How about we just let Will Phillips play some footy first?
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Criticisms for clubs on draft night are – for better or worse – always going to be around.
With North Melbourne essentially having Pick 4 (given Jamarra Ugle-Hagan was always going to be a Dog at Pick 1), most mock drafts had them tossing up between tall forward Logan McDonald, tall back Denver Grainger-Barrass, and midfielder Elijah Hollands.
With Ben Brown departing to Melbourne, Nick Larkey needed help and with Robbie Tarrant and the development of Ben McKay, DGB seemed unlikely and Hollands was a really highly rated young midfielder. But that glaring hole at centre half forward seemed too big and McDonald had played senior WAFL football.