGyver. At this stage in time it seems all he needs is a toothpick some string and a bottle cap to discover a gem. Seriously though Andy Collins and all the recruiters need their kudos as well.
Yep, no respect given.
It's pretty incredible to nail elite talent with 3 of the first 7 picks in any draft year (2004). You could miss with one or even two of those. Hawthorn's 2004 haul helped transform our club.
But it's something else when you can't afford to miss even one, and you nail them all the way from the junk time pre-season and miseason picks, to number seven and then all the way out to numbers 23 and 26 (and further one or two more come on) in the national draft.
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No big fan of Geelong but their 2001 haul is hard to beat.
Bartel, Kelly, Stevie J and Ablett Jr is about as good as you can do. Granted they lucked out with Ablett Jr, but he wasn't anything special prior to being drafted.
That one definitely came to mind if you're talking all comers, but I'd scratch it for the father son.
Absolutely turned that side around in a hurry though, and sadly I saw a lot of it live because family follow their club.
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Similar to us, two drafts was all it took to build an all time great core. Us with 2001 and 2004, them with 1999 and 2001.
We got Mitchell, Hodge, Lewis, Roughy and Buddy. They got Corey, Chapman, Ling, Bartel, Kelly, Stevie J and Ablett Jr.
Then we both went through patches of absolutely wasting all of our first round picks on average players and still managed to succeed. Funny how it works out.
