Draft Days

[The Inbetweener]

good video on the site with a behind the scenes look at our drafting.

Only goes for 11 minutes, would have liked a bit more.

Would have loved to have seen the morning meeting where Dalrymple makes his pitch to the list management team.

Doesn’t sound like we have to worry about having too many key backs, talking about Naughton playing along two other key backs and him playing on medium forwards.

 

[Hoges64]

So we have Trengove, Cordy, Naughton, Wood, Biggs and JJ as our starting back 6?

I'd love to see JJ played up forward more, but think if we're going that tall with a back 6 we need his and Biggs pace.

 

[True Dog]

Great insight into certain aspects of the recruiting process although the pre-draft meeting in the hotel lacked a bit? I guess they can't give to much away...

 

[Bemoreboyddog]

So we have Trengove, Cordy, Naughton, Wood, Biggs and JJ as our starting back 6?

I'd love to see JJ played up forward more, but think if we're going that tall with a back 6 we need his and Biggs pace.

Richards has pace...

 

[Hoges64]

Richards has pace...

Yes, but is he likely to play Rd 1 like Naughton certainly could?

 

[TommyD13]

Found it interesting we got our three players we wanted. Very lucky I guess

 

[Norm De Guerre]

Found it interesting we got our three players we wanted. Very lucky I guess

...or its just selective editing.

Its the new black of "we cant believe that he slipped to pick 66, we had him as @ pick1!"

 

[Dale4captain]

I’m thinking what they meant was - in terms of players available, these three were highest on our list. For example:

Priority 1: Dow
P2: Rayner
P3: LDU
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.
P6: Naughton
P7: Richards
P8: Fogarty
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.
.
.
.
P25: Bonar
P26: Brander
P27: Porter

Obviously Porter wasn’t #3 on our overall talent list, but he was the highest player left on the list come pick 79 or whatever it was.

 

[JJHunter]

I’m thinking what they meant was - in terms of players available, these three were highest on our list. For example:

Priority 1: Dow
P2: Rayner
P3: LDU
.
.
P6: Naughton
P7: Richards
P8: Fogarty
.
.
.
.
.
P25: Bonar
P26: Brander
P27: Porter

Obviously Porter wasn’t #3 on our overall talent list, but he was the highest player left on the list come pick 79 or whatever it was.

I think there was a fair bit of spin and editing in the video to backup the old line "I cant believe they got through to their pick".
Clearly Grant cant say that we got the talent sitting on top of our talent list.

They seem to me to have a realistic list of who would be available at each pick and then they ranked who may be available at that pick.
Which makes me wonder how they assess guys that are sliders and get through to the pick they may not have focused on.

 

[fronkalicious]

The whole thing was pretty amateur.

 

[Dannnnnnnnnn]

I really enjoyed it. Could have been better, of course, but it's a step in the right direction for the media department.

Now, about those training videos..........

 

[Bemoreboyddog]

Yes, but is he likely to play Rd 1 like Naughton certainly could?

Wouldn’t write him off.

 

[Northernsoul74]

Interesting but very heavily edited obviously. Would love to have known who else was in the mix but understand why they wouldn’t say.

 

[Martyn_30_]

It felt like when they were talking about the players it was filmed after the draft. Why would recruiters give fairly vague descriptions of prospective recruits just before the draft, when the recruiters would know all of this already?


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[adam10]

I get excited every time I hear Richards and outside Midfielder

 

[adam10]

but yeah the video was a bit cheesy still cool to have some insight... I'm with Dan just show us some sort of footage of training? This pre-season is so low key atm. I want to know if Dickson is training etc

 

[X_box_X]

It's a pretty unimpressive, amature video. It's better than nothing, but it's like they take us supporters as fools.

 

[maddog37]

As an actor Dal is a pretty good recruiter.

Good idea but execution made me cringe at times.