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No actually he was fine. Played outstanding footy after his return.
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No actually he was fine. Played outstanding footy after his return.
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Having a drink isn’t the main concern with him.Elite by foot and exceptional reader of the play.
First kid to have a drink which obviously is a huge concern
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Then he will be lucky to play 10 games
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Did work with a number of your better players seems to be all good
G'day Arie!
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Glad we traded up to grab Caddy.
Really did not want to add another KPD in O'Sullivan to our list.
Really did not want to add another KPD in O'Sullivan to our list.
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If Curtin was still on the board at your pick, would you have taken Caddy or Curtin?
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I would have traded Curtin to West Coast for their future first.
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Rather than take Caddy in this draft?
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Me too. That seems a golden opportunity.
I would have maybe liked hawthorn to do that with our pick 4. Hugely tempting anyhow.
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Probably. I reckon that future first is likely a top 3 pick.
Having said that I am not unhappy with Caddy.
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It still seems odd the wce couldn’t get a taker for that F1
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I agree. Curtin as a flight risk made it even stranger.
Next year's draft is midfield heavy as well so would have suited a team like Adelaide to have another dip.
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Honestly, Curtin seems to have not put a foot wrong in preseason so far and he is a mountain of a man - doing the wrestling drills paired with Darcy Fogarty who is a big unit himself. Sidesteps in traffic will be a feature as he does it regularly in the drills to date (and his draft highlight reel shows it off too). Left peg is excellent and he reads the play very well.
He has all the attributes to become a star of the comp if he want it and so far so good. Flight risk - yeah maybe and its something as supporters we all wonder about but a 3 year starting contract will help protect the club if he did want to leave early - but there seems to be absolutely no indication of that. His ceiling looks to be very very high and I can absolutely see why the club went hard to get him.
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I thought Caddy was bit of a reach/taken higher than originally projected ?
Mind you said the same thing last year about Tsatas and I think Essendon made the right call there (think he will have a breakout season in 2024)
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I reckon Caddy went where I expected (8-12) depending on who had what picks.
He fit our need so I did not expect him to get past us (and in the end we traded up 1 to get him)
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It'll be interesting to see how those 3 key position players (Caddy, O'Sullivan and Curtin) end up. Most of the discussion predraft had Curtin clearly the best of the 3 and then toss up Caddy and O'Sullivan.
Adelaide clearly agreed with public opinion. But the fact they didn't have to break the bank to trade up suggests it wasn't that clear cut and there wasn't a massive bidding war for Curtin.
GWS clearly weren't sold on Curtin and mentioned O'Sullivan as one they were interested in on their draft video but traded back to get Gotthard and Leake instead which were the other 2 they liked.
Essendon clearly rated Caddy well higher than O'Sullivan hence the trade. Geelong clearly preferred O'Sullivan hence the trade.
From the outside it looks like there were pretty significant disagreements in how teams rated those 3.
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I suspect the key difference comes down to flexibility. Caddy is a key forward and that is where he is most likely to develop. O'Sullivan was always a KPD. Curtin can play forward, back AND in the middle. From a crows perspective, we are keeping our fingers crossed we have nabbed ourselves a taller Jordan Dawson type player.
So Geelong were keen for a key back and they got one. Essendon wanted a key forward and got one. The crows saw the possibility of a very large midfielder with a high ceiling in Curtin. I still wonder though, had we passed on Curtin, would Geelong have traded the pick to Essendon if Curtin was still on the board? - likely we will never know
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