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Fancy that, not one demon on the list.  2 rising star nominations.

However, very happy with Riv, jacko and Kozzie as recruits.  Saw enough to like what is coming through. Thoughts in the selections?

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I think we had 3 of 18 rising star nominations to be fair...

 

or maybe it was 2... cant recall if Rivers got the nod but he was thereabouts if he didn’t get it officially

Edited by The Jackson 6

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5 minutes ago, The Jackson 6 said:

I think we had 3 of 18 rising star nominations to be fair...

 

or maybe it was 2... cant recall if Rivers got the nod but he was thereabouts if he didn’t get it officially

Corrected original post, thanks for the spot.  I think it was 2, but Riv deserving for both individual games and body of work.

 

The other thing to consider is the quality of our batch just above that age bracket. ‘22’ is just an arbitrary number really... I think the list is in a pretty healthy spot, they just need to fill in the gaps within the next couple of years and that is more likely to be with more experienced players as they’d be expecting to be challenging for a flag in May & Gawn’s time.

9 minutes ago, buck_nekkid said:

Fancy that, not one demon on the list.  2 rising star nominations.

However, very happy with Riv, jacko and Kozzie as recruits.  Saw enough to like what is coming through. Thoughts in the selections?

Not an issue for us at all - Clarry, Trac, Gus, Langdon, Lever and Weid (amongst others) are all under 25 and JL, Kossie and Rivers all looked good this year.

I'd be more worried if I followed the Crows, Hawks, Nth or Sydney, all finished bottom 4 and had no players selected. They haven't got the same level of talent in the 23 - 28 age bracket as what we've got. 


What hasn’t helped is some of our more experienced guys have dropped off a perch quicker than we’d have liked (Nev, Jones) and the ‘prime’ of some of our maturing players didn’t last as long as you would have hoped (TMac, Melk, Hibberd)

The best way to make this team is to be in the 2016-2018 drafts. 

We traded out of 16 for Weideman and 17/18 for Lever.

But we’ve also taken Fritsch (slightly too old), Spargo, Petty, Sparrow, Jordon with decent picks in those years. 

On talent alone Fritter isn’t far off a lot of the guys in the 22u22. Spargo looks like an AFL player again. Petty and Sparrow both have a fair bit of upside, if they can deliver next year our youth starts looking a lot stronger.

As for making the team - our class of ‘19 have 3 more years to do that.

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