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Just on the whole “we could have had Butters” thing - unless we traded up then, no, we couldn’t. Butters was taken with Port’s own pick. They on traded our Polec pick and it ended up at GWS, who then used it on Jackson Hately at pick 14 at the draft. The next few players taken were Jordan...

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Yeah it’s like: 2000 - Dawn of the new millennium internet 2023 - Post Covid dystopia internet

Comparing page 1 of this thread from 2000-01 to the current page is an interesting insight into how the tone of people’s posting on the internet has changed over the years! 🤔

Well if there’s one coach that can pick future trends in the game it’s Bard Scotts 🙃

On first viewing of that footage it reminded me of the Malthouse interview where he basically dared the board to sack him (and they did). But then saw it appears that TT only sent it to a select group of friends. Considering the video was in the national media only a matter of hours later...

Yeah, might just be whether Tucker needs another week or two to build match fitness.

Seems Young went OK in the VFL last week. Surely he’d have to be a chance of taking Howe’s place in the team after his all time shocker?

Ben “Cheezel” McKay you reckon?

Good to see Inspector Gadget is still serving the community, now a councillor in Bendigo. Never knew he was a North supporter. Nice of him to give us a "go go Gadget arm" in support.

FTFY

Not defending the trading in of Polec, but it was a foot issue that we were warned about and this year he was out with an ankle. Not sure if the former contributed to the latter, but they appear to be separate injuries.

Conversely, doesn’t Atu look ecstatic.

I often wonder this too, whether they take that longer view and include looking at what’s best for the development of individual players, or if it’s all about just picking the best side for the game ahead and worrying about the rest later. Certainly hope it’s the former, but if it is then we’ve...

The only way I see Kayne surviving is if players that we want to keep e.g. Zurhaar end up leaving. We have way too many backline players on the list as it is (but somehow simultaneously a lack of KPDs) and I think Pat Walker, Atu, Kyron and Kayne all need to go as a starting point. But that’s...

True, but I think there's only 1.5 years left on Polec's contract.

Imagine if we had have actually continued the re-build at the end of 2017 and cut the list further, rather that trying to top up with Dusty/Kelly, and actually finished lower in 2018 i.e. received our own pick before a TT bid... Now imagine the northern academies rort didn't exist... With some...

Whilst I'm disappointed Taz is leaving and it's a big loss to our leadership group, I honestly think it may be for the best in the long run. Our backline needs a massive revamp and having Taz around could potentially have papered over some of the cracks. Him leaving exposes us more down there...

Solid enough, but ultimately we don't need a 25 year old who is not in our best 25 players. In particular when we are in rebuild mode and have young defenders in Young (22), Bonar (22), Hayden (22), Bosenavulagi (20), Perez (19), P Walker (19) & Ham (18) (and potentially another draftee this...

Anyway, I'm in the camp of thinking too many are using the benefit of hindsight with this pick. I'd never heard of him either when we called his name at the 2017 draft. However I recall reading up on him afterwards and it was widely noted that he was a convert to AFL who had shown rapid...

I'm not sure if you are thinking of another player? He didn't make the cut the year he turned 18, which was 2014. He turned 21 the year he was drafted.

I do find it rather ironic, all this criticism of Joyce, in that for all his incompetence he may well be the architect of our success that will hopefully come in the back end of this decade. Caused a double dip bottom out which has given us an extended crack at top end talent, nailed most first...

Bayley Fritsch was certainly not dominating the TAC cup then. He didn't make the cut for the Eastern Ranges in his draft year, which was 2014, and was drafted 3 years later after a good year for Casey in the VFL.

I admire your optimism :)

Good luck. I tried that yesterday. Worked well :rolleyes:

At the risk of bringing this thread back on track, I was reading in another thread (can't recall which one now) about players that average over 20 disposals per game and over one goal per game. It was a short list. The way Thomas is tracking lately and with so much capacity for further growth...

I thought Swallow would be the only one to challenge in terms of average per game so looked them two up. Turns out Swallow played 224 games and that is actually Ben's current games total right now as well. So Ben10 takes it out on that measure too. It's also Ben's birthday. Turns 30 today...

Come 2025+ with Thomas, LDU, Simpkin, Phillips, Powell & Horne, if these guys reach their potential it will be the best midfield I have ever seen at North - since about 1990. Any of you that have been around a little longer - how do they potentially shape up against our best midfields of all...

Yes, the fact that Taylor slid, we were able to pick him up and he is looking good has somewhat mitigated any issues from that draft. That probably falls more in the good luck category than good management, but you take it when it comes.

For all of this talk of how we stuffed up our trading at the end of 2018, it was all caused by our approach at end of 2017. We'd started our rebuild at the end of 2016, then just a year later went for the ultimate top up of Dusty and Kelly. If we'd just avoided that folly and continued the...