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You know clubs don’t bid on players when they should, look at Daicos.
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Throw in the lizard, Campbell and Mills....its an impressive leg up and really helps build a list.
Gold Coast will be very hard to beat soon with the same leg up.
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Yeah we arn’t real adventurous in the rookie draft any more unless they come from BH.
Hawthorn rookies
Sewell
Breust
Campbell
Osborne
Young
Gilham
Suckling
Then after the 2008 flag we really haven’t used it to bring new players into the club it’s a few from the 2008 flag we have used it as a redrafting tool.
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Interesting take - which can’t be proven, but anyhow….
FWIW - they’ve already got to where they are without Parker and Mills.
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We all know how the Northern club rort works, so just enjoy the leg up your club gets.
If I were a Swans fan I would be more worried about why they have had their arses kicked in the last 3 Grand Finals they have played in.
Or maybe getting to the bottom of why suddenly, half of them sleep with the light on.
The AFL bend over backwards to help you, and this is how you repay them.
Not only that, but for the first few years, Port Adelaide only survived financially courtesy of a $15million loan from the SANFL, a loan which was never repaid. Port Adelaide's financial situation for years was worse than Fitzroy's ever was.
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Heeney, the 10 year overnight success.
On the radio a commentator was saying young guys like Heeney, etc etc
On the radio a commentator was saying young guys like Heeney, etc etc
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It’s finals in general
Can’t argue with what you said however my comment was in relation to the article stating that our recruiting team had caught onto the fact that the Swan recruiters were rumoured to be heavily into Newc in the MSD that we ended up selecting him.
Keep in mind Newc put a big price on his head to ward off anyone else taking him so we could select someone with our first pick and then get him with our 2nd selection. We can sit here and knock the Swan recruiters all we like but just like the Cats recruiting team they know their
Changa10
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We don’t want them, but we have a few varieties of Kangaroo/Wallabies down here. Main ones are:
Forester Kangaroo
Benetts Wallaby
Rufus Wallaby
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Cradle mountain potoroos?
Changa10
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Send them to Queenstown, where they can play on the gravel oval…..
It really shows that footy is now an old young man’s game, will be another 4- 5 years before the majority of our list is there.
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Alternate nativ animals generally?
West coast big reds
Fremantle quokkas
Adelaide stingrays (sorry Steve Irwin)
Port Adelaide great whites
Sydney galahs
West Sydney cockies
Brisbane Brumbies
Gold Coast bushturkeys
Footscray Dingos
Geelong echidnas
Richmond flying foxes
Carlton possums
Essendon koalas
Collingwood magpies
St kilda snappers
North kangaroos
Melbourne rosellas
Hawthorn lyrebirds
West coast big reds
Fremantle quokkas
Adelaide stingrays (sorry Steve Irwin)
Port Adelaide great whites
Sydney galahs
West Sydney cockies
Brisbane Brumbies
Gold Coast bushturkeys
Footscray Dingos
Geelong echidnas
Richmond flying foxes
Carlton possums
Essendon koalas
Collingwood magpies
St kilda snappers
North kangaroos
Melbourne rosellas
Hawthorn lyrebirds
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I’m pretty sure the PR peopl have workshopped something along those lines
The leg up that the academies give is that a) you don’t have to trade against other teams to get them b) once you end up getting them into your club it then allows you to gamble with your later picks in the ND which other clubs might’ve needed to trade away to get highly sorts after kids
The reality is that the NSW + QLD teams with these academies whilst still needing to select these kids get to see them and know that if they’re any good that they don’t have to bid against anyone else to secure them. Whilst not seeming like a huge leg up it actually is especially if the kids coming out of these academies are any good.
There’s that and also the fact that they also get to choose from the pool of kids that everyone else gets to choose from and in some cases have also then gone on to select (or bid on) kids that were in other teams next generation academies (NGA).
No one can sit here and knock their recruiting team BUT the leg up they get does allow them to gamble in other areas and more importantly not have to over pay to select high rated kids from their academies. This allows them to lay down the skeleton of the team and regenerate and gamble on other selections where other recruiters get absolutely no margin for error.
It will likely take a Swans vs Suns or GWS vs Suns grand final with a low attendance for the AFL to realise that something needs to change but by that time all those teams will have a full arsenal of gun players in place for the next 10 years. Then we get to see the new Tassie team come in… yay
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We grabbed him with our first selection, not second.Can’t argue with what you said however my comment was in relation to the article stating that our recruiting team had caught onto the fact that the Swan recruiters were rumoured to be heavily into Newc in the MSD that we ended up selecting him.
Keep in mind Newc put a big price on his head to ward off anyone else taking him so we could select someone with our first pick and then get him with our 2nd selection. We can sit here and knock the Swan recruiters all we like but just like the Cats recruiting team they know their
H00t
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I’m pretty sure that’s only because he wouldn’t have lasted to our second selection.
Especially once a couple of clubs kicked up a stink about it our hand was forced.
That’s what I’m saying. There was talk that we were going to grab someone else first and then nab Newc with our 2nd selection but that article states the Swans were ready to swoop.
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"Frederick, he doesn't need much time or space!"
What an odd thing to say when he had both time and space. Underwood is just so, so bad.
What an odd thing to say when he had both time and space. Underwood is just so, so bad.
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"Sonsie, kicking it like a Premiership star!"
He didn't play in their Premierships.
He didn't play in their Premierships.
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I’m so numb to bad calls by the commentators that I tune them out constantly.
Was such a bad call that even mentally tuned out I picked up on it.
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Not only do they not overpay but they get to use a bunch of lower picks, that if used most likely get you a journeyman, on a first round pick which is more likely to make it.The leg up that the academies give is that a) you don’t have to trade against other teams to get them b) once you end up getting them into your club it then allows you to gamble with your later picks in the ND which other clubs might’ve needed to trade away to get highly sorts after kids
The reality is that the NSW + QLD teams with these academies whilst still needing to select these kids get to see them and know that if they’re any good that they don’t have to bid against anyone else to secure them. Whilst not seeming like a huge leg up it actually is especially if the kids coming out of these academies are any good.
There’s that and also the fact that they also get to choose from the pool of kids that everyone else gets to choose from and in some cases have also then gone on to select (or bid on) kids that were in other teams next generation academies (NGA).
No one can sit here and knock their recruiting team BUT the leg up they get does allow them to gamble in other areas and more importantly not have to over pay to select high rated kids from their academies. This allows them to lay down the skeleton of the team and regenerate and gamble on other selections where other recruiters get absolutely no margin for error.
It will likely take a Swans vs Suns or GWS vs Suns grand final with a low attendance for the AFL to realise that something needs to change but by that time all those teams will have a full arsenal of gun players in place for the next 10 years. Then we get to see the new Tassie team come in… yay
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would we be able to beat Richmond? 
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