Milne not in the top 10% of small forwards ... hmmm

I have also pondered along similar lines. If a club is in "development cycle" then you can give many young players a run in the seniors under the banner of "let's see what they can do at the highest level" and if you lose then so be it. The problem is that when you are going for ...

C'mon Molly - pull through mate.

I'm talking Goddard, Dal Santo, Fisher, Montagana ... No one will be interested in Riewoldt, Kossie, Milne. . Sheer madness. I am quite pleased that Pelchen is managing our list rather that yourself. Drafting kids is always high risk. If you have stars you do not give the away for drat picks...half...

I'm talking Goddard, Dal Santo, Fisher, Montagana ... No one will be interested in Riewoldt, Kossie, Milne. . Sheer madness. I am quite pleased that Pelchen is managing our list rather that yourself. Drafting kids is always high risk. If you have stars you do not give the away for drat picks...half...

Good point ACE. With the better draft coming up in 2012 we need to have some on the list to delist. if you get my meaning. I think I do get your meaning and I feel the same way. We give it a red-hot go next year but if we don't win the flag we have to engineer early draft picks. This will mean trad...

I was about 7 and asked my mother who she barracked for. She didn't follow football at all and the first team that came into her head was St Kilda. So I said I would barrack for them too.

and now 52 years later I still say to my mother "why St Kilda !!".

You have Ben and Kosi If something happens to one of them you have Stanley If something happens to both of them you also have Archer If something happens to all three of them you have Blake If something happens to all four of them, you have Jay Lever, raw but tall. Also Staley looks like he has ruc...

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We could have taken a back-up (of dubious quality) but instead we took mid-fielders (of dubious quality). Which of the new mid-fielders (none of whom have played yet) do you believe are not up to it? I think you are missing the point. All rookies are particularly speculative as they have been overl...

I understand that we are rolling the dice. I hope we get through with McEvoy, Kossie etc. But if we don't then we have only ourselves to blame. We could have taken a back-up (of dubious quality) but instead we took mid-fielders (of dubious quality). Fingers crossed that McEvoy stays healthy. We are ...

But you still need a plug for the sink rather than a vase for the flowers.
We need RUCKMEN !!

I'm quite concerned over lack of ruckmen to be honest. Over the past few years we've dropped Gardiner, King, Pattison, McGrath and Gaertner and haven't recruited one ruckman to cover them. We've got an up and coming a-grader in McEvoy, a couple of serviceable pinch-hitters in Kosi and Blake and an ...

I'm quite concerned over lack of ruckmen to be honest. Over the past few years we've dropped Gardiner, King, Pattison, McGrath and Gaertner and haven't recruited one ruckman to cover them. We've got an up and coming a-grader in McEvoy, a couple of serviceable pinch-hitters in Kosi and Blake and an ...

No reason we are not up for a tilt at the flag if the cards fall our way and others don't kick on. Geelong will struggle to cover the retirements etc. Pies could go either way. Carlton and west coast should improve again. Freo should bolt if injury free. We had a terrible injury run this year and s...

I'll take 2 thanks.

Scollop wrote:What do you think of Jack Crisp?
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/e ... 6191970536

Got to be a big chance as he is training with us so we will get a good look at him.

the idea makes sense, but he has played only 3 games for brisbane who weren't that good in 2011 (admittedly behind leuenberger). anyone know why he was delisted? Brisbane supporters on Bigfooty had mixed reactions to his delisting. Those for him thought he was worth keeping as a back-up. Those agai...

Broc McCauley from Brisbane.
In round 5 against us had 18 disposals and 36 hit outs.
McEvoy had 16 disposals and 16 hit outs.

At 25 years old and 202cm could be worth a rookie spot.

I like what they are saying about Jack Newnes.

I know there are many other posts regardng the rookie draft but as i sit here today im realy hoping that we do recruit a ruck ready made that is Totally agree. Need some sort of cover in case McEvoy and/or Kossie suffer injuries. Bit surprised Archer didn't get elevated to the senior list. Another ...

If we are going to have a red-hot go at the flag next year while Hayes, Riewoldt, Goddard, Dal Santo, Fisher, Montagna, Kossie, Milne still have a little left in the tank then I think we need short-term fixes to obvious risk areas. Ruck - if McEvoy and Kossie suffer injuries we at least need some bi...

To quote Emma Quayle, "Clubs have big decisions to make this year, especially if they're looking for talls; while there are lots around, they all come with flaws to fix. The midfielders seem a 'safer' group." To show how compromised this draft was, GWS had first go at it last year and took...

All the people in the know have said over and over it was a poor draft for talls. So why would we take talls who are not likely to make it? The midfielders were a stronger group so that is the way we went. Lever is the exception and of course Wilkes to give us a back up key position player. 8.5/10 f...

plugger66 wrote:

SainterK wrote:Nothing yet, as it's just a nab cup trial.

(In before plugger66)

Sensible answer. Better to trial it in practice games and at least look at it.

Why?