Recent content by Ugene41

That's a terrible analysis. An AFL list is limited to 40 odd so even if you only draft your list and don't trade, you're going to lose more than 2/3rds of your ~150 selections as "unsuccessful picks". I'm sure North Melbourne have more drafted players on their list. Do those numbers speak for...

It would be a concern given how long we've challenged without a top 10 pick but we have Naicos. It takes rebuilding clubs multiples years at the bottom to hit a superstar jackpot like Naicos. Now it's just about surrounding him with some key talent who don't need to be as high end as him. Our...

Howe forward given our lack of forward targets with McStay injured, Mihocek short term injured, and Johnson completely regressing?

Right now our F1st is P10. That plus P34 is pretty close to P9 and P28 for Dangerfield no? (Gore and P50 would cancel out). Schultz should be valued no where near Dangerfield. And sure by the end of the season we could finish with a higher pick. But also there's a clear risk of that being an...

The difference though with Geelong was that they got good value through their trades. They basically traded in Dangerfield and Cameron for not much more than what we paid for Schultz. That's a completely different class of player and I'd happily trade first rounders in that instance whether...

Agree with your strategy in the last paragraph but disagree on Hine. His success rate with the top 20 is on par if not better than other recruiters in terms of hit rate. If one of Allan/Demattia makes it, that continues

Maybe just starved of midfield minutes this year? Played the JDG burst out of stoppage role better than JDG this year.

Agree with this. But also it's no foregone conclusion that trading in an experienced recruit like Schultz plays 100 games for us. Out of all the ~26 year olds we've traded in recent history, only Howe has given us over 100 games as I recall. None of Varcoe, Greenwood, Luke Ball, Medhurst made...

Also ranked highest for the pies in pressure acts. Does everything!

Exactly this. If we had given up a second rounder for him which is what he's worth then we would have no qualms dropping him if his form isn't up to scratch. Instead the talk of purely pressure and running patterns as his role is what people say about the likes of WHE, Mayne, Varcoe, Blair...

How can you say no draftee can ever be that good at tackling when you literally just listed McCreery as ranking above Schultz and we got him as a pick 44 where he became best 22 in year 1? If we were to trade McCreery, we wouldn't get a first and second round for him even though he's a better...

Getting on top in clearances is so key. Great to see Crisp getting back into form in the middle.

Provided we have the right coaching structures, Naicos can singlehandedly drag us into multi-year runs at the premiership.

I don't understand how this draftees can't impact is suddenly the prevailing wisdom, when the biggest factor in our premiership was a 2nd year draftee in Nick Daicos. Our 2022 prelim run loss by a point was also helped immensely by a 40 goal 2nd year Ginnivan and 2nd year pacy McCreery...

I'm not sure of the standard you classify as good. But of our small forwards in Elliott, Hill, McCreery and Schultz, Schultz would be the first in line for me to be dropped if someone like a Harvey Harrison really cements his spot in the side as another small forward.