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We rated Ben 2nd pick. Great endurance. King coming to the end. Gardiner unreliable. Starting the ruckman project a few years ahead. 3 years development required.
Ben is very coordinated.
Pick 42. Jack Steven. Interesting one. Bottom age, just made draft age. Peake noticed him earlier in the year. He developed well through the year. Got speed, endurance. Can kick goals. Likened to Paul Chapman.
Pick 57. Fraser Gehrig. Peake hasnt spoken to him. Is he wanted at stkilda, yes. Ross spoke to him. Peake believes his body has a couple of years left. In his mind maybe one or two.
Pick 70. Eljay Connors. Dashing, quick, left footer wingman. Very impressive early. Got injured so went off radar. Bevo and Peak continued to watch him when he continued.
Quality of draft. Cream is always good. The draft was rather shallow. These boys will take a bit longer.
Heath of the club. pretty good. everyones up and about except for matt maguire with the foot fractures.
Sounds good, looks like we went for the ruck prospect as well as some players who may take a few years to come on well, the first true test of Danny Sexton's development program.
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I think they wanted HENDERSON...did you see our recuiters reaction when Brisbane took HENDERSOn directly before us. I got the impression that he was whom the SAINTS would have taken at #9 if available...
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WinnersOnly wrote:I think they wanted HENDERSON...did you see our recuiters reaction when Brisbane took HENDERSOn directly before us. I got the impression that he was whom the SAINTS would have taken at #9 if available...
i didnt see it...how did you?
wouldnt be too surprised...Henderson had been very strongly linked with us for quite a while...glad we went with the ruckman
from memory we did pause for a good minute before picking though
similar thing happened last year as well. i have a no doubt we wanted Joel Selwood and needed to relook our lists when he was picked two in front of us.
McEvoy was the guy they had in mind all along at pick 9, although if Myers had slipped through they may have snapped him up. But realistically, that was never going to happen.
McEvoy was the guy they had in mind all along at pick 9, although if Myers had slipped through they may have snapped him up. But realistically, that was never going to happen.
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he said something like we rated ben 2nd pick...i think
I wonder who we rated #1 then... Kreuzer or Cotchin? Or someone else?
We would have rated Kreuzer No1 for St Kilda because we were after a ruckman as priority.....
we would have taken him him at 1... doesn't necessarily mean we rated him at 1
I would have thought that we may have rated McEvoy number 2 of the players we may have been a chance of getting. In other words we wouldnt have included Kreuzer and one or two others because we were no hope of getting them.