Coach Eyes v Fan Goggles

[RiverRat]

Find us another Jnr Jones and we are on our way to minimise defensive holes in our squad. Good questions Lods. Good topic of debate.

Oscar McDonald  seemed suited to the role but he spends too much time in the clinic.

[cookie2]

Oscar McDonald  seemed suited to the role but he spends too much time in the clinic.

His brother seems to be falling out of favour at the Dees, could we consider pursuing him? Not sure of his contract status.

[cookie2]

Maybe he's a bit too old, on second thought.

[WASurfer]

Depending on the verdict with Pittonet, it might be a ruckman we're chasing in the mid-season draft?

[LP]

Depending on the verdict with Pittonet, it might be a ruckman we're chasing in the mid-season draft?

There is a bit of a dearth of quality "mature" rucks at VFL level or below, plenty of project players at the moment but not many ready-made to go!

Club is suspiciously quiet on Pitto but I'm all for our club reverting to it's old ways, he's OK, he's OK, he's OK, until selection night and he's out unexpectedly with general soreness.

There are a couple of old fashioned tap rucks around suburban footy, but they won't cut it in AFL, they just aren't mobile enough. Club's cannot afford to surrender a lose player to the opposition after the bounce, teams are too good now at using the unmarked player!

[ElwoodBlues1]

Max Ramsden from the Sandy Dragons will get picked up in the mid season rookie draft as a ruckman of the future, good athlete at 202cm and while a journeyman has short term appeal if we want a ruckman for the future he would be the way to go.
Will Hayes seems likely though given his VFL form and we would probably need two picks if thats the case as I cant see the club ignoring Hayes form...
Jack Hannath ex Freo now with Glenelg is probably a reasonable player for that short term fix.....

[WASurfer]

EB what sort of role would Hayes likely fill? Is he purely a midfielder? If so, hard to see how he breaks into the team when you've got Cripps, Walsh, Cerra, Hewett, Kennedy etc. Or is he more of an outside sort that could play on the wings? Even then, we seem to have a number of options for that as well....question is whether he's a better option than everything we've already got?

Where we seem to be short of options is key defender and ruck. Support for Weitering is basically Young, McDonald and McGovern. If I'm a betting man then it's odds on that McDonald and McGovern will get injured again before the season is out....leaving only Young. And he might now be required to play in the ruck if Pittonet is out for an extended period.

I would've thought those would be the two positions we'd be addressing at the mid-season draft? Even last year, Boyd was a player where we already seemed to have enough options and selecting him seemed strange at the time?

[LP]

I think Hayes thrives at VFL level because his extreme aerobic capacity sees him playing midfield and running hard all day long.

But at AFL level he's a bit small and light and not so fast relative to others, so the Dogs played him as a small forward, that took away Hayes principle weapon which is the hard running and he had no speed advantage.

Hayes might be a backup alternative to Owies or Fisher, if we allow him to get up the field, but then we have blokes like Stocker, Carroll and Honey languishing in the VFL and I think they have more AFL tricks.

[LP]

We played Sat night, no Pitto news, Filth played late yesterday afternoon and gave their fans an update on the Reg Grundy before lunch today.

[Thryleon]

Max Ramsden from the Sandy Dragons will get picked up in the mid season rookie draft as a ruckman of the future, good athlete at 202cm and while a journeyman has short term appeal if we want a ruckman for the future he would be the way to go.
Will Hayes seems likely though given his VFL form and we would probably need two picks if thats the case as I cant see the club ignoring Hayes form...
Jack Hannath ex Freo now with Glenelg is probably a reasonable player for that short term fix.....

Not sure how many spots we have, but unless i am mistaken, with Jones off the list that has us with at least one vacancy to fill, and we may have scope for a second if Pitto ends up an LTI.