Rookie Draft

[bulldogsman]

Begs the question doesn't it. What has anyone seen in him over the past three years? From what i've seen, and from what i've read of other peoples viewpoints, i don't recall anyone being complimentary regarding his talent.

He'd be my logical choice to be delisted, but if he played with Footscray that'd be it. Wouldn't see the point of re-rookie.

Yeah I don't see what Greenwood has to offer at all, it's very puzzling.

I do see the talent in Jong and Redpath, though I could make a very good case for them to be delisted. Those three should count themselves all as very lucky.

[Axe Man]

What I don't understand is why we wouldn't delist at least 1 (lets say Greenwood) and wait and see what's available at pick 4 in the rookie draft. If there's nothing that we like just re-draft him, it's not like anybody else would trump us. By retaining them all it just gives us no flexibility should someone we fancy slip though the national draft.

Unless there is a rule against re-drafting rookies?

[The Underdog]

What I don't understand is why we wouldn't delist at least 1 (lets say Greenwood) and wait and see what's available at pick 4 in the rookie draft. If there's nothing that we like just re-draft him, it's not like anybody else would trump us. By retaining them all it just gives us no flexibility should someone we fancy slip though the national draft.

Unless there is a rule against re-drafting rookies?

We upgraded Goodes so wouldn't we have one pick?

[Before I Die]

Begs the question doesn't it. What has anyone seen in him over the past three years? From what i've seen, and from what i've read of other peoples viewpoints, i don't recall anyone being complimentary regarding his talent.

He'd be my logical choice to be delisted, but if he played with Footscray that'd be it. Wouldn't see the point of re-rookie.

He played very well in the finals for Williamstown seniors in 2012 and then suffered a leg injury which kept him out for most of 2013. He is an inside mid with very good skills on both sides of his body. His problem at the moment is that he doesn't have the body strength for this role. The club is very happy with his progress and sees a future for him but wants to build him up physically before making a final call. When he came back from injury his focus was putting on weight and strength conditioning, not football, hence he played for Williamstown reserves. Things can change suddenly, but i believe he was told quite early on that he would be retained and to concentrate on developing his body. I have inside information in this case, but I am confident that there is a good solid reason each time the club decides to retain a rookie.

[Axe Man]

We upgraded Goodes so wouldn't we have one pick?

Depends on whether or not we go 1 short on the primary list again.

[LostDoggy]

He played very well in the finals for Williamstown seniors in 2012 and then suffered a leg injury which kept him out for most of 2013. He is an inside mid with very good skills on both sides of his body. His problem at the moment is that he doesn't have the body strength for this role. The club is very happy with his progress and sees a future for him but wants to build him up physically before making a final call. When he came back from injury his focus was putting on weight and strength conditioning, not football, hence he played for Williamstown reserves. Things can change suddenly, but i believe he was told quite early on that he would be retained and to concentrate on developing his body. I have inside information in this case, but I am confident that there is a good solid reason each time the club decides to retain a rookie.

Cheers BID, good to hear if that's the case.

Still appears to be something that needs to give in relation to my original post, unless they don't take a live pick with 60 and end up upgrading another rookie to the primary.

[divvydan]

Perhaps there's also a situation where this draft is expected to be much weaker than next year's draft and keeping on an extra couple of players who we would otherwise take late/rookie picks for means they we can move them on next year to really attack next year's draft.

[Twodogs]

He played very well in the finals for Williamstown seniors in 2012 and then suffered a leg injury which kept him out for most of 2013. He is an inside mid with very good skills on both sides of his body. His problem at the moment is that he doesn't have the body strength for this role. The club is very happy with his progress and sees a future for him but wants to build him up physically before making a final call. When he came back from injury his focus was putting on weight and strength conditioning, not football, hence he played for Williamstown reserves. Things can change suddenly, but i believe he was told quite early on that he would be retained and to concentrate on developing his body. I have inside information in this case, but I am confident that there is a good solid reason each time the club decides to retain a rookie.

Thanks for passing that on. I have no problem with the club coming good on its commitment in that case.