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Game Day AFL DRAFT - let's win this thing!!

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Five Sturt kids drafted?

U18, reserves and league flags too.

Should probably enter our own AFL team really. Maybe when Port go bankrupt we'll step in.

Would be almost as funny to see Sturt fail in the AFL as to see Port fail ......... A fair bit of Sturt over ego at the moment....And yes I am jealous.
 
Would be almost as funny to see Sturt fail in the AFL as to see Port fail ......... A fair bit of Sturt over ego at the moment....And yes I am jealous.
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This thread is odd..
Everyone is in agreement.
Everyone is feeding off positivity from connected posts.
Noone is angry.
Noone is trash talking to anyone.
No thread derailment.

This isn't the BigFooty that I'm used to. I think I'm in shock!
Because his talent is undeniable and I'm just judging from highlights.. He could be anything.
 

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"If you had have said halfway through last year or the start of the year we were going to get Darcy at pick 12, we probably wouldn't have believed it," Ogilvie told AFL.com.au.

"A little bit of running (was the query), he's got to do some work there but he's played men's footy (SANFL)," Ogilvie said.

"He's probably the most competitive, aggressive kid in the draft. I think all clubs and AFL Academy staff would admit that."
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"Those two boys were very high on our talent order. You've got pretty much the two South Australian captains we were able to pick," Ogilvie said.

"If Andrew hadn't have been injured, who knows? We rated him as a first-rounder at the start of the year when we put our list up. Unfortunately he got injured. We didn't think he was going to get through.

"We know West Coast and Geelong had strong interest.

"If you had have said that to any club, that Andrew McPherson would be 39 in this year's draft in January, they would've said you were dreaming."

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2017-11-24/2017-afl-draft-who-did-the-crows-pick-up
 
Reading the AFL.com verdict it seems no one lost :)
Yeah, I would like to see for a change, a club recruiter making honest statements like:
"All our preferred options were taken in the draft, so we had to make do with uncertainty in the selections"
"We called out the wrong name, but it was too late to change!"
Or simply..
"We ****ed up with our selections!"
 

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Yeah, I would like to see for a change, a club recruiter making honest statements like:
"All our preferred options were taken in the draft, so we had to make do with uncertainty in the selections"
"We called out the wrong name, but it was too late to change!"
Or simply..
"We ****** up with our selections!"
Would give the kids they pick up, great confidence to start their careers.
 
Reading the AFL.com verdict it seems no one lost :)
I believe if your club had a lot of draft picks in this Draft, thus tying down your list with 2 year contracts .....not good, coming into a strong draft in 2018

Port & Freo had too may late picks .......a lot of the smarter clubs restricted the number of picks in this Draft

ADEL .....2 picks
COLL ......3 picks
ESS ........3 picks
SYD ........3 picks

PORT ......5 picks, the first at #47 :eek:
 
I believe if your club had a lot of draft picks in this Draft, thus tying down your list with 2 year contracts .....not good, coming into a strong draft in 2018

Port & Freo had too may late picks .......a lot of the smarter clubs restricted the number of picks in this Draft

ADEL .....2 picks
COLL ......3 picks
ESS ........3 picks
SYD ........3 picks

PORT ......5 picks, the first at #47 :eek:
And our few picks also makes sense when you consider last year we had an unusually high 5 picks - first time we had that many since 2008. So we have a big stable of draftees. We have 8 draftees yet to play a game:
Dear, Doedee, Poholke, Himmleberg, Signorello, Davis, Fogarty, McPherson, and Gallucci with just 1 game.

Pretty much a quarter of our list. Certainly no need for any more especially if next year is better.
 
I believe if your club had a lot of draft picks in this Draft, thus tying down your list with 2 year contracts .....not good, coming into a strong draft in 2018

Port & Freo had too may late picks .......a lot of the smarter clubs restricted the number of picks in this Draft

ADEL .....2 picks
COLL ......3 picks
ESS ........3 picks
SYD ........3 picks

PORT ......5 picks, the first at #47 :eek:
What did you think of Naughton to Bulldogs ;)
 
And our few picks also makes sense when you consider last year we had an unusually high 5 picks - first time we had that many since 2008. So we have a big stable of draftees. We have 8 draftees yet to play a game:
Dear, Doedee, Poholke, Himmleberg, Signorello, Davis, Fogarty, McPherson, and Gallucci with just 1 game.

Pretty much a quarter of our list. Certainly no need for any more especially if next year is better.
Which also means those chosen in the 2016 draft will come out of contract, coinciding with the 2018 Superdraft .......good list management
 

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