Morton could be a star but I think we made the right choice with Cotchin. Morton may end up playing like Goodes across the centre of the ground exploiting opponents with his height, run and skills. I'm expecting Melbourne to be very pleased in the future with this yound recruit.
Putt could be an incredible power forward for us in the future. He will take time to develop but is already a great size. The fact that the Dons were so openly disappointed when we took him ahead of them gives me some real confidence that we grabbed him just in time. Players of his size, run and skills are rare but only time will tell.
Grant could be a star for the dogs but really I am only guessing.
Young players always look much better when they have more older stars around them to take the pressure off. Poor Lids has had to endure tags for years where in a team filled with more capable senior players these tags would have gone to them. Have a look at the effect that Stevens being injured had on Murphy. Murphy went from being a heralded star to an disappointing player all because he suddenly had to take the tag that Nick would have otherwise have taken.
We have great young players now but they are having to take on far more responiblilty in our team than they would have to take at almost any of the other clubs. whenLids and Foley are 100 - 150 game players you watch to see how good our recruits seem then without the same pressure applied.
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