Also gerks, you say Kersten is an 'in-betweener'.
What would you call Fevola, Jack Darling? Same height.
What did you call Jack Riewoldt when he was first drafted?
So much is made about a few 3cm's.
Kersten is a footballer, give me that every day of the week.
By the way, this discussion is all academic, I'm still trying to figure out how Kersten will last to 15.
For what it's worth, I doubt Docherty, will be available at our pick. If he is, agree, we should draft him. If not, and assuming Sumner, Adams and co are also taken before us, well then we should draft on best available, and I have no doubt we will do that. The difference between taking an Ellis at 15, or taking someone similar at 26 is not much. The midfielders in this draft are all pretty similar from 15 to 40 unless there's a slider.
If we have Kersten at 15, we clearly have the 2nd best key forward in the draft staring us in the face. Let me tell you a little bit about Shane after having watched him quite a bit for the last two years.
First of all, he's the best mark in the draft, period. Even better than Patton. He reads the game so well. Already remind you of anyone? He tested top 10 in the clean hands test at the Comine, confirming his ability below his knee for a big guy. He suffered an elbow injury this season, so he missed the National Champs and a lot of the Colts season.
He came back and kicked 18 goals in the last 3 home and away matches. He then kicked 5 in the Grand Final and this is all coming from a very low fitness base. As an under age player in last years National Champs, he also kicked 15 goals. He just missed out being selected to GWS as a 17 year old.
So Kersten has a reason why he didn't test well at the Combine for endurance, he was injured all season.
Yes I do rate Kersten, and if he's available at our pick, I hope we pick him.
People say, 'we don't need another key forward', yeah, I bet you're the first people to complain if god forbid anything ever happened to Jack and Ty that we have no depth.
I've also heard, 'by drafting Kersten, what does that say to Griffiths?'.
Nothing.
Hopefully Griff makes it. Then Ty can play in the ruck. Wow, depth, scary thing isn't it?