Richard Taylor in shambles
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Crows nab former Richmond recruiter as list rebuild continues
Richard Taylor as joined Adelaide's full-time recruiting staff
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Replaced McCrystal who was our Vic scout for the longest time
Remember that scouting is more art than science
You can have all the process and rigour you like, but at the end of the day your judgement just needs to be good
Rendell was a good evaluator, using the same scouts, same process and structures Hamish just doesn’t seem to make good choices
You can’t legislate for feel and quality of decision making
It’s entirely possible that maybe Harper just has a knack for it?
I mean, it’s hard to explain how our drafting seemed to get better around the time Harper joined a fairly stale and unproductive team
Crows nab former Richmond recruiter as list rebuild continues
Richard Taylor as joined Adelaide's full-time recruiting staff
Replaced McCrystal who was our Vic scout for the longest time
He was a minor part time figure at Richmond, who had been largely sidelined
Now, he got a much bigger, full time role with us when the opportunity arose. Maybe he was a great recruiter that just wasn’t given his due with Richmond?
But as I say it’s more art than science, so if he had the knack - which is what I think it is - then maybe he’d have shown it before now?
Maybe
Last I remember hearing about him at Richmond was he was NSW/QLD scout, which given the amount of talent that comes out of there that isn't tied up in those teams academies probably isn't a high profile portfolio to be given.
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And a uncertain future once the Ashcroft boys dominate the Brisbane midfield.
Is Berry fast enough though? I don't see his burst of energy like a wounded bull.
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18 year olds not just in VIC. And I was just sharing that tidbit because I’d spoken to Phil that week and hadn’t realised he was doing the scouting and had been for three years. I wasn’t doing it , contrary to what Pete says, to “rub it in”. I was just sharing info that surprised me, thought it would surprise others too.
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What the **** is your problem?
I've given my view on this. If you want to believe we have Phil to thank for Soligo then knock yourself out.
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Kevin Sheehan in an article in this mornings HSUN did a review on the top SA/WA/QLD/NSW prospects and said Sid Draper was the BEST prospect from SA and likely a mid top 10 pick lock.
Mentioned his shin injury but is over it and likely to play the remaining Academy/Carnivals etc this year.
Mentioned his shin injury but is over it and likely to play the remaining Academy/Carnivals etc this year.
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Crows are in the market for a RUCK ....we're one of the Clubs in discussion with Ned Moyle
Why are people not talking about getting either LDU or Zuhaar from North. Explosive players that would be ideal for our team
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Huh? Besides dreaming of McCluggage, LDU is just about the only other midfielder people have been consistently posting about. How big is your ignore list?
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Have to get him in my opinion. I think that's part of the reason Petty is off the table as we need our picks.
Justin Reid is always given a list of priorities for each off season he needs to achieve. This year's should say
1) Get up high enough to take Draper
2) make it so we take Welsh as a f/s
3) Bring in a Heyward or Perryman type
Other things will happen and list changes but I think if we got to the end of November and that's all done then it's a good realistic outcome.
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You and your serial laugher mate need help. Surely laughing on every one of my posts is seen as trolling?
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100% - If literally all we draft this year is Draper and Welsh as well as bring in minimum 1 (preferably 2) FAs like Hayward in addition to keeping our 2025 1st pick - we have doing extremely well.
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+1 on that
Add draper to the midfield rotations and Hayward and Welsh to the forward line going forward and thats a really good result.
This might be difficult to pull off depending on the level of interest in Draper and Welsh, no? Will have to see how they go for the rest of the year.
agree on those 3 AND getting a young quality ruck around 22 years of age ready to take over from ROB would be perfect.
From your list 2 and 3 above are relatively easy ($ for FA, points easy enough currently for FS especially if going pick say 12 onwards). But to get Draper with a top 5 pick we will need to give up a lot potentially (say we finish 9th). Even next years first round draft pick as the core component of trading up - willing to do that?
Ignore it. For some reason people on here want every bit of rumour etc they can find, but when told something directly from a person with an extensive history of posting, feel the need to attack them.
It's bizarre.
I would be from what I know but I'm no expert in the draft. I just feel like we have a highly rated local and in the past we haven't done enough to take them.
It's definetley going to be hard and will depend on where we finish and how high other clubs rate Draper. I'd include next year's if we had to.
It becomes a gamble as we have to rely on our recruiters picking what number we need to get to.
