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Edgepower said:
if we are going to take a small again should be Caleb Daniel from what I seen in the U18 IMO JJ was a little fumbley. only a couple of games but all I have to base my opinion on being interstate.
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The 4 games that were not on TV Johansen dominated. I'd love to pick him up with our 1st or 2nd pick.
 
yeewww said:
stay on your high horse then just giving a little info, FYI only 2 clubs shown interest so far us and north. North have a higher pick than we do atm, they flew his gf over and had lunch in geelong, harvey as well as allot of others where there and if he gets picked up by them he (harvey) will be his mentor for the next 2 yrs. They are looking for a harvey replacement and a cult figure to take his place. If you have any information, contrary to this feel free to pass it on, because obviously you do. But the people that gave me the info are very very close to him and it effects them what his decision is they might want to know what info you have.

So was not a recruiting manager and him and thats it, they threw everything at him.
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No one is saying North didn't have the chat, simply saying there are many moving pieces to Draft day and JJ to North isn't a given. He will not go first round, more 19-32. You're friends with his girlfriend or family friends, wouldn't bother anyone else where he ends up.

As has been stated, we spoke to Dumont and Dunstan last year, Sloan before that, Seller before that... It's all a game and some play it better than others. Kieran Harper was drafted as Harvey's replacement and look where that has left him!

It isn't a sure thing untill the ink is dry!
 

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Can't see a mid season draft working to plug a gap, there wouldn't be a player close to having the fitness base to compete at AFL level.... Maybe a chance to correct a mistake we made passing someone over in the preseason draft as a long term prospect.
 
yeewww said:
stay on your high horse then just giving a little info, FYI only 2 clubs shown interest so far us and north. North have a higher pick than we do atm, they flew his gf over and had lunch in geelong, harvey as well as allot of others where there and if he gets picked up by them he (harvey) will be his mentor for the next 2 yrs. They are looking for a harvey replacement and a cult figure to take his place. If you have any information, contrary to this feel free to pass it on, because obviously you do. But the people that gave me the info are very very close to him and it effects them what his decision is they might want to know what info you have.

So was not a recruiting manager and him and thats it, they threw everything at him.
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Its good info for sure and no one is doubting its true and it would be great to be kept informed....but clubs don't make their draft choices 4 months out and don't make guarantees to players. So to say "cross him off, he's off to North" is silly in July.

Eg. We spoke to Sloane more than any other player and more than any other club in 08 and didn't pick him. Overlooked him 4 times. We didn't speak to Wines at all pre draft and picked him up.
 
yeewww said:
we can basically cross Jake Johansen of our list, north last week had very strong chats with him, friends with someone extremely close to him actually couldn't be any closer. Hes happy to go anywhere but north have shown the most attention to him to replace harvey.
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Let's clear a few things up ----

1) Jake has no girlfriend
2) nobody was flown over to Melbourne by the North Melbourne Football Club
3) there was no lunch held at Geelong between North Melbourne and Jake
4) no approach has been made by North Melbourne's recruitment officials to Jake

What ever you have heard by anyone these are the correct facts
There is a lot of innuendo around players,
I can confirm Jake has had no official contact from any AFL club
 
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tamba said:
Let's clear a few things up ----

1) Jake has no girlfriend
2) no body was flown over to Melbourne by the North Melbourne Football Club
3) there was no lunch was held at Geelong between North Melbourne and Jake
4) no approach has been made by North Melbourne's recruitment officials to Jake

What ever you have heard by anyone these are the correct facts
There is a lot of innuendo around players,
I can confirm Jake has had no official contact from any AFL club
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I expect a few clubs will be knocking on his door after the SANFL season is over.
 
Just the same Jake would be a good fit at Collingwood, Crows and GWS wouldn't be surprised to see any of them use a 2nd round pick on him and I'm not sure we will have a first round pick to use if we go hunting a KPP.
 
scottjr said:
Just the same Jake would be a good fit at Collingwood, Crows and GWS wouldn't be surprised to see any of them use a 2nd round pick on him and I'm not sure we will have a first round pick to use if we go hunting a KPP.
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Collingwood are in the same boat to us re. mosquito fleet. I doubt they'll go small again, in fact if they didn't have Scharenberg they'd probably be in a worse position because their backline is very small & apart from Cloke their tall forward stocks are bone dry.

I heard the Crows are trying hard to lure Ben Kennedy, if we didn't have 1/2 our list full of smalls including a few who probably won't make the grade Mitchell, Gray, Neade? Amon? DBJ? I would've been keen on Kennedy because he's a class above those.

I can't wait until Flynn makes the transition if only to give us something different to the super small setup we've been going with this year offering pace, height, skill & has a solid frame.
 
Seanybruz said:
Collingwood are in the same boat to us re. mosquito fleet. I doubt they'll go small again, in fact if they didn't have Scharenberg they'd probably be in a worse position because their backline is very small & apart from Cloke their tall forward stocks are bone dry.

I heard the Crows are trying hard to lure Ben Kennedy, if we didn't have 1/2 our list full of smalls including a few who probably won't make the grade Mitchell, Gray, Neade? Amon? DBJ? I would've been keen on Kennedy because he's a class above those.

I can't wait until Flynn makes the transition if only to give us something different to the super small setup we've been going with this year offering pace, height, skill & has a solid frame.
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I can't wait till Luke signs up too ;)
 
Lycett is no.1 ruck today with Nick Nat pulling out late. started at opening bouncing leaping high and putting his knee into Pyke's shoulder. impressive leap. got Dennis excited. the ground is waterlogged so dont expect to see him taking any marks.
 

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Seanybruz said:
Collingwood are in the same boat to us re. mosquito fleet. I doubt they'll go small again, in fact if they didn't have Scharenberg they'd probably be in a worse position because their backline is very small & apart from Cloke their tall forward stocks are bone dry.

I heard the Crows are trying hard to lure Ben Kennedy, if we didn't have 1/2 our list full of smalls including a few who probably won't make the grade Mitchell, Gray, Neade? Amon? DBJ? I would've been keen on Kennedy because he's a class above those.

I can't wait until Flynn makes the transition if only to give us something different to the super small setup we've been going with this year offering pace, height, skill & has a solid frame.
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Harsh on a couple of first year draftees.... Amon in particular who's started to adjust to senior footy.
 
Zakk Wylde said:
Harsh on a couple of first year draftees.... Amon in particular who's started to adjust to senior footy.
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I'm not saying get rid of any of them just that we've loaded our list with pocket rockets & now need to focus on getting some height whilst developing what we've already got, the question marks aren't over their spots on our list just that they're still relatively unproven at this point.

The tone of my post probably looked a little more negative because I was still pretty pessimistic dwelling on the loss this morning lol, Ben Kennedy would be a good get but realistically he's not going anywhere whilst they've still got Brodie Grundy there.

I am a little wary about how we're going to go about our draft this year, Ken/Parker went nuts with small/pace last year & I think there's a chance we'll look at one of Johansen or Daniel given how they performed for SA unless a tall slides to our pick which is slowly looking like getting better :(
 
Zakk Wylde said:
The difference between Caleb Daniel and Kane Mitchell, is Daniel is extremely polished. Kid finishes with his eyes closed.

Wouldn't bother me if we took him.
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Where do you think he'll be taken in the draft? No doubt he's super skilled but he is very small. Not sure where Kev Sheehan said he'll end up, he rated him highly but obviously has question marks as to where an AFL club sees him draft wise.
 
Seanybruz said:
Where do you think he'll be taken in the draft? No doubt he's super skilled but he is very small. Not sure where Kev Sheehan said he'll end up, he rated him highly but obviously has question marks as to where an AFL club sees him draft wise.
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Tough one... Will be late as his size will scare clubs. Can play tho.
 

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RossFC said:
We had "strong chats" with Luke Dunstan and Trent Dumont last year, doesn't mean we will pick them.
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If he made it to our pick Lukes father was certain we would take him.
 
Malibu#27 said:
If he made it to our pick Lukes father was certain we would take him.
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I would have too. He's a gun.

But the point I'm making is teams try to have a chat with most players that will be drafted around where their picks are.

We talked to Dumont and decided to pass on him.
 
RussellEbertHandball said:
Lycett is no.1 ruck today with Nick Nat pulling out late. started at opening bouncing leaping high and putting his knee into Pyke's shoulder. impressive leap. got Dennis excited. the ground is waterlogged so dont expect to see him taking any marks.
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Thought Lycett was excellent today, has a huge kick on him too, he'd be handy resting forward.

Now officially on my want list.
 
TheFVK said:
Thought Lycett was excellent today, has a huge kick on him too, he'd be handy resting forward.

Now officially on my want list.
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And mine but it all depends on the cost, ie: draft picks/trade. Our recruitment staff will have their work cut out for them.
I still have hope Redden will be our equal number one ruck.
 
give up on Lycett me thinks. we couls have taken him, we took Jacobs, we got Polec. that bird has flown. he is a WCE player and from what i can see a required one too.

redden will be our back up ruck next year, and hopefully will be a mighty fine one too resting forward.
 

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