stinger wrote:i had a close look at young joel selwood in the grandfinal.........he was involved in about 75 % of their goals....very, very creative player...i'd take a punt on the 4th one.....

I'm fairly sure Selwood will go after our first pick and before our second. There are more talented players out there.

Mr Magic wrote:Can he be delisted after 1 year? If so, would PA have to pay him out his second year?

He can definately be delisted. North and Essendon both delisted a player after one year last year. I'm not sure what happens with his contract.

I know as fact that what I stated is 100% true Then you shouldn't have any trouble telling us how you got this information. Personally, I think you're making stuff up again. I find it highly dubious that Thomas would be keen to give up a top ten pick plus a second round pick for a player that he'd ...

It's never a bad idea to increase the aerobic capacity of your midfield. Even if the focus was on wieghts, the Cats were clearly better able to run out games this year than in 06. Ablett and Bartel in particular played at a consistently high level which they never had before. The gameplan was better...

Quixote wrote:Would rather VR

Because...? Honestly, what has VR done, other than grow to be really tall?

yep, he is slow, limited by OP, and has a tendency to be overweight (a kind of slow midfielder version of lance whitnall) if he can turn his fitness and injuries around, he is probably as good as any skillful, slow paced midfielder going around. Whitnall's always had weight issues. Hasleby has only...

I expect King to be traded on the back of his GF to one of the many teams in need of a ruckman. Blake will be their number 2 next year as they try and defend their flag.

Jason Blake will be at St. Kilda next year.

2004 National Draft: pick 17 Andrew McQualter St Kilda pick 18 Cameron Wood Brisbane Pick 58 Brad Moran Kangaroos I'd much rather have Moran at this stage than Wood. Wood has played a fair few games at AFL level and has never really looked anything special. Moran hasn't had a lot of opportunities, ...

Why are people even talking about Brooks in this thread? The two elevations aren't guys who are going to be competing with Brooks for gametime. If Brooks stays, he'll be competing with Riewoldt, Koschitzke, Watts, Rix and Allen for game time.

I'm less concerned by Brooks lack of goals than I am by his lack of strength. Whether he plays up forward or in the ruck, I don't want to see him get bodied out of the way as easily as he has been in the past.

Melbourne should do that trade whether they get Judd or not. Pick 11 + Jolly for an enigmatic, inconsistent outside mid who's not that young anymore is an absolute steal.

Saints Premiers 2006 wrote:so pick 9 for pettard it is then

Keep the pick. Petterd's not that good. Ouside player, not particularly flash with his disposal, not overly quick. There are going to be better players available at pick 9.

Didn't he say he wouldn't deal our first round pick for Frawley?

had howard been a later selection, which i believe he couldve been, then pehaps i would be more lenient - really, to be selected around names such as petterd and davey, and to show less than every single one of our rookies i consider that to be below average - im not so much desputing the player, b...

Allen I would play up forward ... could be our Westhoff. There's a big difference between Westhoff and Allen. Westhoff played senior footy in the SANFL in 2006, Allen's hardly played senior footy at all. I like Allen a lot, I think he was an absolute steal at 59, but Watts and Brooks are probably m...

i think it could be better gaining frawley, or id prefer petterd and another one of those kids I'd rather have Rance or Collier than Frawley. Much more versatile players with better skills. Frawley will be a FB and should be a good one. Rance can play CHB and FB and run out of defence. Collier can ...

I'd rather keep pick nine. There should be a better player than Frawley or Petterd available at pick 9. Matt Kreuzer Trent Cotchin Chris Masten Rhys Palmer Cale Morton Brad Ebert Cyril Rioli Ben McEvoy Alex Rance That's nine guys. At least one of them will be available at pick nine, and I'd rather h...

We've had how many fitness gurus work with this group now? All of them reasonably well credentialled people. I'll start to get excited about our fitness people when we start to see some results. I'm not sure that our soft tissue woes can be entirely blamed on any fitness staff. The possibility has t...

Last I heard, Bond was looking at becoming an assistant out at Freo. To me, that would indicate Freo are going to play a very different brand of footy. If they have some success next year, Bond's name will shoot right to the top for any jobs that might open up. Longmire and Mckenna would, at the ver...

Even if there was a link, I'd have a hard time buying this rumour. I can't imagine Brooks being worth anything much after six years for ten games. If anyone was going to pick him up, I would have thought Melbourne, not West Coast might be interested. Bailey has some experience with Brooks, and Port ...

Thomas moves away from youth policy and decides to top up Rendell made the decision with Thomas's approval to recruit Brooks who we gave up pick 6 and pick 31 for as if pick 6 wasn't enough already Rendell also made the call on Ackland and Guerra while the decison to draft McGough was 100% Grant Th...

The mate of Alex Rance (who should be top 10 draft this year) said it all on BF when he stated that the only team not to talk to Rance so far was StKilda. If we are not even talking to top 10 drafts forget the crap about out bottom end picks or rookies. I'm not entirely surprised. We haven't drafte...

X has played 97 games in 6 years. In that time he's managed to get 20 touches just six times. He's been mauled by injuries the last few years. It's probably best if the club keeps fringe players with injury concerns on short-term deals. On the upside for X, if he plays a full 2008 season, he should ...

Max Bailey, Beau Dowler and Beau Muston are all extremely talented players coming back from serious injuries in recent years. They're all about 20-21. If Goose leave (and I still don't believe he will), then we should take a look at those three before any of the mediocre fringe players in their mid-...

BUT its not only the dud players we are TO SLOW to recognise - its also players who IMO we are afraid to make the hard decisions on. I don't think it's even the tough decisions. Somebody like James Gwilt could be playing AFL footy for a team that doesn't have as many good tall defenders as we do. B...