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I'd be a strong advocate for using the mid-season draft to select Matthew Wright who can become a dedicated travelling emergency.

For a club like ours, it'd be valuable to have a versatile, not-developing player that could be used in this specialist role
He does have experience in those non-statistical roles ;)
 

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Maybe you are on the money there - it could be that he has told the club he wants out at the end of his contract. I have no info at all just speculating
If he is leaving which wouldn't surprise me if he did as we don't value first round picks, you play the player and extract as much value as possible in the trade. Freezing him out is amateur stuff.
 
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Gibbs is out, no way he plays if he has had gastro this week, no chance.

Gooch to come in for sure, Im comfortable with jones missing another week if he has too. 2 weeks rest after a concussion for a young kid isn't the end of the world.
So you've just started barracking for the crows. Nice to have you on board. Gibbs would need to be in hospital for the club to drop him over a kid.
 

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I'd be a strong advocate for using the mid-season draft to select Matthew Wright who can become a dedicated travelling emergency.

For a club like ours, it'd be valuable to have a versatile, not-developing player that could be used in this specialist role
That should be Dougie's role when he comes back from injury.
 
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Gallucci absolutely must play ahead of Jones if they are both flying over
It’s pathetic that it takes gastro for a first R.D. puck in his 3rd season the get a game. With pretty much all of our first R.D. picks over the past 3 years unable to get a game in. Poorly performing team we must be really bad recruiters or bad developers.
 

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Look I was very disappointed in what we did with top 3 picks we had and wondered why in the hell we recruited 2 very very small players but enlighten by many on here that we were injecting speed and pressure into our side which I understood but still not excited about what we did but as our main mids are not breakaway speed merchantsI understand the logic.
But What have we done in last 3 weeks brought in CEY( very very slow in all ways and no defensive pressure)
Poholke--- certainly no speedster or have any elite skills or real pressure ability.
Greenwood -- Love this guy but certainly no Usain .
So the reason get better is if you establish what your weakness is and you recruit in however possible to fix and you run with your choices ,
Geelong , Power and Richmond are been rewarded for backing their choices .
Same as in defence we are being shown up with a under talented unbalanced defence structure yet again plod on.

These big mids with breakaway speed you talk of that were available to us with our picks? And what exactly do you class as "big"? Riley Collier-Dawkins is the only one that fits the bill size wise that has reasonably good acceleration but the knock was he doesn't find enough pill. Only other possibilities but hardly "big" were Xavier O'Halloran 186cm 84kg, Tom Berry 185cm 78kg both of whom have express pace and agility and Xavier Duursma 186cm 74kg who has reasonable acceleration and agility but would have been classed more as Half Back/Outside mid?

Plenty of "small" mids that go OK : Lachie Neale, Andrew Gaff, Zach Merrett, Dion Prestia, Adam Treloar, Dylan Shiel, Zac Fisher etc etc.

For the record I would have taken Jye Caldwell 184cm 80kg who has reasonable acceleration only.
 

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Gibbs is out, no way he plays if he has had gastro this week, no chance.

Gooch to come in for sure, Im comfortable with jones missing another week if he has too. 2 weeks rest after a concussion for a young kid isn't the end of the world.
I’m just waiting for the next 6 outs when they’ve all picked up gastro !

Should be good 😏
 

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Ok if we go with that line and say Gallucci is being managed, how does his management make sense?

Last week he’s 23rd man. The 1st emergency ready to play in the event there’s a mishap.

So we have to conclude from that he’s ready to play from a fitness perspective don’t we?

The alternative assumption is he’s being managed so he’s not ready. If we follow that path we have to conclude selectors had an unfit player ready to go?

With respect I just don’t think that makes any sense.

If he was considered ready to play AFL then surely he was ready to play SANFL. He’s played what, 3 SANFL matches now?

So how does that all add up...I’m all ears.

Edit: is he out of contract for next year? Maybe he won’t commit and we’re freezing him out?
Gallucci out of contract 2020 he sign a 2 year deal Jan 2018.
 

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It’s pathetic that it takes gastro for a first R.D. puck in his 3rd season the get a game. With pretty much all of our first R.D. picks over the past 3 years unable to get a game in. Poorly performing team we must be really bad recruiters or bad developers.
Poor developers. The fact that Ricky Henderson is playing every week and taken his game to a new level speaks volumes.
 
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Poor developers. The fact that Ricky Henderson is playing every week and taken his game to a new level speaks volumes. Our coaches are pathetic.
We are very good developers of talent.

Henderson is actually proof of this, we just didnt utilise him well at all.
 

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I'd be a strong advocate for using the mid-season draft to select Matthew Wright who can become a dedicated travelling emergency.

For a club like ours, it'd be valuable to have a versatile, not-developing player that could be used in this specialist role
Pretty sure players need to be off of an AFL list for 12months to be eligible
 
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