Adam The God

He reminds me of Caddy when he's forward and Sparrow when he's in the midfield. It's that power type player that has the ability to win or halve big contests in the middle or in the forward half. He's a very 'Melbourne' pick. At least, a JT type. I'm intrigued what the wraps on him were at the end of last year to make him worthy of a top 5 selection, @Gator. Any insight there? Obviously, he's fallen down the order a bit due to injury, but to be worthy of top 5 talk, you'd have to have some elite attributes outside of mere power.

Apparently, every club in the top 10 needs to do a better job then, because it played out almost exactly like most phantoms. And why are you whinging? We got the two guys we wanted...

FWIW, his aunty and uncle are huge Melbourne fans.

I mean, I'm not convinced we'll take Caleb, so we'll see.

Daicos is pretty light. It's more about Caleb's aerobic ability to play wing at this stage. And giving us some competition for wing spots would be very welcome.

He wasn't picked by JT...

Agreed. I think the game has changed a bit again, to enable uncontested players to play a bigger role. My concern on that sort of player is that the game will invariably shift again to a greater need to win contests. That said, if JT and co pick him early, then I'll trust them.

I still really like O'Sullivan, but I'm warming to Curtin.

That was an excellent draft class though. This year's appears closer to 2013s.

What a trashfire this thread is. 🤣 Ah well. On ya everyone.

He certainly doesn't like to take the tackle, he dishes off well, but as quickly as he can. That's why he's more Kelly than Trac or Clarry. Looks like he'll be a good player, but not my sort of player.

Very Josh Kellyesque. Can't see how we'll get him though.

Excellent. I hope so.

Aren't WC are being smashed in that deal given their F1 will be a top 3 pick?

Have I missed something. Wasn't Beyond Bank top back of the jumper? Have we lost them? And is Reid getting JJs jumper? Important number 23. 🤪

We did do something like this on one particular ocassion against, I think, Hawthorn later in the season. Except, the huddle was positioned in the middle of the centre square, rather than as CHB. This surprised them and we got the ball to the wing uncontested from memory.

Interestingly enough, some had Lever pigeon-holed as a mid at one stage too.

Don't love his lack of size, but I'm always a bit sizeist as a human being. His intercept work actually reminds me of Jake Lever. In JT we trust.

I'd be staggered if the Bulldogs made a bid on Read with all their talls...

A lot of these players were recruited before the professional scouting standard of the modern game. Lachie Neale you could understand had question marks due to height, but Jordan Dawson is a ripper pick at 56. 😳

But it depends how you rate the currency of exchange. If I'm paying overs and it's in Russian Rubel or Zimbabwean dollars, what matters is what I eventually get in exchange.

I'd argue it's a values proposition now mate. Draft picks or the player you eventually get. Six good or okay players versus one Christian Petracca or Clayton Oliver. I like the aggressive backing of our recruiting team. But it sounds like it's a moot point anyway.

People overrate picks too much. If Reid is the best player in the draft, do whatever it takes with your draft pick currency to get a deal done. We've put it out there, doesn't sound like it's going to happen now. @Mach5 is probably right and we need to pivot to facilitate the play for North, whilst strengthening our own draft hand.

I think what Dwight is saying is that height is irrelevant. He doesn't think Caddy plays like a KPF. Hence Caddy vs JVR 'they're different players'.

I need to watch more of Duursma, because from what I have seen he seems soft. But he's valued very highly, and I rate your opinion too, so will need to do more research to convince myself haha.