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Walker would have been a great winger .....but the Crows built up his frame to play as a KPF, putting that option to rest
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Welcome Welcome to Adelaide - Archie Ludowyke, Pick 50 2025
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He's from Fischer McAsey country, Melbourne Bayside suburbs, Vic Metro, Sandringham Dragons, private schoolboy (Brighton Grammar), similarly a father that's a rabid St.Kilda supporter.
Other than that came into the season one of the higher rated tall forwards before an ordinary start to the season for Brighton Grammar in his 6 games at that level, very ordinary at the Nationals for Vic Metro in his 3 games before doing his PCL against the Allies.
On the bright side his 3 Coates Talent League games were much better netting 10 goals including a bag of 5 against the eventual premiers the Eastern Ranges.
Also impressed early in the season for the AFL Academy team slotting 3 goals against Richmond VFL.
Get the feel Hamish and his crew must have really liked his impressive underage year for Brighton Grammar and the Sandy Dragons.
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Some top names in that Eagles side that day.Knight, Vince, Watts,Stokes . I believe it was Bernie Vince's 1st match.
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Very very good era for the club
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It was
a mate of mine from the Yorke who played against Bernie and alongside him in underage WWT sides told me that Bernie had stepped back from footy earlier that year for various reasons - he got a call up when WWT reserves had lots of injuries and they knew that Bernie had just moved to Adelaide for work and was still eligible to play for them
He hit a purple patch of form in the 2s, probably because he wasn't paid enough respect as a country kid fill in, got called up for senior debut for finals and played the GF
Then got drafted by the Crows a month or so later
sliding doors stuff
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Yep, the true order is the draft order. And you can get a good read on the quality of the draft by the moves made on draft night.
A couple of clubs traded out of picks in the 40-60 range for basically nothing. 4th and 5th rounders. Suggests there was little to no interest in the players available at that point.
I highly doubt clubs would pass on the opportunity to draft true first round talents with future 4th/5th round picks. Which suggests those players were overrated in the media.
That's not to say drafting Ludowyke is a fail, it's just the reality of picks around 50, they are speculative and most clubs don't highly rate who is available in that range
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I heard they even considered renaming Woodville Oval to Gowans Oval, given how they repeatedly owned the Eagles in grand finals.Unfortunately better era for Centrals. They smashed the Eagles in the GF.
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I posted this morning that Cal had us linked to him with our first pick. So the idea that he was pretty high on our list seems pretty fair.
Let’s send our Ferrari into a demo derby
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Was one of my favorite Crows players. So sad when he left.
100%
I had a job for a couple of years selling merch at Docklands stadium
Was working a game there in Vince's first season for Melbourne - Vince and some others were having a kick/warm up near the stand I was setting up an hour or so before the game when not many were around so I wandered down and let him know that we all missed him at the Crows
He gave a thumbs up - that was enough haha
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We could’ve played Himmelberg at full forward instead
They weren't the only side to lose to them.Unfortunately better era for Centrals. They smashed the Eagles in the GF.
You had to be very good to beat Centrals in a GF
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It would be an interesting game to pick the top 20 from any given season and rate them in order of how they have truly progressed. I wonder if they would be close.
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Not many sides beat Centrals in grand finals in that era, Sturt did though...just saying
At pick 50 doesn't mean much.
McAsey and Watts were very high picks. Gunston and Worrell in the late 20s. Hopefully being a later pick, means he'll work harder and repay the faith. At that point of the draft, Twomey predicted it to end at around pick 55, so there were only so many more names to be called and Crows may have been the only team remaining that had enough meetings with him to suggest it was a possibility. No wonder he was in his room when his name was called.
This is awesome
It's hard to see what Hamish saw in him and his game, looks very underwhelming.
Good luck to the lad but I don't see much that will translate into and AFL footballer
I think Hetherton would have been a bet choice
Good luck to the lad but I don't see much that will translate into and AFL footballer
I think Hetherton would have been a bet choice
You must hate goal kickers
