Coulda, shoulda Ben Brown

dalyc · Joined: 02 Mar 2005

Oh dear

https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/why-ben-brown-is-the-afl-s-best-draft-pick-20180427-p4zc0e.html

Magpietothemax · magpietothemax Joined: 28 Apr 2013

Yep fu there... agree...but since then Sam Murray and Jaiydn Stephenson have not been fu's.
I have been educated ;we have been excoriating Hine, but Stephenson,Murray, and also Schazza, De Goey, Moore, have not been f'us. You cannot get every possible champion. because if you could, you would be better than GWS.

Collingwood Crackerjack · Joined: 28 Jul 2008 Location: Canberra

If I'd have known he was Charlie's nephew I would of been keen for us to pick him up, character like that is worth more than gold!

WarrenerraW · Joined: 18 Apr 2008 Location: Melbourne

When's he outta contract?

Monco Matt · Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2018 11:13 am

Wow, just wow. Just goes to prove that not even the best recruiters out there are good enough to get them all right. Still, this was a major howler and Hine/Taylor should be ashamed of themselves. Again, we are prepared to recruit proven risks or duds like Russell, Young, Lynch, Hudson, Mayne, Dwyer, Karnezis, Armstrong, Gault, Martin, Frost, Kennedy, Ramsay, Marsh, White, Oxley, Yagmoor....the list goes on and on but you won't rookie list Ben Brown? Mind boggling.

Presti35 · Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2018 2:18 pm

Geez, knowing he's related to a former premiership player.

Anyway, good luck to him. If he ended up here maybe he wouldn't have gotten his chance?

AN_Inkling · Joined: 06 Oct 2007

He was looked over in three drafts. Every club goofed, including North Melbourne.

We at least offered to take him, just didn't work out. Not the sort of pick you can put down as a mistake for anyone, or genius from North. They just got lucky, really.

stui magpie · Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2018 5:10 pm

Dave The Man · Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2018 5:18 pm

All Teams Passed on Brown in more then 1 Draft

Dave The Man · Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2018 5:23 pm

K · Joined: 09 Sep 2011

We could still have drafted him right until the end...

From previous discussion:
In effect, we chose Jesse White instead: the draft pick we gave up for him came before the one used on Brown. You might say this happened because of an unhealthy obsession with finding someone to play the "Leigh Brown role". But actually Ben Brown was rucking in the year before getting drafted. His ruck duties have diminished as (in the temporal sense, but possibly also true in the causal sense) his forward output has increased. Maybe for the CFC recruiters' sakes, he should have changed his name from Ben to Leigh.

On the other hand, his health condition was discovered only in recent years, I think. That alone could have led to a huge upswing in performance.