A List with Real Potential

[DJC]

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

Very good points Ray but Hawthorn did have Lance Franklin and Roughead did more than swing through the forward line.

I think that the comments about Charlie Curnow playing as a midfielder were made in order to pump up his tyres prior to the draft.  They have been seized upon by some supporters who want "big-bodied mids".  Charlie is an elite mark and he will make his name as a forward who pushes up the ground to provide a marking target and to win contested marks from opposition kicks - a bit like Jarrad Waite at his best.  If that's playing midfield, then he will be a midfielder.

I reckon that our list has real potential and that potential will be realised in 2017 with more wins than this season