AGRO wrote:
ferdinand wrote:
You also have to accept that every year at least one of the other 17 clubs will draft someone very late who will be good. It's great though if you want to criticise our list management because you're guaranteed to have something to moan about.
SOS’s late draft & rookie picks have been atrocious (since he took over) so we’ve every right to put those picks under the blow torch.
Agree on the rookies and you can add mature recruits. Too many fails.
Don’t agree on the late picks though (any third round onwards)
2015: JSOS
2016: Macreadie, Polson, Williamson, Kerr
2017: Schumacher, Garlett
Thinks that’s a reasonable amount of talent at those picks from what we’ve seen of them so far. Two there with potential to be very good players. One will be a solid journeyman at worst, two with at least ability to play senior games at some stage and possibly get picked off by other clubs for lack of opportunity (created by good drafting). One as a whipping boy so at least provides this site with a lot of discussion! Garlett a bust in my opinion.
Our rookie drafts are puke. Absolute puke. ASOS was ok. That’s it though.
Then you’ve got Palmer, O’Shea, Mullet etc. not great. But considering how well I think we’ve drafted it’s not a huge loss. But we’d be stupid not to address that it’s a talent identification problem we have that can be rectified as our picks at the top end diminish (hopefully!).
The challenge now is to fill the gaps for small forwards, a quality second ruck at the right age, another quality mid.
It’s what Hawthorn and the Tigers have done better than most over the last decade. Identify the list gap, find the best fit in the league who will give you a consistent 22 games effort in the right age bracket. Eg. Nankervis/McEvoy
Prestia/Mitchell
Find them. Get them.