Yep couldn't agree more, a great crop of pick ups for the now and the future. Out of our draftees i'm most excited by Graham, his highlights are just what we/Cotchin needs. Already big bodied so should play games this season.SkillzThatKillz said:
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2016 Draft
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Haven't seen the kid play or virtually any of the U18 games bar the Grannie between Sandringham n the Bushies, so I'm coming off more than a low base, but just a question on Graham's kicking. Read in some of the profile stuff he's torn a quad at the end of 2015, had bugger all pre season but still managed to win the Larke medal in the state comp, then unfortunately tweaked it again at the end of this year.spook said:
Just wondering how much the dodgy quad would have affected his kicking prowess during this year? Surely he'd have lost a bit of power, I'd be surprised if a proper rehab n full time strength n conditioning system couldn't bring him up to at least some decent kicking capability.
On Sproule I was told he kicked 6 or 7 last year in a game and looked like been anything, was very close to been dropped the last few games of the year, has just lost his way a bit atm, however has a lot of talent.
TigerMasochist said:
We may have to look for improvement in his kicking elsewhere, TM. Although I do hope you're right and we see some rapid improvement on the back of the quad healing fully. Thankfully it's not his job to kick. He'll be in the mix for senior selection from the start and all he is to do is buy land from the confines of the stoppage or dish to our glamour mids. And if the opposition gets the pill at the fall, Graham is a bloke who can actually stick a tackle. Laid 16 of them in a SANFL reserves game in the backend of the year.
Harry said:
Yep, absolute joke. At least they lost the trade with Brisbane, basically gave away the Berry pick for nothing.
Already posted in another thread bully but what do you think?
i really enjoyed picks 50-52 - all preemptive picks of players we may have wanted that left us with graham
i really enjoyed picks 50-52 - all preemptive picks of players we may have wanted that left us with graham
fastin bulbous said:
I was relieved Himmelberg was off the board, put it that way. Not that I was totally against his selection but Graham is the type who gives maximum value for a 50+ pick. Much rather the Graham & Garthwaite combo than Himmelberg & any of the other mids selected between 53 & 76. Looking at the players selected between 53 & 60 (our original drafting position) I reckon the Saints would have opted for Graham ahead of Ed Phillips. That makes the Caddy trade a really good outcome for us.
farcical to say the least, a prelim side ends up with 2 picks inside the top 5 instead of top 15 including a free kick at pick 2......Harry said:
it will happen every year unless Clubs boycott trading with them, the bidding system is another story.....
according to good 'ol Ralphy (HS) it's a fair system & it works well.
some "journo's" have even said it works well for all clubs, not sure how when it blatantly favours certain Clubs.....
farcical to say the least, a prelim side ends up with 2 picks inside the top 5 instead of top 15 including a free kick at pick 2......Harry said:
it will happen every year unless Clubs boycott trading with them, the bidding system is another story.....
according to good 'ol Ralphy (HS) it's a fair system & it works well.
some "journo's" have even said it works well for all clubs, not sure how when it blatantly favours certain Clubs.....
yet our Academy is under a different system so we couldn't bid on Kirby or Ratagulea had we wanted too.....
given that we clearly needed some work done on our list & that we'll be taking a key fwd in next yrs Draft i look at this Draft has half the turnover & next yrs completes the task, so will be interesting to look at this time next yr & see what we have done overall.bullus_hit said:
was good seeing us taking a chance on our 1st picks this yr & last yr. "fortune favours the brave"
i didn't realise that counted for rookie Draft & i assume PSD as well. it's as big a rort as anything else in global history!caesar said:
