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WELCOME TO THE MELBOURNE FOOTBALL CLUB - ANGUS BRAYSHAW

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The lad has a very strong legs and runs low to the ground like Sam Mitchell, Ollie Wines and Joel Selwood these attributes are important in an inside midfielder when moving thru traffic. This attributes is important when withstanding a takle and dish off the ball. The fact that he can kick with both feet makes him almost the perfect inside midfielder. With some experience and good advice from his coaches I believe he will become one of the best midfielders in the game within the next 3 years.

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    The lad has a very strong legs and runs low to the ground like Sam Mitchell, Ollie Wines and Joel Selwood these attributes are important in an inside midfielder when moving thru traffic. This attributes is important when withstanding a takle and dish off the ball. The fact that he can kick with both feet makes him almost the perfect inside midfielder. With some experience and good advice from his coaches I believe he will become one of the best midfielders in the game within the next 3 years.

    No pressure...

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    Ollie Wines and Joel Selwood say hi back,then they get 40 possies and help carry thier side to victory.

    Both highly regarded juniors, high picks and much better and fairer comparisons than yours but as usual you don't let the truth get in the way.

    The highly regarded, strongly built midfielder has a high success rate, can't think of too many failures in recent times. It's the sexy outside ones that are the more likely to fail.

    We are still heavily paying for recruiting failures during the late Daniher and Bailey era. That's when you were involved with the running of the club wasn't it?

    Yet both went pick 7. Interesting

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    Yet both went pick 7. Interesting

    Pretty sure Daniel Rich went Pick 7 and Hawks magical draft of getting Buddy, Roughie and Lewis saw Lewis around the 7 or 8 mark, whilst not being a gun now Rhys Palmer went Pick 7 and won the rising star in his first season

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    Gun!

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    Shhh. Don't you know such logic doesn't fly these days. The new rule if not a gun in the first 3 years then they are spuds. Wise up

    3 years?

    For a lot of folks around here, that's very generous!

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    Pick 7 has more often than not been a good player. Conversely pick 4 has regularly been a bust.

    Statistically speaking, if you break success into average games played by players selected at each draft pick over the years, there isn't a massive difference between pick 4 & 7. It's 92 games vs 97. Pick 6 however is the jinx pick averaging only 51 games for every player selected at this spot. The lowest average games played for any pick in the top 20.

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    There have been many fine pick 4s, but pick 7 s a freak show.

    Aish, Wines, Haynes, Caddy, Shepherd, Rich, Palmer, Selwood, Ryder, Lewis.

    Haynes is a work in progress, but you have to go back to 2002, Kane Tenace, to find someone who didn't come through as a regular senior player, and about half that list you'd be comfortable to get that result from a number 1 pick.

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    Anyone at all concerned that Angus might come into contention for Pick 1? Long time to go until the draft, anything can happen. Bontempelli came for 10ish into 4 last year, this year feels like such an even draft. Obviously there's plenty of other players to satisfy our needs but I've grown used to the fact that Angus will be a Dee and that Roos will have a player he supposedly loves at his disposal.

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    "I've learnt how much of it is in the preparation," Brayshaw said. "All players say they realise that once they enter the system, but I guess I feel like I've learnt part of that lesson a year early."

    Looking forward to this kid sometime in 15. Cant see how we can possibly stuff this one up

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    "I've learnt how much of it is in the preparation," Brayshaw said. "All players say they realise that once they enter the system, but I guess I feel like I've learnt part of that lesson a year early."

    Looking forward to this kid sometime in 15. Cant see how we can possibly stuff this one up

    We may not stuff it up but have it stuffed up for us if saints pick him as mentioned above
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    We may not stuff it up but have it stuffed up for us if saints pick him as mentioned above

    just quietly I think Petracca might go ok as well

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    Pretty sure Daniel Rich went Pick 7 and Hawks magical draft of getting Buddy, Roughie and Lewis saw Lewis around the 7 or 8 mark, whilst not being a gun now Rhys Palmer went Pick 7 and won the rising star in his first season

    Perhaps we should've traded our pick 2 for pick 7 ...

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    Didnt realise the age gap of Angus either, his 2014 has been so different to most draftees, he will come in with a much wiser head on his shoulders

    You can really see this kid playing 200 games

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    I think i would be far more disappointed if we don't draft Brayshaw, than i would be excited if we drafted Petracca!!!

    I suppose we've all gotten use to feeling that Brayshaw is Dee-bound, a long way out from the draft.

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    I suppose it's a good thing that he has improved his speed, recently running a 2.91s (correction, make that 2.81) 20m sprint time.

    Whilst his kicking is not a weapon, it also isn't a negative (Grimes-type turnover negative). His ability off both feet is a huge plus imo, and is more beneficial than if he were an elite kick off one foot and sub-standard off the other one (like Mitchell, i wouldn't call his kicking ability punishing, but his dual-sidedness makes it a weapon).

    Suckling (L+R): 100+25=125

    Mitchell (L+R): 70+75=145

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    I suppose it's a good thing that he has improved his speed, recently running a 2.91s (correction, make that 2.81) 20m sprint time.

    Whilst his kicking is not a weapon, it also isn't a negative (Grimes-type turnover negative). His ability off both feet is a huge plus imo, and is more beneficial than if he were an elite kick off one foot and sub-standard off the other one (like Mitchell, i wouldn't call his kicking ability punishing, but his dual-sidedness makes it a weapon).

    Suckling (L+R): 100+25=125

    Mitchell (L+R): 70+75=145

    Without any stats to back this up, I'd say Mitchell is closer to 90 on both feet. I think that we'd be struggling to get anyone with more than 50 games over 75 (except Jack Watts).

    Brayshaw looks to have much potential, and the dual sidedness is a massive plus in his favour. I just hope the Saints pass on him at 1.

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