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State League Watch
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Yet we picked up Parker at the mid season draft last year, why didn't we try some of the others?
DS
A few of us have banged this drum for years.
You only need to find one core footballer (not stars, players ranked 15-30) off your rookie list every year and things turn around quickly.
Agree.
We had a purple patch with our rookie selections around 2013-2015 (Soldo, Lambert, Castagna, Short to name a few) which amazingly coincided with us actually taking players in the rookie draft.
Lately, we’ve been redrafting delisted players via the rookie draft (has this ever worked for any club ever?) or just using it to shuffle players around for list management reasons.
So much of recruiting, particularly after the first and second rounds is just a sheer numbers game. You have to bring in players, try them out and move them on if they don’t show enough. Rinse and repeat. Instead we have held on to players for 4 years and more who are not even close to being in our best 25 players let alone starting 18. This needs to change.
Lamblett, Stacky, Faartsy, Parker, Mansell. Rookie or supplemental type picks. It's not that we ain't trying it's just not quite succeeding yet.
Thin pickings from the VFL with just 3 invitees for this years upcoming combine:
MATURE age trio Josh Chatfield, Mutaz El Nour and Bailey Van De Heuvel are among another 35 prospects to be invited to test at the AFL's state Draft Combines in October.
There will now be a total of 55 players hoping to impress at the state Combines in Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia.
Chatfield has averaged 11 disposals and five marks a game for Footscray's VFL side, with two standout games against Gold Coast (four goals) and Geelong (three goals) coming earlier in the year.
El Nour has been on the radar of clubs as a mid-season rookie option in recent seasons after impressing for Richmond's VFL side as an intercept defender, while Van De Heuval is a 25-year-old key defender who has caught interest for Geelong's VFL side.
He shapes as a mature-ager clubs will consider, particularly given the dearth of key backs in the competition and demand for them to fill roles.
MATURE age trio Josh Chatfield, Mutaz El Nour and Bailey Van De Heuvel are among another 35 prospects to be invited to test at the AFL's state Draft Combines in October.
There will now be a total of 55 players hoping to impress at the state Combines in Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia.
Chatfield has averaged 11 disposals and five marks a game for Footscray's VFL side, with two standout games against Gold Coast (four goals) and Geelong (three goals) coming earlier in the year.
El Nour has been on the radar of clubs as a mid-season rookie option in recent seasons after impressing for Richmond's VFL side as an intercept defender, while Van De Heuval is a 25-year-old key defender who has caught interest for Geelong's VFL side.
He shapes as a mature-ager clubs will consider, particularly given the dearth of key backs in the competition and demand for them to fill roles.
Is 55 players going to State combines higher than normal?
I'm wondering whether the supposed weakness in the draft is seeing a stronger interest in state level
I'm wondering whether the supposed weakness in the draft is seeing a stronger interest in state level
El Nour comments interesting.
I'd be interested to know if there is a side that has done better than us long term from state leagues. I'm all for it, but it has to be approached with extreme caution, its low percentage, and I think we do that. Lambo, Bakes, Broady, Pickett, Young, and more recently Tresize and Coultard, I understand there's a long way to go on the recent picks, but most were positive about the basis for picking them and early signs are positive.
I'd be surprised if there are any sides who 1. take more picks from the state leagues than we have, and 2. have had more success at it than we have. Even the 'fails' eg. Marcon and Aarts, haven't been that bad and most would agree they were worth a crack.
Overall I'd say we're well ahead of the game in regards to mining the state leagues vein.
I'd be interested to know if there is a side that has done better than us long term from state leagues. I'm all for it, but it has to be approached with extreme caution, its low percentage, and I think we do that. Lambo, Bakes, Broady, Pickett, Young, and more recently Tresize and Coultard, I understand there's a long way to go on the recent picks, but most were positive about the basis for picking them and early signs are positive.
I'd be surprised if there are any sides who 1. take more picks from the state leagues than we have, and 2. have had more success at it than we have. Even the 'fails' eg. Marcon and Aarts, haven't been that bad and most would agree they were worth a crack.
Overall I'd say we're well ahead of the game in regards to mining the state leagues vein.
Maybe a bit, but not much. You could be right though. Personally I don't think so, but you could be. Covid interrupted development has thrown a big spanner in the works.
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I agree, we've done well from stats leagues for some time now, and I expect us to add Yassine to our list this year. He seems perfect for us, a small forward with pace, who likes to tackle and knows where the goals are. His improvement this year has been rapid. If they think that trajectory can continue to move upwards, I think we might see him as a rookie signing this off-season.
Add Bauer.
Yeah we've been good. We went away from it for a few years but glad we've started mining it again.
The genius that is Stephen Wells has also been very good at it. Under Mackie they are doing it less.
Tom Stewart, Tom Atkins, Brad Close (all in last years flag), Tim Kelly, Sam Menegola, Ryan Gardiner (now at dogs) off the top of Leysy's head.
I'd be interested to know if this was a policy decision or we just couldn't find any players.
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