Pick 48

You made your point.

Agree with everyone and they will stop discussing/arguing with me :grinning:

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True.

Soooo, … best available,…regardless of type… :wink:

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Is next year’s draft considered to better for talls or mids?

:wink:
Yes, but leaning more towards the chance of a gun tall than a gun small.
And if we pick another 193cm player…you know…guitar smashing etc.

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Won the Sandover medal this year. Was a rookie at fremantle in 2012 and 2013 but never played a game. Averaged 28 disposals and just over a goal a game this year.

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I made a pretty detailed post earlier in the thread about talls. In summary, we are well stocked for most KP roles, but have need of a young KPF to take over from Hooker in 3-4 years. Either we draft one this year or next, but if we wait any longer we are going to have issues in 2020/2021.

Don’t expect pick 48 in a weak draft to be a short term needs pick. A late midfielder is going to have deficiencies that generally hold them back for some time. It’s the reason they tend to slip.

It really should be used on the best upside available. If the best available happens to be a tall forward then do it, we will have the need. If the best is an inside mid, then our 2019 midfield becomes stronger.

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Wouldn’t want to be standing too close when she did or you’d get covered in poison!!

What a load

There were no fewer than 6 big guys in the top goalkickers from this year who were late picks:
Hooker (50s)
Ben Brown (50s)
Membrey (pick 46)
Taylor Walker (pick 75)
Josh Jenkins (rookie)
Casboult (rookie)

When you add smalls…
Robbie Gray (50s)
Eddie Betts (PSD)
Fantasia (50s)

It makes it abundantly obvious your point is a load of old bollocks.

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Probably shouldn’t count Walker given he was a NSW scholarship pick.

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Wasn’t the system then that guys could be picked prior, if another club wanted them?
You may well be right though.

yess

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Nope he was tied to them from when he was about 14. Then they were entitled to take him with their last pick in the draft.

He tested at the combine. He can be picked up in the draft too.

Yeah but isn’t that also the argument for a young KPP that we have for depth to go elsewhere.

Interesting comments around a smaller setup.

Maybe that tall forward isn’t required after all.

Essendon great Tim Watson believes Cale Hooker will spend time in defence next season, despite becoming a force at centre half forward.

It’s been assumed Hooker, who won the Bombers’ best and fairest splitting time between defence and attack in 2015 and kicked 41 goals last season as a permanent centre half forward, will again play forward in 2018. He was an All-Australian defender in 2014.

But Watson believes the success of Richmond’s smaller forwardline could force a rethink.

“I think he’ll go back at some stage,” he told SEN Breakfast.

“Last season they went against the modern set-up a bit by playing three talls in Joe Daniher, Hooker and James Stewart.

“You can build a fowardline around someone like Joe Daniher.”

Daniher, flanked by the likes of Orazio Fantasia, Anthony McDonald-Tipingwuti, Josh Green and Travis Colyer is an enticing prospect for an Essendon side looking to return to finals for a second consecutive season.

The Bombers have not won a final since 2004.

Last month Essendon skipper Dyson Heppell went on the record to say Hooker would play forward next season.

Between them, Daniher and Hooker combined for 106 goals, or 33 percent, of the side’s total goals in 2017.

Hooker finished ninth in the best and fairest and has kicked 61 goals from his past 32 matches playing up forward since switching midway through the 2015 season.

Both Watson and SEN Breakfast co-host Garry Lyon agreed that next year was as important one for the club and coach John Worsfold.

After the West Coast premiership coach guided the Bombers through the suspension year, then successfully orchestrated a finals appearance last season, expectations are high on the back of an aggressive recruiting campaign that netted Devon Smith, Jake Stringer and Adam Saad.

“This is the first year that there is a clean slate for Worsfold,” Watson said.

“There aren’t the compromised parts of the team or the organisation that he’s had in previous years.”

Essendon commences its 2018 campaign against last season’s runner-up Adelaide at Etihad Stadium on Friday, March 23.

Did you miss SEN Breakfast with Garry Lyon and Tim Watson this morning? Listen to the full show in the player below!

Right. Make that 5 good big forwards.

Centre half forward?
Wha?

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Yeah Centre Half forward is a bit redundant in today’s game.

Tall forward is probably more appropriate.