From the hun's Tackle

[saintly]

Our trading and drafting has been astronomical in recent years, after an abyss previously. It's like we're bipolar in recruiting.
Best and fairest in North Adelaide's premiership year, and runner up B&F the year before. A solid mark, elite kick, hard, intelligent. He's a gun.
This "moneyball" term gets floated around, but geez we've rebuilt well nailing these recruits with late picks. Imagine if we hadn't, it would've been very dark times right now.

Keep in mind we drafted mature aged recruits Parker, Young & Hind and traded for Kent & Hanners before selecting Wilkie as a rookie

Fair to say our selectors ranked Parker, Young & Hind ahead of Wilkie and no other club rated him worthy of a draft pick.

I doubt even Wilkies parent could have dreamed that he would have this type of impact at AFL level, some guys are just cut out for the big time. Tom Stewart at Geelong was similar, came into the AFL as a mature aged recruit and just slotted in from game 1.

Was it true that we were interested in taking Mitch McCarthy before Rohan Marshall in the 2016 rookie draft? That’s what I remember at the time.

McCarthy was taken by Collingwood at pick 7 and the Saints picked up Rohan at pick 10. McCarthy was delisted after only one season.

https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/why ... rwovg.html

Mccarthy was in our indiginous program and he was gone before our rookie pick of rowan

[saintly]

Our trading and drafting has been astronomical in recent years, after an abyss previously. It's like we're bipolar in recruiting.
Best and fairest in North Adelaide's premiership year, and runner up B&F the year before. A solid mark, elite kick, hard, intelligent. He's a gun.
This "moneyball" term gets floated around, but geez we've rebuilt well nailing these recruits with late picks. Imagine if we hadn't, it would've been very dark times right now.

Keep in mind we drafted mature aged recruits Parker, Young & Hind and traded for Kent & Hanners before selecting Wilkie as a rookie

Fair to say our selectors ranked Parker, Young & Hind ahead of Wilkie and no other club rated him worthy of a draft pick.

I doubt even Wilkies parent could have dreamed that he would have this type of impact at AFL level, some guys are just cut out for the big time. Tom Stewart at Geelong was similar, came into the AFL as a mature aged recruit and just slotted in from game 1.

Was it true that we were interested in taking Mitch McCarthy before Rohan Marshall in the 2016 rookie draft? That’s what I remember at the time.

McCarthy was taken by Collingwood at pick 7 and the Saints picked up Rohan at pick 10. McCarthy was delisted after only one season.

https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/why ... rwovg.html

Mccarthy was in our indiginous program and he was gone before our rookie pick of rowan

and now he is at port melbourne

https://www.portmelbournefc.com.au/2020 ... -mccarthy/

[SAINT-LEE]

Wilkie isnt a silky operator, he's got a bit of mongrel in him...he takes a bite of forwards and they cant shake him...hes not as big physically but his style reminds me of F Gehrig playing defense at West Coast. A genuine feral defender, just latches on and ran legends into the ground...maybe Wilkie will be a shadow of him?