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Cal Twomey just said on SEN that we will get MRJ with a late pick
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With all the hype, I went along to his last U18 champs match at Princess Park and watched him exclusively for an hour,
...... and declared him a bust. I think it was my Josh Jenkins armchair recruiting moment. That is, completely and utterly alone.
I haven't seen MRJ play, but Id use our first if we had to and wouldn't care if he never played a game.
You certainly wouldn't put it past them although I think Rutten and Caracella have serious football nous. The Bummers have got huge needs to find KPFs, inside mids and a quality running back distributor to replace Saad. They also have the SFs pretty well-covered with (the over-rated) Tippa and promising Mosquito.
IMO they would be crazy to spend a high pick on a relatively unproven MRJ when their other needs are so pressing. But, yes, it is Dodoro.
MRJ is a longer term project , I anticipate 18m before he’d be ready , I’m tipping ess are a tad more impatient than that and will be seeking players that can impact asap ,,,,as mentioned sheedy could stir the pot , his love of indigenous players goes way back
Agree. The kid had the talent, we threw him to wolves at the time.
The same thing would have happened to Buddy if we drafted him.
I agree. He possibly wouldn’t have been the player he became if we picked him.
Probably would have been traded ...
I think the constant comparison to Buddy from media and supporters would have had an impact on him mentally as well. The pressure to perform and live up to being drafted ahead of him was there throughout his career
Agree. I seem to remember early in Franklin's career at the hawks that he had a chaperone assigned to him when he went out. May have been Sam Mitchell from memory.
The Witness probably played 80 games he shouldn't have at Richmond under Terry. No doubt the development of him was poor.
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You can see the difference development and environment make when you look at how we used to get players with great potential and they didn't go on to realise their potential, but now we get players with seemingly less potential who have become important players in premiership teams.
Makes such a difference.
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Makes such a difference.
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Though I agree that Richie would have been better developed in our current set up, it does irk me a bit that he still gets rolled out as the patron saint of draft busts whenever the conversation arises. He played 120-odd games and earned 9 brownlow votes (3 more than Grimes and Lynch put together). He wasn't Andrew Macleod, as some had hoped, but a quick check of his stats and career overview will show that he put together some decent games. When given a bit of continuity he was an OK AFL player, even in our dud environment. Mitch Thorp was taken the pick before Selwood wasn't he?
#freeblinger
#freeblinger
Its a nice hypothetical BR.
Although the single junior game I saw with my eyes suggested in real time that he was a touch soft and went to ground too easily,
I choose to believe your narrative.
If I could borrow your time machine just once, I'd either go back and watch Royce Hart, or *smile* on Mason Cox's spaghetti Bol the night before the '18 prelim.
