2010 Draft Discussion thread [merged]

[Ramps]

lets all hope his coaching career didnt just get slaughtered/

[one-eyed]

From Emma Quayle's twitter page:

"Some bits & pieces from the draft. Polec was never in the Tigers' plans, since midyear Conca was the one they wanted..."

http://twitter.com/emmasq

[tony_montana]

poor kid - hes already got a massive load of pressure on his shoulders to perform at a similar level to the likes of Heppell and co.

[Ramps]

poor kid - hes already got a massive load of pressure on his shoulders to perform at a similar level to the likes of Heppell and co.

Yep and its quite stupid as well. Conca is a good player and will be very good IMHO. The other selections need to be the ones in focus.

[pmac21]

From the highlights package we have done very well..
All players have good vision and can kick.
Definite pass at this stage even if only in theory !!!

[sabartooth]

I hope FJ knows what he's doing

If he wanted Conca so badly, he should've traded for a pick 15 or so, as it seems he may not have gone off til then.

thats a great point, we could have done some major deals with pick six 

[Penelope]

If they had traded out of pick 6 punt road would have been burnt to the ground, along with effigies of cameron and jackson
 
You don't watch someone for a couple of years, decide they are the man you want, then downgrade your first pick because you think they will still be about at pick such and such. That sort of gamble is utter madness.

As it was Jackson was nervous someone else would call his name out before pick 6.

[Smokey]

As it was Jackson was nervous someone else would call his name out before pick 6.

That would be because our list was leaked.   

[Smokey]

Post from a regular on Tiger-Talk:

Caught up with a mate and got talking about the draft. He watches a bunch of junior footy, so here was what he thought -

Said that in Conca we went for a guaranteed 200 game player (*) who was every chance of being vice captain to Lids at age 21 (3 years time). He said there were other higher potential players out there, but potential = risk, and if you're at the bottom of the ladder, you *have* to make your 1st pick in every draft count. His words - "safe". (* - I've put the moz on him, but subject to injury)

On Batchelor - thought that he was worthy of pick 30-45. Quintessential modern footballer - he can play tall and short, play zones and man on man (although better zoning off at this point).

On Helbig - stereotypical HFF. Lots of flair and class. Can be lazy, can ignore his man, can get forward of the play. His issue in common with other HFFs is whether he can get tougher, win his own footy, chase, tackle, work hard etc.

McDonald has a very good power-package (strong hips, tackling, jumping, accelerating etc) but doesn't have stamina. Stereotypical Morwell boy (....), so watch out if he latches onto Dan Connors and finds some trouble at some stage.

Derrixck he described as typical state league ruckman. Slow developer but improved this year. Has to keep improving at that rate, but could be second stringer. You'd probably pick him ahead of Browne and Vickery at this stage. If you look at our list, we had to take a ready to go ruckman so it really was him or Jon Giles (Sturt). Giles
was the popular tip.

My mate felt Conca & Batchelor were probably picks where our system & gameplan influenced the pick. He thought Helbig was a flighty talent who could go either way - turn out great, or be a bust. You know what you need to do with McDonald - work him into the ground stamina wise.

Derrickx is the ruck insurance, which you may have used a rookie pick on.

http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/tiger-talk/message/94215

[Ramps]

I would have liked a key position player somewhere in there.

Next year I think we need a quality key defender and a quality key forward.