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Rating the Demons 2008 draft

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Rating is out of 10

How do you think went all things considered (ie, talent drafted, needs filled, x-factor) ?

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    Well, my poll didnt work, even thought I did everything right

    God damn it

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    Ill answer it the old fashioned way..lol

    id rate it about an 8 of 10. really nothing to pick at...however I personally am still a tad concerned about the backline. We seem to have a gathering of sorts of 2nd and 3rd defenders.. but no real FB. !!! Some will say MacNamara might be this is the future.. So if I had any qualms about the Mfc result its that; ..otherwise kudos to CAC, , Connolly and the whole recruiting team.. a very good result.

    in old language id give them an "A"

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    I'll give a rating in 3 years time....seriously though how can we possibly make a judgement before any of them have played a game?

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    I'd give us a 10

    I'd give Adelaide a 3. Their staff can't even get the numbers right. Bastards trying to steal Grimes

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    Before game played i'll give the draft an 8.5 out of 10

    but wait a year or two before we see the real talent and a proper rating

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    I'll give a rating in 3 years time....seriously though how can we possibly make a judgement before any of them have played a game?

    Agree. Although MFC seem to have chosen wisely according to comments in the press.

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    If you're going to ask a question like that, I guess you can only really mark the recruiters based on what was on offer in the draft, and what they passed on compared to what they took...

    In that sense, I'm thrilled... would be maybe a 9/10.

    - I was hoping firstly that we wouldn't take a lesser tall man just because we were desperate. We all know why that is, but I just felt like none of those players looked like they were going to solve our problems. We don't need all that many tall forwards... We need GOOD key defenders, but we actually have plenty of tall timber down there. The LAST thing we needed was more mediocrity to go with the Warnock/Holland/Miller types... Let's say for a minute that McEvoy had slipped to 14 and we took him, we would have had another slow ruckman to go with Jamar, but worst of all we would have missed out on Grimes...

    - Looking at the first 21 picks in order, we missed out on Cotchin and Kreuzer because we weren't the worst team in 2007. We missed out on pick 3 because of the priority rule... In the end we picked at 4 the player we would have taken at 3... so as far as that's concerned I'm thrilled.

    - I was hoping for Vezspremi or Rioli at 14, but they were taken before that. Nothing we can do about that. The players taken after Grimes were considered to be surprise early selections... Personally I didn't want ANY of the players after Grimes to be selected in his place... So that's another tick there for CAC.

    - Maric at 21 has some VERY good wraps for a kid taken that late. He is sort of a career FP, which limits him, but that kind of kick is solid gold... But most importantly, the players taken between 14 and 21 are pretty damn boring as far as I'm concerned. I think if we had pick 15, Maric would have been a good selection there as well! Then when you consider the players taken AFTER 21, the list thins out directly after Maric...

    So in the end, those all-important 3 picks were just about as good as I could have hoped for given the depth this year..

    Hence, 9/10.

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