News Izak Rankine, Gold coast holding Rankine to Ransom- #FreeIzak

[Scorpus]

Mod note:

Opposition posters making outlandish trade suggestions to bait the Crows board will be considered trolls and dealt with in the usual manner

No one wants a repeat of the Gibbs thread

 

[dogs105]

Scorpus- can you please change the header to "noone wants a repeat of the Gibbs trade"?

 

[LeftyLuke]

Geez, you have alot more faith in Nicksy than I do.

McAdam Walker Murphy
McHenry Fogarty Himmelburg

Himmelburg moves in front of Thilthorpe off the back of a couple of great pre-season games. RT will have to bide his time in the reserves.

Rankine and Rachele need to work on their forward pressure acts, will be hard to unseat Murphy and McHenry who are outstanding on the training track.

Murphy and McHenry are outstanding at not kicking goals as well.

 

[Bearded Clam]

I’m going early on Pedlar like I did Worrell.

I’ve seen enough now that he will far exceed Taylor a midfielder. And I like Taylor.

I dont know..

I like Pedlar and definitely still dont think he’s had a fair enough run at it to make a full judgement on him yet..

But I have Taylor in front of him at the moment.

Mainly due to Taylor actually having full 4 quarters of influence on games..

Pedlar goes MIA too much still.

Hopefully both improve further with another preseason under Burgess.

 

[dogs105]

Someone suggested this on the draft board

Pick 5 + 2023/1 for Rankine and 2022/1

I just vomited in my mouth a little

 

[Crow till I die]

Club Statement: Izak Rankine

Izak Rankine has informed Adelaide of his desire to join the Club

www.afc.com.au

Just remember his U18 year and why he was so highly rated and look at some of the stuff he did this year. If we can keep his body right, he will be a great acquisition for us for a long time to come imo

 

[119others]

Rankine and Rachele playing the mid/SF role is a great prospect.


Bolton is carrying Richmond this year.

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Rankine and Rachele looks like the competitions best small forward duo for many years to come

 

[Sanders]

I think with Fog, TT, Rankine and Rachelle that we have arguably the best group of young forwards in the league

No point in having a turbo forward setup without any decent service

Will be interesting to see how we approach things

 

[rabidcrow]

So we must have got really screwed over on the contracted Charlie Cameron trade at pick 12 who is a better player btw.

Regardless of what people think reality is what the original club paid for the player in question plays a part in the price - particularly for a young player. Cameron was a rookie, Rankine a pick 3. It plays a part


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[Archie87]

Yeah **** GC. They screwed us out of Anderson so he could hold Rowell's hand up there.

Look at it this way - if we had Anderson, we would probably be spending the Rankine money on keeping him instead. Swings and roundabouts...

 

[PokerChamp]

Rankine is overrated….

Too easy to take out of the game with a hard nosed defender like Starcevich or Hardwick. He loses focus against these types of players.

Always injured due to lack of hard work, isn’t totally committed to AFL footy like the elite players.

The small guys you have already are super impressive, hard at the footy types. Going to be tough to have them in the 2’s behind Rankine.

 

[Sanders]

This was last year's Pre-Season Draft participants ......two !

Many in the media are now saying, the PSD is redundant

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After list lodgements and finalisation of Player Contracts .....how many clubs have $850K next year to fit in a Rankine in the PSD ?

Most clubs are now taking cheap players .....cheap mature players or a Rookie

North now rumoured to be looking into Brad Hill - that’s 900k off their salary cap

 

[jackster83]

Rankine is overrated….

Too easy to take out of the game with a hard nosed defender like Starcevich or Hardwick. He loses focus against these types of players.

Always injured due to lack of hard work, isn’t totally committed to AFL footy like the elite players.

The small guys you have already are super impressive, hard at the footy types. Going to be tough to have them in the 2’s behind Rankine.

A third round pick it is then.

 

[ABAB]

Rankine is overrated….

Too easy to take out of the game with a hard nosed defender like Starcevich or Hardwick. He loses focus against these types of players.

Always injured due to lack of hard work, isn’t totally committed to AFL footy like the elite players.

The small guys you have already are super impressive, hard at the footy types. Going to be tough to have them in the 2’s behind Rankine.

We should trade McHenry and Murphy for Rankine then....
And he played 18 games out of 22 in the last 2 seasons.

 

[George CantStandYa]

A third round pick it is then.

Ironic username given his post

 

[Soggy2112]

jesus those kind of media releases from the club give me bad memories

It’s alright we did the right thing this time at let GC announce it first.

The exciting highlights reels and interviews will come once the trades done.

 

[Rory Walkerfield]

Club Statement: Izak Rankine

Izak Rankine has informed Adelaide of his desire to join the Club

www.afc.com.au

 

[Jarman3]

No point in having a turbo forward setup without any decent service

Will be interesting to see how we approach things

Having a couple of good small forwards in Rankine and Rachele will be really handy, though. The sh*t delivery to our forwards means there won't be a lot of marks taken up there, so best case is a lot of ball hitting the deck which provides opportunities for these guys. Worst case is just a whole lot of intercept marks and we've wasted at least 4 years worth of 1st round picks assembling a gun forward line that we can't deliver the ball to

I can only assume that we see a lot of "organic growth" in our existing young mids (Berry, Schoenberg, Taylor, Pedlar, Nankervis etc). Hopefully we can find somebody to fill the gap at half back allowing Dawson to move up onto the wing, then we'll have at least one player who can hit the side of a barn delivering the ball into forward 50.

 

[LeftyLuke]

Regardless of what people think reality is what the original club paid for the player in question plays a part in the price - particularly for a young player. Cameron was a rookie, Rankine a pick 3. It plays a part


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I disagree on that one. Many players such as Dawson may not have developed as quickly during underage football and looking at how good he is now he obviously should have gone as a top 3 pick. I think top 10 picks are overrated and a player is just as likely to have a good career at pick 25. Picking players at such a young age is a stab in the dark and basically a lottery. That's why so many top 10 picks such as McAsey fail. Once a player is on a list draft pick number is irrelevant imo.

 

[Anzacpaul]

Can't believe we're entertaining a player with so many visible tattoos.

Nearly spilt my chardonnay when I saw a picture of the lad.

 

[Sanders]

Rankine is overrated….

Too easy to take out of the game with a hard nosed defender like Starcevich or Hardwick. He loses focus against these types of players.

Always injured due to lack of hard work, isn’t totally committed to AFL footy like the elite players.

The small guys you have already are super impressive, hard at the footy types. Going to be tough to have them in the 2’s behind Rankine.

Of course he’s overrated, that’s a given. But overrated is not the same as not rated.

 

[Captain Morgan]

Gerard Whateley just said, 'well if you're gonna offer that sort of money the trade needs to start with at least pick 5'.

Rozee looks good in a crows jumper too…

Time to start a new thread. Welcom home Connor!

 

[TryAnHit]

Cant believe how many posters are against pick 5.... you dream of drafting a player with his skills at pick 5...

 

[spenze]

Jeez, how little was the GC offer?, apparently our offer is very close to 3 over 5

Now they want a decent pick to a player they pushed out, entitled campaigners

 

[Skippos]

Unpopular opinion, I don't like this*

*provided we're forced to give up pick 5.

Rankine was pick 3 in a pretty shallow draft, and on what we've seen since, I'd have Walsh, King, King, Rozee, Bailey Smith

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Bailey Smith

Age

25

Ht

185cm

Wt

86kg

Pos.

M/F

Career

Season

Last 5

D

18.3

5star

K

8.5

3star

HB

9.8

5star

M

2.3

2star

T

3.8

5star

CL

2.7

4star

D

19.8

5star

K

9.6

4star

HB

10.2

5star

M

1.8

2star

T

3.2

4star

CL

3.2

4star

D

14.8

4star

K

7.6

3star

HB

7.2

5star

M

2.0

3star

T

3.4

5star

CL

1.6

4star

, Butters, Rowbottom ahead of him, and can probably throw him in a basket with Luko, McInerney, Quaynor, Blakey, Atkins, Wilkie and Caldwell in that next group (flaky but talented or low upside but effective). Probably goes 7-16 in a redraft. If he was in the previous year's draft, there's probably 13 in that group ahead of him and 15 in the 'similar ish' group. 4 years less of his career, out of contract.

Sure, there's upside. But in 4 years, it's been flashes. Hard to expect him to just all of a sudden become consistent - especially with stacks of guaranteed money ahead of him long term.

Seems a 'cream on top' player in a position we're (relative to other parts of our list) already competitive in. And the mids that'll be available at pick 5 suit us pretty well - dynamic/clean types. I'd be happier digging into the future first and back the list's upside to make that pick 7/8/9 and a year down the line.

 

[ftmch]

He’s not coming home. He’s chasing the money of a very specific contract from a particular club

It can be both