Scodog10
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With 5 days to go until draft night most of the potential draftees have reached maximum exposure levels. Therefore I thought it an opportune time to gauge the thoughts of the board as to what your ultimate Collingwood draft would look like. We all have our favourites so here's your chance to spruik them!
Pick 6: Matt Scharanberg.
http://www.afl.com.au/news/2013-10-20/matthew-scharenberg
We've just lost Heater and Maxwell is on the way out so now I look at our defence and think to myself who's the man to marshal the troops when things get tough. Williams looks capable, but the rest in Toovey, Keeffe, Brown and any of Sinclair, Seedsman or Sidebottom just don't shout leader to me whereas Scharanberg just has "I'm the f*****g man" written all over him.
He reads it well off the boot so will win his share of intercept possessions, is strong defensively and has good skills. He may not make it into the midfield, but who cares he's going to be our back line general for the next 10 years.
Back to back AA and runner up in the Larke medal this year if available at 6 I imagine that Hine (like 2012 with Grundy) will not be able to get this man's name out quick enough, foot concerns or otherwise.
Pick 10: Patrick Cripps.
http://www.afl.com.au/news/2013-10-20/patrick-cripps
Here is where I diverge from the traditional BF think tank and go a little left field. This guy doesn't have the hype of some of the other potential first rounders (Lennon and Bontempelli I'm looking at you lol) in fact he seems to have no hype whatsoever, but what he does he does at an elite level and it will certainly translate to AFL.
Across the carnival he averaged 12 contested possessions, 6 clearances and 3 tackles against his peers. There are blokes that will go in the top 10 that can't even put up those sorts of numbers in the relatively weak 2013 TAC cup season (by normal standards). A 20cm growth spurt over the past 2 years means that athletically he isn't brilliant, but get him into an AFL environment and he no doubt increases his endurance which makes him an around the ground threat with that size.
I look at all the top 10 and go yeah they'll be solid, but I look at this guy and go he'll be big time like JPK and Mundy. Drafting him means we have a legitimate Ball replacement that we can groom for 2 years in the two's while we get the immediate impact from Scharanberg.
I doubt Hine will go this way on draft day, but I'll have my fingers and toes crossed that he does.
Pick 67: Richard Bourne.
http://www.afl.com.au/news/2013-10-20/richard-bourne
He's as light as a summers breeze this kid, but boy can he run!
We need to find a way to inject some speed and skill into our front half and this kid will do just the trick. He is probably more of a rookie option, however I have no confidence in going tall at this stage of the draft and clubs will pick the eyes out of the the available mids.
I would be looking at him to develop in a similar way to Brad Dick and he does hit the scoreboard (27 goals at Colt level in 2013) which is a plus for mine.
Overall those three would give us a good mix going forward and compliment the ingredients we already have IMO. I have no doubt we'll all see things differently so I look forward to seeing the wish lists of others.
Pick 6: Matt Scharanberg.
http://www.afl.com.au/news/2013-10-20/matthew-scharenberg
We've just lost Heater and Maxwell is on the way out so now I look at our defence and think to myself who's the man to marshal the troops when things get tough. Williams looks capable, but the rest in Toovey, Keeffe, Brown and any of Sinclair, Seedsman or Sidebottom just don't shout leader to me whereas Scharanberg just has "I'm the f*****g man" written all over him.
He reads it well off the boot so will win his share of intercept possessions, is strong defensively and has good skills. He may not make it into the midfield, but who cares he's going to be our back line general for the next 10 years.
Back to back AA and runner up in the Larke medal this year if available at 6 I imagine that Hine (like 2012 with Grundy) will not be able to get this man's name out quick enough, foot concerns or otherwise.
Pick 10: Patrick Cripps.
http://www.afl.com.au/news/2013-10-20/patrick-cripps
Here is where I diverge from the traditional BF think tank and go a little left field. This guy doesn't have the hype of some of the other potential first rounders (Lennon and Bontempelli I'm looking at you lol) in fact he seems to have no hype whatsoever, but what he does he does at an elite level and it will certainly translate to AFL.
Across the carnival he averaged 12 contested possessions, 6 clearances and 3 tackles against his peers. There are blokes that will go in the top 10 that can't even put up those sorts of numbers in the relatively weak 2013 TAC cup season (by normal standards). A 20cm growth spurt over the past 2 years means that athletically he isn't brilliant, but get him into an AFL environment and he no doubt increases his endurance which makes him an around the ground threat with that size.
I look at all the top 10 and go yeah they'll be solid, but I look at this guy and go he'll be big time like JPK and Mundy. Drafting him means we have a legitimate Ball replacement that we can groom for 2 years in the two's while we get the immediate impact from Scharanberg.
I doubt Hine will go this way on draft day, but I'll have my fingers and toes crossed that he does.
Pick 67: Richard Bourne.
http://www.afl.com.au/news/2013-10-20/richard-bourne
He's as light as a summers breeze this kid, but boy can he run!
We need to find a way to inject some speed and skill into our front half and this kid will do just the trick. He is probably more of a rookie option, however I have no confidence in going tall at this stage of the draft and clubs will pick the eyes out of the the available mids.
I would be looking at him to develop in a similar way to Brad Dick and he does hit the scoreboard (27 goals at Colt level in 2013) which is a plus for mine.
Overall those three would give us a good mix going forward and compliment the ingredients we already have IMO. I have no doubt we'll all see things differently so I look forward to seeing the wish lists of others.
