What TYPE of players should we select in the draft?

[LostDoggy]

With 7 draft picks available, what type of players should we use our draft picks on?

As to who we pick is purely a guess, however, we all have opinions as to the type of players we need.

In my opinion, we might use 6 selections this Saturday, and use the 7th on:
-PSD for Welsh, or
-PSD for a smokey/Williamstown player, or
-Pass and keep available to promote an outstanding rookie later in the season.

The 6 selections for this saturday might consist of:
1. Key forward (most talented specialist FF or CHF available)
2. Rugged inside mid-field player (Scotty West clone)
3. Key Forward (developing FF or CHF)
4. Running outside mid-field player
5. Developing Ruckman
6. The smokey/deveopment player: whether they be the extremely athletic, or the nuggerty short player, or the bottom age player (like O'Shea in last years draft).

On what type of players would you select with our draft selections to meet our needs?

[Dry Rot]

Re: What TYPE of players should we select in the draft?

You're a non-believer in the "best available" strategy?

[Mantis]

Re: What TYPE of players should we select in the draft?

Agree with most of what you have posted, except:

I don't think we need a West clone as we have Cross and Boyd to fill his void. What we do need is a hard running, ball winning midfielder with above average kicking skills. (Asking a bit aren't I)

Pretty much spot on with the rest and don't really care what order we pick them in. I just hope we can fill our needs and I hope we make this draft count as we really need to. Through clever trading of players and picks and after a poor 2nd half of the 07 season we are in a very strong position in this draft to improve our list, let's hope we do.

[Dogs 24/7]

Re: What TYPE of players should we select in the draft?

Agree with most of what you have posted, except:

I don't think we need a West clone as we have Cross and Boyd to fill his void. What we do need is a hard running, ball winning midfielder with above average kicking skills. (Asking a bit aren't I)

Pretty much spot on with the rest and don't really care what order we pick them in. I just hope we can fill our needs and I hope we make this draft count as we really need to. Through clever trading of players and picks and after a poor 2nd half of the 07 season we are in a very strong position in this draft to improve our list, let's hope we do.

I agree with Doggy Doo's and your thoughts here. We need to inject some pace with any midfielders that we add in this draft.
Boyd should be the one to cover Westy in the next season or two.

[Bornadog]

Re: What TYPE of players should we select in the draft?

Best available as they should be versatile.

[Sockeye Salmon]

Re: What TYPE of players should we select in the draft?

Best available is a crock and is what got us in this situation in the first place.

No-one can tell who's better than anyone else when they're all 17-18 yos, hell, if we tried to rank the players from 1997 we wouldn't agree.

Pick 5 - key forward - Grant/Gourdis/Henderson/McEvoy, whichever one Clayton prefers.
Pick 19 - key forward unless either someone slips (say, Ward) or if Clayton thinks they're all duds. Tarrant, Notte, Simpson maybe.
Pick 35 - midfielder unless we use pick 19 on one, in which case key forward (hoping one of the above 3 slips).
Pick 43 - midfielder
Pick 48 - ruckman
pick 66 - whatever, but I wouldn't mind another key forward (that Williams kid training with us, perhaps?)
Pick 82 - pass for Welsh in the PSD.

Rookies - try some 20 yos who missed out when they were 17. Lockwood or Rockefeller or similar.

[Mantis]

Re: What TYPE of players should we select in the draft?

Best available is a crock and is what got us in this situation in the first place.
No-one can tell who's better than anyone else when they're all 17-18 yos, hell, if we tried to rank the players from 1997 we wouldn't agree.

Absolutely.

Time to fill the gaps on the list.... Surely that shouldn't be to hard??

[Go_Dogs]

Re: What TYPE of players should we select in the draft?

I think a combination of best available and needs-based is required. If we can select a tall at 19 who Clayton believes will be 'OK', I'd much prefer him draft a midfielder who he thinks will be a gun. At the same time, this is a good draft for early tall selections, so best available could even be a tall.

My point is, yes we have gaps in the list. Yes it would be good to fill them solely on needs basis, however I would rather get quality than plug holes with less than quality.

Overall I'm confident we'll make the right choices.

I expect a couple of talls, a ruck, a few midfielders. Perhaps we will draft an older type like Scooter suggested, we need some more depth and ready made inclusions for mine.

[mjp]

Re: What TYPE of players should we select in the draft?

Half a dozen future 200-game, multi-premiership winning superstars who will collect double figure B&F's between them, numerous All-Australian selections and solve the global warming crisis...

You know, the usual sort of players I am looking to add to the team!

[Mantis]

Re: What TYPE of players should we select in the draft?

Half a dozen future 200-game, multi-premiership winning superstars who will collect double figure B&F's between them, numerous All-Australian selections and solve the global warming crisis...

You know, the usual sort of players I am looking to add to the team!

I only want players who can help solve the issues with the Japanese government over there insistence that they continue there "scientific" slaughtering of whales.

[The Underdog]

Re: What TYPE of players should we select in the draft?

I only want players who can help solve the issues with the Japanese government over there insistence that they continue there "scientific" slaughtering of whales.

Apparently "Scientific" is the Japanese word for delicious.

[Go_Dogs]

Re: What TYPE of players should we select in the draft?

Weaver has his PD up on BF. He also selected Gourdis as the best key forward in the draft. Not a bad read, although he did take a dig at Clayton's ability to pick players over 6 foot!

[The Underdog]

Re: What TYPE of players should we select in the draft?

Weaver has his PD up on BF. He also selected Gourdis as the best key forward in the draft. Not a bad read, although he did take a dig at Clayton's ability to pick players over 6 foot!

The strong mail seems to be Grant.
Emma Quayle's write up of him in the Age made him sound special, the opposite of Weaver, although Gourdis sounds a safer bet (if there is such a thing) as far as consensus from the "experts". It doesn't seem like either would slide to 19 so I guess Clayton will pick the one he really wants. It seems less and less likely that McEvoy would be his man and as for Henderson, much like everyone else in this draft seems to be he's either the next Pavlich (thanks Inside Football) or an injury prone overrated future CHB.

[mjp]

Re: What TYPE of players should we select in the draft?

I am hearing Grant and Tarrant...

[The Underdog]

Re: What TYPE of players should we select in the draft?

I am hearing Grant and Tarrant...

From what I've read we'd be paying over the odds, but then it worked out with Everitt, and you can only really judge a players worth down the track.
It makes sense from the two KPP's who'll be available perspective.

I wonder if he'd be prepared to amend that for a midfielder who slid, ie everyone's favourite Western Jet