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I have changed my tune on this one, but would love Fev.
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The VFL isn't a competition the Swans have recruited from recently, despite the successes of Barlow, Crameri (and this year, a couple of Blues players). There are some names on this list that look interesting, including a few with prior AFL experience. A certain outside runner making waves at Werribee caught my eye - exactly the kind of player we are probably missing this year, and one who I did think was stiff not to get more opportunities when he was with us.
This year's draft is reported to be good at the very top (which GWS will plunder) but very shallow. So from round 3 onwards, maybe even round 2, clubs will probably be looking outside the traditional U18 crop for draftees.Last edited by liz; 19 July 2011, 12:43 AM.Comment
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On tanking, there's really not going to be much difference between, say, pick 12 and pick 7, surely. Not worth it.Comment
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Not if we had pick 4. GWS can't bid on father/sons. But since that's impossible we'll be using whatever our first round pick eventually is.Comment
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Father son picks used to be later in the draft, but there is a new system which allows other clubs to basically say that they'd like that same player, nominating which pick in the draft they WOULD have used to select him. The club with father son rights then has to use the pick IMMEDIATELY AFTER that of the club that nominated a selection.
A couple of years back, St Kilda said that they would have used their first pick to select Ayce Cordy, forcing the Bulldogs to use their first round pick to draft him. I think we actually nominated a selection for either Mitch Wallis or Tom Liberatore last year (and another club probably did too) forcing them to use their first two selections. It's basically come in to prevent situations like Geelong drafting Gary Ablett so late in the draft when, if he was available to all, he would have been selected much sooner.Comment
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Driver of the Dan Hannebery bandwagon....all aboard. 4th April 09Comment
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If we didn't have about 300 half-back flankers I would ask why we got rid of O'Dwyer.Comment
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Odwyer was always one player whose lack of opportunity in the firsts was a mystery to me. He always looked good when given an opportunity in the firsts . I would love to have known why the coaches firstly didnt give him more opportunities and then chose to delist him.The VFL isn't a competition the Swans have recruited from recently, despite the successes of Barlow, Crameri (and this year, a couple of Blues players). There are some names on this list that look interesting, including a few with prior AFL experience. A certain outside runner making waves at Werribee caught my eye - exactly the kind of player we are probably missing this year, and one who I did think was stiff not to get more opportunities when he was with us.
This year's draft is reported to be good at the very top (which GWS will plunder) but very shallow. So from round 3 onwards, maybe even round 2, clubs will probably be looking outside the traditional U18 crop for draftees.Comment
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This.
Being in sunny Melbourne, I only get limited chances to see our ressies (ie NAB cup), but when I saw him collect a bagful of possessions in one game and then perform quite well in the season proper (I think, from my faded memory) I had him earmarked as a future player. Whatever happened?Comment
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It was hinted at in some newspaper articles that his off-field work and preparation wasn't as good as the Swans would have liked.Comment
Brilliant!
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