2014 Draft

[big tone]

we will have in all likelyhood have one of picks 5 6 or 7.
ffs that pick must go on a tall what with the quality of talls that will be available. or a big bodied well rounded mid. ffs we leave so much to so few of our mids now we cant afford to take sml skinny outside players with our first pick. big ball winning mids who can play on the outside have decent pace and make damn good decisions is what our club lacks more than anything if the truth be told.
there will be plenty of opportunities with later picks to take one dimensional quick smaller players.

we really should be looking at ways to obtain more picks within the top 40.

Our mids are pretty small, Lids aside who is not a mids ass.

Cotch 185cm
Martin 187cm
Foley 178 cm
Ellis 181cm
Conca 185 cm
Edwards 182 cm
Thomas 186cm
Jackson 188cm
Miles 179cm
Vlaustin 187cm
Arnot 180cm

I agree with with Claw, we need a couple of tall GENUINE big bodied class onballers like

Mundy 192cm
Barlow 189 cm
Fyfe 190cm
Crowley 188cm

[one-eyed]

Plough's latest rolling top 20 for this year's draft:

1. McCartin (St K)
2. Petracca (Bris)
3. Brayshaw (Melb)
4. Wright (GWS)
5. Durdin (WB)
6. Ahern (Carl)
7. Pickett (Rich)
8. Laverde (WCE)
9. Duggan (Adel)
10. Marchbank (GC)
11. Ellis (Ess)
12. Moore (Coll - F/S)
13. Langford (NM)
14. Lamb (Port)
15. Lever (Freo)
16. Vickers-Willis (Geel)
17. Goddard (Haw)
18. Heeney (Syd - NSW academy)
19. De Goey (Ess - compo pick)
20. Weller (GWS - compo pick)

Source: TAC Future Stars

[The Machine]

Leverde for mine at this early stage.

[Gigantor]

why is Essendons name appearing so early in the pecking order,i thought they were barred from early picks unless they traded

[Judge Roughneck]

(Ess - compo pick) for drug cheating i suppose

[tony_montana]

why is Essendons name appearing so early in the pecking order,i thought they were barred from early picks unless they traded

was only for 1 draft wasn't it?

[Judge Roughneck]

Two

[Rampstar]

one pick for us wont make any difference, we need 2 or 3 picks in the top 20 to try and bring some class young into the club - 1 pick aint gonna do anything

[Francois Jackson]

2 but can trade into the draft. Right judge?

They are a disgrace whichever way you look at it

[YellowandBlackBlood]

why is Essendons name appearing so early in the pecking order,i thought they were barred from early picks unless they traded

was only for 1 draft wasn't it?

No for two. They managed to weasel back an end of first round pick for this year.

[mightytiges]

one pick for us wont make any difference, we need 2 or 3 picks in the top 20 to try and bring some class young into the club - 1 pick aint gonna do anything

I think if we remained 12th we would have picks 7, 26, 44, 62. We would need to trade into the late 1st round or early 2nd round to get 3 picks inside the top 26.

[mightytiges]

Plough's latest rolling top 20 for this year's draft:

1. McCartin (St K)
2. Petracca (Bris)
3. Brayshaw (Melb)
4. Wright (GWS)
5. Durdin (WB)
6. Ahern (Carl)
7. Pickett (Rich)
8. Laverde (WCE)
9. Duggan (Adel)
10. Marchbank (GC)
11. Ellis (Ess)
12. Moore (Coll - F/S)
13. Langford (NM)
14. Lamb (Port)
15. Lever (Freo)
16. Vickers-Willis (Geel)
17. Goddard (Haw)
18. Heeney (Syd - NSW academy)
19. De Goey (Ess - compo pick)
20. Weller (GWS - compo pick)

Source: TAC Future Stars

I know people see us as needing to add leg speed but I get nervous when these outside speedster types are considered a top 10 pick (granted it's Wallace's). We've been down that road at least twice before with Fiora and Tambling . The best speedsters in the game use their pace as much defensively running down opposition players and applying forward-line pressure as they use that pace offensively. What I've read about Pickett is he is a one-way runner at this stage. For those here that have actually seen him play is that true?

[Tigeritis™©®]

Whoever we take will never be the right choice unless the culture issues are addressed, the disease is cured and the standards are raised.

We need to get out of this...

[big tone]

Whoever we take will never be the right choice unless the culture issues are addressed, the disease is cured and the standards are raised.

We need to get out of this...

Culture wasn't mentioned last year when we were winning. But as soon as we start loosing it's a culture thing. I don't buy it.
People start looking for excuses when we loose but it's got nothing to do with culture, it's because we have a horrible game plan and a pig headed coach.
The fact that we draft badly and our development is putrid is why we have been so bad for so long.
We have had different people in and out of this club for 30 years, you cannot tell me they all have created this 'bad culture'
We need a better coaching team and better players and this problem will take care of itself when we start winning games.
What's the bet if we ever win another premiership that the coach will be heralded the bloke that cured our culture problem. But in reality his team has just coached, developed, traded and drafted well.
Bad culture is just another way of saying your club is bad at making good footy decisions.

[Rampstar]

Ahern/Laverde then Billy Evans later in the draft would be an ok result for us IMHO but I would like to see us get say 4 or 5 picks in the top 30 to 35 picks.