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2024 Draft Thread
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Played 9 senior and 11 reserves WAFL games last year. Inspired selection.
Still reckon the first-round pick swap and then selection of Max Holmes he did is just about the best draft move done.
Certainly on draft night.
Unbelievable the audacity to do that. He's just about the best young player in the game now.
He played the ressies finals because he qualified by playing earlier in the year. Not questioning that it was a great pick, just that there is a bit of mayo put on it.
https://www.afl.com.au/news/1217618...hries-leap-from-wa-ressies-to-big-time-finals
I checked the history of Holmes a while ago and Cal Twomey had him as a last minute entry into the 20s in his draft rankings after him not being ranked by anyone during the year. He must have seen or heard something.
This is one of Zips favorite move's by us (Not). Gets him going all the time...and who could argue that now.
Tony Braxton-Hicks
There are no stupid ideas, just stupid people
I am sure evry player would prefer the former.
Not sure how brownlows came into it, not sure they are a sign of selfishness. And plenty have won both. Given an individual is only one of more than 20 in a team on game day it's hard to expect one player to be able to single handedly control premiership outcomes (dusty obviously excluded)
Jagga & FOS have a very complimentary partnership going, hoping we get both. Add Lalor so all future arguments can be around who is the better tigers footballer.
Yep Holmes played 1 Coates match in his bottom-age year all the rest school footy.
Then 9 Coates games in his injury interrupted draft year averaging 15 possessions, 1 tackle and no goals.
He did test the lights out at the combine for speed (2.80 sec for 20m) and endurance (athletics background).
But imagine if we swapped a future first round pick for pick 20 in a poor draft and selected someone with the above credentials that nearly everyone had going very late/rookie.
PRE would self combust.
But that is the genius of Wells.
when I heard that Holmes mum was Lee Naylor, that's when I knew we had screwed up big time
Not being racist, but a white woman making the Olympics quarter finals twice in the 400m means his bloodlines where lightening quick
His uncle Shane Naylor was a 10.2 100m runner as well. Won a silver medal in the 1994 Commenwealth Games 4 x 100m relay.
Good effort by Bo Allan this week in high standard football.
Great size, he tackles for keeps and has good toe. His kicking whilst long, will be suspect to breaking down a bit though ILO.
Great size, he tackles for keeps and has good toe. His kicking whilst long, will be suspect to breaking down a bit though ILO.
It was based on best guess. Holmes had played one game of footy in 2 years so hadn't been seen since 2018 in any real football. He's family had huge disagreements with Sandy Dragons as they wanted him playing/training at Dragons and he was chasing his athletics and they weren't keen to give him much latitude.
Re: Wells - yeah lol.
And no not an Armstrong fan. Not at all TBH for where many have him going.
Sorry you are correct. He did only play one Coates game and a couple at school in the two years before getting drafted.
His draft year was of course a wipeout due to Covid. Posted before he played more.
Makes Wells move for him even more amazing. Balls of steel backing himself in like that.
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Of all the big bodied mids in the juniors touted as the next Cripps or Bont, I thought he looked the most likely. In the sense that you can see him lining up in the middle in round one next year. He's ready to go, bursting out of packs.
Unfortunately it's not luck, it is an ongoing reality. They (the northern state teams) will be getting these freebies every year. Year after year.Marshall another 27 disposals and a goal yesterday, Brisbane have been kissed on the *smile*
It's almost like that's what the "independent" AFL commission wants, as it ensures the NSW and QLD teams never need to bottom out thus ensuring the AFL will make more money.
