Max King Highlights - Just Sayin

[MrCordz]

Just so you naysayers know who you're talking about.
I think we can find room for this guy once the knee is better. Ignore early kicking for goal (all the bad kicks we drafted kicked perfectly in under 18s )
MAX KING vs Oakleigh.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRzB8VJhzfk

[prwilkinson]

No question the guy will be a beast. But we need more class through the middle as well. Ahh the conundrum...

[silverhalo]

Maxy King for me......move over Lance Franklin

[silverhalo]

If we knew we were definitely going to get him, I'd be looking to trade Paddy now...

[tedtheodorelogan2018]

Kid is an absolute star, but so is his brother, Lukiousis, Rankine and Smith. Walsh will go 1.
We will get a future star though. This top 5 is huge.

[rodgerfox]

I'm liking the prospect of a King to be honest.

Both would be great.


We're not competing realistically for 2-3 years anyway, we're still building. Getting one of those freaks in would be a huge coup really.

[Crossy66]

saw his youtube highlights - he cant kick straight

[dragit]

Maxy King for me......move over Lance Franklin

Spencer white says hi.

[MrCordz]

Maxy King for me......move over Lance Franklin

Spencer white says hi.

Spencer White and many other highlight packages showed a players best bits over many games which can fool you into thinking they were dominant. The highlights above were all from ONE GAME.

[saint-stu]

saw his youtube highlights - he cant kick straight

Same thing when you watch Rankine's highlights.

[rodgerfox]

saw his youtube highlights - he cant kick straight

He's clearly an on-baller though.

He's played forward, but the dudes speed and agility is borderline incredible.

He'd play mid within 2 years of being at an AFL club.

Freak show.

A 200cm midfielder. s*** in your hands and clap.

[Jacks Back]

He can't kick and he's out-marking a 5'6" bloke.

[rodgerfox]

He can't kick and he's out-marking a 5'6" bloke.

Funny you say that - considering King is apparently 200cm, those full backs weren't actually giving all that much height away to him I thought.

But as I said, he'll end up a freak mid anyway.

[mightysainters]

I guess I’m a naysayer.. ordinary workrate , coming of an ACL, ordinary kick at goal..

[Enrico_Misso]

Kid is an absolute star, but so is his brother, Lukiousis, Rankine and Smith. Walsh will go 1.
We will get a future star though. This top 5 is huge.

Unless we are stupid enough to trade 4 away for some "former" star or split it to two lower first round picks.

If we do hold firm and keep pick 4 I can tell you now our selection will be the worst performed of your suggested top 5!

[DJ Higgins]

I am worried we will pick him and waste our draft pick. Remember the last full forward that out marked smaller kids and had a medical issue that we thought would be awesome. Didn't work out to well. And he cant kick at goal to save himself. He may be a gun later but I don't want ot take the risk

Smith or Rankin are better for us. Smith is vanilla but does his job really well. He is an inside mid which is not what we need so I prefer Rankine. He has an amazing goal sense and is quick, has great hand and already playing SAFL so he will be ready day one

[degruch]

Just look at him towel up those witches hats! And run that goal umpire off his legs. Him and his brother can go to GC, we'll have a midfielder please.

[rodgerfox]

Just look at him towel up those witches hats! And run that goal umpire off his legs. Him and his brother can go to GC, we'll have a midfielder please.

I reckon he will be a mid.

[degruch]

Just look at him towel up those witches hats! And run that goal umpire off his legs. Him and his brother can go to GC, we'll have a midfielder please.

I reckon he will be a mid.

I bet our forwards are looking forward to that delivery.

[Crossy66]

Just look at him towel up those witches hats! And run that goal umpire off his legs. Him and his brother can go to GC, we'll have a midfielder please.

I reckon he will be a mid.

why not just pick a mid. everyone including the peanut seller knows our biggest issue is lack of a classy outside mid. Dont think he will add speed and run. Historically, tall KPP's have been hit and miss in the draft for many years. Need to get this years right

[the dome]

I am worried we will pick him and waste our draft pick. Remember the last full forward that out marked smaller kids and had a medical issue that we thought would be awesome. Didn't work out to well. And he cant kick at goal to save himself. He may be a gun later but I don't want ot take the risk
Smith or Rankin are better for us. Smith is vanilla but does his job really well. He is an inside mid which is not what we need so I prefer Rankine. He has an amazing goal sense and is quick, has great hand and already playing SAFL so he will be ready day one

If a genuine good MID can be added to the centre I'll be relieved. My gut feeling is that a real mid will bring genuine value to our centre line over the years & simply improve our chances of controlling games from the centre. I'm no judge but a stronger midfield would be great to see @ St. Kilda.

[rodgerfox]

Just look at him towel up those witches hats! And run that goal umpire off his legs. Him and his brother can go to GC, we'll have a midfielder please.

I reckon he will be a mid.

why not just pick a mid. everyone including the peanut seller knows our biggest issue is lack of a classy outside mid. Dont think he will add speed and run. Historically, tall KPP's have been hit and miss in the draft for many years. Need to get this years right

I'm not necessarily advocating picking him, just running with a hypothetical that I'd heard that we're going to pick him.

[Crossy66]

Just look at him towel up those witches hats! And run that goal umpire off his legs. Him and his brother can go to GC, we'll have a midfielder please.

I reckon he will be a mid.

why not just pick a mid. everyone including the peanut seller knows our biggest issue is lack of a classy outside mid. Dont think he will add speed and run. Historically, tall KPP's have been hit and miss in the draft for many years. Need to get this years right

I'm not necessarily advocating picking him, just running with a hypothetical that I'd heard that we're going to pick him.

And you will probably end up being right. At the end of the day, we will get a good player with pick 4, but i just think one of the mids would be a safer bet and more what we need.
If we do grab King, then logically, a couple of McCartin, Bruce, Battle, Membury, Marshall will be surplus.

[spiral3]

big concerns are the ability to translate that dominance from U18s when playing against AFL level defenders

also, these weaknesses from Knightmare (draft guru) on Bigfooty

"Weaknesses:
Endurance
Work rate Rarely pushes up outside the forward 50m arc
Conversion in front of goal
No established second position"

http://www.espn.com.au/afl/story/_/id/2 ... urges-no-2

We've already got a tall forward with terrible endurance and work rate, do we need two???

[Saintmatt]

Maxy King for me......move over Lance Franklin

I still shudder at the memory of hearing a version of that years ago re: Spencer White