And Parish entering his fourth season only now has a body shape comparable to a Menengola or other mature age picks to play inside mid.
As for Francisā¦
Leaving Essendon Tablett Jnrās first few years vs Tim Kelly, Stewart, or Menengolaā first couple of seasons- not comparable.
The next two years will sort out just how good that draft will be.
Parish is progressing exactly the way I expect. Not everyone can be Zac Merretts and Oliver. He finally has a big body for his natural inside mid game so I now expect him to flourish.
I think in a retrospective draft Weitering would go very high. Obviously a lot of players ranked lower are now better players, but the list is projecting into the future, and KPP like Weitering and McKay for that matter are a lot further from the finished product than the mids from that draft.
Weitering has shown very, very little to suggest he will be a gun KPP. You guys are being very, very easy on him. I personally think heās average. If I had never known a thing about him, Iād say he was probably a 3rd-4th round pick
Iāll put in a word in defence of Knightmare (who is generally a solid and honest draft commentator who isnāt afraid to put his own views out there even if they might contradict the conventional wisdomā¦)
The word Iām hearing around the grapevine is that basically every AFL club is staggered how badly weitering has been developed by Fark Carlton and reckon that itās only the environment thatās been holding him back. Which conveniently squares perfectly well with my personal assessment of Weiteringās talent. Fair also to say that Knightmare is rating talls on potential here (which is fair, for a 2015 draft retrospective), with blokes like Weitering, MacKay, and even Franga in the top 20 when their on-field production is still lagging behind their potential.
Tippa has now been featured in three consecutive of Knightmareās top 20 picks, itās hard to argue heās been ignored. Parish ā¦ yeah, you can make the case there, but hell, thereās plenty of people even on here who donāt seem to particularly rate him. Even though I stand by my initial opinion that heās going be an extraordinarily productive mid for a very long time, itās fair to say thatās not a unanimously held opinion.