Adam The God

Personally, I've come across many arrogant St Kilda supporters, hence why I hated them a few years back, but then they've just been pretenders for the past 5 seasons, so I've softened on them. I'd rather them win it than Collingwood or Geelong though.

In no particular order... Jack Watts Colin Sylvia Cale Morton Jack Grimes Liam Jurrah Aaron Davey Matthew Bate Colin Garland James Frawley Aussie Wonaeamirri Apologies to: Matthew Warnock Then hopefully, Scully and Trengove.

Why the heck is Garland in there? He's our best defender, IMO. Oh, and I voted 6 spots.

Yeah, I reckon he'd be a stronger than 50/50 chance to play. Particularly, considering he was an emergency last week.

I'm the same.

I think we'll win it. Freo are playing in Melbourne. They may have a reasonable record against us in Melbourne, but ultimately, when they travel outside of Perth they're not a particularly threatening opponent. That said, if Jurrah or Robbo doesn't play, we probably won't win, unless Bate, Sylvia and Petterd kick a few between them.

Without seeing a lot of Morabito, the concerns with his kicking seem well founded. I reckon he hit the target once, in the entire game and even that was only just. The goal that he created for himself and finished was class though. However, Trengove for me.

Lose to Freo and the Saints, but beat the Filth Mark 2, in Carlton.

You haven't mentioned a bloke by the name of Watts. He was an extremely valued draft pick, just as Scully and Trengove would be...Watts was given 4, I can see Scully being given the recently famed #9.

Well, he's barely played this season. I don't even remember him playing, but someone on here said he played Round 1. Anywho, last year, we were an absolute wreck. We had no one to kick too, we seemingly lacked direction. I think you've got to give him at least one more year. If he'd turned the ball over all season in '09 I would be questioning his spot on the list, but as things stand, he hasn't had enough chance to prove himself, IMO.

Who's to say we need a classical key forward? The game is constantly evolving, our versitile forwardline of Jurrah, Watts and Bate, may just be the next evolution of forwardline.

Scully'll get 9, Trengove will probably get 13, providing we pick him. This thread has become the take Panos with our third pick, thread and I tell you what, I like it. The more I think about it, the more I think we can't pass him up, should he fall to pick 18.

I completely understand why it's only a two year deal, but I would have liked it to be more.

It bothers me a little bit HT, but at least he's signed on. I would have preferred 3 or 4, but over the next two years, hopefully he'll prove to the club that he's worth a four year deal.

Whopper might be available, but he won't play, having missed two or three weeks of any kind of football, let alone AFl standard. If he plays again this season, it'll be in rounds 21 and/or 22.

If there was a forward rated as highly as Scully is in the midfield, I doubt we'd be so heavily on the Trengove bandwagon, but the fact there aren't stand out KPFs is a major reason for this being a non-issue. All of that said, KPPs usually take longer to develop. There might be a late bloomer in this bunch. I'd say they're built around dominant centrelines. Without one, the ball doesn't get there and if the delivery is spot on, it makes any forwards job easier. Plus, a dominant midfield kicks goals. I don't deny this, however. A Panos type would be nice. I'd probably settle with Butcher too, ultimately. Except good skills. He can win the hard ball and has good skills. We have a lot that can win the hard ball (occasionally), with the likes of McLean, Moloney and Jones, but none are elite by foot or hand. McLean's kicking this year is some of the worst I've seen. This is what Trengove would bring us, class in spades. Fair point and that's why I don't exactly envy BP's task. Particularly, with the majority of the supporter base hoping for the picks to the degree that they actually support the team losing a few games...if he doesn't deliver...well...ouch. Pressure time!

Could he fall to our fourth pick?

I think drafting Butcher just 'because we need a full forward' is probably one of the riskiest things we could do. Just because he might be the best KPP in this draft, doesn't mean he'll solve our problems. Tapscott (spelling?) and Panos seem like the types to be successful at AFL level, it's hard to say with Butcher. Then again, I have a limited knowledge. I'll trust BP to make the right decision, but if we go into the draft simply looking to draft the best KP prospect, we might get ourselves into a bit of trouble. Midfield is clearly the area we need the most strengthening (if not a total reshape). Therefore, they should really pick Trengove and Scully. With our forwardline, it's too early to tell. None of them have played in the same team together over a sustained period (Bate, Aussie, Watts and Jurrah). Give them time and add a Panos and we may just have a forwardline to win us a premiership. But let's be honest here, it's all won in the midfield. Please pick Scully and Trengove.

Well said, IMT. It's been said before, but very exciting times ahead.

If that were the draft, it'd mean we could take Panos, with our third pick. I'd be very happy with that.

Bruce and Green fitting into the Carlton midfield...you're joking right? And David Hale...really?

Good boy, Morty. But he's still just saying what the players are naturally going too. I want his contract negoiations cleared up.

Where were you on Sunday, gOLLy? He drilled a 45 metre pass, low and hard down one of our forwards throats (Newton was it?). Jones can be extremely frustrating, but I think we continue with him.

Yep, another very solid game for Colin. Some of his link up play when he moved into the middle was extremely impressive as well. He proved yesterday that he can play anywhere, which would please Dean Bailey to no end. He's developing a lot of these types (Morton and Davey are another two that spring to mind). The beauty of Sylvia is that he could just about play on a key position back, which his body strength and strong hands. As I mentioned somewhere else, we basically played our midfield in defense, for large parts of the game.

I thought our kicking yesterday, particularly in the first half (and minus a few here and there) was the best it's been since 2006, hands down. Sylvia, Morton, Dunn, even Macca and Jones were kicking it beautifully yesterday. Jetta is also a very good kick. Okay, so Johno kicked a couple of floaters and Spencer's kicking could be improved, but if you've watched the majority of games over the last two to three seasons, you'll realise, we've actually come quite a way with our field kicking. That said, there's still a lot of room for improvement and consistency.