People need to get over this notion that great athletes make great players. Yes Natanui is a great athlete but he struggles with the basics of football. he's young and he might learn but give me a natural footballer anyday. I just want us to recruit natural smart footballers who are not slugs.
Agree with MT about not choosing a ruckman with the first pick. Kruezer has too much Josh Fraser's about him for my liking.
I've watched the WA v VM game a few times now. People dismissing Palmer may live to regret this. He is a pure, smart, instinctive footballers who can cut you apart. He is brilliant in close and dangerous in space. Ignore the reports that he's slow and one sided - that's all crap. Yes he uses his left alot but he's good enough to get to his left when most others can't. A Shannon Grant type with more flair and spunk
Masten is a pure inside type. If we lack inside mids and are desperate for them then we should seriously look at him. He is at every contest, positions himself perfectly and can read the play, gather and dispose to a very high level. He is a posession machine who makes the right decisions in tight and would take alot of heat off Foley. A Kane Cornes type that will always have high posession numbers.
Alot of hype about Morton but I'm not convinced. Great kick, great mark, good size. But doesn't win his own ball and needs to be fed. Not a true inside mid and not a true key position. Will be great at a club with these 2 positions covered but we need the foundation work first before we can consider someone like him. Goddard like.
Rance is the ultimate full back we've been crying out for. 194cm, fast, strong, agile and good skills. Spitting image to Simmonds appearace wise. Big enough to play on monsters and quick and agile enough to play on the quicker ff's. Would seriously consider him at pick 1 coz he won't last till pick 17. But do you recruit a full back at 1 or 2?
Pears is very impressive and was surprised at his height of 192cm's because of his speed and agility. Great at spoiling and mopping up from his own spoil. If we don't get Rance we should seriously consider him at 17.
Kruezer - good, great, can see where the hype is coming from. But a ruck at 1? Big question. think inside mids and key backs are more urgent.
Cotchin - had a shoulder injury and was dissapointing. Great TAC reports but it bothers me he can't shake a tag. Do we need another Deledio?
There is definately alot of talent in that WA squad and wouldn't mind if we picked up 6 kids from there.
Some other kids I like that we can look at with mid picks -
WA - Gourdis, McGinnity, Ellard, Myers
VM - Simpson,
Later picks -
WA - Garlett, Jackey
VM - Polkinghorne, Sullivan.
