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Welcome to Collingwood - Corey Gault (Pick 65)

Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2011 8:08 pm
by Babylove
Former club:Swan Districts/Mazenod Junior
DOB:28/10/1992
Height:198cm
Weight:87kg
Position:Ruckman

Represented WA at the NAB AFL U18 Championships. He played in three games, averaging 10 hit-outs, after injury had restricted his availability. He is a naturally a very athletic player who is still developing his craft in the ruck.

Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2011 8:10 pm
by Dave The Man

Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2011 8:15 pm
by Mountains Magpie
Pretty skinny for a ruckman and sits behind Jolly, Wood & Witts. WTF :?

Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2011 8:16 pm
by On the March
http://www.thisisafl.com/blog/2011/09/corey-gault/

Maybe not a ruck but a tall forward?

Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2011 8:17 pm
by SteveH67
Mountains Magpie wrote:Pretty skinny for a ruckman and sits behind Jolly, Wood & Witts. WTF :?
Why another ruckman?

We went for no defenders at all.

Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2011 8:18 pm
by GreekLunatic
I think we could make this guy into a defender

Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2011 8:24 pm
by warburton lad
I understand that Gault is the 'Leigh Brown replacement' we crave...

Paine cant get in the Test team and is trying his hand at AFL....

He will be battling out with McCaffer for the third forward role...

Two excellent gets; now to get Medders in the pre-season draft..

Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2011 8:25 pm
by jackcass
May be they think he'll be a long term Leroy replacement but with Jolly, Wood, Keeffe, Ceglar, Witts all ahead of him he'll certainly have some time to develop.

Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2011 8:27 pm
by jackcass
Posted in the Paine OP by mistake but this link is Paine as well.

Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2011 8:41 pm
by jackcass
Dave has provided this link for Gault...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaHI-2VqlDw

Very impressive. Ruckwork not too shabby.

Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2011 8:52 pm
by jonesy86
Hopefully he was drafted as a pure tall forward.

Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2011 8:59 pm
by jonesy86
SteveH67 wrote:
Mountains Magpie wrote:Pretty skinny for a ruckman and sits behind Jolly, Wood & Witts. WTF :?
Why another ruckman?

We went for no defenders at all.
IMO we don't need tall defenders.

Tarrant, Reid, Brown, Keeffe, Hartley are all genuine KP defenders. Keeffe and Hartley still developing.

Last 2 years we lost Anthony and L.Brown, at least now we have some developing KP forwards.

Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2011 9:08 pm
by stui magpie
warburton lad wrote:I understand that Gault is the 'Leigh Brown replacement' we crave...

Paine cant get in the Test team and is trying his hand at AFL....

He will be battling out with McCaffer for the third forward role...

Two excellent gets; now to get Medders in the pre-season draft..
If Gault is the Leroy replacement we're gonna need to force feed him for a while.

We have on the list already 5 blokes 204cm plus, and Jolly at 200cm.

He's going to be pushing excrement up a vertical incline to get a gig in the ruck in the next few years.

Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2011 9:25 pm
by watt price tully
Found this while looking at the Gault video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoXi1i1Q ... re=related

Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2011 9:37 pm
by Northern Pie
I like the fact that we have recruited a young player that has played at senior level for a year....IMHO this prepares them better physically for AFL footy...

I watched this kid a bit through the year in the WAFL.....in no way have we made a bad choice here....can go forward, play in the ruck and is great off half back as well....

Cheers