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2024 Draft Thread
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We should put our F1 on the table to try to get pick 2. Keep all our picks, don’t trade up, trade forward
I can't believe after all these years Rawlings is still there.
Lalor is a MID,he went forward because he came back under done,and was damaging .
Now this is the last time lm going to repeat this,but Lalor was mainly a inside mid who needed to improve his outside game,he did that after the champs last year.
Lalor has yet to do a full pre season at u18 level ,if anything very little,,his first 2 year's was because of cricket,23-24 pre season injury effected ,now his first 2 year's he wasn't injury effected which is quite surprising considering how hard he played .
Watching him in his last 2 coates matches prior to the injury match ,he was fine playing midfield ,he was building up fitness and finishing matches well.
Lalor is a elite kick elite mark for his height,elite defensive ,and his handball is very good and can get distance .
HE WONT BE THERE AT 6,,BECAUSE HE WILL BE TAKEN AT 1.
He is not like Rayner or Ainsworth...Robert.
How many games did he play each year?
Thanks for the Intel.
Huh ? Wrong poster old man !Lalor is a MID,he went forward because he came back under done,and was damaging .
Now this is the last time lm going to repeat this,but Lalor was mainly a inside mid who needed to improve his outside game,he did that after the champs last year.
Lalor has yet to do a full pre season at u18 level ,if anything very little,,his first 2 year's was because of cricket,23-24 pre season injury effected ,now his first 2 year's he wasn't injury effected which is quite surprising considering how hard he played .
Watching him in his last 2 coates matches prior to the injury match ,he was fine playing midfield ,he was building up fitness and finishing matches well.
Lalor is a elite kick elite mark for his height,elite defensive ,and his handball is very good and can get distance .
HE WONT BE THERE AT 6,,BECAUSE HE WILL BE TAKEN AT 1.
He is not like Rayner or Ainsworth...Robert.
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I saw him in a final and it's one match and he may have been carrying an injury. He was woeful. Soft.
4 in his first year 2022 as a 15/16 year old,he was in the bottom aged team for a few games that year ,and was AA at under 16 champs.
8 last year 2023 and played 2 at the champs as a 16 year old,l think he missed soime matches because of school.
Scoring in bunches…….what does that mean. Tell the numb nut author to write in ingrish
I’ve posted elsewhere that this is my hunch too….
Draper to Cartoon at 3 ….
If this occurs would Adelaide then try to spilt 4?!
Regards,
Stan
Good question, I like safety with our first pick and I want a ready to go midfielder, Smith the logical choice, Langford a good player but I'm wary about his lack of speed, it's enough to push him down ever so slightly. O'Sullivan has x-factor but is also error prone, usually off the back of trying to do too much. The ceiling is very high however, aerially he impresses me and I don't see any technical flaws with his kicking. Would he be worth trading up for? It really depends on the player mooted for pick 11, if it's a tall forward who might slip otherwise then by all means, Shanahan & Armstrong looks feasible under those circumstances.
What would be a fair trade that might interest Blair for p4? P6 and f4 or p10 and p20?
Thoughts
Was that the game I saw when Simms played mostly ruck and did his ankle at the start of the 3rd qtr. I weren't impressed either but i can't make an assessment on 2 qtrs of footy where he played ruck but is a forward.
It wouldn’t want to be any more. Or too much more, we’d probably offer 10 and 18
He sat out the combine so I have no idea about his running, if you are suggesting his endurance base is very good then that may vindicate the first selection, the Dusty bar around a 14 beep, I think De Goey was around 13, Rayner 11.Lalor is a MID,he went forward because he came back under done,and was damaging .
Now this is the last time lm going to repeat this,but Lalor was mainly a inside mid who needed to improve his outside game,he did that after the champs last year.
Lalor has yet to do a full pre season at u18 level ,if anything very little,,his first 2 year's was because of cricket,23-24 pre season injury effected ,now his first 2 year's he wasn't injury effected which is quite surprising considering how hard he played .
Watching him in his last 2 coates matches prior to the injury match ,he was fine playing midfield ,he was building up fitness and finishing matches well.
Lalor is a elite kick elite mark for his height,elite defensive ,and his handball is very good and can get distance .
HE WONT BE THERE AT 6,,BECAUSE HE WILL BE TAKEN AT 1.
He is not like Rayner or Ainsworth...Robert.
I think we should keep 20 and maybe use F2…. Maybe 11 and F2….
Allows us to use 18,20,23,24 to trade higher into next year or trade up this year or take kids that are “better on paper” than 2025.
And potentially allows us to get 2 as well.
Regards,
Stan
I am reading all this stuff and I haven't any idea as to what we are going to do. I have heard strong cases put forward for buying North's or even Adelaide's pick, and equally strong cases for not taking that course.
What seems pretty clear is that this is a going to be a great draft and there is a great equality and a lot of unknowns with a Dusty, Royce or a KB, likely to be there for us if Blair and Frank can get it right.
That given my sense is that we will have a plan, which won't include both options and that it will be to trade pick 24 on the second day of the draft.. and that will be it.
So far we have delisted 8. Coulthard and Cumberland are also likely to go while contracts for Dow and McIntosh look uncertain. Let's say 3 more will go so 11 delists in all.
The following would be great.
New: 11
Blight Gray
Draft pick 1 (Ashcroft) then Lalor;
6 Tauru then Langford;
10 and 11 Langford, Armstrong, Allan or Hotton in that order;
18 Hotton, Berry or Lindsay in that order;
20 J Whitlock or Faull in that order;
23 Any of the above in that order not yet drafted
and
24 traded to Ess for Melbourne's future first, and
pick 51 for Davidson and
psd x 1, El Nour:
What seems pretty clear is that this is a going to be a great draft and there is a great equality and a lot of unknowns with a Dusty, Royce or a KB, likely to be there for us if Blair and Frank can get it right.
That given my sense is that we will have a plan, which won't include both options and that it will be to trade pick 24 on the second day of the draft.. and that will be it.
So far we have delisted 8. Coulthard and Cumberland are also likely to go while contracts for Dow and McIntosh look uncertain. Let's say 3 more will go so 11 delists in all.
The following would be great.
New: 11
Blight Gray
Draft pick 1 (Ashcroft) then Lalor;
6 Tauru then Langford;
10 and 11 Langford, Armstrong, Allan or Hotton in that order;
18 Hotton, Berry or Lindsay in that order;
20 J Whitlock or Faull in that order;
23 Any of the above in that order not yet drafted
and
24 traded to Ess for Melbourne's future first, and
pick 51 for Davidson and
psd x 1, El Nour:
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All fair points but Armstrong has kicked bags of goals at all junior levels whereas you’re projecting a higher ceiling from Tauru who has primarily been played as a backman.If you're relying on him playing like Jeremy Cameron it's a big risk ILO.
He's a unicorn. An athletic and aerobic freak. Only Richo rivals him in players leysy has seen.
Not to mention his smarts and reading of the game, to know when and where to use himself.
Big ask for any player to try and replicate those traits and style.
Saying that, like you say he does know when to lead-up and he is a very good kick. Though Cleve Hughes was good at those two as well.
That’s a far greater risk imo.
