The mcbean pole.
welcom aboard son, you have 2 1/2 years to be carving it up before the ferals turn on ya, if your lucky.
Nah, you're wrong Al, it takes 4-5 years to develop a big man. 
Dean Putt.
Needs to put on a touch under 20kgs without losing much speed or agility thats the risk and the doubt but if he can do it he could be a good AFL player.
okay ive calmed down a bit since yesterday.
they say hes a ruckman well and good we need a developing ruckman.
at pick 33 we take a bloke who needs to put on a touch under 20kgs, without losing speed and agility, wwe take a bloke who played more as a defender so its fair to ask is he a ruckman. we take on a bloke at 33 who it seems to me doesnt take a lot of marks but hes got good speed and agility. we take a bloke who is very much a long term development propisition at 33.
we take him at 33 despite having a similar more talented player in vickery with todd elton also there.
im sorry people i dont see him as a first ruck i see him playing kp.
now that we have him im going to give him at least 4 yrs to play a game im not against the player himself he may turn out to be a good one im a little narky at where we took him and im questioning what type of player he actually is. is he a ruckman or is he a defender.
in fact i dont have a problem with any of the kids we took its not a crack at the players.
all im doing is questioning the type of player we took and asking did we address any long term needs.
we took a supposed ruckman who may not be a ruckman. if we wanted a ruckman who will take over from ivan in time why not a pure ruckman and probably later in the draft.
we took a tall defender who is supposed to be a mid dont get me wrong i really like mcintosh as a player. astbury,griffiths,rance,chaplin, darrou, grimes, mcguane not enough defenders on the list for them its hardly a pressing need.
we took a small forward who they hope can in time play midfield why not take a genuine mid especially after shoring up the sml/med forwards with mature players.
seems to me we continually take players of one type and then try to turn them into something different if we want a mid why not take a proven mid with such a good pick as 31.
anyway those who have been taken i say welcome you will have my support
to those in charge i say. i question the logic the management and the types we have taken in relation to list management. i am asking have we addressed the ruck situation have we addressed the lack of tall forwards, and have we addressed the huge lack of genuine mids.
cant say we have.
what we do have in abundance now is tall defenders and small/med forwards. but we had them covered before the draft.
