anyone seen a better high lights video for a draftee mid ?
"be tough, only when it gets tough"
The idea of him, Dawson, Stephens and McInerney's foot skills transforming our play through the centre of the ground has me feeling very buoyant.
'Delicious' is a fun word to say
His big knock is on his endurance, which you don't see here.
I watched the full U'17 GF opener where he won BOG.
If you're just picking BOG on his highlights reel, fair enough. But to say he drifted in and out of the game is an understatement. I suspect he won based on his 1st quarter alone.
If you check this podcast there's an extended interview with him:
https://www.afl.com.au/podcasts/road-to-the-draft
The eternal connundrum "what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object" was finally solved when David Hasselhoff punched himself in the face.
His endurance may not be elite, but I can tell you his 2km time trials arent terrible, just not high end and I dont think enought to make him a liability.
I think the knock would be more that his disposal count in the past has been not been overly high and he would have very few games with 20 plus disposals. To his credit I did see an improvement in that over the series against GWS this year.
He does make a very good highlights reel though as he does make an impact with ball in hand, he is hard at it and he has a beautiful looking left foot kick.
If he's a midfielder, I hope we play him as a mid. That's all I ask.
My concern in this current AFL regime is having to many inside mids in the traditional sense that are not multi dimensional in different positions. Getting exposed against the quick teams has serious downside playing so many slow inside mids on the field at the on time.
Our depth and roles are looking better, but i sense we need some more class in the mids ie one more 21 to 24 yr old traded in....... that really add to high level football use and takes us up the ladder. Moving up from 16th on the ladder we need more quality experience plus we cant rely on Bud etc to be there and win us 3 games by himself !
Draft / Trade In 2020 = 4 spots ?
Pick 3 ? or a traded in high level player?
Campbell
Gulden?
P.McCartin?
B Mills Rampe Cunningham
HB Lloyd AA Dawson
C Florent Rowbottom Blakey
HF Heeney Franklin McInerny
F Papley Reid Hayward
Foll Sinclair Parker Kennedy
Interchange McCartin, Stephens, Hewett, Fox
23.Thurlow
24.Campbell?
25.Gulden?
26.Taylor
27.Brand
28.Oriordan
29.Gould
30.Clarke
31.Warner
32.Ling
33.Wicks
34. McLean
35. Oconnor
36. Knoll
37. Melican
38.P.McCartin?
39. PICK 3 ?
on the way out at least 11 players:
Ronke - trade late 50s?
Foot
Maibaum
Stoddart
Reynolds
Gray
Rowles
Amartey
E.Taylor
Bell
Naismith?
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