2016 Draft Watch

[bulldogtragic]

Re: 2016 Draft Watch

Anderson has suggested it's Marshall, English, C.Cox or Florent in the mix for our selections.

How would a ruckman Tim English be for our first selection?

If we have a chance where 'best available' is also our 'needs', then giddy up.

[comrade]

Re: 2016 Draft Watch

Tim English gives me Ayce Cordy flashbacks.

[GVGjr]

Re: 2016 Draft Watch

If we have a chance where 'best available' is also our 'needs', then giddy up.

To me it's a long shot on a few levels.
He's been touted as a top 10 pick for a while. Can he really slip that far?
He's a ruckman and we typically wait for later rounds
He's from WA and we don't tend to select boys from WA with early picks.

We do have a need for a ruckman though and unless we really want a more mature player he might make us have a rethink.

[LostDoggy]

Re: 2016 Draft Watch

Anderson has suggested it's Marshall, English, C.Cox or Florent in the mix for our selections.

How would a ruckman Tim English be for our first selection?

With 4 early selections and the need for a ruckman, I don't see GCS leaving out English.

[soupman]

Re: 2016 Draft Watch

Do not want English.

Skinny ruckman who've never played against men are not what I want to use our first round picks on. Ruck is the one position I feel you are just as likely to draft a solid prospect for from the rookie draft as you are the first round.

English is a bit of a different type of ruckman in that his agility and ball use is what sets him apart, but like Ayce Cordy and many others before him once you make him big enough to compete against men he loses some of his strengths, and like Cordy he may never be big enough anyway.

Besides, when people talk about how their cat is so great because it's practically a dog, I think why don't they just get a dog then? So when I hear a ruckman is so great because he's practically a midfielder, I question why don't they just draft a midfielder. Unless he's a really good ruckman as well, which I haven't really heard that he is, then I'm reluctant to use something of value on him.

[bulldogtragic]

Re: 2016 Draft Watch

More than anything, picks 18 & 26 obviously aren't at the pointy end. But the depth of players available has me excited about what we can get for our picks up top. And two late picks at 50 & 75 is the range where Dal does done some of his best work. I'm quite bullish about the draft and our picks.

[bulldogtragic]

Re: 2016 Draft Watch

Anyone have the list of our potential Category C rookies (if they remain non-drafted) for this draft period?

[comrade]

Re: 2016 Draft Watch

Happy draft week everybody.

[Topdog]

Re: 2016 Draft Watch

Holy crap I completely forgot that we used pick 14 on Cordy

[The Pie Man]

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Holy crap I completely forgot that we used pick 14 on Cordy

Gave him a 3 year contract at one point too

[comrade]

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Holy crap I completely forgot that we used pick 14 on Cordy

Clayton's parting gift to cap off his craptastic run of first rounders that included Higgins, Grant, & Everitt.

[hujsh]

Re: 2016 Draft Watch

Holy crap I completely forgot that we used pick 14 on Cordy

Should've let the Saints use the pick they bid for him. Would've blown our heads off at the time but would look wise in hindsight.

[LostDoggy]

Re: 2016 Draft Watch

Holy crap I completely forgot that we used pick 14 on Cordy

From memory Ayce's draft was one of the first where father/sons had to be taken in the round where rival teams bid for them. StKilda (and maybe one other team?) said they'd take him early so we were obliged to use a first rounder or pass on him. In hindsight, would've been a great result to have passed and left StKilda obligated to use an early pick.

[soupman]

Re: 2016 Draft Watch

From memory Ayce's draft was one of the first where father/sons had to be taken in the round where rival teams bid for them. StKilda (and maybe one other team?) said they'd take him early so we were obliged to use a first rounder or pass on him. In hindsight, would've been a great result to have passed and left StKilda obligated to use an early pick.

It was just St.Kilda who put an official bid in and they had the pick prior to us.

[bulldogtragic]

Re: 2016 Draft Watch

Last year we missed on Lobbe (thank god). So our equation in the end was Lobbe (pick 11) or Dunkley & Collins (11 for 20/21).

This year we missed on Hurley, and you'd think they'd have wanted 18 & 26 for the AA CHB. It will be interesting in the years ahead whether if/when we nail two very good young players (and maybe a free agent with the cash next year) as to whether missing on Hurley might be a blessing in disguise.