keogh wrote:
No I’m not
How does Deluca help our future midfield depth
Look through all the premiership teams of the last 5 years ten years
The team is not littered with top 30 picks
Has Sos pick some gems from anywhere else
Pickett provides more depth to the midfield
Could get 4 years out of him
Deluca is a limited footballer
What else does he provide other than forward tackling pressure
I reckon with a lot of supporters and maybe your one of them you only look at your team
There are 17 others
Richmond wouldn’t have won Friday night if it wasn’t for their depth and many players in that team
arnt top 30 picks Lynch had a great game but there not a one man team
I’m not emotional about Sos and it doesn’t cloud my judgment about him
I’m comparing how we recruit compared to other teams
In certain areas we fall short in recruiting compared to other teams
Do you watch other games?
Have you watched all the finals?
Many supporters don’t and probably many posters in this site don’t if you look at some of the biased rubbish they write
Next year depending on all of the intangibles like injuries team harmony form etc
of all 18 clubs we could finish from bottom of the eight till last
But in the big games and business end time the luck factor isn’t as great and every weakness gets exposed
Geelong no ruckman lack pace
Essendon**** poor depth
Collingwood lack of a big key forward
To win a flag every trade and pick is crucial
Our list has too many flanker types who lack pace
Our future midfield is not convincing yes too early to call but Dow and co are behind in their development
OK I'll bite.
Firstly, most premiership sides core players are top 20 picks
WC EaglesSheed 11
Kenedey 4
Shuey 18
Hurn 13
Gaff 4
Naitanui 2
Darling 26 (PP Pick)
RichmondPrestia 5
Martin 3
Cotchin 2
Riewoldt 13
Rance 18 (PP)
Ellis 15
Conca 6
DoggiesBontempelli 4
Smith 7
Macrae 6
Stinger 5
Wallis 22
Crozier 20
Boyd 1
HawthornHodge 1 (PP)
Lewis 7
Roughhead 2
Smith 19
Burgoyne 12
Birchall 14
Rioli 12
McEvoy 9
Schoenmakers 16
Hale 7
Frawley 12
Point 2 seeing as you want to go there.
I watch around 60-80 games per season on average with around 12 games live. I just don't cherry pick drafts or trades from other teams to prove a point, but much rather look at the list strategy as a whole.
There are still many holes on our list, however the plan IMHO has been mostly been successful, we have used our high end picks for key talls Harry, Weitering, Curnow first year of rebuild.
Build backline second year with Marchbank, Macreadie, Williamson and some mids in Samo & Fisher.
Third year start building mids with Dow, O'Brien, Kennedy, Lang and plugging holes DeKoning, Lobbe, Schumacher
Fourth year more mids Walsh, Setterfield, Stoker, Gibbons plus McGovern as trade request
All the premiership teams have built there list over a very long period of time, in most cases 10 years and we are in the same category.
We have a massive hole in the 26-30 age bracket so you can either trade your way to fill it or keep refining the list until the likes of Harry, Curnow, Cripps, Wieters, Doc, Marchbank get there naturally in the next few years.
Have other teams found a steal in the draft, sure and for most of those steals it is a risk reward metric that only the teams that have a mostly complete list can afford to make (i.e Richmond with Stack).
For all your carrying on, please show me where SOS has used quality picks for rubbish players, my guess is you can't
Even if McAdam turns out shit his 2 Nd and 3rd efforts are non existent even when he isn’t fat