2024 Draft Thread

[Judge Smailes]

Love this from Blair, he's still working....

 

[jayfox]

Sorry all you like mate, at one point phantoms had Melbourne taking him 5, I like Armstong not at 5 but love the selection at pick 23.
Drafting is all about mail on who goes where and what your needs are which doesn't always equate to where they are ranked on talent.
IMO RFC wanted the most competitive and aggressive forward and deemed it to be Faull, is he good enough? don't know but fills the brief. They were pleasantly surprised to get a slider they ranked highly.
Not fussed if you hate the pick but just passing on quoted comment from Geisch.

We hardly need to add spin when we had so many picks.

Yep, sorry, Dunno what I was thinking.

 

[Dyer'ere]

Love this from Blair, he's still working....

This Blair Hartley fellow is something, Your Honour.

I hope I live to see him president. Of the USA. I mean RFC.

 

[Brettstigers]

OK, Leysy's gunna play the grinch.

Like to think am reasonably centered and level headed when it comes to being positive/negative when comes to supporting our club. But can't help but come away feeling somewhat disappointed with tonight.

Am not going to go hard at the player taken as understand how much goes into it from the club vs what leysy sees from watching the odd game live and replays on Coates/AFL app - (though Faull at 12 Vs Viking at 8 seems way too small given the discrepancy in talent/ceiling).

But more so where our list is at Vs what we have got in tonight.

We've lost all our best run and spark footballers - Bakes, Shai, Daniel (and Dusty) The one's who overlap and create. They are the type that create scoring opportunities and therefore win you games of football in this era.

This adding to the worst midfield in the country. By a mile. So getting to our draft tonight:

- First two picks - midfield bulls with footskills and other qualities. No issue.
- Then a transition runner - fine. But in rehab coming off a knee with 5 other mates on the list doing the same?
- Then a tall, who whilst having a well-rounded game, leaves some elite running talent on the board.
- All other clubs go small. Not a tall taken between 11 and 18 which means remaining high quality running players/mids are all gone (bar Dattoli - who's pace in ? mark). Not sure we budgeted that.
- Take Trainor - Great talent but a key back, less of a need than rest of the list. Concussion risk.
- Take Armstrong - went at about where his mark is ( ridiculed earlier for suggesting so). But another 195cm forward to add to Faull, Gray, Lefau, Fawcett, Bauer etc.

Then trade out with North. Fantastic trade. Blair's wheelhouse and well played.

Overall snapshot - We've gone tall and slow when the league is moving short and fast. GWS - Run, Run, Run with there three picks. Sydney same. Apart from a knee reco recovery we have added nothing to replace what we've lost.

In fact, until the final pick we were the only team tonight to take anyone 195cm or more (3 times). Not one other club did. Not once.

This from a team that had the worst midfield/running team, which is about to get a hell of a lot worse. The contrast from 17-20 to now is staggering.

Yes we can start to address that chronic run in coming years. But we have a completely unbalanced list that is against where football is moving. We are in for some fearful beltings next year.

Buckle in.

Rant over!

My only addition to this is that talls take longer to develop - and we have certainly gone tall. Perhaps that will mean that all of the dish will be hot, by the time we pull the ingredients together.

 

[TigerFlag2017]

Very happy we took two first round tall forwards.

Excluding Lynch, we have the worst stock of forwards in the league.

Hopefully eventuates that Balta stays back. If Gibcus can come good, our spine is set.

 

[nikolasmia]

Biggest adder of our draft hand is that it cements balta and gibcus as defenders

This fantasy of them making it as kpf can finally end

 

[toothless]

B: Gibcus Balta Vlastuin
HB: Brown Broad Short
C: Ross Hopper Ralphsmith
HF: Campbell Lalor Mansell
F: Lefau Lynch Bauer
FOLL: Nankervis, Taranto, Prestia
INTER: Smillie, Hotton, Rioli, Smith
SUB: Clarke
EMERG: McAuliffe, Miller, Ryan

B: Miller Young Blight
HB Trainor Koschitzke Trezise
C: McIntosh Dow Banks
HF: Clarke Faull Green
F: Gray Fawcett Armstrong
FOLL: Ryan, McAullife, Sonsie
INTER: Colina, Hayes-Brown

 

[Don’t Argue]

OK, Leysy's gunna play the grinch.

Like to think am reasonably centered and level headed when it comes to being positive/negative when comes to supporting our club. But can't help but come away feeling somewhat disappointed with tonight.

Am not going to go hard at the player taken as understand how much goes into it from the club vs what leysy sees from watching the odd game live and replays on Coates/AFL app - (though Faull at 12 Vs Viking at 8 seems way too small given the discrepancy in talent/ceiling).

But more so where our list is at Vs what we have got in tonight.

We've lost all our best run and spark footballers - Bakes, Shai, Daniel (and Dusty) The one's who overlap and create. They are the type that create scoring opportunities and therefore win you games of football in this era.

This adding to the worst midfield in the country. By a mile. So getting to our draft tonight:

- First two picks - midfield bulls with footskills and other qualities. No issue.
- Then a transition runner - fine. But in rehab coming off a knee with 5 other mates on the list doing the same?
- Then a tall, who whilst having a well-rounded game, leaves some elite running talent on the board.
- All other clubs go small. Not a tall taken between 11 and 18 which means remaining high quality running players/mids are all gone (bar Dattoli - who's pace in ? mark). Not sure we budgeted that.
- Take Trainor - Great talent but a key back, less of a need than rest of the list. Concussion risk.
- Take Armstrong - went at about where his mark is ( ridiculed earlier for suggesting so). But another 195cm forward to add to Faull, Gray, Lefau, Fawcett, Bauer etc.

Then trade out with North. Fantastic trade. Blair's wheelhouse and well played.

Overall snapshot - We've gone tall and slow when the league is moving short and fast. GWS - Run, Run, Run with there three picks. Sydney same. Apart from a knee reco recovery we have added nothing to replace what we've lost.

In fact, until the final pick we were the only team tonight to take anyone 195cm or more (3 times). Not one other club did. Not once.

This from a team that had the worst midfield/running team, which is about to get a hell of a lot worse. The contrast from 17-20 to now is staggering.

Yes we can start to address that chronic run in coming years. But we have a completely unbalanced list that is against where football is moving. We are in for some fearful beltings next year.

Buckle in.

Rant over!

I was wrrrrrrrooooonnnnnggggg

 

[momentai]

I like Will Hayes and Rhys Unwin as 2 options

I like Boxshell and Davidson.

 

[Dyer'ere]

I like Boxshell and Davidson.

We may still get Davo, Mo. I hope we do.

 

[Tigers of Old]

Hopefully we found a couple of players out of that batch. We certainly need to.

 

[momentai]

B: Gibcus Balta Vlastuin
HB: Brown Broad Short
C: Ross Hopper Ralphsmith
HF: Campbell Lalor Mansell
F: Lefau Lynch Bauer
FOLL: Nankervis, Taranto, Prestia
INTER: Smillie, Hotton, Rioli, Smith
SUB: Clarke
EMERG: McAuliffe, Miller, Ryan

B Vlastuin Blight Broad
HB Trainor* Gibcus Trezise
C Brown Lalor* Banks
HF Campbell Balta Mansell
F Bauer Lynch Faull*
R Nankervis Smillie* Taranto
I/C Hopper Hotton* Rioli and Lefau
Sub Prestia.

 

[turk-d-tiger]

I love the upside on all the players selected and do think we reached for a couple but trust that the recruiters did their work and seen what their value was and thats why they went early. there are a few injury risks taken but no guts no glory

We are lacking pure speed and hopefully it comes though other means like Rookie selections and free agency in years to come
We also have the opportunity to get another 2 high end draft picks next year and could get 2 more gun mids like Rodriguez. & Sharp

I hope we can get another 1st rounder next year for our remaining pick so we can get another top 10 talent

 

[BLACKTIGS]

Same, I wouldn't take half of them as rookie picks. Todd Elton, Ben Griffiths, Ty Vickery... these types are so easy to defend against. Smaller players running hard into uncontrolled space are harder to stop. KPFs in the opposition's controlled space need to be elite. It's elite or bust IMO. Defenders don't have to be the absolute best individually for some reason, it's the tall forwards who fall off a cliff.