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The popular view is that Melbourne will be looking to draft an outside midfielder as one of its main priorities with its four selections between #29 & 47 in the draft.

But there was one player who was mentioned on Fox Footy Channel's Combine and Draft programme last night as being within that range who is an inside midfielder and who really impressed me. Here's the profile from AFL Draft Central ~ Draft Profile: James Worpel

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Swap the best kick in the League to secure a draft pick to snare the worst kick in the League (but who is tenacious at the ball)! ?It might work?

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Swap the best kick in the League to secure a draft pick to snare the worst kick in the League (but who is tenacious at the ball)! ?It might work?

omg, what a buffoon. Why would you use 'best kick in the league' as a way to describe Watts? lol. How about a player who probably isn't a top 200 player in the league, came 21st in our best and fairest and has had 1 good season in 9 years to snare a young draft pick who is hungry and tackles well. 

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7 hours ago, stevethemanjordan said:

Impressed you in what way WJ?

I also saw him in a couple of occasions and he possesses nothing that we need

And of all the talked about inside contested players I saw, he was the least impressive. 

Looks hard at the ball and dedicated to the contest in the limited amount of vision that I saw.

I haven't seen enough of him to come to a conclusion as to his disposal but I remember one Nathan Jones at the beginning of his career and his disposal wasn't all that flash when he started but he worked on it as dedicated players do with their weaknesses.

We're not talking a top 10 pick here.

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7 hours ago, Dr.D said:

omg, what a buffoon. Why would you use 'best kick in the league' as a way to describe Watts? lol. How about a player who probably isn't a top 200 player in the league, came 21st in our best and fairest and has had 1 good season in 9 years to snare a young draft pick who is hungry and tackles well. 

We should've just kept his legs and sent the rest of his body to Port Adelaide.

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10 hours ago, Dr.D said:

omg, what a buffoon. Why would you use 'best kick in the league' as a way to describe Watts? lol. How about a player who probably isn't a top 200 player in the league, came 21st in our best and fairest and has had 1 good season in 9 years to snare a young draft pick who is hungry and tackles well. 

Clot! In case you hadn't noticed, Watts is acknowledged by most as the best kick at Melbourne and being the best kick is not stating ' the best player '. If you think that he "probably isn't" top 200, maybe you might reel off the 200 players ahead of him? I mentioned his tenaciousnous so there is no argument there but just because somebody has a higher regard for Watts kicking ability than you do doesn't necessarily qualify them as a buffoon.

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Worpel reminds me of Sam Powell-Pepper and Matt Couch. He simply gets the footy and is a true footballer.  He is at the contest and ready to play in 2018. Disposal is 50:50 so not a fit for the Dees. 

Probably goes to Kangas at 23, Cats at 24 or Giants at 27.

 

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15 hours ago, Whispering_Jack said:

The popular view is that Melbourne will be looking to draft an outside midfielder as one of its main priorities with its four selections between #29 & 47 in the draft.

But there was one player who was mentioned on Fox Footy Channel's Combine and Draft programme last night as being within that range who is an inside midfielder and who really impressed me. Here's the profile from AFL Draft Central ~ Draft Profile: James Worpel

I have one for you this kid seems very level headed, good size and looks to have good footy smarts, good winner of the ball - thomas north eastern ranges 

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17 hours ago, Whispering_Jack said:

Looks hard at the ball and dedicated to the contest in the limited amount of vision that I saw.

I haven't seen enough of him to come to a conclusion as to his disposal but I remember one Nathan Jones at the beginning of his career and his disposal wasn't all that flash when he started but he worked on it as dedicated players do with their weaknesses.

We're not talking a top 10 pick here.

 

A fair point, time will tell and all that.

But as others have already alluded to, I think contested-heavy, one-paced and average-skilled mids are the least of our needs at present. 

We already have several and it becomes problematic when there's not a lot of attribute diversity between them.

Aside from Oliver and Petracca, nearly all of our mids share similar strengths and weaknesses.

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I have one for you this kid seems very level headed, good size and looks to have good footy smarts, good winner of the ball - thomas north eastern ranges 

Agree, of all the contested-heavy type of players I saw at Tac cup level, North impressed me the most.

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13 hours ago, CBDees said:

Clot! In case you hadn't noticed, Watts is acknowledged by most as the best kick at Melbourne and being the best kick is not stating ' the best player '. If you think that he "probably isn't" top 200, maybe you might reel off the 200 players ahead of him? I mentioned his tenaciousnous so there is no argument there but just because somebody has a higher regard for Watts kicking ability than you do doesn't necessarily qualify them as a buffoon.

best kick for goal yes. Best field kick probably not. I'd say Salem, Hibberd are Lewis are all better and you could make a case for garlett too. 

So this is 160 odd players that I rate higher than Watts. There is probably a few debatable ones but there's a truckload more that you could make a case for to be ahead of him also. Either way you look at it, we certainly aren't giving away a player that is top 150. I think  175-200 is about right. 

Geelong
Danger
selwood
Hawkins
Menegola
Duncan 
Tuohy
Henderson
S.Selwood

Gold Coast
Ablett
A.Hall
Lynch
Wright
Lyons
Touk Miller
May
Saad

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Betts
Walker
Lynch
Sloane
Crouch
Crouch
Mckay
Lever
Talia
Laird
C.Cameron
Jacobs
Jenkins
R.Atkins
R.Douglas

Richmond
Martin
Cotchin
Houli
Prestia
Riewoldt
Nankervis
S.Edwards
Vlastuin
Caddy
Rioli

GWS
Kelly
Scully
Shiel
Cameron
Ward
Lobb
Greene
D.Smith
Davis
Patton

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Mitchell
Gunston
Burton
Breust
Hodge
O'Meara
Smith
Roughead
Rioli
Sicily

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Wines
Ebert
Boak
Ryder
Gray
Dixon
Powell-pepper
Wingard

North
Cunnington
M.Wood
Higgins
Ziebell
Tarrant
Preuss

Brisbane
Zorko
Rockliff
Beams
Martin
Rich

Frem
Weller
Blakely
Fyfe
Neale
B.Hill
S.Hill
Mundy
McCarthy
 

StKilda
Newnes
Ross
Steven
Billings
Roberton
K.Stevens
Gresham
Membrey

Carlton
Gibbs
Murphy
Docherty
Kreuzer
Cripps
K.Simpson
C.Curnow
L.Jones
Weitering
Marchbank

Dogs
Macrae
Hunter
Mclean
Bontempelli
Dahlhaus
Johannison
Stringer
Picken

Coll
Treloar
Pendlebury
Grundy
Adams
Wells
Sidebottom
Howe
Elliot
Fasalo 
B.Reid

Essendon
Heppell
Goddard
Hurley
Zaharakis
Daniher
Hooker

Sydney
Kennedy
Franklin
Hanneberry
Heeney
Lloyd
Papley
Parker
Z.Jones
Mills
G.Rohan
Rampe

WCE
S.Mitchell
Gaff
Shuey
Hurn
Priddis
Yeo
Kennedy
Darling
McGovern

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Hunt
Hibberd
Lewis
Oliver
Viney
Jones
Gawn
Petracca
Pedersen
Hogan
T.Mcdonald
Garlett
 


 

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1 hour ago, Dr.D said:

best kick for goal yes. Best field kick probably not. I'd say Salem, Hibberd are Lewis are all better and you could make a case for garlett too. 

So this is 160 odd players that I rate higher than Watts. There is probably a few debatable ones but there's a truckload more that you could make a case for to be ahead of him also. Either way you look at it, we certainly aren't giving away a player that is top 150. I think  175-200 is about right. 

Geelong
Danger
selwood
Hawkins
Menegola
Duncan 
Tuohy
Henderson
S.Selwood

Gold Coast
Ablett
A.Hall
Lynch
Wright
Lyons
Touk Miller
May
Saad

Adelaide
Betts
Walker
Lynch
Sloane
Crouch
Crouch
Mckay
Lever
Talia
Laird
C.Cameron
Jacobs
Jenkins
R.Atkins
R.Douglas

Richmond
Martin
Cotchin
Houli
Prestia
Riewoldt
Nankervis
S.Edwards
Vlastuin
Caddy
Rioli

GWS
Kelly
Scully
Shiel
Cameron
Ward
Lobb
Greene
D.Smith
Davis
Patton

Hawks
Mitchell
Gunston
Burton
Breust
Hodge
O'Meara
Smith
Roughead
Rioli
Sicily

Port
Wines
Ebert
Boak
Ryder
Gray
Dixon
Powell-pepper
Wingard

North
Cunnington
M.Wood
Higgins
Ziebell
Tarrant
Preuss

Brisbane
Zorko
Rockliff
Beams
Martin
Rich

Frem
Weller
Blakely
Fyfe
Neale
B.Hill
S.Hill
Mundy
McCarthy
 

StKilda
Newnes
Ross
Steven
Billings
Roberton
K.Stevens
Gresham
Membrey

Carlton
Gibbs
Murphy
Docherty
Kreuzer
Cripps
K.Simpson
C.Curnow
L.Jones
Weitering
Marchbank

Dogs
Macrae
Hunter
Mclean
Bontempelli
Dahlhaus
Johannison
Stringer
Picken

Coll
Treloar
Pendlebury
Grundy
Adams
Wells
Sidebottom
Howe
Elliot
Fasalo 
B.Reid

Essendon
Heppell
Goddard
Hurley
Zaharakis
Daniher
Hooker

Sydney
Kennedy
Franklin
Hanneberry
Heeney
Lloyd
Papley
Parker
Z.Jones
Mills
G.Rohan
Rampe

WCE
S.Mitchell
Gaff
Shuey
Hurn
Priddis
Yeo
Kennedy
Darling
McGovern

Melbourne
Hunt
Hibberd
Lewis
Oliver
Viney
Jones
Gawn
Petracca
Pedersen
Hogan
T.Mcdonald
Garlett
 


 

 

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3 hours ago, Dr.D said:

best kick for goal yes. Best field kick probably not. I'd say Salem, Hibberd are Lewis are all better and you could make a case for garlett too. 

Salem, Hibberd and Garlett, I won't argue with as far as being good disposers of the ball, but Lewis is shocking for turning the ball over.

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