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2006 NAB National AFL Draft

Is it just me or is there a lot of height amongst the top draftees?
We took Jack R at 192.4 cms and you might think that is tall. Eight of the players drafted before him are all taller...
Gumbleton 197
Hansen 196
Leuenberger 203
Thorp 194
Reid 196
Brown 193
Everitt 193
Frawley 192.7

something in the food or water these days seems to be making all these 18 yr olds monsters!
 
Overall, the picks were well balanced and in harmony with the vacancies on our list.
The updated version of our list is now:

2006
<175 175-179 180-184 185-189 190-194 195-199 200+
28+ Brown 182 F 28 Johnson 187 M 28 Gaspar 192 D 29 Richardson 195 F 31
25-27 J Bowden 188 D 27 Simmonds 196 R 27 Knobel 202 R 26
Tivendale 185 M 26 Hall 196 D 25
22-24 Krakouer 176 F 23 Pettifer 182 F 24 Coughlan 186 M 23 P Bowden 191 F 24
Newman 182 D 23 Tuck 188 M 24 Polak 194 D 22
Hyde 186 M 23
Moore 189 D 22
18-21 Foley 177 M 20 Howat 182 M 21 Jackson 187 F 19 Schulz 193 D 20 Pattison 198 F 20 Graham 200 R 18
Hartigan 178 D 20 Raines 184 D 20 Deledio 188 M 19 McGuane 190 D 19
Tambling 179 M 19 Peterson 182 ? 19 Polo 186 M 19 Thursfield 191 D 19
White 179 D 18 Connors 183 M 18 Oakley-Nicholls 188 D 18 Hughes 193 F 19
Edwards 179 D 18 Collins 184 M 18 Casserley 186 D 18 Riewoldt 192 F 18
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It gives us the opportunity of picking up a couple of speculative talls in the rookie draft.
 
I weep everytime I am reminded of that hole in the 25-27 bracket.
 
I am still concerned about inside mids.

I mean we got Conners with a steal, but is he the hard nut this team needs.

We need a Kirk, Ling, Harvey, Voss. We obviously have players like Polo coming through, but I think 1 more would of been nice.

Although Foley is looking hard as now.
 
U2Tigers said:
I am still concerned about inside mids.

I mean we got Conners with a steal, but is he the hard nut this team needs.

We need a Kirk, Ling, Harvey, Voss. We obviously have players like Polo coming through, but I think 1 more would of been nice.

Although Foley is looking hard as now.

Yes, one more genuine small midfielder would be good.
Maybe Leigh Adams in either of the December drafts.
 
Phantom said:
U2Tigers said:
I am still concerned about inside mids.

I mean we got Conners with a steal, but is he the hard nut this team needs.

We need a Kirk, Ling, Harvey, Voss. We obviously have players like Polo coming through, but I think 1 more would of been nice.

Although Foley is looking hard as now.

Yes, one more genuine small midfielder would be good.
Maybe Leigh Adams in either of the December drafts.

Yeah, however Phantom, not to small. Its actually a big bodied mid we need.
 
U2Tigers said:
Phantom said:
U2Tigers said:
I am still concerned about inside mids.

I mean we got Conners with a steal, but is he the hard nut this team needs.

We need a Kirk, Ling, Harvey, Voss. We obviously have players like Polo coming through, but I think 1 more would of been nice.

Although Foley is looking hard as now.

Yes, one more genuine small midfielder would be good.
Maybe Leigh Adams in either of the December drafts.

Yeah, however Phantom, not to small. Its actually a big bodied mid we need.

Leigh Adams would qualify there.
176cm, 83kg.

2006 TAC Ave
1 Gl, 3 bds, 13 EK, 4 IEK, 79% EKR, 6 EH, 1 IEH, 85% EHR, 19 ED, 5 IED, 81% EDR, 5 HR, 5 Tkls, 2 FF, 1 FA, 0 HO, 0 CM, 2 UM.

2006 U18 Chmps Ave
16 EK, 72% EKR, 8 EH, 93% EHR, 24 ED, 8 HR, 0 CM, 5 UM, 5 TM, 3 HBG, 5 LBG, 3 Tkl, 1 CC, 4 TC, 8 I50, 2 R50, 1 Gl, 0 Bd, 80 TOG, 80% TOGR.
 
Yep am happy with a hard at it midfielder, and a Key Defender with 2 of our 3 rookie and psd picks maybe a ruck type with the third to cover all bases, heheheh dont think Kingsley falls into those categories now does he.
 
Phantom said:
U2Tigers said:
Phantom said:
U2Tigers said:
I am still concerned about inside mids.

I mean we got Conners with a steal, but is he the hard nut this team needs.

We need a Kirk, Ling, Harvey, Voss. We obviously have players like Polo coming through, but I think 1 more would of been nice.

Although Foley is looking hard as now.

Yes, one more genuine small midfielder would be good.
Maybe Leigh Adams in either of the December drafts.

Yeah, however Phantom, not to small. Its actually a big bodied mid we need.

Leigh Adams would qualify there.
176cm, 83kg.

2006 TAC Ave
1 Gl, 3 bds, 13 EK, 4 IEK, 79% EKR, 6 EH, 1 IEH, 85% EHR, 19 ED, 5 IED, 81% EDR, 5 HR, 5 Tkls, 2 FF, 1 FA, 0 HO, 0 CM, 2 UM.

2006 U18 Chmps Ave
16 EK, 72% EKR, 8 EH, 93% EHR, 24 ED, 8 HR, 0 CM, 5 UM, 5 TM, 3 HBG, 5 LBG, 3 Tkl, 1 CC, 4 TC, 8 I50, 2 R50, 1 Gl, 0 Bd, 80 TOG, 80% TOGR.

sign him up then, and then concentrate on KPP .
 
Good feedback to my height query, cheers fellas!

Looking at the list Phantom made, it indicates we might need Knobel to have a better season to help Simmo. Who is our third ruckman?
 
mexican_radio said:
Good feedback to my height query, cheers fellas!

Looking at the list Phantom made, it indicates we might need Knobel to have a better season to help Simmo. Who is our third ruckman?

Pattison.