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After the pick swap and bidding, then having the best ruck in the draft and some KPFs still available at 20 (with 27 to come), I was feeling pretty great. Then came Konstanty, who will likely be a great player, and was like, ok, maybe we get a ruck or KPF tomorrow.
Now it's like, maybeeee we get a ruck at least by the time the MSD ends next year.
This! No one is going to shake my belief that Barnett was the smartest structural pick at our first. Gruzewski as a Reid replacement or Weddle as a Rampe replacement made a huge amount of sense too. Anyway, done now.
Think the worry is what happens if they are both injured or suspended?The ruck stuff is such nonsense. We have 2 perfectly good ruckman.
Hickey was one of our best players in the first 2 finals last year and was one of the few with genuine excuses in the Grand Final. There is no reason why he needs to make retirement plans. If it gets to the end of the year and he looks done, worry about it then. There are always rucks available who can't get games at their current team.
And aside from the undisciplined stuff, Ladhams is one of the better under 25 rucks in the league.
Think the worry is what happens if they are both injured or suspended?
Think the worry is what happens if they are both injured or suspended?
You could say that about nearly every team in the league. We have Amartey, Reid, McLean, and (maybe) McAndrew who could hold up an end.
Most team wouldn't have that many options.
And either way, drafting an 18 year old ruck wouldn't have made any difference at all for at least 3 years.
Yeah I don't know how he didn't get drafted. I thought he could go in the late 20s. But look, Magor is probably an inside mid for us, just one who can roll forward and kick a few too. That we had the choice of a few inside mids and went with Magor, I'm ok with. He's not your typical half forward type who can play a bit of outside mid and forward.
Gippsland kids are good kids. Just look at me
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Reflecting and watching the 2022 GF against 2012
One thing became clear
Effort.
2012 boys we’re desperate, they went 200 % on everything every play and they had leaders like O”keefe Dan H etc
I did not see that same level of desperation and determination with the 2022 crowd
Maybe that “fight” is also something we drafted for
All 3 ND picks showed fight and determine and desperation somehow for a consistent period of time.
I can’t really say many of our current crop no matter how talented are true “grit” fighters.
It looks like it's been taken down (all the other draft night videos are still up on AFL.com).I get a blank black screen when I try to play this... is it working for everyone else?
First Derby game next year is going to be interesting. One day Vic media will get it right and remember to call it Sydney Derby and not BoB garbage Sheedy labelled us with.Well, that was fun .... let’s do it again next year! NSW as the media focus can only be a good thing for football
First Derby game next year is going to be interesting. One day Vic media will get it right and remember to call it Sydney Derby and not BoB garbage Sheedy labelled us with.
It was quite novel to be the main show rather than the sideshow.... and anything taking the focus off our grand final was appreciated.Well, that was fun .... let’s do it again next year! NSW as the media focus can only be a good thing for football
I reckon Battle of the Bids is going to get used next year.First Derby game next year is going to be interesting. One day Vic media will get it right and remember to call it Sydney Derby and not BoB garbage Sheedy labelled us with.
I'm with Cornes on this one. And someone's comment below sums it up best: rookie draft used to be about giving players careers and now it's about saving them.