A List with Real Potential

[northernblue]

Again I don't understand the negative posts here. For the posts complaining about a lack of forward drafting, we took three tall forwards last season. If one more person say Charlie Curnow is a midfielder i'll lose my sh1t. He moves like a forward, marks and kicks like a forward and has never played midfield in his footy career. He was going to play midfield in his last season at U18's but got injured.

We got another tall forward this year and will get another one next season Ben Silvagni. Surely that's enough for now.

We need mids who have speed and can kick and that's what we got.

Look at the last 4 premiers, their forward lines may have some height up there but the damage is done with small flankers, and their midfield collectively on had Bontempelli a the big mid although Roughead did swing through there for Hawthorn.

I don't know how many of you looked at the draft but there wasn't much on offer for big forwards or big bodied mids. Brodie was about the only class one and there are very big questions over his ability to play two way football. SPS and Fisher are known for their defensive run

I agree with you on the kpf's we picked up last year and this and next... however they will all need various amounts of development, I was surprised that we didn't look to a stopgap for 20-50 games, Schultz, Stewart or as it turns out the unlovable Richards...

My only thoughts are that, a bit like last year we are managing expectations... we do have a much improved defense, we will have an improving midfield going forward but, we will struggle to kick winning scores this year and maybe next.
That will give Bolts and SOS the task of selling those positives whilst being able to continue to access probably two more drafts with low draft picks.
High risk, high reward, if the picks mostly come on, we win and could contend, if SOS strikes out however the blowtorch will be out with a vengeance...