Game Day 2018 DRAFT - Christmas is early this year

How do you rate our draft this year?


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Cleric

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Yep no SA indigenous boy that lives metropolitan is eligible under current rules otherwise Rankine would be playing for Port next year.
To be allowed in any teams NGA you have to tick the boxes for eligibility. Thats why you havent seen Rankine or Pickett for instance in a NGA. Anzac is a member of our Academy.
 

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Where is this dross that Carlton aren't a bottom 3 team next year coming from?????

Carlton won 2 games last year. And that's with having their best player play at his best all season.

They have an injury prone ruckman and no one to replace him. They have the weakest midfield in the comp bar the Gold Coast. They have no forward line. They have an unproven coach.

They had one player miss last year, Docherty. He will be a big inclusion for them. So what, the Gold Coast were crippled with injuries again. The Saints had some big injury outs. The Dogs the same, Freo the same, etc.

The Blues have a genuinely poor list in the short term.

The Crows had the worst off season possible and were crippled by injuries.

If the Crows don't finish top 4 then I'll be very surprised.

It was a genius trade by the Crows. Pick 1-3 for pick 15ish & 19. Anyone who wouldn't do that trade is very poor judge.
 
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Having 3 first round picks was exciting.

Feeling a bit underwhelmed to be honest. I don’t know enough about either of our picks to be excited I guess. I wonder where they go if we didn’t pick them? Would anyone have picked either in the first round? I doubt anyone else takes McHenry. Jones probably does.

Reckon Port nailed it.
Go take a look the highlights (for what they're worth) of both of the lads we picked up, that'll cheer you up :)

A few people picked both of them in their best 25, I'm happy we got Jones with our first.. Just feel like we let a big fish slip in caldwell.
 

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Happy with Jones at 9, I'm confident that McHenry will become a good player, and I trust Hamish's judgement, but I can't help but wonder about RCD, he's more of a need for our midfield, and I would have thought he had a higher ceiling. Perhaps there was a 'go-home' factor with RCD or we simply thought he was overrated.

Pretty happy with that carlton trade though, could be huge for us if we make finals again.
 

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I've taken a look at the carlton board re Stoker.. I've just read page 1 of the thread and my eyes are already bleeding. I'm surprised half of the people can type with SOS's shaft in their mouth.
 

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How many people picked Jones as our first?

I'm a little shocked with our selection with McHenry having attained McAdam and gullucci ready to rise
I knew Hamish was mad keen on Jones. I rang trade radio and spoke to Cal and said that Hamish was keen on Jones and which pick did he think we would have to use. He said pick 8 or 13.
Then there was talk of him bolting so I think Hamish jumped to make sure he got him.
So I wote in another thread that we would bid on Thomas with our first and Hamish wanted Jones but he had jumped the order.
 

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LOL Adelaide. One of the few drafts in recent memory that was choc full of SA talent and we go for non SA kids with our 1st 2 picks. This has to be one of the worst trade/draft periods for along time. Feels like we are back in the Fantassia days. The people in charge of the off field at this club are a disgrace.

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