Just going off the highlights clip, if this is the 33 best kid in the draft, this draft isn't anywhere near as good as they say.
I hated FJ before tonight but letting Laverde go and now picking up a really skinny kid like this, I hate him even more.
you do realise laverde was picked up at pick 19.....so almost every team overlooked him in the first round, including essendon with their first pick
Peggles - shhhhhh - why ruin a good rant from big tone with a fact like that.
It's an opinion, am I aloud one?
Laverde will be a star.
Just like Heppel, and clubs overlooked him including FJ the d1khead.
Apparently not. If one bags out the draft selection then one is automatically having a personal go at the kid.
But it's ok, we can all clap the players off after the next disgraceful loss like some posters here did after the Tom Hafey tribute loss.
Everybody join the parade
not sure menadue is such a bad selection though. when it came to mids /flankers at this pick i had two id prefer in front of menadue blakeley and jackson nelson. menadue was in the mix though.
being a wa lad i was all for blakeley i think freo got a steal.
i think wih menadue people are concerned with his size and probably rightly so. but geez he ticks a lot of boxes. he meets a huge need for our club, we all screamed out for a player with poise pace and good disposal well he has all three. on this i commend them and i dont believe he was a reach but there is some risk with his size.
i can see him playing hb or wing.imo hes not as outside as many think but playing at 69kg has meant he has had to primarily play an outside role. what swayed me about him was the simple fact that such a skinny kid would go and win some contested ball when needed. he would tackle as well its not something he has to work on its a part of his game and he should be able to do these things at afl level IF he bulks up. there was another lad whose name escapes me im sorry who i thought was potentially jbetter than menadue had plenty of injury and missed a bit of footy, sorry it will come to me in time.
but for me i love big bodied hard at it ball winners with my early picks on mids and to me blakeley was one ofthe best inside mids in the entire draft. in looking at available mids at 33 i just could not go past him.
