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Juniors to watch in 2011.

Disco08 said:
What if Cyril wants to come and play for his uncle's team? Knock him back?
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Yeah, not required.

We are seeing a swing back to football ability. The forward press and zones are making in easier for the sub 185cm footballers to get a game. Pace, ability to burst run over longer distances and decision making with the ball are the keys. Repeatable skills not based on phyiscal ability are the key things in 2011. But if you can do those things you will get a shot with some one.
 
mtench said:
What's his details
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188cm/83kg HBF/MID...good reader of the play elite skills. very good one on one and can shut down an opponent as well as be a weapon off half back. he would release Lids to the middle permanently. And probably Newman and Houli. Some people have him rated 4th just outside the big 3 that are going to GWS. Other one available at our pick was Kavanagh. And Tyson/Greene went 10/11 and 10 is our likely pick. If Tyson miraculously lasted in the real thing we would be laughing.
 
Danog said:
We don't need any more midgets. 185cm+ should be a definitive rule from now on.
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JON fits that requirement and may well be avaliable again in this years draft.
 
No need to be smartasses. Obviously take the best available. If it's line ball between a 178cm player and a 186cm player, we should be taking the taller one.
 
Danog said:
No need to be smartasses. Obviously take the best available. If it's line ball between a 178cm player and a 186cm player, we should be taking the taller one.
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You're right of course Danog.
Rule of thumb, when evenly matched in talent, always take the tall over the small.
 
Danog said:
No need to be smartasses. Obviously take the best available. If it's line ball between a 178cm player and a 186cm player, we should be taking the taller one.
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I thought you said it should be a definitive rule that every player we draft has to be 185cm or over. If the best available talent is 180, we have to overlook them, right?
 
Got this from BF,Troy Taylor Mark 2 perhaps.



Waylen Manson. 195 cm. 24.04.93 Claremont.This pick will raise a few eyebrows.

Its a pick that has been plucked out of obscurity. There have been snippets of information eminating out of the West of a rare talent that was nesteled deep in the out back for some 18 months now.

Well on the edge of the Great Sandy Dessert there is a remote Aboriginal community called, Billiluna its, 180 km south east of Halls Creek which is 1810 km from Perth. There is a team in that community called the Kururrungkn Roos its from here that Manson comes from.

Manson came to the eye of recruiters when he played for the Kimberley Spirt Colts team and he kicked 5 goals in the final to enure that the Spirit won the championship.

Well two Saturdays ago Claremont flew Manson down to Perth to play his one necessary game to be able to nominate for the 2011 AFL draft. Claremont had been trying hard to get him down for some time now.

News got around and I am told that every AFL Club had a recruiter there to watch.

So Manson played his first game for Claremont with team mates he had never met. He played in the forward pocket .

He had 15 disposals ( all kicks ) 9 marks - 4 were contested , 3 ruck knocks and kicked 4 goals 5. The kid has a massive leap and takes some hangers.

Then jumped on the plane and headed home.

Appatrently the recruiting community was drooling.

There are not many 195 cm Aboriginal that play football and he apparentley has all the flair and his leap is something to behold.


You may well think this is a pile of fiction however its fact.

So the million dollar question is will a talent like this turn into a Gold nugget like Buddy, be the excitment machine that is Liam Jurrah , have the potential of Zephaniah Skinner or will he be a dissapointment like Casey Sibosado.

From all accounts the kid has attracted a lot of interest , question being which Club will have the balls to pull the trigger first.

Guys I know this very speculative but I think for those of you who have never heard of Waylen Mason you are about to hear a lot more of his name between now and the draft.
 
CptJonno2Madcow2005 said:
Got this from BF,Troy Taylor Mark 2 perhaps.



Waylen Manson. 195 cm. 24.04.93 Claremont.This pick will raise a few eyebrows.

Its a pick that has been plucked out of obscurity. There have been snippets of information eminating out of the West of a rare talent that was nesteled deep in the out back for some 18 months now.

Well on the edge of the Great Sandy Dessert there is a remote Aboriginal community called, Billiluna its, 180 km south east of Halls Creek which is 1810 km from Perth. There is a team in that community called the Kururrungkn Roos its from here that Manson comes from.

Manson came to the eye of recruiters when he played for the Kimberley Spirt Colts team and he kicked 5 goals in the final to enure that the Spirit won the championship.

Well two Saturdays ago Claremont flew Manson down to Perth to play his one necessary game to be able to nominate for the 2011 AFL draft. Claremont had been trying hard to get him down for some time now.

News got around and I am told that every AFL Club had a recruiter there to watch.

So Manson played his first game for Claremont with team mates he had never met. He played in the forward pocket .

He had 15 disposals ( all kicks ) 9 marks - 4 were contested , 3 ruck knocks and kicked 4 goals 5. The kid has a massive leap and takes some hangers.

Then jumped on the plane and headed home.

Appatrently the recruiting community was drooling.

There are not many 195 cm Aboriginal that play football and he apparentley has all the flair and his leap is something to behold.


You may well think this is a pile of fiction however its fact.

So the million dollar question is will a talent like this turn into a Gold nugget like Buddy, be the excitment machine that is Liam Jurrah , have the potential of Zephaniah Skinner or will he be a dissapointment like Casey Sibosado.

From all accounts the kid has attracted a lot of interest , question being which Club will have the balls to pull the trigger first.

Well in this mock St Kilda....... he will be a very handy addition to your forward line options.

Guys I know this very speculative but I think for those of you who have never heard of Waylen Mason you are about to hear a lot more of his name between now and the draft.
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Saw that captain. Sounds like a gun but go home factor would be enormous. If he was still there in the rookie draft im all for it. Even PSD maybe.
Imagine if he was our 4th tall being so athletic and all. Riewoldt, Vickery, Griffiths and Manson lol. Provided he stayed of course
 
tigs2010 said:
Saw that captain. Sounds like a gun but go home factor would be enormous. If he was still there in the rookie draft im all for it. Even PSD maybe.
Imagine if he was our 4th tall being so athletic and all. Riewoldt, Vickery, Griffiths and Manson lol. Provided he stayed of course
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Yeah,The go home factor would be the big issue,Don,t think we can afford to take another risk if there is just the slightest hint that he may not cope with city life,However in a weak draft i can see a club like Coll,Geel and West Coast taking the risk.
 
CptJonno2Madcow2005 said:
Yeah,The go home factor would be the big issue,Don,t think we can afford to take another risk if there is just the slightest hint that he may not cope with city life,However in a weak draft i can see a club like Coll,Geel and West Coast taking the risk.
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We all love a great story, but he played reserves this week and touched it 4-times.
 
Article on the AFL website regarding Buntine.

His kicking and leadership qualities will have him high on Jacksons list of potential draftees.

http://www.afl.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/208/newsid/121786/default.aspx
 
Smoking Aces said:
Article on the AFL website regarding Buntine.

His kicking and leadership qualities will have him high on Jacksons list of potential draftees.

http://www.afl.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/208/newsid/121786/default.aspx
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Provided he lasts to our pick i think we will be all over him. HBF/MID to release Lids to the middle.
 
Smoking Aces said:
Article on the AFL website regarding Buntine.

His kicking and leadership qualities will have him high on Jacksons list of potential draftees.
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If Tyson is gone & I think he will be, I really like Buntine.

Good size and a elite user of the ball. The only knock on him is pace. He has Goddard pace and Goddard ability to read the play.

The player who really is starting to grow on me is Elliot Kavanagh.
 
SCOOP said:
If Tyson is gone & I think he will be, I really like Buntine.

Good size and a elite user of the ball. The only knock on him is pace. He has Goddard pace and Goddard ability to read the play.

The player who really is starting to grow on me is Elliot Kavanagh.
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Would take Goddard at pick 10 :p

Elliot Kavanagh is the one i like best.

My prediction is Patton, Coniglio, Wingard, Grigg, Longer, Dobosz, Tyson, Hoskin-Elliot, then Buntine and Kavanagh with Crozier and Elton as smokies for GC or GWS who have the ability to take the punt.
 
SCOOP said:
If Tyson is gone & I think he will be, I really like Buntine.

Good size and a elite user of the ball. The only knock on him is pace. He has Goddard pace and Goddard ability to read the play.

The player who really is starting to grow on me is Elliot Kavanagh.
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Is Kavanagh the kid who was injured throughout the year?
 
Danog said:
No need to be smartasses. Obviously take the best available. If it's line ball between a 178cm player and a 186cm player, we should be taking the taller one.
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What would you do if they are of equal ability, yet the smaller guy has the ability to hold his feet & not go to ground like the taller guy does because his centre of gravity is much lower. What should we do in these circumstances, this is a conundrum in the fact you can't say lets take a guy because he is taller. I am tired of seeing players that can't hold a tackle as they fall to ground or pushed out of the contest to easily.
 
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