I love how people in this thread just declare things with such immense and completely unearned confidence.
Doesn’t make any sense we have Vigo and Bryan as rucks also Blakiston,May,McMahon,Wright
The issue has always been “what is ‘best available’”
Tsatas, Hird. Really depends where it ends up ….
I imagine (hope) that it also depends very much on how the recruiters view the pool. If they see this draft similar to how I do then there are a group of very similarly rated prospects that we’ll be able to pick from at 5 + 6. In that scenario, it makes sense to draft for needs from within that group.
I’d suggest needs isn’t just positional as well.
Who will be the Murphy Reid of this draft?? Any guesses out there. Would be fantastic if we jagged a good news story as compared to someone who is perennially injured / can’t football
Based on the snippets of info I hear + read from pundits, as well as general vibe/mabo I’m pretty confident in saying we’re going to take Dyson Sharp with one of our picks. Feel like Cal was conditioning as such today on Gettable.
Also found it interesting when they were discussing a Dons trade up with WCE and Cal made a comment ‘it might be for someone else’ instead of CDT at pick 2. Have to think that it’s either Xavier Taylor or Robey?
I think it depends on a bunch of things, and on the recruiters themselves. Best available for a team that favours an outside game and prioritises precision kicking won’t be the same as for a team that prioritises contested ball etc. and each individual on a recruiting team likely has slightly different biases regarding skill sets and physical attributes. That then has to be overlayed with the team’s gameplan and lust management position to come up with a list of “the players we want to draft”. I’ve been on a rant today, so apologies, it’s just that the whole beat available stuff does my head in, and has for years. People have spent so long arguing that we shouldn’t overlook the best available for needs, and then arguing that we got it wrong because we overlooked best available for needs, and the whole thing is based on a false assumption that anyone knows what the best available even is. Especially in a year like this year when at 5 and 6 we’ll be picking from a group of somewhat flawed prospects with a bunch of high quality attributes.
Isn’t it a weak draft?
So are we back to no Robey?
The more picks we have the better chance at grabbing a superstar
Consensus is Richmond will take him
Crazy to think July 23rd, no Robey in the top 20.
So Cal suggested Ludowyke is seen as the 2nd best KPF in the draft, and that some think he’s the best. @noobermensch only video appears to be awful (turnover, dropped chest mark etc that somehow became 4 goals from 11 disposals. Apparently injured in the second half of the year. Is he really a pick 15 or so?
Had he even played a CTL game at that stage?
He’s pretty talented. To my eyes he improved significantly from bottom age to top age. He had an issue with double grabbing marks, but this year was a lot more secure. His movement around the forward 50 is fantastic for a 197cm kid. His craft is excellent. He’s not as much of a contested marker, more a lead up forward. Has a knack of always hitting the scoreboard.
I wouldnt have him ahead of Schubert myself, but I can see why some would prefer him, depending on what other types they already have in their forward line.
someone on here reckons we’ve spoken to him a fair bit
Because our key forwards are spectacular?
We have one genuine prospect in Caddy then absolutely nothing.
Then why the f*ck are they on the list?