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dragit wrote:Don't think I will ever recover if we take McCartin and he flops while Petracca becomes the gun that everybody is predicting.
We don't want to risk taking a raging bull mid/fwd with a hip problem, but we'll take the chance on an overweight, diabetic & injury prone full forward that is 3 inches shorter than the other key forwards coming through the system.
I'll be gutted if this happens.
Maybe the other forwards are to tall. Rooy and Roughead were about the best forwards this year and they are 193cm. As for being a diabetic well that matters as much as being a left footer. The overweight thing is an advantage because he wont be allowed to be overweight when playing AFL footy so he should become quicker, faster and fitter.
dragit wrote:Don't think I will ever recover if we take McCartin and he flops while Petracca becomes the gun that everybody is predicting.
We don't want to risk taking a raging bull mid/fwd with a hip problem, but we'll take the chance on an overweight, diabetic & injury prone full forward that is 3 inches shorter than the other key forwards coming through the system.
I'll be gutted if this happens.
Maybe the other forwards are to tall. Rooy and Roughead were about the best forwards this year and they are 193cm. As for being a diabetic well that matters as much as being a left footer. The overweight thing is an advantage because he wont be allowed to be overweight when playing AFL footy so he should become quicker, faster and fitter.
He's not overweight, just needs to get a bit more definition. Three months in an AFL system will see him right. He's got some growing to do as well, I'm told. Paddy will shape up, he's not that far off now.
I started with nothing and I've got most of it left!
dragit wrote:Don't think I will ever recover if we take McCartin and he flops while Petracca becomes the gun that everybody is predicting.
We don't want to risk taking a raging bull mid/fwd with a hip problem, but we'll take the chance on an overweight, diabetic & injury prone full forward that is 3 inches shorter than the other key forwards coming through the system.
I'll be gutted if this happens.
+1
Twomey has him coming to us...sounds like he's had some mail
Not trading for Picks 4 and 6(7) will look even stupider if we take McCartin
Our recruiters are effectively saying:
McCartin > Petracca > Wright and Pickett
Seriously hope we're wrong here, but I reckon the Boyd deal has spooked them and the recruitment staff have been sucked in by what a great story McCartin is...overcoming Diabetes (which is an issue btw!) and organizing his life etc etc
Take the gun midfielder set to be the next Judd FFS
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dragit wrote:Don't think I will ever recover if we take McCartin and he flops while Petracca becomes the gun that everybody is predicting.
We don't want to risk taking a raging bull mid/fwd with a hip problem, but we'll take the chance on an overweight, diabetic & injury prone full forward that is 3 inches shorter than the other key forwards coming through the system.
I'll be gutted if this happens.
+1
Twomey has him coming to us...sounds like he's had some mail
Not trading for Picks 4 and 6(7) will look even stupider if we take McCartin
Our recruiters are effectively saying:
McCartin > Petracca > Wright and Pickett
Seriously hope we're wrong here, but I reckon the Boyd deal has spooked them and the recruitment staff have been sucked in by what a great story McCartin is...overcoming Diabetes (which is an issue btw!) and organizing his life etc etc
Take the gun midfielder set to be the next Judd FFS
dragit wrote:Don't think I will ever recover if we take McCartin and he flops while Petracca becomes the gun that everybody is predicting.
We don't want to risk taking a raging bull mid/fwd with a hip problem, but we'll take the chance on an overweight, diabetic & injury prone full forward that is 3 inches shorter than the other key forwards coming through the system.
I'll be gutted if this happens.
+1
Twomey has him coming to us...sounds like he's had some mail
Not trading for Picks 4 and 6(7) will look even stupider if we take McCartin
Our recruiters are effectively saying:
McCartin > Petracca > Wright and Pickett
Seriously hope we're wrong here, but I reckon the Boyd deal has spooked them and the recruitment staff have been sucked in by what a great story McCartin is...overcoming Diabetes (which is an issue btw!) and organizing his life etc etc
Take the gun midfielder set to be the next Judd FFS
The club has always said they will take the best player.....Industry is saying its Christian Petracca.....Saints view might be different, I am hoping it is Petracca, either way I think Saints and Demons will have the 3 best players in this years draft.
I don't see why if we go with Petracca we cant pick up another Key Forward later on for pick 21/22, apparently there are a few....Mckenzie being touted around ??
Feel sick in the guts at the thought of drafting McCartin. What in the hell are they thinking? The modern game demands players being able to play multiple positions. Where is chubby fat ass Mccartin going to play apart from full forward? Can anyone show me one highlight where he looks half athletic.
Let's put up a poll after draft day, for posterity, for those who voted Petracca and those who backed in the recruitment staff on McCartin......refer to it in 5 years time.
First pick is a list managers greatest dream and worst nightmare....and I reckon ours are about to blink.
dragit wrote:Don't think I will ever recover if we take McCartin and he flops while Petracca becomes the gun that everybody is predicting.
We don't want to risk taking a raging bull mid/fwd with a hip problem, but we'll take the chance on an overweight, diabetic & injury prone full forward that is 3 inches shorter than the other key forwards coming through the system.
I'll be gutted if this happens.
But what happens if we take petracca and mccartin is the best key forward in the competition and is intsrumental in winning premierships for melbourne? Same logic applies wouldnt want to elshaug at all but possibly that explains all the lengthy interviews with both
The guy who is taken at pick 59 might become the best player in the comp, but right now we should take the player who is most likely to become the best - which has widely been accepted as petracca for months…
If we choose someone else and get it wrong we are a complete basket case.
Pull yourself together son.
What if the internet is wrong...and real people are right?
Razor wrote:Feel sick in the guts at the thought of drafting McCartin. What in the hell are they thinking? The modern game demands players being able to play multiple positions. Where is chubby fat ass Mccartin going to play apart from full forward? Can anyone show me one highlight where he looks half athletic.
See this is where it just gets silly.
I get that you want Petracca. I get that 90% or so of the "experts" probably have Petracca going at #1.
But that same 90% or so of the "experts" probably have McCartin going at #2 of at the latest #3.
Why would that be the case if he was simply an unathletic, chubby full forward?
Regardless of who you want at pick 1 the "experts" all agree that McCartin is a talented young footballer with a big career ahead of him.
Is it really necessary to put the kid down, especially as he's a realistic chance to come to us?