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Port Adelaide: The team for All Australians.Port Adelaide: The team that doesn't draft South Australians.
Our draft was better than Controversial Capel's call that Port would be drafting a fleet of hard runners.
Yes, I noted that as I mentioned that Capel article in a pre draft post. He was quoting Geoff Parker in part so he was obviously fed a line to put some smoke around our Draft strategy.
We had already picked a big key forward when we came to our second pick so I'm not convinced we were interested in McKenzie. There has to be a problem there, the guy slid from top 10 in the amateur phantoms to the 70s in the real thing (and the back end of where Cal Twomey who talks to the clubs nominated him landing). No one was into him but Richmond were prepared to take the risk with a very late pick.
If we wanted McKenzie we would have taken him at 56.
The only time there was hesitation was the Palmer pick - we were definitely into McKenzie because we were all ready to say his name but Richmond pipped us. Other than that, I'm pretty happy with the selections. Two years is enough to see whether any of these guys are gonna make it, and it's not like there's a lot of space in our midfield to develop.
Expect Reece McKenzie to be the big slider and won't go anywhere near where Phantom Drafters have projected him. His medical will scare off most teams.
We could have had gorringe, yet we got frampton instead. Nuff said for this off season.
I would have liked to have seen the U18 final which SA won.. not b posted anywhereI recorded a game from each of the state teams in the U18 comp.
Frampton's game was unfortunately against Peter Wright so he was outshone quite a bit.
Interested to see the NSW/ACT games over the weekend to gauge the others.
I trust our recruiters - they're not scouting players all year for nothing.
What was the point of that comment?Port Adelaide: The team that doesn't draft South Australians.
How would you have made that happen? The club tried and wasn't prepared to give away our current players. Ryder deal was important and we paid a fair price.We could have had gorringe, yet we got frampton instead. Nuff said for this off season.
Ryder?
i would have swapped gorringe for our second rounder as soon as they agreed to it.
Who was on the FA list we should have gone for...or got? We were not after Frawley, and did not need/want, so who was left? I actually don't know, hence why I ask.our coach's quote (paraphrased). one man wont win a premiership.
yet we have placed our entire offseason's eggs in one basket. Paddy Ryder. You want to see how the great teams do it. look at what the hawks achieved this off season.
i would have swapped gorringe for our second rounder as soon as they agreed to it. then let the ryder deal play with what we had left. i woudnt have released newton either. even if we go a pick in the 50's for him that would have been us getting Oscar mcdonald instead of some unknown guy. all these little things could have accumulated into it being a real good off season. insead for me its just meh. yeah, the paddy one was a super get, but i think our team is far to loaded up with project players now. last year i thought we had too many players on our list that really wouldnt be considered fora power call up. this year we most likely wont have any more than last year. maybe harvey and shaw...but anyone else? possible amon at a stretch.
dont even get me started on our free agent targets. nil...zilch...nada
i would have swapped gorringe for our second rounder as soon as they agreed to it.
this year we most likely wont have any more than last year. maybe harvey and shaw...but anyone else? possible amon at a stretch.
dont even get me started on our free agent targets. nil...zilch...nada