AGRO wrote:
aboynamedsue wrote:
AGRO wrote:
Blue Vain wrote:
The problem isn't necessarily the drafting of midfielders IMO. Our issue is our drafted midfielders are still too young and slight to make a significant difference.
Dow, SPS, Fisher, O'Brien, I expect them all to be 150+ game players. The problem is Murphy, Docherty and Kennedy haven't been the more seasoned bodies to make the kids part players instead of the core group.
As I said elsewhere, I suspect Cripps, Murphy, Ed, Docherty, Kennedy and Lang were to be our midfield group with the kids playing a small role. Instead the kids are our main midfielders due to injury and limited pre-seasons.
Taking mids instead of De Koning or Schumacher wouldn't have solved our problem.
FWIW, I think DeKoning will be an inspired pick. He'll go past Harry at a great rate.
De Koning might well be an inspired pick - and go past Harry McKay at a rate of knots.
But the simple fact of the matter is we don’t have enough mids.
I’ve said it elsewhere - look at Geelong, they have Ablett, Dangerfield, Selwood, Duncan, Menagola etc etc, yet they their first four picks in the draft this year was more mids.
More mids in last year’s draft would not have made difference this year. As BV righty says, more kids is not what our midfield needs right now. .
The list is unbalanced which is Stephen Silvagni's fault.
I understand that more midfield kids in would not make a difference this year - but it will make a difference next year and the year after.
Perhaps he wasn't banking on Kennedy, Lang and Murphy being injured.
This list is unbalanced so no mid's to cover that contignencyPerhaps the list build hasn't finished.
Blue Vain said the spine was setPerhaps we already have FA/Trade Targets in mind this preseason.
We should have FA/Trade Targets in mind every seasonPerhaps we for once were looking ahead at upcoming drafts when this rebuild started and are going to target our top 30 picks this draft on them.
Good List Management means always looking aheadPerhaps we didn't rate the mids from 30+ last year in what was seen as a thin draft. Constable was overlooked by many due to pace/endurance, Worpel kicking, anyone else?
You want me to name more players that we should have taken at Pick 10, you seem to have a problem with that so I wont.How does your combination of Fogarty/Constable at #10/#30 over O'Brien/TDK help the list balance to any great extent?
Any incremental improvement is therefore better balancedPerhaps short term bigger bodies were seen as hindering the amount of midfield time that Dow, Fisher and SPS would receive. Hence the reluctutance to play Kerridge and Graham early in the year. As for taking mids instead of OShea, Mullet and Shaw, chances are they were only going to be of the same quality of Kerridge/Graham, and only of a short term benefit.
Dow, Fisher & SPS were asked to shoulder burdens in the Freo game that Cerra & Brayshaw weren't asked to do, as a consequence everyone is lauding Cerra & Brayshaw coming on this yearFrom memory most of GWS fringe players from the beginning were not midfielders - Cornes, Thornton, Brogan, Setanta etc, which more than likely fast tracked the likes of Treloar, Sheil, Whitfield, Adams. Scully and Ward were their equivalant of Curnow and Cripps.
Certainly GWS mature body choices seem to have helped GSW junior development better than Gold Coast