Pennant St Dee

You can but sometimes timing is everything and we finished low down in 2003 had 2 top 5 picks in what wasn’t a great draft. 2004 we finish in the 8 when finishing with 2 picks in the top 5 at 3 and gets you Ryan Griffin and Buddy. We potentially win 06 with those two, although Brock McLean was very important in our 06 finals. Such is the fickle nature of the draft but I think we do it much better now

A lot of clubs looked at Simon Black and the negative was he lacked acceleration, was average pace, kicking was okay and wasn’t a great contested mark. Spoke to a few people who that one wrangles with because in their words they got caught up in what he couldn’t do and overlooked what he could do and in hindsight they actually said what he did well, he did exceptionally well and they kind of knew that at the time. Sometimes it’s like a coach trying to play players in different positions when you are better off getting them to stick at what they do best

Jeremy Sharp as an FA worth a look?

Adelaide and St Kilda have interest in Joe Fonti, seriously fast player with unbelievable lateral movement. Biggest problem I have seen with him is defensive accountability and just trying to do everything at 100mph. Plays a lot like Jayden Hunt, in terms of his run, probably nowhere near as good as Jayden defensively. Can take a decent contested grab

It’s not that it’s 10 players deep it’s that the first round isn’t as deep as previous drafts and those after around 15 are a similar standard to what has gone in the second round of previous drafts. There is a consensus that the second round spread goes quite deep with potential. Would not be at all surprised if there were a few who go in the 30-40 range who surprise in their careers

Yes I quite like the little I have seen of Schoenmaker, just looks like that big competitive type who will transition well to AFL level. Also with a penetration in his left foot gives you some nice options

St Kilda are keen on him, think they may jump before Richmond. Upside is huge, didn’t make Claremont Colts squad in 2022 and certainly worked hard, grew and just improved through the year. Caught the attention of WA talent and earned a spot in the 18s a couple of games in playing as KPD. I saw him play an Ammo’s Colts scratch match North Beach vs Trinity Aquinas at the start of the year and whilst the athleticism was there there were quite a few basics needing work. To see where he ended up by the end of the season is a credit to him and could be just the beginning of a path of development which could lead to a decent return for the club who takes the chance

No played all season as a forward, Claremont had a settled defence, even Curtin barely plaid down back

Good kid, plays a lot higher up the ground than JVR, a link up option who really applies a lot of second efforts at ground level. He’s not at JVRs level but there’s a bit to work with. Think he’ll at a minimum get invited to train with a club over summer. Like JVR can pinch hit in the ruck, played his footy as a CHF but I wouldn’t mind seeing him tried as a defender. Good athlete, competitive, clean below his knees and decent field kick

Prelim is a pass mark, They are difficult to win Don’t kid yourself that a lot of luck isn’t needed, you make a lot of your own luck, but get to the prelim healthy and take it from there

I suspect North will give them 3 and 17 or 18 for 1, there will be an agreement that North don’t take Curtin with pick 2. With those picks I think they get Curtin and one of Collard, Tholstrup, Hardeman

Yes I have rated him for a while, I have watched him play and done some work with him. Some of what I have seen him do on the track has me excited about his ceiling and where he could end up. Some senior players who have played with him talk very highly of him in regards to his professionalism, strength and maturity. Certainly a lot to work with, but again I am biased and been exposed to the WA boys a lot more than others who I’ve only seen on screen

Yeah potentially Sanders and O’Sullivan if available

Wouldn’t say they are losing interest I’d think they expect West Coast to still do some sort of deal with North. Hard to say who’s the better player at this stage , haven’t seen O’Sullivan live. I’ve seen a lot of Curtin live playing all 3 lines

Makes sense if we went that way take the key tall with first pick and a midfielder with pace who impacts the scoreboard with second pick. Ling range prediction is next years draft is plentiful with mids so IMO another key tall is needed this year

Cheers DD, I’d assume he comes into pick 11 calculations

If it were Cody Weightman, he’d still probably drop the knee and Clarry would be done for high

Collard will be bid well before pick 40, not just by Fremantle, North with their first 5 picks inside 19 will take a punt on him

If that were the case I’d take Sanders at 6 and see if we got lucky with one club taking a Smokey and possibly O’Sullivan being there at 11. Unlikely but you never know

Yes we have

Like your thinking LT, for mine whilst I’d love Curtin or Sanders I think it’s a no brainer if Sanders is available at 6. Curtin won’t last till 11, O’Sullivan highly unlikely but a possibility, however I believe Murphy will be there. Sanders and O’Sullivan fantastic get but even Sanders and Murphy wouldn’t be to bad

So does Pavlich who was going home every year according to SA news. He’s still in Perth Nev Jetta couldn’t wait to leave Victoria Blake Acres was traded back to WA and where is he now Simon Black,Daniel Rich, Taryn Lockyer, Buddy, Chance Bateman, Joel Corey, Harry Taylor, Mitch Duncan, Darren Gaspar For every go home to WA player you bring up I’ll name more who stayed But by all means you make comment on someone you know nothing about or have never met. I’ve got news for you were keen on another WA boy in next years crop so prepare yourself for more sleepless nights

Poita on 26/9/21 “We won last night, but that second quarter effort was terrible.”

Oh I forgot we’d finished making our selections at the draft and finalised our list and those we’ve slowly been introducing to some midfield time was just for [censored]$ and giggles and not to help us moving forward

If we were you , we’d spend our time wondering why the glass was never half full