Draft talk for 2009

[Reggi]

http://www.theage.com.au/news/rfnews/sewell-looks-to-follow-in-brothers-footsteps/2009/10/03/1254418753755.html

Hmmm late in article, the brother of Goodes

[Cardinal]

Anyone remember which of the early touts for the draft grew up a Richmond fan ? Can't be many.

[caj23]

Any thoughts on what we do if Butcher slides?

Do we trust that White and Johnstone are the future or do we go for a 3 pronged attack?

I suppose it will depend on what we end up with the Jolly trade. For example if Dawes is included our forward line options are covered

[Cardinal]

Anyone remember which of the early touts for the draft grew up a Richmond fan ? Can't be many.

Scully ! Love this forum

[DST]

Any thoughts on what we do if Butcher slides?

Do we trust that White and Johnstone are the future or do we go for a 3 pronged attack?

I suppose it will depend on what we end up with the Jolly trade. For example if Dawes is included our forward line options are covered

It will complicate matters, but for the sake of the list we need a midfielder with quality disposal skills.

There are a few KP players who are expected to fall between 15 and 25 and with the Jolly pick this could be used for a KP tall.

Damm, I hope either Richmond or North Melbourne don't take Martin.

DST

DST

[Robbo]

Nah no need to draft Butcher. White and Johnstone are the blokes to take us forward.

[707]

Item on the AFL website giving thoughts on the potential top 17 draft choices and some suggestions about who will go where early in the draft. Basically it has it like this
1& 2 Melbourne - Scully & Trengrove
3 Wretchmond - Martin
4 Freo - Morabito
5 North Melb - Cunnington

Leaves us quite a number of picks to salivate over!

[Robbo]

I would be happy with Rohan, Lucas, Tapscott or Jetta.

[Bleed Red Blood]

GO TALL WITH PICK SIX.

Look at Hannerbury - Pick 30.
Meredith - Pick 26.

We will be able to pick up a quality on baller with our second rounder.

We had to trade a good draft pick to get Playfair as insurance in case our tall forwards went down. I don't want us to go down that road again.

Draft a young defender now and we won't have to rush him into the side. Look at Johnston, if we'd drafted someone like that 3 years ago we wouldn't be talking about playing Goodes at CHF when he undoubtadly plays best in the midfield.

[BSA5]

GO TALL WITH PICK SIX.

Look at Hannerbury - Pick 30.
Meredith - Pick 26.

We will be able to pick up a quality on baller with our second rounder.

We had to trade a good draft pick to get Playfair as insurance in case our tall forwards went down. I don't want us to go down that road again.

Draft a young defender now and we won't have to rush him into the side. Look at Johnston, if we'd drafted someone like that 3 years ago we wouldn't be talking about playing Goodes at CHF when he undoubtadly plays best in the midfield.

The problem is that there aren't that many talls worthy of Pick 6. Butcher perhaps, but he's a fairly big risk. Talia, maaaybe. If we get Pick 14, then I wouldn't mind having a go at Panos or Black with that pick, with a midfielder picked at 6.

[Jeffers1984]

With Pick 14 could we possibly take the risk and go for Lewis Jetta?

Will be an interesting month of speculation.

[Robbo]

He may not be around at 14, but if he is, and all of Tapscott/Rohan/Lucas are gone then I think we should take the risk. The only thing that worries me about him is homesickness, I've got very little concern over his football ability.

[UglyDuckling]

GO TALL WITH PICK SIX.

Look at Hannerbury - Pick 30.
Meredith - Pick 26.

We will be able to pick up a quality on baller with our second rounder.

We had to trade a good draft pick to get Playfair as insurance in case our tall forwards went down. I don't want us to go down that road again.

Draft a young defender now and we won't have to rush him into the side. Look at Johnston, if we'd drafted someone like that 3 years ago we wouldn't be talking about playing Goodes at CHF when he undoubtadly plays best in the midfield.

We dont have a great need for a tall our backline is settled and we have White, Johnston and Goodes to do our forward line work.

I heard Mick Malthouse say once that the only feature common to all premiership teams is gun midfields and i would tend to agree. We should use pick 6 and 9 or 14 gun mids i like the idea of Lucas and Colyer.

Then we should pick up some speculative talls that we can develop later in the draft or rookie list a la Grundy, White, Barlow

[robamiee]

I would take Jetta @ 6 he wont last to 14....we need an outside running midfielder as i doubt morabito will still be around. if he is then take him ahead of Jetta
then take a pick of Butcher, Tapscott or Rohan

[DST]

Great believer in going best available.

This year outside of Butcher, the top 25 all look to be midfielder/utlility types so it will be two midfielders with picks 6 and 14 (unless Butcher falls to 14 which is highly unlikely).

Our second pick at 14 will be the interesting one, if there is someone left who is an outside midfielder with heaps of pace that would be handy.

Our first pick will be on a midfielder who has quality disposa and decsion making skills as we lack depth in this area and modern footy with zones require players who can dispose of the football cleanly.

DST