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2024 Draft Thread
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Murphy Reid is a 200 gamer guaranteed
He could play the bachar houli role right now at the least
Reckon he ends up a silky mid if he furnishes
Cleanest silkiest player in the draft this year
He could play the bachar houli role right now at the least
Reckon he ends up a silky mid if he furnishes
Cleanest silkiest player in the draft this year
It’s close I reckon. Sims the genuine forward but Nicholls more flexibility. Sims maybe a bit more polished but Nicholls a better clunker, I think.
Both are interesting prospects.
Think his field kicking is fine, just needs to work on his set shot technique.
Some of the boys on here wouldn’t be happy with him.
He plays for Caulfield Grammer
For the role he plays, reckon his height is absolutely no issue - Not going by the history of topline midfeilders.
Stacks of the really good one's his height or shorter. A quick look through the All Aus teams of the past 7 or so years:
Errol Gulden 175cm
Zach Merrett 179cm
Zak Butters 181cm
Caleb Serong 180cm
Touk Miller 178cm
Lachie Neale 178cm
Darcy Parish 180cm
Tom Mitchell 181cm
Dayne Zorko 175cm
Dylan Shiel 182cm
Dan Hanneberry 181
Josh Daicos 178cm
There will be a heap of others as well. That was a quick 5 min glance. You have lots of others like Luke Parker, Rory Sloane, Steele Sidebottom etc who are that 182/3 cm mark.
You could actually make an argument the lower centre of gravity helps their ground ball game.
Either way, height is no impediment to being a star in that midfield role.
SA played the first half like there life depended on it,the third quarter they started slowing down ,last quarter it was left to far few ,and made a few VM player''s look better than what they where.
VM just had too much quality across the lines.
If you look at it, most of them weren't taken mega early either.
Reckon if you took the time to research it, there might be an argument height is overplayed by recruiters and there's an edge drafting midfielders that slide on the basis of height - Maybe.
Reckon if you took the time to research it, there might be an argument height is overplayed by recruiters and there's an edge drafting midfielders that slide on the basis of height - Maybe.
Who cares how tall they are. Most of those guys are absolute beasts. Even Josh Daicos absolutely built. Jagga does not have that build. He will put on something of course but looks more like a Kevin Bartlett wirey muscle than a bulldog.
Yeah that’s nice Nobets, and fair enough in some respects, but for proper assessment can you give us the failures of those 180-182 and under in each of those drafts too ?
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They all do these days. If you're good at footy you're scholarshipped-up. Wouldn't be too many drafted working-class boys since Dusty, possibly Treloar, who went to a rough state high school.
