I can live with him at Pick 7
But taking Jagga at pick 2 for me would be a major disappointment
This is the point I am making
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2024 Draft Thread
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I can live with him at Pick 7
But taking Jagga at pick 2 for me would be a major disappointment
This is the point I am making
I reckon there's a fair way to go on the top 5 and 10. This time last year the top 3 were in, and 4 to 10 were too in terms of players, if not the order..
Jagga is bluechip top 5 every year for me.
and without looking at the data,
im pretty sure history shows the best player mostly comes out of the Top 5,
not the top 2.
I get what people are saying, but I think there's two things at play
1. Harley Reid is fresh in everyone mind as a benchmark No.1 and
2. We tigers are a bit gun-shy on skinny blokes
I see Jagga getting 30 disposals every week and carefully putting teammates into space.
I think he'll be a more damaging mid than Tim Tarranto, but not as damaging as Dion Prestia.
if someone more damaging than Dion Prestia is in the pool, yeah I want them too.
I hope we find a triple norm smith medalist, or a bloke who wins the JD medal year 1,
but 1. its unlikely, 2. we need to build a whole list and blokes like jagga smith dont grow on trees and 3. the list wont be built this year, we need to harvest 5 drafts well.
but I am going less bullish on him. He may not be THE kid to lead us to the summit, but he'll almost certainly play 200 games, as a top 5 pick should, and carry a lot of stuff up the hill.
What's Lennon Island? What's Lennon Island??
Yeah, Scoop. What is Lennon Island? (Griffens was twice the player btw)
We all make calls and we all have any manner of Trent Biancos and Dayle Garletts in the closet.
Your call here is that Jagga Smith will be as good as Finn O'Sullivan, do I have that right? Otherwise what the hell are you going on about?
I wanted ben Lennon and Corey ellis.
I also wanted jack Riewoldt and Shai Bolton
I didn't want Nick Vlastuin.
what could prove my biggest shame is I thought Harley Reid was more Jake Stringer than Dustin Martin.
im happy to have a crack and get some right and some wrong.
they didn't listen to me anyway.
can't make a call on FOS yet, ive never seen him play. But looking forward to it.
but if you said Richmond could have Jagga, Sims, Champion and Urquart today on my say so,
I'd go "done" and sign the papers
*actually I dont think I did want Corey Ellis
*actually before I sign, throw in tom gross as well
I also wanted jack Riewoldt and Shai Bolton
I didn't want Nick Vlastuin.
what could prove my biggest shame is I thought Harley Reid was more Jake Stringer than Dustin Martin.
im happy to have a crack and get some right and some wrong.
they didn't listen to me anyway.
can't make a call on FOS yet, ive never seen him play. But looking forward to it.
but if you said Richmond could have Jagga, Sims, Champion and Urquart today on my say so,
I'd go "done" and sign the papers
*actually I dont think I did want Corey Ellis
*actually before I sign, throw in tom gross as well
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I love how robust it is in here in July.
quite a solid silver lining.
I'm really barracking for Norf every week now, including round 21.
in an ideal silver-lined world,
we are last with a game up our sleeves and can beat GCS last round and still grab
Vontae Jagger Sims Champion at pick 1
quite a solid silver lining.
I'm really barracking for Norf every week now, including round 21.
in an ideal silver-lined world,
we are last with a game up our sleeves and can beat GCS last round and still grab
Vontae Jagger Sims Champion at pick 1
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LOL, yeah I thought he's make it once he got there. Still on record as taking Crouch in the draft. Imagine the Ryan and Griffiths stuff.
Your talking as if it's Dyson Heppell and Reece Conca, Cotchin and Morton stuff.
I haven't many any calls on who is better, I've said FOS is ahead at this stage but the gap isn't what you make it out to be with your PR campaign.
8-15 I think I said a couple of pages ago. Not in that top tier but in the next tier.
Dim Sims looks like Jordan DeGoeys head got transplanted onto Tom Lynchs body.
there's a hell of a lot to like
I think I've read or got told that he hasn't been in the elite pathways for that long, was a basketballer. Don't quote me on that.
dramatic graph
6 goals from 8 games bottom age
17 goals 5 games top age
The forward/ruckman with Briggs-like qualities who starred for the Knights
He was dominant in Round 1.
www.sen.com.au
Number 4's always look great these days.
very one sided in that reel?
looks a bull though. they can't do everything.
Serious first-up performance. If we can't have Vontae, he's our man.
That’s the problem with this Draft: whilst there’s a few decent types, there isn’t that genuine explosive 5-10 metre burst player who can get separation from stoppages, something we critically lack. Nobody with a Judd, Treloar, Gulden, Cousins, Dangerfield style of game.
Maybe Draper has the best of it, but otherwise, what we really need isn’t in this Draft. FOS is ok, but certainly not that “boom” and he’s off type.
We desperately need some breakaway speed like Shed used to give us a bit of. Shai has it, but he’s not an all day every week midfielder.
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