Garlett

[saintspremiers]

Garlett would want to be star if we take a risk on him.

You mean control him like the Hawks did with Buddy and no doubt the Swans will also achieve.

I bet had Buddy been a Saint he'd be fired by now

[whiskers3614]

NO........
home grown well concealed idiots are unavoidable.
Drafting questionable characters is tantamount to suicide,
EG Lovett, Fevola

[Kernal75]

If the swap of picks with the Hawks goes through and we get Longer we will on have 3 picks in the draft (that we will use) - 3,18 & 19? Does Garlett warrant anyone of those picks??

[remboy]

We need to move to be a team of on-ballers with above average height (i.e. > 185cms).

. Having said that if we get another jack Steven I would be very happy.

Yeah, then we'd have the two worst Saints players of all time on our list at the same time.

[lloyd21]

Personally hope for exactly what Emma Quayle has stated she thinks they will draft

Scharenberg ( can play anywhere ) Leader strong character future captain
Dumont ( strong midfielder ) Leader strong character
Dunstan ( strong powerful ) Leader strong character future captain
All elite kicks and users of the football .
Vs Garlett .?

Bit of a no brainer isn't it.

Hope it happens the way Emma predicts is all I will say on this one

[saintspremiers]

We should employ Emma as Pelicans assistant.

[SuperSaint66]

If the swap of picks with the Hawks goes through and we get Longer we will on have 3 picks in the draft (that we will use) - 3,18 & 19? Does Garlett warrant anyone of those picks??

No! No! No!

[SaintWodonga]

Personally hope for exactly what Emma Quayle has stated she thinks they will draft

Scharenberg ( can play anywhere ) Leader strong character future captain
Dumont ( strong midfielder ) Leader strong character
Dunstan ( strong powerful ) Leader strong character future captain
All elite kicks and users of the football .
Vs Garlett .?

I would want at least 1 VIC player in our top 3. Go home factor too strong these days.

[Old Mate]

Garlett won't get selected in the first two rounds. Too much risk factor. Perhaps and Adelaide or Essendon take the risk seeing as most obvious talent will be gone by the time they enter the draft. Late pick / rookie chance IMO.

[Con Gorozidis]

Just what we need - another relatively short, lightly framed player who can only play forward and who is not such a great kick. We need to move to be a team of on-ballers with above average height (i.e. > 185cms). Easier said than done, but if all the "rebuilding" rhetoric is to mean anything, that's where we start.

We took Nicholas Winmar who was tall and Geelong took Christensen who was short skinny and played forward mostly. I'm not sure who you think worked out better but that doesn't really always work that logic.You want at least a couple of taller on ball players these days but I don't think you should exclude prodigious talent to get them in.

Steven Motlop pick 38 is one of the best players in the comp and started as a small fwd.

3. Billings
18. Dumont/Acres/Bontempelli
19. Garlett

would be handy

[saint6709]

While all seemed doomed and no light at the end!!!
Bang bang we should be excited by the coming years and our trading messiah.

We lost:
Mcevoy & dal.

We gain:
Longer (pick25), delaney (pick 77), bruce (pick 41)
Savage (big mac trade) oh and 3 picks inside the top 20!!!

Yes we will struggle next year but we finally have something to be
Really excited about!!!!!!!!!!

Any chance GWS will do the swap Fisher for Bruce and we have pick 41 for Garlett ??

[PADDLEPOP1001]

Gartlett is good but the go home factor will be huge for him ,we may get 2=3 years max!

[borderbarry]

Who said Garlett cant kick? I saw the S.A. v W.A. game last year. At one stage Simpson had taken a mark on the 50 m line. It was obvious he did not have the confidence to have a go at the goal, and he handballed backwards to Garlett, who had no trouble kicking the goal from behind the 50 m line.

[Zed]

It's shaping up that we will only use 3 picks and all in the top 20. I don't reckon Garlett will be a Saint unless we still have another pick later in the draft and he is still available.

[70s sainter]

Way to much risk for this club. Lovett is still too raw. Take him away from his home state of w.a and that could be enough to set him off again . Would prefer a good ten year player than a gun who leaves after 3 years or causes trouble and is sacked or is a damaging influence on the rest .

[The Redeemer]

The closet psycho-analysis going on of a young kid from W.A. is pretty funny if it was not so sad.

[magnifisaint]

Way to much risk for this club. Lovett is still too raw. Take him away from his home state of w.a and that could be enough to set him off again . Would prefer a good ten year player than a gun who leaves after 3 years or causes trouble and is sacked or is a damaging influence on the rest .

Lovett?

[CURLY]

Hope we take him to be honest the kids a gun.

[older saint]

Gartlett is good but the go home factor will be huge for him ,we may get 2=3 years max!

Gartlett wants to get out of Perth and away from those who he is involved with leading to many of the issues.

I could see us taking him on the 18-25 area.

We need class worth the risk

[PADDLEPOP1001]

Agreed ,but the pull of home will always be there!

[CURLY]

Agreed ,but the pull of home will always be there!

Yeah if he goes will get at least what we paid back.

[The Redeemer]

Agreed ,but the pull of home will always be there!

Yeah if he goes will get at least what we paid back.

You are speaking in potentials.

Draft the kid if he is rated highly, if not then we draft someone else.

[stinger]

Just what we need - another relatively short, lightly framed player who can only play forward and who is not such a great kick. We need to move to be a team of on-ballers with above average height (i.e. > 185cms). Easier said than done, but if all the "rebuilding" rhetoric is to mean anything, that's where we start.

We took Nicholas Winmar who was tall and Geelong took Christensen who was short skinny and played forward mostly. I'm not sure who you think worked out better but that doesn't really always work that logic.You want at least a couple of taller on ball players these days but I don't think you should exclude prodigious talent to get them in.

Steven Motlop pick 38 is one of the best players in the comp and started as a small fwd.

3. Billings
18. Dumont/Acres/Bontempelli
19. Garlett

would be handy

bontempelli is dal's cousin......

[Buckets]

If he is still there for the taking at our 4th live pick then we grab him simple as that.

[kimberly saint]

a lot of talk about the go home factor ??? it should only matter if the call was on two players for the one spot (ones from vic other from WAetc and they where on par as players) if he is best player at pick 19 take him ... The risk is his past, but upside is you get a player with football ability of a top 5 but for a pick as low as 19 to 25...
A bloke like this should be watters cream , with scotts back ground .