Game Day The 2025 Draft Day Thread

[UseR2006]

And a song to sing as we watch,

Hey Matty Clarke by Kevin (Random260) Wilson :

Hey Matty Clarke you campaigner, where the **** is Sharp
I’ve looked at all these other spuds and there’s no one that I like
I wrote you a ****ing letter and posted about it twice
You dopey ****ing Richmond fart, you forgot my ****ing Sharp

If I wanted a stupid ruckman type, I would’ve bloody asked
And this half back flank and temu mid, you can shove right up your arse
You’ve stuffed the bloody order up, it’s enough to make you spew
But it’s not just me who’s snakey, SGIO is dirty too

Next time I come to see ya, I’m going to punch you in the guts
And I’ll sack the other recruiting knobs and kick Toddy in the nuts
You just wait 'til next year when you go back to the draft
And me and me little GIO come stomping through the door
And we'll say, yeah, you wait for it

Hey Pyke and Woosh you smell his breath
And check his bloodshot eyes
And don't listen to him eagles fans 'cause he tells ****ing lies
He's just a ****ing useless campaigner and he's not even very bright
'Cause the stupid ****in' w***er, forgot me ****in' Sharp

Hey Matty Clarke you campaigner, where the **** is Sharp
I’ve looked at all these other spuds and there’s no one that I like
I wrote you a ****ing letter and posted about it twice
You dopey ****ing Richmond fart, you forgot my ****ing Sharp

A Quick Ai rendition: https://suno.com/s/blQP3cSnulhqYb5g
It's funny how it interrupted the lyrics XD

 

[Westend]

Im not blaming Sam Allen but him being a gun will be the only thing that saves our new recruiting team . We look like rank amateurs

Regardless how Sam Allen turns out ...and I hope its good

It doesn't change the fact the Eagles are very poor with list management and trades

Apart from pick 1/2 which was obvious to everyone ....from pick 13 onwards ....(I dont mind Lindsay )has been a confused shit show from the eagles list management team

 

[Broken_Chairs]

It was always a useless part of the priority package. Prelisting NGA's is what we would've hoped for.

Wild that we asked to pre-list NGA's... but then couldn't be bothered to make the simple list changes to guarantee we got them

 

[ghostbat12]

Barnett and Cripps for a single season?

don't know. do you? maybe they just didn't rate them.

Quite ironic that we unsuccessfully bid on like 50 northern club academies picks and then let one of them walk with one of our own

same with Brisbane. they passed on their own and picked ours.

 

[Bleedblueandgold]

Hope they do well as they are Eagles players now, but can't see how Allen & Williams carve out better careers than Banfield & Evans.

 

[random260]

Wonder if banners thought he would ever be going to st kilda. Would like to be a fly on their wall

 

[SAweagle]

 

[kaiserchief13]

It boggles the mind how you can **** up a f/s selection. This club is a disgrace

 

[Ambrose Burnside]

We can also ask the basic Whose more likely to play in the next flag for us.

Jamie Cripps or Charlie Banfield?

Drew's grandson.

 

[Chris_6678]

Do we have a rookie pick tomorrow?

 

[Dylan82]

Kangaroos take another Geelong product in H.Mikuda at 48


Sydney match for M.King at 49 - Swans will be happy with that.

 

[Obeanie1]

it just shows how amateur the club is. i genuinely think what weve seen from these guys recently suggests they have seriously nfi in that room.

Its a sign of softness when negotiating with our older / fringe players.

Cripps and Cole could have been delisted and rookied. But that was too difficult.

Now we have no control at all.

 

[GoEaglesGoSGIO]

Can a bunch of people get in line also to apologise to random260

All that abuse and he got it spot on

 

[Proeagle]

Also pretty confident most fans have watched 2 minutes of highlights... haha

Maybe. I actually sat through 3 fairly boring finals games of colts just to watch Banfield and all his highlights too. More than any other player this year

 

[squashface]

Seriously how you can let the BOG player in the WAFL Colts grand final and a club legend father son walk to another club due to having no list spot for him is beyond me....

Crikey, I really hope Drew and his family is ropeable and rips the club for this. Good for Banna's, gets away from this club which clearly hasn't learned from past list management mistakes.

Beyond infuriating

 

[bzparkes]

The one year we actually finally produce some likely NGA and academy types we let two walk. Unbelievable. We’re gonna end up with Walley too, the one who’s shown the least.

Actually he was the highest rated until he did his shoulder at the start of the season and could barely use that arm and couldn't tackle.

 

[flyinghi64]

To miss out on a FS of a premiership player is heartbreaking.
The difference between a club that has multiple biddings every draft and one that rarely needs to match bids is so obvious.
Saints FU

 

[Mop]

Nah keeping barnett to his contract is worse. Cripps will at least do something. Barnetts worse than amateur footy players.

Not when Cripps could’ve been rookied for absolutely no loss

 

[wirra44]

Drew must be gutted , not a great look for future father sons.

 

[bzparkes]

Well I take back some of my earlier posts that we will get a couple of midfielders in Banfield and Evans.

So we desperately needed mids. Club said it was a focus and we only got Duursma and perhaps this Allen as a winger with no midfield potential by the sounds of it.

These guys we are getting as rookies (Dev, Macrae and Shoenburg) now are going to have to be our saviors.

This draft wasn't going to be the one where we finished our premiership midfield, just saying.

 

[Bleedblueandgold]

Wild that we asked to pre-list NGA's... but then couldn't be bothered to make the simple list changes to guarantee we got them

Yep, this is real issue, people saying that we simply rated other players higher are completely missing the mark.

 

[DRK_13]

Seriously how you can let the BOG player in the WAFL Colts grand final and a club legend father son walk to another club due to having no list spot for him is beyond me....

Crikey, I really hope Drew and his family is ropeable and rips the club for this. Good for Banna's, gets away from this club which clearly hasn't learned from past list management mistakes.

At least we have Matt Owies for another two years, and just extended Cripps and Kelly......

 

[ghostbat12]

Regardless how Sam Allen turns out ...and I hope its good

It doesn't change the fact the Eagles are very poor with list management and trades

Apart from pick 1/2 which was obvious to everyone ....from pick 13 onwards ....(I dont mind Lindsay )has been a confused shit show from the eagles list management team

How has it been confusing form eagles? Did they give you mixed messages on their strategy? Give you a personal call and now you are all confused?

Perhaps you got sucked in with BF talk and eaglevision 5xdaily trade scenarios that no-one reported as being likely.

 

[Bleedblueandgold]

Drew must be gutted , not a great look for future father sons.

Tbf this is the 2nd time we haven't listed a son of his.

 

[rfarlz]

So we should've just given up players we rate higher to pick our NGA/FS instead?

No, what most people are saying is that we should have moved Cripps to the Rookie List. Probably the worst list/draft decision I can ever recall from us.

 

[eagles rule]

Why worry about who we didn’t draft ,let it go