if we're not turning up this saturday night with a see ball, get ball mindset that was voss's calling card in '22-23 when we were fun to watch. i'd go as far to say as the season is not over, but it's on life support.

SOS last draft in 2019 was a bad one with port taken Georgiades then Geelong taken Sam de koning both pick came straight after kemp

Or trading pick 11 (Sam Flanders) for Kemp and Philp.
Could've had Will Day also.
But it's easy to look back at every draft and find better players.
The issue is the system, it needs to mature and be more like the NFL with kids getting drafted in their 20s from a national 2nds comp to make an immediate impact for their clubs.
It's to hit and miss the way it is and it will probably get worse as kids are maturing later, both physically and mentally.

SOS last draft in 2019 was a bad one with port taken Georgiades then Geelong taken Sam de koning both pick came straight after kemp

I remember posters not wanting us to draft SdK because it was nepotism.

lol

i'm unsure why the club didn't want a big, mobile defender like sam. at that point marchbank couldn't get on the park, and kemp was always a bit of a tweener.

Missing out in 2019 is more costly given the lockdown affected years that followed. But, in fairness to SOS, we weren’t in the market for top end talls in 2019.

Walsh, Stocker, Kemp, Philp… Newman, Setterfield, Newnes, Martin… Gibbons, Deluca. He’s at least tried to address the midfield.

It’s bipolar recruiting. Turning one pick into three was good dealing, but Stocker, Kemp & Philp is poor drafting. Kemp can play footy, but he was destined to be repurposed from day one.

I'd like to see Kemp tried forward again. As someone mentioned yesterday he loves to crash packs and fly for marks (suits our forward entries). Replace him in defence with a lockdown defender (Young or upgrade).

The word on Kemp coming into the season was that he was destined for more midfield minutes after finding a home as a high-marking intercept defender in 2018, but he would end up having an impact just about everywhere. He adapted his kick-dominant game to become a handball-happy midfield extractor, was solid in his usual defensive post for Vic Country, and eventually a game winner for them up forward. Kemp’s success up forward lends to his key strengths of impact and overhead marking. He showed his worth with a huge contested mark in the dying seconds against South Australia to snare the winning goal, while doing the same twice in the last quarter against Western Australia to almost drag his side over the line. All were really game defining moments, and while Kemp does not win crazy amounts of the ball, he has important touches. Add to that a sub-three second 20m sprint and phenomenal agility and you have a prospect that can pull off just about anything. A good size to boot, Kemp would be a top 10 lock if not for his recent injury.

Or if we get another KPD we could try him in the middle (I think he was tried in the VFL, can't remember how that went).
Not sure what his endurance is like though and he might need some more kgs in the off season.

kemp needs confidence and belief and he can be good.

someone at the club has to pull him aside and get in his ear and kickstart that belief, imo.

Is that Jack Carroll? We can't afford to let a young contested mid go, surely?

If Martin goes on to play 22 games for Freo next year I will EAT MY OWN SHIT