lol so wallace is responsible for jon. with that sort of reasoning hes also responsible for cotchin, rance, riewoldt and deledio. i suppose he drafted vickery as well lol.
he is responsible for none of them. the blame and kudos both go to the recruiting dept. wallace may have asked for a certain type and our gurus came up with jon.
imo and i know people are dismissive of it but wallace is barking up the wrong tree.
hands up anyone who expects heaps out of kids from the last 2 or even 3 drafts. do i see one hand nope. so cory ellis and ben lennon are doing fine imo. ffs lennon was skinny and not physically ready to play yet we still got 7 games into him. ellis is in yr one and had his own injury problems. what the hell is wallace on. we just want to get games into these kids and develop them we dont expect them to massively impact games atm even if they are first rnd picks. what utter nonsense he sprouts at times.
vlastuin had a very good first yr and he had a touch of 2nd yr blues. even with the poor 2nd yr id say hes tracking well. lots f very good players have had down second yrs. exactly what is wallace expecting from these kids.
b ellis is going along nicely hes not my cup of tea with the soft efforts but ffs hes done fine. conca well hes a balls up it happens.i suppose wallace is i justified here. as he is with vickery. hopefully we will at least get an okay player from the conca pick. before conca martin again hes going along okay.
wallace should leave the first round picks alone and concentrate on the rest of the draft and the rookie draft. its this that is holding us back. atm there is only shane edwards whos come thru from the 2nd 3rd rounds. lord knows i have issues with him as well.
we remain hopeful astbury, griffiths and mcintosh will become good consistent afl players but imo thats about it and there is no certainty with these three.
a ten yr period and the only players left from each draft/trade period
05 foley a rookie elevation
06 riewoldt
07 cotchin,rance.
08 vickery
09 martin the only truely established player from this draft, griffiths, astbury, dea. we traded drafted 10 players this yr not including rookies.
10 conca, batchelor, grimes, grigg. these players are in yr 5 and we still have issues with all of em.
this period has crucified us as a club.
imo we if we had found just 3 good players with the odd elite player every yr we would have 18 players on our list up to afl standard. instead we have just 13 players in total and some have question marks about them. too many nd picks rookie picks trades have failed.
then its into more recent drafts where we can still cut em a bit of slack
11 houli, ellis, elton, arnot , maric, morris. its possible we will only get one long term player. while houli morris and maric have served a purpose as mature recruits we are imo looking to upgrade.
12, 13, 14,
id rather not comment on any of em too early with the younger blokes. some show good signs some dont.
