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The Petracca v McCartin debate reprised

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McCartin kicked a point and had 5 touches watts would have been burnt on the stake if it was him

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Following Melbourne's win over St Kilda last week, a poster on Saintsational sparked some debate with this offering:- "Petracca is a gun who will be a superstar of the competition for the next do

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Meaningless gloating  and disrespectful to Paddy McCartin who, through no fault of his own, couldn’t fulfill his potential. 

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On 4/1/2017 at 10:49 AM, Clint Bizkit said:

This is the thing, with top five draft picks you don't just want a "good" player, you need someone special like Petracca and Oliver already are (hopefully Brayshaw follows suit).

I mentioned on here early in Toumpas' career that if that draft was done again I'd be surprised if he's get picked up at all, that is a monumental drafting mistake.

Preach.

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Trac always looked like he had star potential. McCartin was just a big kid who could outmark other kids. He never had the athletic potential to be a star. A good fwd at best imo. 

a terrible error. Saints would be a different team with Trac in it

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Just now, DubDee said:

Trac always looked like he had star potential. McCartin was just a big kid who could outmark other kids. He never had the athletic potential to be a star. A good fwd at best imo. 

a terrible error. Saints would be a different team with Trac in it

Also taking Billing’s over Bont is horrendous.   Can you imagine a midfield  with Bont and Trac in it.  

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I feel sorry for McCartin whose dream of becoming an AFL star was limited by his bouts of concussion a la Brayshaw and have a medical condition to boot may have some effect on his performances.

We got the better of this deal but the MFC had some of these boo boo's like Molan and Cook who never looked like AFL players at any stage of their time at the MFC.

I remember when the MFC lost Schwarz to injury after injury how it curtailed him from becoming one of the greatest MFC players of all time.

 

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3 hours ago, DubDee said:

Trac always looked like he had star potential. McCartin was just a big kid who could outmark other kids. He never had the athletic potential to be a star. A good fwd at best imo. 

a terrible error. Saints would be a different team with Trac in it

,,,and so would we

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I feel sorry for McCartin whose dream of becoming an AFL star was limited by his bouts of concussion a la Brayshaw and have a medical condition to boot may have some effect on his performances.

We got the better of this deal but the MFC had some of these boo boo's like Molan and Cook who never looked like AFL players at any stage of their time at the MFC.

I remember when the MFC lost Schwarz to injury after injury how it curtailed him from becoming one of the greatest MFC players of all time.

 

Molan was cruelled by injuries. Cook was a clanger.

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I think it's best to be humble.

We have had many drafting mistakes ourselves in the past.

Being able to develop players is crucial too. Jack Watts' development was definitely handled poorly at the time.

All I can say is that we are incredibly lucky to have Jason Taylor and I hope we can continue to have him as our National Recruiting Manager at the Melbourne Demons for many years to come.

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43 minutes ago, Nelo said:

If you look at the 2014 AFL draft GWS had a mare. The only really good player was Steele who they gave away. 

I just had a look out of interest and i doubt whether has been a better draft year for Melbourne than 2014

From the players drafted in 2014 we now have Petracca (2) Brayshaw (3) Lever (14) Neal-Bullen (40) and Langdon (54).

Even the two Melbourne players no longer with us had serviceable careers Stretch (42) 47 games, and Oscar McDonald (53) 82 games including 1 for Carlton. 

There are only 37 players drafted that year still on AFL lists.  Only 16 have played 100 games.

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Jimmy Toumpas was our Paddy McCartin.

To think the reining Brownlow medalist was living with Todd Viney at the time and we still passed on him. A mare if there ever was one.

Seduced by Lil Jimmy's Youtube highlights reel me thinks.

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On 10/18/2021 at 10:06 AM, Demons11 said:

I don’t need to imagine that one, I watch the GF replay once a week

Only once a week??  Too easily satisfied.

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