What happened with Kirkby & Grundy?

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2 widely tipped top 20 picks not selected at all .... I wonder what was turning the clubs off them.
 

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Huge surprise!

I was rapt coming up to our first pick at 59 with both these guys along with Bain, Sharp and Toovey all available - and we didn't go with any of them?

It would be nice to know what put the clubs off. But as history has proven, they get it wrong a fair bit!
 

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same with me ... coming up to Carlton's late couple of picks I was sure we'd snag 1 or 2 of these guys but I guess the recruiters know some things that we don't.
 

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Here's the list Ruory Kirkby,Sam Gooley,Chris Gooley,Alan Toovey,Ben Sharp,Heath Grundy,Ryan Bain,Dale May,Ben Jolley,Eddie Betts,William Hamill,Sam Robertson,James Quinton,Danyle Pearce,Clinton Young,Stefan Garrubba,Paul Richardson,Mark Lynch,James Podsiadly,Renwick Watts,Heritier O'Brien,Nick Becker,Nick Batchelor,Rowan Nayna,Jordan Wood,Ryan Jackson,Jesse.D.Smithaand Tom Redden. Makes the pre-season training and rookie drafts very interesting doesn't it. Some of these guys are bottom age and will be in the underage system next year. What happened to the Swans looking for talls? Kirkby,the Gooleys,Grundy,Podsiadly and Toovey should have all been considered.
 

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This is what Melbourne's recruiting manager Craig Cameron had to say on some of the afore mentioned players.

Grundy and Kirkby suffered from being not athletic enough. Toovey from not finding the football enough and Eckerman from being small, not great in traffic, or with his hands in tight. He is also not quite as quick as some might believe. His first 5 metres needs work. As he gets older and more powerful this may come.

The reason that so many All Australian and highly rated players were not drafted was due to the evenness of the draft. I don't think it was a particularly stellar year and this is one of the reasons that we chose to only have the 3 selections. It is fairly clear that clubs like St. Kilda and Sydney didn't rate the draft much at all.

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http://www.aimoo.com/forum/postview.cfm?id=314933&CategoryID=6710&startcat=1&ThreadID=1790046
 

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cosmiqueblue said:
This is what Melbourne's recruiting manager Craig Cameron had to say on some of the afore mentioned players.

Grundy and Kirkby suffered from being not athletic enough. Toovey from not finding the football enough and Eckerman from being small, not great in traffic, or with his hands in tight. He is also not quite as quick as some might believe. His first 5 metres needs work. As he gets older and more powerful this may come.

The reason that so many All Australian and highly rated players were not drafted was due to the evenness of the draft. I don't think it was a particularly stellar year and this is one of the reasons that we chose to only have the 3 selections. It is fairly clear that clubs like St. Kilda and Sydney didn't rate the draft much at all.

Source: www.demonland.com
http://www.aimoo.com/forum/postview.cfm?id=314933&CategoryID=6710&startcat=1&ThreadID=1790046
The draft was pretty good actually.
tambling Deledio and Griffen are as good as any top 3 from any draft.
IT becomes harder after them but theres a heap of raw taelnt to fossick if youre looking.
 
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The draft was pretty good actually.
tambling Deledio and Griffen are as good as any top 3 from any draft.
IT becomes harder after them but theres a heap of raw taelnt to fossick if youre looking.
Couln't agree more.
 

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Was never going to be a National Draft pick. Worth a rookie spot though
not true at all. adeladie and freo both were set to pick him but couldnt believe who were still avaliable at their picks so over looked him, will go in PSD or Rookie list.

on Tom Redden, too young for rookie and is ineligible for PSD.
 
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not true at all. adeladie and freo both were set to pick him but couldnt believe who were still avaliable at their picks so over looked him, will go in PSD or Rookie list.

on Tom Redden, too young for rookie and is ineligible for PSD.
You have some info why Redden wasn't taken?
 
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