Wallace's Ark

[mightytiges]

Tell me about Kym Monteath somebody please ?
I've heard good things but nothing concrete.

Like you Ox nothing concrete. All I know is he plays with the East Fremantle Colts, is an onballer (don't know his size) with big wraps on him but injured his shoulder back in April when B.O.G. and hasn't played since. He's been quoted in the WA press that he wants to play for the Tiges but won't be available to be picked up until the 2005 draft.

[mightytiges]

Kym Monteath was named in the best for East Freo Colts this week. Was also in the best players two weeks back.

Peel Thunder 2.3 5.3 8.4 12.5 (77)
East Fremantle 1.0 5.4 6.5 9.11 (65)
 
East Fremantle
Goals: Monteath 2, Power 2, Websdale, Miller, Taylor, McRobb 1
Best: Sewell, Monteath, Power, Wood

http://www.wafl.com.au/default.asp?pg=results&tournamentid=349

He'll be available for the AFL draft next year.

[Ox]

We shoul grab the kid if we gat the chance.
Bruce was a  champion,far better than Clokey IMO,
so i would prefer Kym,genetically speaking, over one of the 3 egotistical Cloke stooges.

[mightytiges]

We shoul grab the kid if we gat the chance.

He's stated publicly a while back he wants to play for Richmond. We'll be able to pick him up under the F/S rule in the 2005 National draft.

[wrennyboy]

what possie does monteath play?

[WilliamPowell]

He's stated publicly a while back he wants to play for Richmond. We'll be able to pick him up under the F/S rule in the 2005 National draft.

And Bruce has been a guest at the last 2 Tommy Hafey Club Luncheons - looks like a bit of "wooing" to me

[Fwoy3]

what possie does monteath play?

I heard he was a full forward in the making.

[froars]

GONE: Marsh, Fletcher, D.Kellaway, Dragicevic, Nicholls, Blumfield, Houlihan, Rogers, Hilton, Campbell (maybe)

With everyone pretty much in agreement that these guys are duds, and should be gone in the next delistings, makes you wonder why the club still continue with this policy of hacks from other clubs.  Marsh, Fletcher, Morrison and Weller have added nothing to our depth this year.  All they've done is increase the depth of the "to get rid of players".

Why can't they go for kids?  Where is the long term future in recycling players that can't make it at other clubs, when we could be going for draft picks or up and coming kids who've played up to 50 games and show some sort of future.

As I've said on BigFooty, drafting Brown was silly IMHO - he won't be there when and if we make the finals again.  it'll take that long to build up a decent list.

The policy has also put pressure on the likes of Duncan Kellaway with fans (such as myself) bagging the crap out of him for continuing to stay on, when if the club had managed the list well, there wouldn't have been the pressure on him from fans to retire.  When you've got so many duds on your list that you want to get rid of, and you have a former club champ constantly injured, and really, not quite up to it any more, pure frustration means you take it out on him.

The criticism of Dunc wouldn't have been made IMHO if we could have seen a decent recruiting policy of drafting kids where we could see some sort of future. 

HOpe you understand what I'm getting at because i'm struggling to put into words lol. 

[Puntroadroar]

what possie does monteath play?

I heard he was a full forward in the making.

you heard wrong

he is on onballer / roving forward flanker, he has been back for the past 3 weeks at East Freo now and making excellent progress, all i know is he is a bit shorter than his older brother Rhys but hey he is only still a kid with plenty of growing to do.

[Fwoy3]

what possie does monteath play?

I heard he was a full forward in the making.

you heard wrong

he is on onballer / roving forward flanker, he has been back for the past 3 weeks at East Freo now and making excellent progress, all i know is he is a bit shorter than his older brother Rhys but hey he is only still a kid with plenty of growing to do.

Sorry bro, got this information via Damian Streets (a.k.a. Weaver) - fairly well respected Richmond fan and watcher of under 18 matches. Is this not right?

>And is young Monteath worth a F/S pick?

I think he is too young this year.  Haven't actually seen his DOB but I
think he will be still under-18 next year. 

He is a 185cm-ish full forward which is too short and he will need to
either grow or develop into a midfielder. 

Due to a shoulder injury he missed most of this season and with only 2
games or so back in the Colts he did not make the WA under-18 team.  A good
player really should have because the WA juniors have very little height
this year.

Cheers.