Tigers reveal draft pick?

[Tiger4Ever]

http://www.sportal.com.au/afl-news-display/tigers-reveal-pick-102439

Not sure what to make of this. It's either a bad blunder on draft day or a clever smokescreen, hoping it's the latter for the sake of professionalism.

 

[Bazzar]

Bit of a stuff up by RFC_O Looks like Adrian hit the wrong button by mistake.

 

[Cutty]

we may just be playing funny buggers with everyone too, keep them guessing

 

[TigerTime88]

I saw it this morning and posted about it in the other thread. Definite for 6 now which is disspointing because it ruins the suspense but oh well.

Also said in the article the kid had 27 touches and dominated a WAFL senior game with 25 effective.

 

[Tiger4Ever]

I saw it this morning and posted about it in the other thread. Definite for 6 now which is disspointing because it ruins the suspense but oh well.

Also said in the article the kid had 27 touches and dominated a WAFL senior game with 25 effective.

Saw it earlier myself also, didn't realise it had been linked elsewhere.
Still not sure if it is definate. Who knows, the club may create profiles for multiple draft choices so they are ready to roll out when the result is known.
If it is Conca, let's hope that WAFL form translates into an AFL ready player. I personally would rather Polec if available, we know he's ready to go against men after 12 months of senior footy. Conca hasn't played as much senior footy and may require more time.
Either way I trust the recruiters, (they've done the most research), and if they believe Conca is the man, then I for one will have no problem accepting that.

 

[Groupie_]

Says he is injured and on crutches

 

[PHX]

The last two paragraphs are the only two really worth reading .

But I still expect us to take him.

 

[Bazzar]

If it is true and not a mistake, then the club must have 100% factual proof of the first five picks.

I was under the impression this wouldn’t be the case until the closed meeting an hour before the draft?

 

[Mr Magic]

The last two paragraphs are the only two really worth reading .

But I still expect us to take him.

I would have thought Heppell would be better, but since he was at the club the tigers must know what they are doing.

If we are getting him it is funny that Sydney and TIgers have been lured by the same type like Martin last year

 

[Shere Khan]

If it is true and not a mistake, then the club must have 100% factual proof of the first five picks.

I was under the impression this wouldn’t be the case until the closed meeting an hour before the draft?

The kids get told by the clubs if they are taking them early. If we told Conca he's ours at 6, then GC came in and told him he's theirs at 3, Conca would have let us know.

At this stage in the game the first rounders pretty much know where they are going for the most part.

 

[tugga]

The AFL wants all top 10 draftees there for TV purposes seeing as Fox are making a big deal of the top 10.
Conca has been flown up to the Gold Coast today at the late request of one club so it can only mean one thing.
Welcome to Punt Rd Reece Conca.

 

[lvt06]

Welcome to Punt Rd Reece Conca.

I want to see footage of him, the AFL site video doesn't play!

 

[Glitch]

I want to see footage of him, the AFL site video doesn't play!

Yes it does. What internet browser are you using? I use both Chrome and Ie6 at work. It works every time on Ie6, but doesn't run on Chrome...sometimes....

 

[lvt06]

Yes it does. What internet browser are you using? I use both Chrome and Ie6 at work. It works every time on Ie6, but doesn't run on Chrome...sometimes....

Chrome

 

[axel2cotch2lids]

Im a content creator on a website and its quite common to prepare multiple articles covering a few likely outcomes. Id dare say they would have profile pages created for Conca, Heppell, Gaff, Polec and so on.

Its the only way to properly prepare for such events where there is 3-4 possible outcomes, but in saying that the conca page either would have been the last one written up, or is the most likely selction, if it was sitting around prepared to be uploaded to the site as it would be uploaded almost a soon as pick#6's name is read out.

 

[Bazzar]

If Polec goes, i still want Caddy.

 

[Wrenny]

From Twitter

SENNEWS Tigers claim the article on Reece Conca on the club's site this morning wasn't put up by the club

 

[TOOs_Finest]

Chrome

Working fine for me on Chrome. (HATE having to use IE for anything these days).

I used to always have trouble playing Bigpond hosted content on Chrome, but has been fine for the past few months.

 

[The Rusty Trombone]

Welcome to the Tigers Reece I'm sure you'll fit in well. Just pair your self up with Patty Contin at training and the rest will take care of itself .

 

[Tiger4Ever]

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/a.../story-e6frf9jf-1225955697335?from=public_rss

Herald sun now adding fuel to the fire also.

 

[cairo tiger]

any vision on this kid we can all access?

 

[Tiger4Ever]

When I last looked a few days ago, I went to the AFL site and searched "conca" and it was the second or third hit from memory.

 

[TOOs_Finest]

Reece Conca highlights

 

[_RT_]

Last year when the draft was on I know for a fact there were profiles that were made for players that we never ended up taking. Obviously Stig has to have these things ready to go so that as soon as the pick is announced he can bring up the profiles for the website.

A bit clumsy that Reeces profile was shown on the morning when all the media is reporting we're interested in him though, oh well Stig live and learn.

 

[RFC_Official]

Last year when the draft was on I know for a fact there were profiles that were made for players that we never ended up taking. Obviously Stig has to have these things ready to go so that as soon as the pick is announced he can bring up the profiles for the website.

A bit clumsy that Reeces profile was shown on the morning when all the media is reporting we're interested in him though, oh well Stig live and learn.

I created 20 profiles yesterday, Conca was just one of them. They could have stumbled across any of the others we wrote, they happened to come across Conca which we've since had to disable.

The actual page said "Reece Conca - Draft Pick ????" because I don't know if we'll even draft the kid. We're simply trying to give you guys content on the picks as soon as we draft them so we prepared a lot of the stuff yesterday.

Sportal also didnt do us a favour by reporting it badly.