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Compare that to GWS in the 2011 draft:
Pick 1 Patton - still listed
Pick 2 Coniglio - still listed
Pick 3 Tyson - goneski
Pick 5 Buntine - still listed
Pick 7 Haynes - still listed
Pick 9 Tomlinson - still listed
Pick 11 Greene - still listed
Pick 13 Adams - goneski
Pick 15 Smith - still listed
Pick 56 Downie - still listed
Mini-draft (Had to be traded)
Pick 1 traded into Hoskin-Elliott - still listed
Pick 2 traded into Sumner - goneski
Rookie
Pick 1 Frost - goneski
9/13 after 5 years. Hard to argue against that kind of retention rate. Then you have to ask if those 9 players have become list cloggers or if they have been able to cement a place in a top 4 side. Coniglio, Tomlinson, Patton, Smith, Haynes and Greene (6) all competed in GWS's crucial round 23 clash with the Kangaroos last week. Again, hard to argue against those kinds of numbers.
What more can you say...
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Donble
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To be fair this time last year we 7 , we still had Bennell , Tape , Gorringe , Prestia on our list. There is a good chance GWS will lose a couple there but they wont get down to 3.
What more can you say?
Tyson got turned into Josh Kelly (star) and Taylor Adams was traded for Heath Shaw (even bigger star and unanimous AA).
GWS were in a situation where list turnover was going to happen and they had resources to use that turnover to their advantage.
They knew some players would want to leave and they knew the mini-draft would give them extra picks they would need to find room for.
They have done an excellent job with that list turnover, getting good value for most of those departing. Most importantly, several were traded after year 2, early enough that other clubs still valued them.
We do talk about the academy players but they are setting up their future rather than being a part of their current best 22. Decent chance that 0 of the recent academy players will play in their first final. Which just means their initial list build over the first 4 years was excellent.
Credit where it is due. So well done you stinking snotbags!!!!
Tyson got turned into Josh Kelly (star) and Taylor Adams was traded for Heath Shaw (even bigger star and unanimous AA).
GWS were in a situation where list turnover was going to happen and they had resources to use that turnover to their advantage.
They knew some players would want to leave and they knew the mini-draft would give them extra picks they would need to find room for.
They have done an excellent job with that list turnover, getting good value for most of those departing. Most importantly, several were traded after year 2, early enough that other clubs still valued them.
We do talk about the academy players but they are setting up their future rather than being a part of their current best 22. Decent chance that 0 of the recent academy players will play in their first final. Which just means their initial list build over the first 4 years was excellent.
Credit where it is due. So well done you stinking snotbags!!!!
Donble
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Also Gws draft in 2011 looked to be strionger albeit we overlooked some stars in Heppell and Parker in it.
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That turned into Jared Polec who them ****ed over the Lions by nominating port 2 years later and they got SFA in return.
Basically it was a cluster **** all round
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If you go back further, how did Brisbane get the 3rd selection in the 2002 AFL Draft?
Was it part of a St Kilda trade?
Brennan was much better than the McKenna's Whipping Boy he became
Similarly, perpetually dropping very good footballers like Warnock for players like Tape and Wilkinson and Sumner who probably deserved about 10 senior AFL games of footy max between them created a culture of resentment as well as destroying the prime livestock that it was supposed to be fattening
A very bad start predicted by some
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Similarly, perpetually dropping very good footballers like Warnock for players like Tape and Wilkinson and Sumner who probably deserved about 10 senior AFL games of footy max between them created a culture of resentment as well as destroying the prime livestock that it was supposed to be fattening
A very bad start predicted by some
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I agree Knockers was very solid and reliable for us and when he kept giving Wilkinson game after game I wanted to throw up the guy had zero AFL ability and showed zero improvement
Almost forgot about Warnock. Not a great kick or skills but a damn good shut down defender. Especially considering the amount of ball the was going down there, key forwards for opposition teams never seemed to kick a big back. Felt bad for him, he didn't lose many 1v1 contests. Was an expert of wrapping a forward up but not giving the free away.
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Tom has re-signed....
Lynch joins captain Gary Ablett as a multiple club champion at the Suns.
The 23-year-old won the award in a landslide on a night that also saw the Suns announce a new two-year deal for ruckman Tom Nicholls.
Lynch joins captain Gary Ablett as a multiple club champion at the Suns.
The 23-year-old won the award in a landslide on a night that also saw the Suns announce a new two-year deal for ruckman Tom Nicholls.
might be waiting till later in the day. i've noticed most of the bigger announcements seem to come around 2/3pm.
I reckon Nicholls is GOING to be an A Grade Ruckman. I also hear the players can't believe how good the new facilities are looking and they are like kids at Christmas time blown away by how good they are. Apparently one said on a tour the other day.
"Are you sure these are for us. "
Would love to have a tour done and put up on the website.
Wonder once they are all completed if they do another members only tour of the new facilities, like the one they did around the stadium a couple of years ago. That was really good.
It's got a 3 lane indoor 25 meter lap pool and hot and cold plunge pools with magnesium water for recovery and that's just the start. It's a ridiculously big upgrade.
I hear for their part after having us play out of demountables for 6 years the AFL gave us some new footys
Had to by our own pump and needle though
Had to by our own pump and needle though
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Yeah but isn't that the reason we started with tin sheds? Surely if there were no games we would've had something better to start with
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Tin Sheds will be a very distant memory /nightmare in a few weeks and it's significantly better than what we would have got at start up. This thing is world class.
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Amazing facilities I would love to have a digital tour of the new place when it is all said and done. Hard to check them out from the other side of planet Earth.
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