dazzledavey36

Gut wrenching to hear.. It's certainly every parent worse nightmare.

Not sure how I feel about this.

I'm sorry, what's the backhanded slap? I've missed something here..

I have high hopes for Howes, but not as a defender. Still think he can play his best footy as a roaming 3rd tall forward who can work up and down the ground, similar to Jack Gunston

No just media reports I've read.

It's not about safety, it's the fact that our midfield depth is a bigger need then forward. After Rivers who is 24 we have zero up and coming midfield talent coming through. Petracca, Oliver, Viney are all about to hit their 30's and then there is a significant drop. Armstrong's no different to Weideman in his draft year. Too many double grab marks or dropped marks that forwards should eat up, 2nd efforts non existent and lackadaisical in his approach. Riak Andrew, a rookie list propsect completely shut him down in a Coates game at the back end of the year and his poor body language and laziness was on show for everyone to see. Barely put up a fight.

The talk of Bo Allan for our 2nd pick has picked up progressively over the past few weeks. Was mentioned a week or two ago that we've got strong interest supposedly.

So they should. Much better chance they succeed at AFL level then someone like a Armstrong who will take about 6-7 years before they reach their full capacity and make some significant impact at AFL level. Armstrong is Weideman all over.

Gross

How does he compare? Well for starters Lever made the initial All Australian squad at just 21 years of age. By 21 Lever was a 3x best 22 and under of the best talent in the league. Had a Rising star nomination by the. Howes not even remotely close to this.

Is this your gut feel or inside sources?

Jack Macrea has never won a Norm Smith medal.

Knock yourself out. Funny part is he's not even my first preference if I had my choice, so you can keep chipping away if you'd like. He'd be no different to a Petracca, Dusty, Cripps when they've rested up forward. When teams have gone on the defensive transition from defence they arent exactly sprinting to their defensive position point. Star players, but not exactly known for being defensive minded on transition. As you say, they have soldiers that cover for them in that instance. Langfords literally shown he can be an attacking mid first but also get into a defensive starting point on the counter attack. With his high end work rate and endurance, he makes up for it by being able to put himself into a position where he can defend and cover off his opponent without any issues. He's a very disciplined individual with high footy IQ that gets underestimate.

20 goals from 15 Coates League games this year including one game where he kicked 4 goals and 33 disposals against Gippsland Power.. Nah, recruiters won't even need to ask the question.

See for yourself. Played more forward then mid this day and could have easily kicked a bag had it not been for inaccurate kicking. Took some big contested grabs which shows that he could be as dangerous up forward when needed.

Yes that is correct. Hurt his knee and didn't play for the rest of the game.

Yes he is. Sharp is no guarantee to even make it. As it stands he comes in as depth. Lindsay is a high end talent who's got the skillset we're badly lacking and similar to Josh Kelly, can play both inside and out.

Get his fitness up and I can see a situation where he's in our best 22. Kid has potential.

No. He hasn't been nominated as a father son yet and I'll be surprised if he is even drafted in the end.

Cody Angove is now probably back in our thoughts with this pick.

Harmes played that game.

Any news on David Teague?

I've been fortunate enough to see the design of the two proposed ovals. Here it is.

It's all guesswork to be honest. We're exactly one month away from the draft and there is no way we'd have a player locked in. We'd have a list of about 6-10 names we'd be interested I with pick 5,and then probably another 10-12 names around the mark for pick 9. Even 24 hour prior to the draft clubs will have last minute change of mind on players as well. I am sure we have interest in Armstrong, but there would be 10 other names we'd be interested in as well.