Gator

Trust me, if you ever find yourself at odds with Picket sleep well at night.

You would think it strange. You don't think Brayshaw can play.

He averaged 20 disposals per game and kicked 19 goals from his 24 games. Player rating 79. At the same age Martin averaged 24 disposals and kicked 23 goals from his 23 games. Player rating 95. Petracca is tracking well. He did about what I thought in 2018. I reckon he'll elevate his game next year. That said, the incremental improvement has been slower than I expected. I thought he'd be at de Goey's level by 2018. But I'm a big fan and think he's only at about 60% of what he'll become.

Yes. He might complain that you've brought it up, but it was the frequency in which he derided him as a player. If he'd made the odd observation and got it wrong, like we all have, you wouldn't be tagging him in a post. He must have said it 50 times. When you're that incessant about a player's supposed failings you've got to wear it when they prove you wrong. And if he's not yet convinced about Weideman he ought give up watching football. I don't like to bandy the word "star" around too often, but I think he'll become a bona fide star of the competition.

At times in 2017 he looked pedestrian in the VFL, but I'm certain it was his lingering ankle injury that curbed his last year in the TAC. He had another operation on his ankle at the end of 2017 and it seems to have done the trick. He showed last year that he still has the athletic traits that excited when he was a junior. A bigger stronger Weideman is something to salivate over.

I agree with the sentiments of your post and have stated the same, however, de Goey and Stephenson at times both played out of the goal square as pseudo full-forwards. I think some people are surprised that de Goey is 191cm.

Weideman is a very exciting prospect. He could really surprise the competition over the next few years. He's been in the club doing weights since early October.

Bye

You really are disingenuous. I ALREADY had made that point with the poster in question, which you would have read.

68.8%

Good Lord. Most of the best goal-kickers in history float between 65-70%. I could have named another 12 quality key forwards that fell within that range. Then you would have (needlessly) scrambled away dissecting another player's accuracy. The point was that Curnow's goal-kicking accuracy at 63% is a non-issue and that it wouldn't deter any club in the competition for craving a player of his quality.

You've completely missed the point. It wasn't a Lockett/Curnow comparison. Go and tune up your cognitive gears.

Lockett is the best kick for goal I've seen. Lockett converted at 69.7% and Curnow converts at 63.4%. There's not one club in the league that thinks "I really like Curnow, but I'm worried about his goal-kicking accuracy". Not a single one. Note: Peter McKenna, who many say was the best kick for goal they've seen, converted at 65%.

In your mind.

The ladder will tell you that.

Right now everyone would have Curnow ahead of Weideman. But they are quite different players and it's too early to call. We might not know for a decade.

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A non-issue for me. Most clubs would be over the moon to have a key forward capable of kicking 60 goals like McDonald, or a 21 year old key forward who's shown the ability to be best on ground in his club's first final in over a decade. You've got Gawn, who has the luxury of having stints forward now the backline is sorted. May and Petty can play forward, plus we've got numerous goal-kicking midsized players. We were the only team to have 15 players kick 10 goals, or more, in 2018. The next best was 13 while plenty had under ten. Bradke played junior footy with the Kings, so just pretend we drafted him on Friday if you want to. How many key forwards do you think Collingwood have ? How many do you think West Coast have after Darling and Kennedy ? Or Richmond after Riewoldt and Lynch ? We've balanced out our midfield depth, added to defence, brought in small forwards, and added pace. Happy days.

Kolodjashnij isn't competing with Frost. Having him in or out of the side makes no difference to Frost's selection, or otherwise.

He's a quality mark and very good VFL defender. My query is whether he's athletic enough for AFL footy. Oscar, Lever, May, and Frost are clearly ahead in the key defender stakes and I'd say Petty is too. That puts him a long way back. I'm not seeing an AFL career. But I've been wrong plenty of times and will be again.

Can't help mate. Other than when Casey is on TV, I haven't watched VFL footy for a while. Looks good from the footage though. They wouldn't bring him in if they didn't think his upside was regular AFL footy.

Well, we've turned Hogan into May, Kolodjashnij, and Sparrow. Time will tell.

Just waiting for @rjay to tell me "no, it's there".

Pick 27 has vanished.

Is that Phil Scully in the Giants bunker ?