jimmae wrote:
I'm not talking about divesting from the first round
Who is? Outside of one player who has played 6 games, is there another tall on the list who isn't untried, constantly injured, inconsistent or too old.
We already have the dogs 3rd round pick, you could trade out another player for a similar pick. I still think it's still very difficult to get talls at those picks.
Between 30-60 nothing in 2003 (Zac Dawson?), 2004, 2005, 2008, 2010 (Tom Lynch and Darling the only two talls in our 'talls draft' that succeeded, boy did we pick the wrong year), 2011, 2012. After that probably too early to tell.
2006 Draft
29 Eric MacKenzie West Coast Eagles
32 Kurt Tippett Adelaide Crows
Close to what you are saying but still second round selections
71 Justin Westhoff Port Adelaide
2007 Draft
37 Scott Thompson Kangaroos
54 Cale Hooker Essendon**
2009
38 Sam Reid Sydney Swans
Strike rate in that zone for talls is pretty low over that decade. That was just a quick scan so maybe there are more...
Who says we're picking talls? Take a look at our list: we need maybe two tall defenders and a tall forward to develop right now, at most, and we've got 20 talls on the list chasing up to 8 or 9 spots in the team.
We need mids, and there's going to be plenty of them right through the draft. Go read all the phantom drafts and profiles and find out how many talls are in the mix for the top 30. If there's value, we'll take it, but we're not after talls and it's a shit draft for it, at least at the top end (which usually means no good key forwards/elite defenders).
What's more, that kind of analysis that you've done keeps falling over at the moment because of how rapidly talent ID has been evolving over the last few years. Stick to a 5-year window right now.
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