I'd be going Dovaston, Lindsay and somehow Pickett.

6 minutes ago, Bombay Airconditioning said:

I’ve watched a few clips today of players likely to available around 7 & 8 and Lindsay for me is by the best kick in that range.

He's a beautiful kick, but if he's not capable of becoming an effective midfielder then he's not worth one of our early picks.

If he is then no problem, get him. I haven't seen enough to know.

We need to be drafting an elite mid from one of our 2 top 10 live picks.

Any 2 from this group would be good

Robey, Grlj, Lindsay, Cumming, Hibbins-hargreaves, X. Taylor, Greeves, Dovaston, Farrow

Whether we trade up or hold our picks and see what falls through the cracks

2 minutes ago, FrothiesLiam said:

Any 2 from this group would be good

Robey, Grlj, Lindsay, Cumming, Hibbins-hargreaves, X. Taylor, Greeves, Dovaston, Farrow

Whether we trade up or hold our picks and see what falls through the cracks

I've watched a few of the videos of Cumming and I don't really see it, he reminds me a bit of Josh Ward

34 minutes ago, Gator said:

We need to be drafting an elite mid from one of our 2 top 10 live picks.

Might be a 12 month delay on that

25 minutes ago, Gator said:

He's a beautiful kick, but if he's not capable of becoming an effective midfielder then he's not worth one of our early picks.

If he is then no problem, get him. I haven't seen enough to know.

We need to be drafting an elite mid from one of our 2 top 10 live picks.

I think this is the problem, we (myself included) have / had a mindset of a need for instant replacement for Trac and Oliver. Many were jumping up and down until we signed Steele who is as close to as we could get a replacement for Oliver. So now we just need to draft an elite a mid to replace Trac and all is good again. From the clips I’ve watched of Robey, Dovaston and Lindsay, Lindsay for me is by far the best kick and one of the biggest knocks of the games of Trac and Oliver was their kicking. His profile says small defender / mid at 183cm but from the vision looks to play a half back distributor role, obviously this can change once he matures in the AFL system. We shouldn’t be picking a mid just for the sake of it, even if we drafted another Langford how much would that influence where we finish next season? We can go after another mid with our first pick in 2026. We need more players that can kick and another small fwd with natural ability.

Lindaay and Pickett for me.

Oskar Taylor should be in the mix too imo

59 minutes ago, Bombay Airconditioning said:

I think this is the problem, we (myself included) have / had a mindset of a need for instant replacement for Trac and Oliver. Many were jumping up and down until we signed Steele who is as close to as we could get a replacement for Oliver. So now we just need to draft an elite a mid to replace Trac and all is good again. From the clips I’ve watched of Robey, Dovaston and Lindsay, Lindsay for me is by far the best kick and one of the biggest knocks of the games of Trac and Oliver was their kicking. His profile says small defender / mid at 183cm but from the vision looks to play a half back distributor role, obviously this can change once he matures in the AFL system. We shouldn’t be picking a mid just for the sake of it, even if we drafted another Langford how much would that influence where we finish next season? We can go after another mid with our first pick in 2026. We need more players that can kick and another small fwd with natural ability.

Lindaay and Pickett for me.

pickett with pick 8??????

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3 hours ago, old55 said:

I think it's 8 and our F1 for 2 and 13 and we promise not to take WC's WA prospect at 7. Our F1 has a lot of value, clubs will think we finish 14th or worse next year.

But we'd really want the player at 2 to do this.

Yes it probably would take that and yes we would really have to want that player - I can see us being quite bad while King gets us to play the want he wants. We don’t have the skills in the transition game and we don’t have the mids in the clearance game - unless we are extremely disciplined and miscast as poor kicks and decision makers - we are going to have a top 4 pick next year.

Let’s go … pick 7&8.

2 hours ago, Gator said:

He's a beautiful kick, but if he's not capable of becoming an effective midfielder then he's not worth one of our early picks.

If he is then no problem, get him. I haven't seen enough to know.

We need to be drafting an elite mid from one of our 2 top 10 live picks.

I'm not convinced there's a superstar in this draft anyway. I think we'll get two very good players from the top 10 that will make us better, but there's no Oliver 2015 or Trac 2014 in this draft that I can see. You could see them ooze class and contested ability at underage level. There's no one of that calibre this year.

The club have intimated as much previously and even looking at the recruiting videos of last year's crop, there's no one that gets close to say Xavier Lindsay from this year's class.

17 minutes ago, Adam The God said:

I'm not convinced there's a superstar in this draft anyway. I think we'll get two very good players from the top 10 that will make us better, but there's no Oliver 2015 or Trac 2014 in this draft that I can see. You could see them ooze class and contested ability at underage level. There's no one of that calibre this year.

The club have intimated as much previously and even looking at the recruiting videos of last year's crop, there's no one that gets close to say Xavier Lindsay from this year's class.

Which is a shame, because I reckon we're short at least 1 A grade talent amongst our young crop.

4 hours ago, Bombay Airconditioning said:

I watched all of the available footage on you tube of Dovaston and I’m not sold on him. Kicks a nice goal from the boundary and some other regulation set shots but also misses a couple, nothing that screams natural fwd craft. Field kicking is average to ordinary with a few up and under / turn over kicks, fumbles a bit in certain passages and plays for the high free kick once or twice. Not a lot of vision of his marking ability. As I said earlier in the week he’s very busy buzzing around everywhere and runs hard to link up and create opportunity but doesn’t seem very damaging by foot and that’s what we need.

how would you compare his game to say chandlers who has played that small forward role for 3 years now, as the pressure player i50, only this year he graduated out of that somewhat out of necessity with ANB departure and spargos injuries but i dont see anything in dovastons game that doesnt suggest he cant develop a nicer kick, he'll get stronger and quicker and be able to break tackles and get into space around the ground better giving himself more time to kick

10 minutes ago, Davos said:

Which is a shame, because I reckon we're short at least 1 A grade talent amongst our young crop.

I agree. So we either go Humphrey again next year or hope we can land one with our two first rounders next year.

I actually think we're two A graders short. But anyway, time will tell.

8 hours ago, dazzledavey36 said:

Plays too much like Tom Sparrow for my liking..

Potentially. Tbf tho Sparrow in 2021 was tracking to be a future gun and definite member of the leadership team. If he progressed as anticipated it would’ve been great. His stagnation has confused me more than just about anyone else’s in recent times, deadset plodder these days.

17 minutes ago, Roddog said:

Potentially. Tbf tho Sparrow in 2021 was tracking to be a future gun and definite member of the leadership team. If he progressed as anticipated it would’ve been great. His stagnation has confused me more than just about anyone else’s in recent times, deadset plodder these days.

Yeah dont know.. I didnt see anything in 2021 that suggested he was going to be a future gun.