(07-25-2018, 12:16 PM)Thryleon link Wrote:Hand on your heart.  How many of our previous draftees look like they belong?

I was selective with the names I wrote.

I picked the blokes who look like they belong.

Not guys like o brien and Cunningham who have the tools but there are questions over.

Quote:#18 (Carlton) – Matt Watson (VIC)
Height: 195cm, Weight: 101kg, DOB: 16/07/1992
Recruited from: Calder Cannons
Style: Michael Hurley/ Brian Lake
Likely destinations: 18-31
Why: Reads the play well. Strong mark overhead, has a thumping left foot and is a big readymade key position defender who can also play forward. Good enough to contribute from season one. Might get a little exposed on the lead with his slight lack of leg speed but otherwise I like Watson allot. In style really reminds me of Brian Lake with the way he provides good rebound from defence though that is a very generous comparison and it will be allot harder to dominate players physically as he did at U18 level. He will get every opportunity to have the near immediate impact that Michael Hurley did for Essendon a couple of years ago. Might play a couple of games in season one but expect from probably season two for Watson to really push for a position in this side.

Quote:#23 (Geelong) – Patrick McCarthy (SA)
Height: 196cm, Weight: 84kg, DOB: 11/03/1992
Recruited from: Glenelg
Style: Grant Birchall/ Ben Reid
Range: 11-23
Why: Key position defender. Clean hands and feet. Provides some run out of defence. Displays real leadership and could later on be captain material. Hasn’t always played as a backman and was once a ruckman so I see allot of development still once he learns the position. Has a skinny frame but he should add to that with time. One criticism of McCarthy when I have seen him down back is that he has the feel of an oversized half back flanker in the way Grant Birchall does for Hawthorn. Maybe when he develops more physically hopefully he can turn into something more like Collingwood’s Ben Reid which would be the hope. With Scarlett surely nearing the end of his career McCarthy could be a good long term replacement.

(07-26-2018, 08:17 AM)Gointocarlton link Wrote:FMD I was just getting over those shmucks, thanks guys :

(07-26-2018, 08:48 AM)PaulP link Wrote:I reckon those recruiters must have really hated Ratten - almost seems like a plan to recruit so many failures. 2 KPF and KPD who came to nothing. Mitchell and McCarthy 1 game each. Watson 23 games.

Oh well............

(07-26-2018, 08:53 AM)Professer E link Wrote:Plus McInnes who went later in that draft who looked a gun before blowing his knee, and Nick Duigan who was a damn fine player. 

We were cursed in that period.

(07-26-2018, 09:23 AM)Gointocarlton link Wrote:And later, Tom Farken Temay, Dillon Somewhere over the Rainbow. both 0 games. Its was a nightmare.

(07-26-2018, 09:42 AM)PaulP link Wrote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKwwcCpa2Ag

(07-26-2018, 09:52 AM)Professer E link Wrote:I swore in front of my elderly mother when we drafted Temay,  but it was a dud draft.