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AFL NATIONAL DRAFT - Pick 9

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Victor Ergo. Gave up footy to write books unfortunately.

Could have been a contender.

write books? Let me guess "a long, long time Ergo in a galaxy far away"

cant find Ergo

Ergo, Ergo, therefore art thou Ergo?

 

I like Billings. Looks to be all class, a real natural. Also like Sheed. Displays good leadership and looks tough. Freeman's ball drop worries me. Also a lack of poise. KK is a magnificent kick but we want pure mids. Salem looks good but there's not much X-factor.

Ergo, Ergo, therefore art thou Ergo?

I think it is Wherefore art thou.... but who the hell is ergo?


I think it is Wherefore art thou.... but who the hell is ergo?

No idea who Ergo may be.... but if you look it up in a dictionary, you will find that "ergo" also means "therefore"... hence (also another word meaning therefore), the use of therefore in place of wherefore.

Go on then genius, tell who you'd take instead...

If available, I'd take Billings, Lennon, Salem and Taylor over Freeman.

All 4 of those players have far superior skills and balance than Freeman.

I'm not on the hype train this year, so i'll be giving Freeman a miss, he is no Patrick Dangerfield.

 

I think Ergo I am.

Cogito therefore sum.


Some antics.

I'm on my 3rd or 4th run-through on video of Salem, Bontempelli, Freeman and Crouch.

I think they are really the only four we're likely to take.

Obviously a big one could fall down, but from the position we sit which is just following the mock drafts these appear to be our best options.

From that, and like everyone else all I'm going off is about 24 minutes of video and 3 TAC Cup games I went to, but I'd love Freeman to be a Demon.

Watching the way he demands the football as the straight running kicker reminds me heaps of Stevie J.

Even his kicking action is so similar to him.

We've all bemoaned drafting players who clearly have or had talent, there is a reason we drafted them in the top 20, but it comes down to the desire to want to be great and work at it that now see's them delisted or worthless to us.

Freeman is the complete opposite of that. He has an undeniable arrogance of knowing he's quicker than everyone else on the ground and I love it.

We haven't had a true fast line breaker in years and years. He's a clearance specialist and as such isn't afraid of the hard ball. He fills our 3 biggest needs - a midfielder, hard body, outside spread.

He has goal sense, and watching him kick it long into 50, to the preferred side of Tom Boyd trusting him to outmuscle his opponent is already giving me great vision of placing it on Hogan or Clarke's right arm and watching the aforementioned lean on his opponent and take a contested mark.

That said, whilst I may claim to sometimes know a better structure for our team than Mark Neeld did round 10, me and I guess all of us just don't have the viewing hours ... If he's as consistent as his highlights package though, I'll be dancing in my own tears on Draft Day if we get 'Freo'.

I think it is Wherefore art thou.... but who the hell is ergo?

He's Art Vandelay's cousin. Art was AA U16 quite a few years back but just didn't kick on as many hoped and expected.


He's Art Vandelay's cousin. Art was AA U16 quite a few years back but just didn't kick on as many hoped and expected.

Still a bit of a smokey for our 3rd pick, according to sources.

Freeman does look bloody good.

Yeah, too bad the recruiters from all the clubs have already decided and that we are going to take Crouch.

lol

Freeman does look bloody good.

I thought you likened him to Dan Nicholson?

He's Art Vandelay's cousin. Art was AA U16 quite a few years back but just didn't kick on as many hoped and expected.

Moved onto import / exports didnt he?


I thought you likened him to Dan Nicholson?

maybe a better version

Yeah, too bad the recruiters from all the clubs have already decided and that we are going to take Crouch.

lol

check that;

' the recruiters from all the clubs have already decided for the first 1o odd places'

 

If available, I'd take Billings, Lennon, Salem and Taylor over Freeman.

All 4 of those players have far superior skills and balance than Freeman.

I'm not on the hype train this year, so i'll be giving Freeman a miss, he is no Patrick Dangerfield.

Billings and Lennon are basically running half forwards. Do you think that is what we need? Ivebeen pretty underwhelmed by Billings but rate Lennon mainly because I've seen him play in the northern league. Salem does look talented but how tall is he?

freeman's disposal is my main concern but his speed and ability to get his own footy do look worthy

another opinion on Freeman ...

"Freeman is incredibly quick and powerful and compares himself to Dangerfield and Luke Shuey. Freeman can find the ball and he uses it really well. He’s an under rated kick and a real force as an outside player. He seems to have an AFL ready body. I’d like to see him try get the inside ball a little more, but other than that; there are no outstanding flaws to his game. Freeman’s combine was incredible – second in the 20m sprint with 2.82 seconds, he came 10th in the 3km run, 10th in the beep test with 14.10 and first in the repeat sprints".


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