Player Watch #29: Will Phillips [Part II] - Extends to End of 2025

[Moti]

I'm not writing Will off yet.

He should go to another club, we have a lot of one paced mids and if he went to a club with a more dynamic mid, he can play his natural game.

 

[archereleven]

The COVID draft year is a genuine write off. Teams that traded out of that draft had the right idea.

It is what it is.

We traded into it

 

[chubbspeterson]

We traded into it

We got excited about this new mechanism called future trading, somebody wanted to trade with us but we'd never really done it before. We didn't get it right, we got it Serong.

 

[harper2bastinac]

It’ll go down as one of the worst top 20’s in history. Realistically these are the top 10 players from that whole national draft. It was a unique outlier that the top 10 was so poorly performed when compared to the rest of the draft class.

1. Errol Gulden (32)
2. Max Holmes (20)
3. Riley Thilthorpe (2)
4. Jamarra Ugle Hagan (1)
5. Tom Powell (13)
6. Oliver Henry (17)
7. Logan McDonald (4)
8. Jake Bowey (21)
9. Braeden Campbell (5)
10. Tanner Bruhn (12)

Only others that will go on to have half decent AFL careers will probably be: McCreery (44), Perkins (9), Chapman (14), Hollands (7), O’Driscoll (27) and Neale (33).

Paints a pretty bleak picture especially when you compare it to the years before and year after.

Paints an even bleaker picture when you realise we traded out of 2019 and into this draft…

That list looks even worse when you realise the off field issues that juh, bruhn and hollands have gotten themselves into

 

[tazaa]

Only North can trade a future 1st round pick to Melbourne, effectively giving up Caleb Serong

3

Caleb Serong

Age

24

Ht

180cm

Wt

87kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

13.0

3star

K

7.0

3star

HB

6.0

4star

M

1.8

2star

T

3.6

5star

CL

2.6

4star

D

13.0

3star

K

7.0

3star

HB

6.0

3star

M

1.8

2star

T

3.6

4star

CL

2.6

4star

D

13.0

4star

K

7.0

3star

HB

6.0

4star

M

1.8

2star

T

3.6

5star

CL

2.6

5star

or Kozzie Pickett - who helps Melbourne win a flag, and in the meantime the draft we traded into is compromised and we don’t have access to the best talent and in the end it’s riddled by COVID lockdowns.

Only North.

 

[Sillygit]

Personally, i can't see why anyone would want wiphi to be delisted when his thread alone provides such a rich tapestry of wide ranging discussion.

 

[koshari]

Only North can trade a future 1st round pick to Melbourne, effectively giving up Caleb Serong or Kozzie Pickett - who helps Melbourne win a flag, and in the meantime the draft we traded into is compromised and we don’t have access to the best talent and in the end it’s riddled by COVID lockdowns.

Only North.

was a hold my beer moment after taking mahony before warner....


but seriously i dont blame the players, its not their fault where they were taken on the draft.

 

[Dierdre Chambers]

Only North can trade a future 1st round pick to Melbourne, effectively giving up Caleb Serong or Kozzie Pickett - who helps Melbourne win a flag, and in the meantime the draft we traded into is compromised and we don’t have access to the best talent and in the end it’s riddled by COVID lockdowns.

Only North.

Swans chose Stephens ahead of Serong amongst other first round errors Ling Sheldrick Konstanty

 

[Chip Scab1]

Swans chose Stephens ahead of Serong amongst other first round errors Ling Sheldrick Konstanty

Good. Suffer.

As Konstanty becomes serviceable for another club.

 

[zoomba23]

Good. Suffer.

As Konstanty becomes serviceable for another club.

This is the pot calling the coalmine black lol. What I wouldn't do to have had Sydney's player ID and development

 

[Chip Scab1]

This is the pot calling the coalmine black lol. What I wouldn't do to have had Sydney's player ID and development

They can drown in their academy and stealing fathers son's off other Clubs cesspit of leg ups, favours, downright cheating no premiership hollow in more than 10 years. Same as us, really.

 

[Heaps of fun]

**** Sydney's player ID. They'd be a middle of the road team without their academy. That club has had training wheels on for decades, just can't stand them being lauded.

 

[zoomba23]

They can drown in their academy and stealing fathers son's off other Clubs cesspit of leg ups, favours, downright cheating no premiership hollow in more than 10 years. Same as us, really.

Lol. Fair play. You'd get on with DuckYeah

 

[Passmore]

****ed if I know how we didn’t see COVID coming. Amateur hour.

 

[TennisPlayerAndy]

**** Sydney's player ID. They'd be a middle of the road team without their academy. That club has had training wheels on for decades, just can't stand them being lauded.

They’ve been in Sydney for over 40 years.

Still require exclusive access to players to prop them up.

**** them.

 

[Sillygit]

So, seems he had a good 6... quarters? of football in the scratch.

 

[swaeney]

So, seems he had a good 6... quarters? of football in the scratch.

Any match report

 

[Sillygit]

Any match report

Merlins observations in the vfl thread

 

[DocSholl]

****ed if I know how we didn’t see COVID coming. Amateur hour.

More our inability to assess the 2019 draft crop tbf. Even without covid we traded out of a heck of a first round talent wise

 

[Passmore]

More our inability to assess the 2019 draft crop tbf. Even without covid we traded out of a heck of a first round talent wise

Yeah didn't turn out great. But, we really didn't get a look at what might have there tbf.

 

[Themanbun]

We were on the decline and swapped with Melbourne who turns out were one year away from a flag. It was always a horrific move regardless of the draft crops.

 

[Chadwiko]

This is a "sorry, not sorry" type of situation, but you cannot tell me Phillips wouldn't have been better today than multiple guys who got a game ahead of him.

When the defensive component of our game is by far our biggest weakness as a team, dropping our best defensive midfielder is a decision that confuses the hell out of me.

 

[DocSholl]

This is a "sorry, not sorry" type of situation, but you cannot tell me Phillips wouldn't have been better today than multiple guys who got a game ahead of him.

When the defensive component of our game is by far our biggest weakness as a team, dropping our best defensive midfielder is a decision that confuses the hell out of me.

Because he can't defend anywhere other than the immediate contest

 

[Flawed Genius]

Because he can't defend anywhere other than the immediate contest

I am coming to the sad but apparently inevitable conclusion he isn't quick enough for the modern game, not by a long shot. Great defensively at stoppage, but gets played through around the ground and in transition. Coach killer.

 

[swaeney]

Because he can't defend anywhere other than the immediate contest

there’s something about having a defensive mid when there is a gorilla like Rowell playing against us…..