Draft Day 2014: Closet to The Pin

[G-Mo77]

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All midfielder types. We overlooked some KP options.

Look I'll put my hand up and say I know very little about the under 18's but I'm scratching my head we didn't go for a big. What happens if Boyd gets injured? Seems short sited to me.

[Webby]

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All midfielder types. We overlooked some KP options.

Does Dalrymple have a midget fetish or something?! FFS, get some height!!!!!!

[GVGjr]

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Does Dalrymple have a midget fetish or something?! FFS, get some height!!!!!!

Midfielders are typically the safer bet.

[F'scary]

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Does Dalrymple have a midget fetish or something?! FFS, get some height!!!!!!

Maybe Dalrymple was at the St Kilda players Mad Monday in 2013?

[LostDoggy]

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Lets remember we also picked up Zane, Hamling and Boyd this off season.

We lost Griffen Cooney and Higgins

Our selections seem focused on covering the above losses. Skills, Smarts and goal kicking midfielders.

I'm very happy.

[The Bulldogs Bite]

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Not sure on Caleb at all.

How many midgets do we need?

[Go_Dogs]

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Lets remember we also picked up Zane, Hamling and Boyd this off season.

We lost Griffen Cooney and Higgins

Our selections seem focused on covering the above losses. Skills, Smarts and goal kicking midfielders.

I'm very happy.

Spot on. One tall for balance would've been good, but can't knock our selections.

[G-Mo77]

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Lets remember we also picked up Zane, Hamling and Boyd this off season.

We lost Griffen Cooney and Higgins

Our selections seem focused on covering the above losses. Skills, Smarts and goal kicking midfielders.

I'm very happy.

That makes sense but it's not like our tall stocks are deep. We've got some talls there and very little are proven at AFL level that includes Brad Boyd.

[dog town]

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If they didn't rate any of the talls available at our picks then what would be the point in taking them? I share the concern that we have quite a few of the same type but there is some flexibility in them. Dahlhaus is due to go into the midfield, Hrovat will eventually and most of them have 1 or 2 unique skills that sets them apart from each other.

Has anyone noticed Dalrymple has no problem picking clean hands, good in traffic/evasive over kicking depth? Seems to rate guys who are clean with the ball and can get out of heavy traffic. The last 3 years are littered with guys like this. Macrae and Hamilton stand out as guys who are good users and quite evasive but not huge kicks. Good at keeping the ball.

[Nuggety Back Pocket]

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We lost a golden opportunity to draft a couple of two young key defenders through not having a draft selection until 26. Daniel Neilson was highly recommended as a key defender/ Forward to the club but was picked up by North at pick 25. The main early criticism has been the overall lack of height in our selections.

[Webby]

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Midfielders are typically the safer bet.

Fair comment. However a bit of a mix would be handy.

[GVGjr]

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Fair comment. However a bit of a mix would be handy.

I'd been advocating that for a few weeks. I still think we needed a KP player. Maybe the rookie draft will get us one.

[The Bulldogs Bite]

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I'd been advocating that for a few weeks. I still think we needed a KP player. Maybe the rookie draft will get us one.

Which would you have taken/in place of who?

McDonald instead of Daniel would have been my preferred option.

[Twodogs]

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If they didn't rate any of the talls available at our picks then what would be the point in taking them? I share the concern that we have quite a few of the same type but there is some flexibility in them. Dahlhaus is due to go into the midfield, Hrovat will eventually and most of them have 1 or 2 unique skills that sets them apart from each other.

Has anyone noticed Dalrymple has no problem picking clean hands, good in traffic/evasive over kicking depth? Seems to rate guys who are clean with the ball and can get out of heavy traffic. The last 3 years are littered with guys like this. Macrae and Hamilton stand out as guys who are good users and quite evasive but not huge kicks. Good at keeping the ball.

The first thing I noticed about Bailey Dale is his shuffle sideways out of trouble. It's pretty impressive.

I'm pretty happy with the players we have picked. I have high hopes for Webb. We traded in taller players in case it panned out like this I reckon. And we have quite a few developing talls on the list already.

[Remi Moses]

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Surprised they didn't pick up a key back to be honest.
Talia and Roberts need to step up now