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List Mgmt. 2025 AFL Draft - Draft Analysis
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Hope so, but damn I'm still fuming lol
Still don't think Robey will be a bust like others are saying to make themselves feel better. He might not be a superstar but he will make Essendon a better side.
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Talking about the Kickett linked to us at pick 38.It screams as a decision to just try and keep Kasiyah.
Both will ask for a trade to WA in 2 years
Hawks wanted Grlj bad, they are a side good at spotting talent, Essendon not so much looking at their track record so that's how I'm looking at the Grlj pick.
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I could make Essendon a better side
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Robey will be a great forward along side Caddy, he wont make it as a mid at AFL level and this is the very reason we didnt take him and the Bombers did
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My instant reaction last night was that Grlj was a reach. Not that that's a bad thing.
Im just surprised we didn't trade with Essendon to get the pick they got from Carlton.
I don't think Essendon or Melbourne would have taken Grlj.
Essendon clearly had Farrow as a priority as they risked Sharp being picked up by Melbourne who had just lost Petracca and Oliver.
Essendon probably got wind of that late invite to Latrelle Pickett and took the gamble that it was because Melbourne wanted him. Helps hold Kozzie to his contract having family with him at the club.
We could have done pick 8 for 13 and a F2 while still getting our man. Obviously there's no way of knowing whether or not Essendon was offering that but I wouldn't be surprised if they were due to their openly public ambition to move up the order.
Michaels in your interview with Giesch, can you ask a question around this? Did the team have concerns that Essendon or Melbourne would have taken Grlj? Were the trade offers for pick 7 instead of 8 and we didn't want to risk losing Cumming or the ability to bid on Patterson and Annabele?
I'd be super interested to hear a story around that.
Im just surprised we didn't trade with Essendon to get the pick they got from Carlton.
I don't think Essendon or Melbourne would have taken Grlj.
Essendon clearly had Farrow as a priority as they risked Sharp being picked up by Melbourne who had just lost Petracca and Oliver.
Essendon probably got wind of that late invite to Latrelle Pickett and took the gamble that it was because Melbourne wanted him. Helps hold Kozzie to his contract having family with him at the club.
We could have done pick 8 for 13 and a F2 while still getting our man. Obviously there's no way of knowing whether or not Essendon was offering that but I wouldn't be surprised if they were due to their openly public ambition to move up the order.
Michaels in your interview with Giesch, can you ask a question around this? Did the team have concerns that Essendon or Melbourne would have taken Grlj? Were the trade offers for pick 7 instead of 8 and we didn't want to risk losing Cumming or the ability to bid on Patterson and Annabele?
I'd be super interested to hear a story around that.
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If he's still available at our pick.
Wonder how keen they are
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Essendon wouldn't have done a trade - it would make zero sense from their side.
'Hey, we'll trade you our pick so you can get the player you want because otherwise we'll get him, even though if we were going to get him we wouldn't be offering you our pick.'
Has noone studied game theory!?!
'Hey, we'll trade you our pick so you can get the player you want because otherwise we'll get him, even though if we were going to get him we wouldn't be offering you our pick.'
Has noone studied game theory!?!
Clearly this was attempted and Essendon made (the right) call that we'd pass and they'd get him all the same
I think people got fooled by the Robey hype. The ground-swell spilled onto the boards, then the media embraced it and then many people thought it was a lock, including Cal Twomey (who if you didn't think was a wannabe expert dependent upon Club whispers, you do now!).
Robey could be a great player but he could be average too. He's seems slow and lumbering to me, too much like Hopper. The game is moving away from players such as these which is also why we didn't take Sharp. Speed and ball movement in the key.
This draft we chose our players based off need rather than best available. What a luxury! To have the confidence in our last years draft crop to look to add players that compliment them.
Our future midfield is not one dimensional like our current one (or what Essendon appears to be creating). It has an inside bull with pace (Smilie ), a inside/outside mid (Cummings), an elusive play-maker (Hotton), a silky star (Lalor) and a outside speedster (Gryll). All of them can rotate through the midfield and all of them add different component, can rotate through multiple positions and are quality ball users.
We could have got Robey/Sharp but we did not want to become a team of only inside ball winners. We needed diversity and players that compliment each other.
It makes for an exciting future.
Robey could be a great player but he could be average too. He's seems slow and lumbering to me, too much like Hopper. The game is moving away from players such as these which is also why we didn't take Sharp. Speed and ball movement in the key.
This draft we chose our players based off need rather than best available. What a luxury! To have the confidence in our last years draft crop to look to add players that compliment them.
Our future midfield is not one dimensional like our current one (or what Essendon appears to be creating). It has an inside bull with pace (Smilie
), a inside/outside mid (Cummings), an elusive play-maker (Hotton), a silky star (Lalor) and a outside speedster (Gryll). All of them can rotate through the midfield and all of them add different component, can rotate through multiple positions and are quality ball users.We could have got Robey/Sharp but we did not want to become a team of only inside ball winners. We needed diversity and players that compliment each other.
It makes for an exciting future.
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What about Bulldogs since his dad played a few games there?
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Kellaway Day LFG!
Richmond would’ve definitely waited for that. Dons and Dees held their nerve.
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annoyingly the scheduled times to to upload videos don't allow 10:20am.
It really annoys me.
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I've studied game theory.
Essendon had an unbelievable night to be fair to them. They made all the right calls and all the right gambles.
I was just surprised that even if our bluff on Robey was relatively obvious, it was still a risk for Essendon to potentially miss on him. Maybe they were okay to risk it as they could always fall back on Xavier Taylor, Farrow and Sharp.
The whole industry knew they wanted Robey.
Dodoro would have bitten.
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Rubbish we rated gryl top 5 from everyone including academy players.
U dont pass up a chance to nab a guy whom tested elite and is best combine tested player for 2 years with performance behind him.
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Not sure why everyone keeps commenting that we should have traded down with Essendon. Our club clearly wanted to, but it takes two to tango. We need obviously started looking at Farrow to cover all our bases picking in a lower draft range.
Was the reason we didnt pick robey was speed? How slow is he
Saying the game has gone past players like Cripps & Bontempelli is a bit of a stretch.
Just look at how well Langford played last year
We picked best available. So we rated Grjl better than Robey.
- Nov 22, 2014
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Stop worrying about who we didn’t take and get around who we took.
Start thinking about the Cum-Lor Mid forward combination for the next 15 years and the Sizzler breaking the lines week in week out.
Full stiffy.
Start thinking about the Cum-Lor Mid forward combination for the next 15 years and the Sizzler breaking the lines week in week out.
Full stiffy.
He's not slow. Takes a bit to wind up but when he does he's quick.
With Lalor and Smillie similar types we probably saw it as overcapitalising in one area at the expense of a much greater need ('from the gun' speed and agility combined with all-day endurance).
