#30 - Nate Caddy - thru 2028

He’s definitely grown and bulked up since drafted. Genuine KP size now, but still appears that he has his mobility, and is now judging the flight better.

He’ll be in the ones soon , and may not leave. And he’ll suit our current habit of kicking to a pack contest inside 50 as the default.

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We will just need a decent crumber to clean up his scraps from the marks he doesn’t clunk.

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It’s the most glaring need for the list as a stand alone issue. It might be Jayden. I don’t think it will be Alwyn.

It would’ve been Moz :face_with_symbols_over_mouth:

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Thought his aerial precence was great yesterday. His kicking for goal worries me though, its not great. Should fit right in.

I really hope he gets a gig against WCE.

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The first shot he had from inside 50 didn’t make the distance. That’s a little concerning given the 50 at Windy Hill probably isn’t actually 50. Compare that to Motlop who sent one through post height from the same distance.

Fingers crossed his kicking distance will improve as he gets stronger and we can coach him to be an accurate kick. He looks like he needs to develop a good routine.

I wouldn’t worry about that, he can kick it a long way he must have miss hit it, distance on kicking is one of his strengths. The other thing i like is how strong he seems already playing against grown men, this should transfer to senior football when he ages, i really think he’ll follow a similar build to curnow. I liked at the end how he said I’m dumb, i don’t care about getting hurt on the footy field’.

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https://x.com/charliedons/status/1800006392683864546?s=46&t=yfIMIPcIchLUazwpjEMkcw

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BRING

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Out: Peter

In: Caddy

a forward that actually forwards…what is this sorcery?!

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Caddy would lose a limb to take a mark bring him the fark in will offer way more then 2meek Peter

If he can fill out like curnow, he could definitely give the opposition some headaches

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If only we had a need for a super competitive aerial marking threat in the team.

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dodoro’s moby ■■■■

The issue is if you remove 2MP (as some are suggesting) for him then you need a second ruck and you have to replace someone else and the structure can be messed up.

So you then look at replacing Jones with Caddy and 2MP with Draper (if he is ready to go). Whether that’s what Scott will do is anyones guess. He seems to be trying to give Jones every chance to get things right.

Agree high on the priority list should be a kpf/ruck

Ones that can take contested marks would be nice too.

This is what we’re doing with Visenti, isn’t it?

Yes but it will be quite a while before he would be ready (if he reaches that level). I assume he is meaning to get someone who is ready made if available.

Poaching a good fwd/ruck is one of the harder things to do. I mean - one that is better at it than P.W - who is possibly a better ruck than forward.