Leysy Days said:Hartlett is the other ruck looking alright from that draft.
Anyways its pointless discussing could we have had him or him. There were some good players & some bad taken after our picks.
Bit shocked that you think that draft "stacks up quite well". By leysy's obs, we only get one player (who was pick 1) that can take us forward out of our first 5 picks in top 20. Happy to be proven wrong if Tambling, Meyer, Patto & Polo do but that's the way leysy see's it. As mentioned no doubt Thursfield was an excellent get, but McGuane is limited & limbach is already gawn as well.
Overrall, from the opportunities given a definate fail from leysy.
Well said Leysey here here.
That draft imo isnt looking too flash at all and ive aired this before over past 12 months.
Lids was a given they couldnt get him wrong.
Tambling ............. well we will see.......... hes gonna cop the Buddy forever like it or not and so will the club but Richie was very very highly rated going in.
McGuane limited with skill deficiency, poor footy smarts and a lack of size height and build.
Limbach ...... dud
Polo .......... struggling and not far from being delisted imo.
Meyer ....... will get another year but struggling and injury prone
Pattison .... not a ruck not a kpp dont know what this kid offers going forward to be honest. Tiges must do better than him in regard to KPP and Rucks.
Hindsight is wonderful and we'd all spend a packet on it if we could buy it however overall the draft on which the new core was going to commence being constructed has imo failed to deliver on the whole what it could and possibly should have.
Pattison, McGuane arent keepers imo and neither is Polo to be honest and the Tigers imo can do better than these guys and need to.
Meyer well who knows and Tambling well he's gotta step it up.
poor drafting again yes ........ its obvious that not all kids make it but imo from 7 taken they havent done well.
Taking KPP in thre back half of the draft will always yield more failures than successes hence the tigers lack of quality talls on the list as will taking skinny outrunners with early picks and trading early picks off for skinny outrunners.
The fact Wallet wouldnt know a tall if they were standing next to him doesnt help either.
sheesh hindsight is great and we are all gurus with it but fair dinkum the so called talent scouts at RFC have been poor at identifying quality talent.