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You never said his injury was an ACL?
In fact you've said it plenty even when Burtons injury was pointed out to you numerous times.
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You never said his injury was an ACL?
In fact you've said it plenty even when Burtons injury was pointed out to you numerous times.
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Rory Sloane went 3 picks after Myles at Pick 44....
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And one entire draft? Didnt he nominate the year before he was taken? So he was overlooked by all clubs. I seem to remember one of the recruiters, possibly Hamish, saying he wanted to take him with our last pick in that draft but the coach at the time (I guess Craig) wanted a Ruckman or a KPD. Hamish didnt sound too happy about that but was very happy when he was still available the next year. Hope I didnt make this up because its a very elaborate story I have led myself to believe.
When you're drafting for need with your last pick in a draft, then you've got NFI what you're doing.
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Thought he could be converted to a KPP ......how many fails have we had trying to convert undersized ruckmen to KPP ?
Only one i can recall was Pittman
This sounds similar to my recollection. I think we took Aaron Kite ahead of Sloane though.
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Never heard of him so its pretty lucky that Sloane was still available at pick 47 the next year.
Didn't we get Sloane with the same pick number with which we got Myles? (44)
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It was a podcast I think. Posted by WW?
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He wasn't a terrible player, he was close to selection a fair few times.
But he also wasn't very good.
Would like to compare against metres gained per kick. Feel that we are more aggressive with our kicks, try to get forward quickly.From this article ... http://www.afl.com.au/news/2017-01-14/the-bad-stat
It was well documented that Sam Jacobs was slightly down on his best form in 2016, and that's reflected in the Crows having one of the worst hit-out differentials in the competition. What would be more alarming for Adelaide and its fans though is the team's ball use. When going by foot, the Crows were ranked 15th in the competition for efficiency, a stat that must improve in 2017 if the Crows are to go deep into the finals. - Michael Whiting
I'm not that surprised with the hit-outs stat (cmon ROB), but I am not sure about the kicking efficiency one. We kick the ball a lot, and our overall disposal efficiency is top 5 from memory?
IIRC, 4 sideways uncontested kicks followed by a long kick down the line to a pack = 5 effective kicks.
Not sure about that. Few of their midfields aren't great kicks - Shiel, Scully, Ward, Griffen. Coniglio and Kelly are good but not incredible.
The problem we will face is that when they run and handball in numbers we will find it hard to tackle them.
Their defence has a couple of elite kicks in Williams and Shaw.
2008 draft
pick 10 Phil Davis, pick 28 Shaun McKernan, pick 44 Rory Sloane
2007 Draft
pick 10 P Dangerfield, pick 27 Andy Ottens, pick 30 Jarrhan Jacky, pick 38 Myke Cook, pick 58 Tony Armstrong, pick 71 Aaron Kite, (NSW SP pick 75) Taylor Walker
Rookies
James Moss, Jared Patrenko, Ed Curnow, Brodie Martin,
no Pre-season Draft picks.
He was an ok player. It's just he had no chance of rucking at afl level which made it a poor selection.
That's why I put up both Drafts,
Hahaha what in the hell have you been smoking to come up with this comment DABM?!
You made me check I was worried I put the wrong year
Kite was taken over Sloane because of that reason. I'm not sure if it was Craig or Rendell who made the final decision. It was most likely Craig as it usually comes down to the coach who has the last say.
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