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Quite right but you also missed that the Tigers have two other young developing ruckmen on their list. Samson Ryan is 206cm, 96kg from Queensland and he played one game for them during the year. He’s the bloke Hardwick suggested should be loaned out to the Suns for the rest of the year to cover their injuries. They also have a real giant in Category B rookie, Mate Colina (213cm) who is the cousin of Noah Balta and a close family friend of Soldo and ruck coach Ivan Maric. How many development ruckmen do you reckon one club needs?

Mac Andrew would have been a smokey if not for the fact that everyone made a big deal about him. 😀

There’s something weird about the article. Numerous draft prospects are mentioned in it but there’s one name conspicuously missing. Mac Andrew. Why would that be?

Strange that someone should have an opinion that he’s inconsistent? He’s been a low possession winner throughout his career. Kicks the odd goal in a game and then is unsighted. Got 6 touches v Geelong when given his chance in the semi final. The game he played before that (round 17) he had 7 touches. With a record like that, he certainly has a lot of development left in his game but it won’t necessarily be fulfilled so I wouldn’t be worried too much if we missed out on it.

It’s worth looking at how NGA’s have gone in the Draft recently. Jamarra Ugle-Hagan’s case is pretty well-documented. The Bulldogs matched Adelaide’s bid at #1 last year. But Collingwood’s 2020 NGA Reef McInnes didn’t attract as much publicity and wasn’t considered as highly in some quarters last year but he was definitely considered by many judges as a likely top 20 draft pick (the ban on matching at that range didn’t exist at the time). Knightmare had him going at pick 11 in his final phantom draft (with Collingwood not matching) - Every club, every pick: ESPN's full AFL phantom draft The big-bodied inside midfielder who set the fastest 20m sprint time at the Draft Combine, was taken at #23 as a matching bid by the Pies.

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Hill’s just another of these players who comes into the system promising so much and delivering so little. He has these spasmodic flashes of brilliance from time to time but lets you down so often. No thanks!

That would be wicked. 😀

I would be rapt. Well before the season started, I had him pegged for top three on the “2021 AFL National Draft prospects: The next batch” thread for exactly those reasons that Dazzle put forward. My only reservation now is, how is he going to find his way into a Melbourne team with so many quality small/medium forwards? I guess if he’s good enough, he will but I don’t really see him falling out of the top ten.

Hoping for one or two more morsels in the coming week?

But lots of $’s.

Why don’t we get involved in securing that pick?

Not sure where the story comes from but how do we know that Melbourne is interested. Is there any source linking him to the club or is it just scuttlebutt?

You’re from WA. How do you explain that some of that state’s best tall KPP’s seem to be out of favour with the draft experts?

Key rules to note in the Trading / Drafting Process: (from The Age): • A club may exchange with another club or clubs any combination of Primary List player(s), Rookie List player(s), National Draft Selection(s) and Future National Draft Selection(s) • Any rookie list player involved in any trade must be put on the senior list of the club to which he is traded; • A club cannot on-trade a player received in any exchange until the following year. • A club may exchange a draft selection it has received from another club, provided that the selection is not traded directly back to that club. • Where the exchange of a player(s) and National Draft selection(s) involves more than two clubs, it is not a requirement that each club involved in the transaction make an exchange between each other. • Any National Draft selection received in an exchange does not need to be exercised.

Reading through this thread, I’m starting to wonder whether Rendell got too many knocks to the head during his illustrious career. He reckons that he’s heard that Daicos will go to Collingwood which will match a bid at third pick and he’s also heard that GWS will take Mac Andrew early (they currently have pick 2). It can be done of course, but do the Giants really think he’s worth using a top 5 pick on a skinny speculative ruckman? Who’s going to teach him the finer points of ruck work? Preussy? Take the captaincy off Max and give it to Tracc? Good one. His advice to Carlton is solid. Take Tyson Stengle. I reckon he might dislike Vossy and wants to see him get the flick very quickly.

I think you might have something there COVID Dan going by some of the discussion today.

Whether we like it or not, the clubs are stuck with the new system. However, in the event that the change extends next year to prevent clubs from bidding until after pick 40 then they might as well scrap the NGA because it simply won’t be worth the expense of nurturing the players qualifying for NGA status. Why do that when you can spend nothing and pick off the work done by other clubs.

The critical error that lost Western Bulldogs the AFL grand final

Maybe, he meant Tom Hickey?

Can’t believe Chol can’t get a contract renewal from the Tigers. I thought he was the prototype for top 10 draft aspirant Mac Andrew.

They trained yesterday afternoon but we get the report of the injury early in the morning which is around 5.30am Perth time. How did he get injured? Playing Xbox with the boys at midnight?

What expectations would people have from a full forward in his first year given that we’ve had Sam Weideman on our books for six seasons for 49 games and 49 goals?

I don’t quite understand this but the club’s weekly injury report says that Jayden Hunt is a week behind where he was last week. And was supposed to be on the improve. Injury List: First Qualifying Final Jayden Hunt (ankle) — 2 to 3 Weeks Marty Hore (knee) — Season Aaron Nietschke (knee) — Season Adam Tomlinson (knee) — Season

Injury List: First Qualifying Final Jayden Hunt (ankle) — 1 to 2 Weeks Marty Hore (knee) — Season Aaron Nietschke (knee) — Season Adam Tomlinson (knee) — Season