I honestly think that's a shame about Batchelor. Clearly not best 22 but was great in the magoos and couldn't have done anything else. I thought he was handy coverage for an injury to a few in our back line given his versatility. It's not like we've got defenders lining up out the door.
Unfortunately for him we do. Cannot play as a KPP in the seniors and as a third up we have Markov, Menadue and Short ahead of him. Nice guy though.
I don't think of those guys as defenders at all in the sense that Batchelor is. He's a medium sized defender/stopper, those others are just flankers. Maybe we're confident of a target in the draft.
On another note, just saw the Hawks cut Hartung. Has pace to burn. Didn't watch enough of their games this season to see what happened but I thought they had big wraps on him only a season or two ago.