We put our future 1st and 2nd at least on the table as TAFKATMS has said for any clubs to take until he was off the table, unfortunately most of the clubs in that region were in a similar position wanting top end talent "NOW" not a year later.
Unfortunately - without any personal judgement - ADL is seemingly right up there as one of the least desirable locations to live and play footy for many young alpha males - esp from the bigger, richer and more sophisticated cities. Fingers crossed we can finally stop the flow of A Graders leaving with Rachelle, Soligo etc but I am sure we are all worried based on history. Success in the future will certainly help but hasnt previously (Lever, CC, Mc Govern within 12 mths of GF in 2017). At least we are now going very hard and capturing players returning home perhaps for the first time ever.
Yes they do. Hawthorn's rebuild in the 2000s will never be replicated in the modern era, as it involved being gifted priority picks for finishing with 5 or less wins. That is the only way they could draft Buddy, Roughead, Lewis etc in consecutive drafts. Clubs used to trade single digit picks for slighlty above average players in that era too e.g. Freo with Croad that allowed them to draft Hodge, who they got back anyway.
In the past we rebuild our list to be premiership contenders every 5-6 years without bottom out but the CM causing our biggest list transition didn't allow us to turnover our list smoothly which usually which have happened. And we did this biggest list turnover at the worst possible time right when the pandemic occurred which set the progression 1-1.5 years back and also made a big mistake with McAsey, we are only now starting to see our list coming together.
We also had a complete dud of a high performance boss that left our players either injured or poorly prepared for elite level football.
Top clubs like Geel, Hawt, Rich, Melb have the benefit of being able to attract home grown talent that have developed into top/elite players at interstate clubs, especially with Vic producing the bulk of players at the draft - on top of normal draft picks/trades. So they can get away without having to do a deep rebuild and we've seen how far Geel & Hawks have been able to push this approach.
I agree, I would have taken him to get the pick, but he seems like a pretty ordinary footballer
Have you lived in Melbourne? It's a shithole and especially with Dictator Dan in charge. Once we move our base and most players are living in the eastern suburbs players will be less likely to move.
Yes I have lived in MLB, SYD and BNE for approx 3 years each and anyone calling MLB a shithole...just is on a different page in life. Nothing else needs to be said.
some good points but these were all in the same draft
Yes, you are right. Probably should have made the point they couldn’t have drafts like that these days without priority picks.
and the really sad thing is without the priority picks handed out we would have had pick 5 which = Lance Buddy Franklin...
Like we did Rachelle and Soligo right?
Im still a bit surprised Jim's kids were considered eligible. Then again, the ridiculous number of games to qualify and them not initially counting Escort Cup games was a joke.I wonder... could the Michalanneys be another angle to this question.
For a while, we here had a go at trying to figure out whether Jim's kids would qualify as F-Ss for us and could come up with anything that pointed one way or other.
Maybe the ∀FL couldn't either (without a thorough look into it) so says to AFC "be nice to GC and we'll sign off on Jim's kids being eligible for you guys." so we did?
