Dayle Garlett

I just assumed we meant all things considered aside from discipline. Injuries are a part of that then. Although even excluding them I doubt he'd shift much for mine.

 

at the time. it'd be 12th anyway with the hogan/crouch swap

and really he was pick 9 IRL or something in a draft without jaeger/crouch and Viney at 25. had those three been in there they'd have been ahead pushing him down to 12 most likely anyway. The gap between 3-12 is so minimal anyway - all have claims to be top 5-7 in most other drafts (only one I can think of that is an exception is the watts/nicnat/hill/hartlett/hurley/yarran/rich/vickery/ziebell/davis/sidebottom draft)

 

Grundy was top three all year in mocks/recruiters/everything and then just slid and kept on sliding a month before the draft.

He was AA U/18 as a 17 year old, he dominated when the blokes were a year older than him. He's newer to the game than most and had tremendous upside. Plenty described him as the best ruck to come through the system in years.

No idea why he slid - but he's definitely a fucking good talent. ridiculous how he went from top 3 to 21 overnight. Darling, Rich, Butcher, Wingard other blokes who went from top 2-3 for most of the year to far less overnight. A case for Mitch Duncan too but he was more early season hype. Vlastuin was touted as #2 at one stage throughout the year though, was ~3-5 before the champs.

 

Nuh not at all Lynch was a gun pickup at that time.

 

I thought the same. Really cooled on him (like most) towards the mid/back end of the year. When you think about it though, the amount of 'vanilla' kids to have ended up superstars is pretty incredible.

 

Brock McLean to c'.

Every time people say he's done he comes back fighting. So, so slow. Not even a great kick or with great movement. But just reads it so well he keeps going.

 

Reckon we're closer to each other than to the recruiters though

Both had: Grundy much higher than he ended up, Kennedy much higher than he ended up, Jaeger/Daniher 1/2, Garlett in the top 10, Plowman worse than he ended up, Toumpas worse and Wines worse. Vlastuin & Crouch too I guess

We disagreed pretty big time on Hrovat, O'Rourke, Stringer and MacRae though, that's all it seems.

I'm big on Hrovat. Having played gaelic football for most of my life to see a kid at 14 take up the game and 3 months later absolutely destroy guys who'd played the gaelic football equivalent of AFL in Ireland (moved to aus due to GFC) was something. Plenty of AFL players have struggled; Darling for one at 17 could only hold his own; not excel.

Since then I've followed his progress and perhaps I'm biased - but I've rated everything he's done through the roof. I don't think he'll ever be absolutely elite, but I do think he was always going to be a very good afl player and for pick 8-10 it's worth it.

 

If it's worth anything - if he were born a few days earlier he'd have been eligible for the Patton draft.

He played a good chunk of league SANFL footy and performed well. I just didn't think he had much special to his game and looked to me like he was peaking.

He's very much a top ager too - was 19 before his first game etc.