List Mgmt. Trade/Draft Talk III - Zaharakis for a SIG BET?

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If we get a Rioli, a Long, and a Tippungwuti on the list at the same time WE'LL be the Tiwi Bombers ... and Tiwi becomes a true Bomber heartland (it is already, right? Tippaaaaa. Sorry, just wanted to say it: its been months now.)
 

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Surprised there hasn't been more talk about Cassidy Parish the younger brother of Darcy.

Had a huge year as an under ager and finished extremely well. 23 possessions and 8 clearances against this years TAC grand finalist in the last round of the season one of his best against top shelf quality.

Surely be on our radar next year even though I'm assuming we will be going tall.
 

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If we somehow got

Pick 1: Mcgrath
Pick 20: Florent
Pick 29: Mutch/Junker
Pick 43: Battle

I will be doing cartwheels
Pick 29 is a fair bit early for Junker for mine, AFL Draft has his draft range at Pick 35-70 so I'd suggest he'd be a better pick at #41 or #68. Wouldn't say no to a bid on Mutch at #29. For mine:
Pick 1: McCluggage/McGrath (still partial to McCluggage, in part so we can start calling him Antler).
Pick 20: Battle/Marshall/English (if Marshall or English is still available I doubt we'd say no).
Pick 29: Begley
Pick 41: ?????
Pick 68: Richards

No idea who at Pick 41, maybe Rioli if the club wants to take a punt on him?
 

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Surprised there hasn't been more talk about Cassidy Parish the younger brother of Darcy.

Had a huge year as an under ager and finished extremely well. 23 possessions and 8 clearances against this years TAC grand finalist in the last round of the season one of his best against top shelf quality.

Surely be on our radar next year even though I'm assuming we will be going tall.
Tell him to tank it next year and we'll pick him up in the 2nd round ;)
 

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Pick 29 is a fair bit early for Junker for mine, AFL Draft has his draft range at Pick 35-70 so I'd suggest he'd be a better pick at #41 or #68. Wouldn't say no to a bid on Mutch at #29. For mine:
Pick 1: McCluggage/McGrath (still partial to McCluggage, in part so we can start calling him Antler).
Pick 20: Battle/Marshall/English (if Marshall or English is still available I doubt we'd say no).
Pick 29: Begley
Pick 41: ?????
Pick 68: Richards

No idea who at Pick 41, maybe Rioli if the club wants to take a punt on him?
Clubs go early on players they really like because if you wait you will never get them and id hate for that to play on my mind.
 

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Surprised there hasn't been more talk about Cassidy Parish the younger brother of Darcy.

Had a huge year as an under ager and finished extremely well. 23 possessions and 8 clearances against this years TAC grand finalist in the last round of the season one of his best against top shelf quality.

Surely be on our radar next year even though I'm assuming we will be going tall.
He's no where near Darcy's level. Not looking like a 1st rounder at the moment but he sits in my un-ordered 25-50 range.
 

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Low key happy that we were stripped of picks 12ish and 30ish in 2013 as opposed to picks 1 and 20 this year.
Would've been an interesting draft for sure, if the Crameri trade was the same (i.e. direct swap for Pick 26 - and we still took Z.Merrett) and had Pick 12 and 30 as well we could've gotten Cripps or McCarthy at 12 and Nankervis, J.Kolodjashnij, Barrass or Ben Brown at 30. Retrospective drafting is a wonderful thing lol.
 

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Would've been an interesting draft for sure, if the Crameri trade was the same (i.e. direct swap for Pick 26 - and we still took Z.Merrett) and had Pick 12 and 30 as well we could've gotten Cripps or McCarthy at 12 and Nankervis, J.Kolodjashnij, Barrass or Ben Brown at 30. Retrospective drafting is a wonderful thing lol.
Funniest thing about that draft for me was that we traded 48 to GWS for Aylett and Edwards, that pick bounced around from GWS to Brisbane to St Kilda who traded it back to GWS for Josh Bruce. Dang. But not too many regrets: Zach, Raz and Ambrose out of that draft is a pretty good effort for the position we were put in.
 

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Funniest thing about that draft for me was that we traded 48 to GWS for Aylett and Edwards, that pick bounced around from GWS to Brisbane to St Kilda who traded it back to GWS for Josh Bruce. Dang. But not too many regrets: Zach, Raz and Ambrose out of that draft is a pretty good effort for the position we were put in.
Ambrose was a rookie pick that year not ND. Pretty sure we only made 3 selections that year (Z.Merrett at 26, Fantasia at 55 and upgraded Dalgleish with 64). If the sanctions hadn't happened and we hadn't traded 48 this is what (retrospectively) I would've done:
Pick 12 - Patrick Cripps
Pick 26 - Zach Merrett (via WBD for Crameri)
Pick 30 - Ben Brown
Pick 48 - Orazio Fantasia (instead of Pick 55)
Pick 55 - James Sicily
 

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Why would you make such a long trip to Warrnambool to meet a kid on his farm, then shortly after decide not to draft him...less than a week from the draft?? The McGrath meeting was a little way out to be speaking to your No 1 pick. Everything says it's McGrath, but i'm thinking McClugg.
 

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Why would you make such a long trip to Warrnambool to meet a kid on his farm, then shortly after decide not to draft him...less than a week from the draft?? The McGrath meeting was a little way out to be speaking to your No 1 pick. Everything says it's McGrath, but i'm thinking McClugg.
McGrath was going on Holidays so they had to see him earlier
 

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McGrath was going on Holidays so they had to see him earlier
God people read too much into things. Be silly for Dodo not to speak with Tim Taranto, Jy Simpkin and Will Brodie either. No reports of these meetings.
 

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McGrath was going on Holidays so they had to see him earlier
God people read too much into things. Be silly for Dodo not to speak with Tim Taranto, Jy Simpkin and Will Brodie either. No reports of these meetings.
Nah McGrath will be in Sydney, plenty of time to see him last day or so. Dodo met the others ages ago. You usually meet the guy you want last...it's the McClugg train...
 
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