Toast Simon Dalrymple

[Gmod23]

Great result mate so rapt with the way we playing and have said so many times but that seems to be drowned in the flood of cr@p I cop coz I don't think Jong is the next Ablett.

Not sure how long the kids can keep up the manic way we are playing but enjoy watching every second of it win or lose.

Although at the sake of more abuse I can't see is making finals but we don't need to in the section of build we are in.

Starting to see the light at the end of the rebuild tunnel?
I have come to agree with some of your player assessments. We currently don't have anyone better who is ready for afl.
Great coaching is masking some of their faults, just hope our list manager can see that we can get better by replacing a few of our current best 22.

 

[VitalDread]

 

[VogonProsthetnic]

Main thing here is we have not blown any high picks. All our top ten picks are looking like high picks once they are on the field. If you strike out with a 70s pick it won't cripple your club. Everett and Howard both first rounders have been our biggest misses and helped send us to the bottom.

The other good thing is that Talia, Honeychurch and Hrovat were always touted as first rounders but then slipped. We got them as bargains. Webb is also looking like a top ten pick, hopefully we will say something similar of Dale and Daniel soon.

 

[Pannalstaroz]

Bahahahahahaha. Nice sideburns dickhead.

 

[stefoid]

I'm sure I heard we have about 20 scouts who are constantly scouring the country for talent.

Yeah, but its not only how many its which ones - if some interstate dud raves about Howard in SA or Tutt in Canberra, how much does the head recruiter take that on board?

Prince Imperial had a good insight with arguably our biggest failures being both early in Dalrymples job and interstaters. Although later in the piece, Fuller another South Australian. So who are our eyes in SA?

* have to admit I liked the vision of all our draftees this year, with some reservations about Hamilton's ability to win his own ball.

 

[Anja_Nees]

Honeychurch, JJ, Jong and Dahlhaus are evidence he can do well with late picks and in the rookie draft. The stats on how many taken this late make it are shocking so the fact he's missed on a few others this late is fine. The annoying thing is that we've taken players like Young, Austin, Barlow, Lower, Vezspremi, Djerrkurra and (at this rate) Darley, Hamling and Biggs. All were players that weren't getting a game elsewhere. It's an extremely low percentage practice. I hope Biggs, Hamling and Darley show something later in the year but on our track record it's not likely.

People say it costs us nothing but who was the last fringe player we took from another side that had a long career with us? Give Dalrymple these nine late picks or rookie picks and odds are he'll turn out two or three Dahlhaus/Jong types. I really hope we stop it. The first six listed were just wasted chances.

 

[Cadillac]

Surely he's the best in the business? The talent he's managed to bring in from top and bottom of the draft is simply outstanding.

 

[JTCWBFC]

Bump.

This bloke is a dead set Jet.

All 4 of our picks have debuted and 3 of 4 have made an influence and he didn't even have a top 20 pick to work with. Outstanding effort.

Adams looks capable of holding down FB for the next 10 years.

Collins while average in his first game is a beast and will be fine with time.

Dunkley looks a inside bull who is awesome overhead and can easily go forward and kick goals.

Williams (plucked from nowhere) is all class and poise.

Well done Simon. I can't wait for Draft Night 2016.

 

[stefoid]

Hes improving YOY and nailed our most important picks. Cant ask for more than that.

I think he has gotten rid of any lingering influence Clayton might have had on his selection criteria, and I believe (without any sort of evidence) that BMac had a very positive influence on him.

2014 is his best work.

 

[go you pups]

Main thing here is we have not blown any high picks. All our top ten picks are looking like high picks once they are on the field. If you strike out with a 70s pick it won't cripple your club. Everett and Howard both first rounders have been our biggest misses and helped send us to the bottom.

The other good thing is that Talia, Honeychurch and Hrovat were always touted as first rounders but then slipped. We got them as bargains. Webb is also looking like a top ten pick, hopefully we will say something similar of Dale and Daniel soon.

Quite a few other high picks Clayton picked that didn't help us progress at all and didn't help us stay stable like Walsh, Wells, Faulkner, Williams, Grant and the Jade Rawlings debacle, while McMahon, Power and Ray weren't complete busts, but they were poor value considering where they were taken.

He was saved by the late/rookie Boyd, Morris, Lake and Cross picks and having the picks available to take Cooney and Griffen, with them being the two best mids from their draft class.

 

[Mofra]

2014 is his best work.

2010 isn't far behind - although we got Wallis and Libba as free kicks, the draft was the worst in recent memory yet he nabbed Dahl and JJ as rookie picks.

 

[Kennel Master]

2010 isn't far behind - although we got Wallis and Libba as free kicks, the draft was the worst in recent memory yet he nabbed Dahl and JJ as rookie picks.

It is amazing the success we have had with the Rookie list.
Besides Dahl and JJ, there is M.Boyd, Picken, Redpath, Morris, Jong, Tom Campbell, plus recently Adcock. Who have I missed.
That is a fair percentage of our best 22.
Further kudos to our recruiters. Also gives hope to players who don't get drafted.

KM

 

[Mofra]

Besides Dahl and JJ, there is M.Boyd, Picken, Redpath, Morris, Jong, Tom Campbell, plus recently Adcock. Who have I missed.

We have also traded for two former rookies - Crameri and Biggs

 

[Yojimbo]

I don't think it matters a great deal who you draft i think how
they adapt to a professional environment and how they are
then developed are the big keys. If you use Caleb Daniel as
an example against the next guy picked which for memory
was Corey Gregson to be brutally honest there is little
difference (apart from the helmet). The same can be said
of most players we have picked in the medium to high
range picks however when you have picks four, five and
six in consecutive drafts they are the ones you must nail
and he did.

 

[Pugz89]

We have also traded for two former rookies - Crameri and Biggs

Don't forget Suckers.

 

[Mofra]

Don't forget Suckers.

Too true, a freebie who has slotted in nicely.

A few weeks back we played 8 former rookie listed players (which included Suckling and Biggs), we must be close to the rookie-list playing record for a H&A side.

 

[LittleG]

Too true, a freebie who has slotted in nicely.

A few weeks back we played 8 former rookie listed players (which included Suckling and Biggs), we must be close to the rookie-list playing record for a H&A side.

They were also the most experienced players on the field. Apart from Murphy & Minson, all our experienced players, as in 100 game+ are ex-rookie listed.

 

[bobby2]

The amount of quality talent that Dalrymple has brought in since 2010, despite the lack of available talent due to the expansion teams, is astonishing:
Wallis, Libba, Dahl, JJ, Clay, Dickson, Roberts, Jong, Campbell, Redpath, Stringer, Macrae, Hrovat, Hunter, Stevens, Bont, Crameri, Honeychurch, McLean, Webb, Hamilton, Dale, Daniel, Boyd, Zaine, Hammer, Biggs, Roarke, Dunkley, Collins, Adams, Williams, Suckling, Lynch, Goetz, Adcock.

Red = already a high quality AFL player.
Green = Highly likely to join the red group (maybe I've been a little harsh on a few to not include them here, but I was going for the near-sure things).
Blue = already shown solid form at AFL level.

There isn't another non-expansion team doing anywhere near as well. Most teams would be lucky to have half as many "red players".

 

[Pugz89]

Too true, a freebie who has slotted in nicely.

A few weeks back we played 8 former rookie listed players (which included Suckling and Biggs), we must be close to the rookie-list playing record for a H&A side.

We currently have 11 ex rookie listed players on our main list incl Crameri, excl Adcock. 1/4 of our list. Not saying clubs use the rookie draft as a throwaway but if you can nail 2 ND picks and a rookie pick a year on average, you'd be in the top half of clubs consistently. I do have to say though, it's all well and good that we're recruiting gems, but over the past 5-6yrs, it seems our development of players has really taken leaps forward also. Think Maple is being undersold here a bit as well. Getting to some pre season sessions, he teaches them every little facet and he has the players attention without even needing to work for it. He knows his stuff and it's starting to show through also.

 

[Mofra]

Think Maple is being undersold here a bit as well. Getting to some pre season sessions, he teaches them every little facet and he has the players attention without even needing to work for it. He knows his stuff and it's starting to show through also.

It's hard to get a gauge on, but quite possibly.
Mayes & Macrae were two possibilities for pick 6 a few years ago, we took Jackson and Sam went to Brissie.
Would Mayes have thrived and Macrae stalled if we had taken Mayes instead?

 

[Del165892]

**** guys Im really high right now and just had this thought and Im freaking out

 

[dogwatch]

I'd actually like that. It means the rug can't easily be pulled from under us by poaching just one bloke.

Best answer would be a bit of both, and that may well be the case.

Keep them coming Scrag...

 

[King Harold]

Bahahahahahaha. Nice sideburns dickhead.

Ah ! so it is you Pann.
Just like to thank you on the great job you are doing.