Player Watch Daniel Curtin - Out injured for 3 months

[Danger in Texas]

What was Jones and who went after him?

Who went after Gallucci?

Anyway this is the Curtin thread, stop derailing it

To be fair, you did when you asked about our draft misses

 

[Cromulant]

First rounders? He had a horror patch

Oh for sure

 

[Cleric]

And Murray and previously Butts as a rookie, clearly AFL quality and Nick Murray as a SSP recruit but that gets forgotten.

I'm not convinced that Chayce Jones can't be a really good player either.

 

[Velvet George]

To be fair, you did when you asked about our draft misses

It was one chance to get Mutineer to reply to them given he tagged me

 

[cmndstab]

HUH

Wilson was off the board before Edwards, are you insinuating I'm making up what I was told by a reliable contact, if so there's a couple of posters here on the board that I relayed what I'd been told to them at the time weeks out from the draft who can back that up.

Haha, my bad - my brain got Darcy Wilson and Wil Dawson mixed up. In my defence, those are basically the same name

 

[latinoheat]

how many times has Dan played in Melbourne now? Is it just the twice? Seems to love playing on the big stage

 

[Rory Walkerfield]

Loved when he received the ball after a throw in at the fullback line and took off full speed having a bounce in a congested D50.

Gonna be a line breaker for years to come.

 

[Sizzlepack]

how many times has Dan played in Melbourne now? Is it just the twice? Seems to love playing on the big stage

Four times, all this year. Not counting the, uh, brief sub appearance vs Geelong last season.

 

[PeterSalt]

A Roar article mostly about DC

https://www.theroar.com.au/2025/07/12/footy-fix-the-unsung-unbelievable-20-year-old-prodigy-that-makes-adelaides-machine-tick/

 

[FR0GGY]

I'm not convinced that Chayce Jones can't be a really good player either.

He looks very heavy atm.

 

[thebirdman 24]

Loved when he received the ball after a throw in at the fullback line and took off full speed having a bounce in a congested D50.

Gonna be a line breaker for years to come.

He was literally surrounded by players and had the audacity to bounce the ball. Outrageous talent.

 

[Rank]

Shortened to 2nd favourite @$3.75

Got him at @51 3 weeks ago. Massive shortner

 

[Jeffcrowe]

Nah i don't want Thilthorpe. If we have too many talls in the forward line how will we win games against top 8 sides

Exactly , how many premiership teams have had 3 tall forwards

 

[fuic08]

Got him at @51 3 weeks ago. Massive shortner

You're cheering, I got on at the start of the year so only got $26.

 

[Jeffcrowe]

For sure.

So how about those misses hey?

To be fair to both Reid and Ogilvie the recruiting is looking as good as any team in comp

Fair bit of luck involved too eg Petty

 

[spenze]

He looks very heavy atm.

Like too much weight rooms and not enough leg days or straight up FC Rioli?

 

[Velvet George]

To be fair to both Reid and Ogilvie the recruiting is looking as good as any team in comp

Fair bit of luck involved too eg Petty

They’ve had a great few years recently, but we did have a horror stretch and blew 4 first rounders.

But don’t want to go over this again in the Curtin thread, the kid is a gun

 

[n4sir]

A Roar article mostly about DC

https://www.theroar.com.au/2025/07/12/footy-fix-the-unsung-unbelievable-20-year-old-prodigy-that-makes-adelaides-machine-tick/

Full marks to the recruiters... but it wasn't rocket science either. Trading up to get him was like a "**** YEAH" moment, even if our coaches didn't seem to know exactly what to do with him when he arrived.

Curtin's tape before the draft looked seriously elite. I was equally as excited when we drafted both Fog and Thilthorpe. It's all paying off in quick time right now.

 

[1990crow]

Stkilda chose before us??? So did North, I'm sure at one point we thought holy hell we are gonna get Curtin and Wilson and then we thought Taylor Goad would be ours before North swooped in and we ended up with Edwards.

We traded the pick we had originally which was before Stkilda to GWS and moved back 2 spots behind.

Hindsight we should have tried to trade Edwards and Ryan picks up.

 

[FR0GGY]

Like too much weight rooms and not enough leg days or straight up FC Rioli?

Too many squats or Indian dinners

 

[SellarStardom]

He looks very heavy atm.

Tell that to the Doggies player that Xhayce smashed in a tackle in the last. He looks to be moving fine

 

[Soggy2112]

Wtf did North see in Duursma to overlook this kid?!?!

I love how Dan is starting to work out he's just way to ****ing big and fast to stop and he can ragdoll seasoned AFL players already.

Didn’t Curtin drop a bit because the Vic clubs thought he was a flight risk?

 

[ams4crows]

Hindsight we should have tried to trade Edwards and Ryan picks up.

To select who? Wilson is Playing VFL currently

 

[Cromulant]

To select who? Wilson is Playing VFL currently

Pretty handy player mind you.

 

[WeeBlake]

Full marks to the recruiters... but it wasn't rocket science either. Trading up to get him was like a "**** YEAH" moment, even if our coaches didn't seem to know exactly what to do with him when he arrived.

Curtin's tape before the draft looked seriously elite. I was equally as excited when we drafted both Fog and Thilthorpe. It's all paying off in quick time right now.

He looks quicker now. I wonder how much his knee was troubling him last year.