Thanks Danny, enjoyed reading that. With North, it seems that there's three scenarios that could play out with their picks at 2 and 3:
1. McKercher and Duursma - we therefore choose between Curtin, Watson and O'Sullivan as you point out;
2. Curtin and McKercher - we would thus take Duursma as you suggest; and
3. Curtin and Duursma - the question here is whether we would take McKercher, given our abundance of existing midfielders, or would it be one of Curtin, Watson or O'Sullivan?
It's very exciting to have potentially two father-sons. The selection of Calsher Dear and the prospect of him playing for the Hawks tugs at the heart strings. Hopefully, the bids on both come later than anticipated.
Thanks Stuart. I didn't include your option 3 as an option in my piece because the rumblings are that North absolutely love McKercher and he will go with their first pick. We'll see on draft night I guess.
The Dear pick is awesome from so many angles, but the beautiful thing about it isn't the romance, it's the huge development in his game in such a short space of time. I think his upside is huge.
Great piece Danny. Agree with Calsher’s upside. His movements look great for a developing tall and he has that Dear frame that will fill out just nicely.
There is some speculation we could trade in fs1 to get another pick so as to get O’Sullivan. Then there is Curtin who seems mostly a defender at least for us as we don’t need more midfield this high up. And McCabe. Lots of defenders. So do we need 1 defender or 2 or 3 also factoring potential future free agents. I would pass on curtin myself. Seems like he only wants to be a midfielder. If we could get O’Sullivan AND Watson/Duursma then I think we do and effectively call the end of our top end drafting for a bit and switch to free agency as we rocket up the ladder.
I should add that next years draft is midfielders heavy so walking out this year with Watson/duursma, O’Sullivan, McCabe and dear compliments what we have already beautifully.
I’d be nervous trading out our F1 to trade back into this draft, understand that key position depth is a need and although Watson is the furthest thing from a KPP, McCabe and Dear help us address some of what we’re missing in that space.
Thanks Danny, enjoyed reading that. With North, it seems that there's three scenarios that could play out with their picks at 2 and 3:
1. McKercher and Duursma - we therefore choose between Curtin, Watson and O'Sullivan as you point out;
2. Curtin and McKercher - we would thus take Duursma as you suggest; and
3. Curtin and Duursma - the question here is whether we would take McKercher, given our abundance of existing midfielders, or would it be one of Curtin, Watson or O'Sullivan?
It's very exciting to have potentially two father-sons. The selection of Calsher Dear and the prospect of him playing for the Hawks tugs at the heart strings. Hopefully, the bids on both come later than anticipated.
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Thanks Stuart. I didn't include your option 3 as an option in my piece because the rumblings are that North absolutely love McKercher and he will go with their first pick. We'll see on draft night I guess.
The Dear pick is awesome from so many angles, but the beautiful thing about it isn't the romance, it's the huge development in his game in such a short space of time. I think his upside is huge.
Great piece Danny. Agree with Calsher’s upside. His movements look great for a developing tall and he has that Dear frame that will fill out just nicely.
There is some speculation we could trade in fs1 to get another pick so as to get O’Sullivan. Then there is Curtin who seems mostly a defender at least for us as we don’t need more midfield this high up. And McCabe. Lots of defenders. So do we need 1 defender or 2 or 3 also factoring potential future free agents. I would pass on curtin myself. Seems like he only wants to be a midfielder. If we could get O’Sullivan AND Watson/Duursma then I think we do and effectively call the end of our top end drafting for a bit and switch to free agency as we rocket up the ladder.
I should add that next years draft is midfielders heavy so walking out this year with Watson/duursma, O’Sullivan, McCabe and dear compliments what we have already beautifully.
I’d be nervous trading out our F1 to trade back into this draft, understand that key position depth is a need and although Watson is the furthest thing from a KPP, McCabe and Dear help us address some of what we’re missing in that space.