What The Saints Should Go For In The 09' Draft

[Some Hack]

What do you reckon the Saints should go for in next years draft, this draft will be the last 'untainted' one (by gold coast & western sydney) for the next few years, therefore our last reasonably high draft pick in a few years.
I think we should go for a speedy burst player for the midfield who can also kick goals, e.g Cooney, Foley and S Burgoyne. any thoughts?

[ausfatcat]

best available for first round.

[Otiman]

best available for first round.

Best available for first eight rounds.

[saintsrokk]

best available for first round.

Provided it is not another big forward.
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[peter lockwood]

key backman,speedy midfielder who kicks goals and a Cryril Rioli sort player and a couple of Hard as F@#k players to fly the flag.
No need for a ruckman,fowards and smaller backman.

[JeffDunne]

Pick #16

[brown-coat]

At least 3 hard as f*** motherf***ers to install some level of team pride. The current list is soft beyond recognition.

1 midfielder who kicks goals and has great burst speed, the rest of our midfield will feed it to this player.

A fast, skillful backman like Aussie Jones.

2 new forwards.

New coach who has one micro-ounce of passion. Ross Lyon is robotic to the nth degree, if his demeanor inspires anyone to action then my name is Arnold Schwarzenneger.

[markinUSA]

Fastest player we can find. Someone with real pace to burn.

[ausfatcat]

Fastest player we can find. Someone with real pace to burn.

pace is no good without skill FFS, howard would be the fastest on our list but has little skill therefore pretty much useless.


It annoys the hell out of me that people go speed speed, it's not so much having it but the gameplan a the nous of where and when to use it.

[Otiman]

pace is no good without skill FFS, howard would be the fastest on our list but has little skill therefore pretty much useless.

Howard has great skills, but lacks footy smarts and vision.

[The Saintsational Man]

DWIGHT HOWARD

6'10" or 208cm & 130KG



Yes that's a 10ft ring he's kissing after exercising his 100cm+ vertical leap.

Develop him as a ruckman.....do u think anyone could beat him?

And also he'd have to take a paycut from his current contract that will see him pocket a cool $100,000,000+

Hahahahaha

[Saints Premiers 2008]

kpp

speedy players are only a half year fad much like flooding, this interchange jargon and clarkson's box 16 zone formation thing

to succeed with even a few speedy players in a line up is to get them the footy on the counter or to make sure they are capable of playing as good outsiders in the contests

[Otiman]

DWIGHT HOWARD

Yes that's a 10ft ring he's kissing after exercising his 100cm+ vertical leap.

And also he'd have to take a paycut from his current contract that will see him pocket a cool $100,000,000+

Most of that would go on dental expenses if he keeps trying that "kissing the ring" stunt.

[GrumpyOne]

best available for first round.

Best available for first eight rounds.

Yep, and trade to fill the missing gaps.

[Beekay]

The best player available as long as they are TOUGH, HARD and are LEADERS.

[n1ck]

Leigh Matthews.

[goodie]

Speedy midfielder with a penetrating kick, tough nuggety midfielder with mongrel and 2 key backs

[mad saint guy]

Ideally from the National Draft we'd want 3 midfielders, a tall player wo could be groomed for FB and either a ruckman or quick small forward.

[supersaints]

3 robert harveys

[vacuous space]

It's a little bit early to be thinking about the 08 draft and way too early to be thinking about the 09 draft. I know teams are reported to be formulating five-year draft strategies to cope with the new teams coming in, but I think that's largely a waste of time. All you can do is scout players the way you usually would; draft and trade as you normally would. If there's less talent there, so be it. Everyone else will be dealing with the same circumstances too.

I'd like an 100-goal forward, a shutdown FB and a couple of slick-skilled ball-magnets from the draft. Given we'll probably be picking mid-first round (unless we improve or collapse), the FB won't be there. The best forwards and mids will probably all be gone too. The best hope we've got is to take the guy we have rated the highest, regardless of position.

[saintsRrising]

It's a little bit early to be thinking about the 08 draft and way too early to be thinking about the 09 draft.

Indeed.....first of all you need to assess the players on the current list...and who will be retained and who not... We still have two thirds of a season to go and so it is way too early to make a call....

I expect that for example that Ferg may be given a go as a medium forward soon. If he succeeds he will be kept...and if not this will be his last year.

The big Mac is looking good....and so fa so good with King and Gradiner. If the two old fellas can playa goodly number of games a ruckmen in this years deraft would bea low priorty.

If King and Gardiner both fall over...then watch the priotities change.


From what we currently know you would expect the shopping list would wanta key defender (or guys that can play either end)or two..and some skilled fast mids as priortites..



First pick will most likely be best available...and the next several will midful of what we need, but also quality of what is left.

No point takinga mid with your second pick if you rate what there is there quite lowly.

[JeffDunne]

The AFL & AFLPA recently announced that new draft rules would allow players without contracts past Oct 31 to nominate for the national draft.

Does anyone know if that rule applies this year or next?

[saintsRrising]

The AFL & AFLPA recently announced that new draft rules would allow players without contracts past Oct 31 to nominate for the national draft.

Does anyone know if that rule applies this year or next?

* A player who is not contracted on or before October 31 will now be eligible to nominate for that year's National Draft. This applies immediately from the upcoming 2008 NAB AFL Draft.
http://www.afl.com.au/tabid/208/Default ... wsid=58792

[TassieJones]

At least 5 players, a potential KP back amongst them, but otherwise the best available. Our drafting from 03-07 has left us with just 4 definite best 22 players for the future (S. Fisher, Gilbert, Armo and hopefully McEvoy), we could use a good crop of youngsters (like Geelong and Bulldogs 1999 draft crop).

[JeffDunne]

The AFL & AFLPA recently announced that new draft rules would allow players without contracts past Oct 31 to nominate for the national draft.

Does anyone know if that rule applies this year or next?

* A player who is not contracted on or before October 31 will now be eligible to nominate for that year's National Draft. This applies immediately from the upcoming 2008 NAB AFL Draft.
http://www.afl.com.au/tabid/208/Default ... wsid=58792

Thanks sRr . . . see you are useful for something. (j/k )


I reckon this change will have a major impact on how clubs trade and has somewhat flown under the radar.

It would have changed the whole dynamic last year with the Judd trade.

Will be interesting to see if it helps open up the player trade market like I think it will.