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Would be a good replacement for Lecras and Petrucelle as our European representative.
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Had a weird dream this morning; was at a party on a boat and Steven Milne was in the corner in a white suit talking with a current Saint Kilda player in a white suit, and Petruccelle was with them wearing a Saints jumper and they were all drinking white wine.
I was too far away to hear what they were saying unfortunately so nothing else to report.
I was too far away to hear what they were saying unfortunately so nothing else to report.
We are also getting moist over Oscar Allan who is growing every day and is almost 300cm
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Oscar's going to bring back the 100 goal a year forward
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He doesn't need them
What a load of crap, Richmond playing 6 or 7 in a row at the MCG to finish the season has nothing to do with money. The AFL is constantly throwing money away for the fairness of the competition.
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Pickett’s quality has been obvious for years, for longer than Kelly’s even, yet we’ve wasted rookie spots on utter duds. It’s confusing.
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Probably wary of the baggage.
I mean, rightly or wrongly, we have been under a fine-tooth microscope from the AFL and media since 2006. I don't think we have drafted or traded in any player with even a hint of being more than just a lad off-field. And then of course you have Willie who decided to f*** that up for us and we're going to wear that for another few years even if it's an isolated incident from a guy that panicked after smoking pot.
Similar reasons as to why we didn't even consider Bennell, Sylvia, Shane Yarran, Wilson, Brandon Matera etc as they all went down the road instead.
Credit to Pickett, he did his time and from all reports has not set a foot wrong, but I don't blame us for letting him slip.
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It's actually incompetent.
Imagine our list with Kelly and Pickett on it yet we went both Gorter and Burrows.
We missed and passed on both in the Rookie Drafts....... numerous times.
I've said it before O'Brien and his cronies have a "certain type" of player, that the go for and whilst in the main its been successful, their aversion for proven, consistent WAFL player who play in a position of need has been IMO a Real Concern.
It pains me, to think we may well be ponying up two first rounders for Kelly and then having the opportunity to get " his poor mans alternative " Pickett the last two rookie drafts.
We do some things exceptionally well as a Club, but we also have some alarming drafting misses from right under our noses in the WAFL.
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POTY. Nailed it on the head.It's actually incompetent.
Imagine our list with Kelly and Pickett on it yet we went both Gorter and Burrows.
We missed and passed on both in the Rookie Drafts....... numerous times.
I've said it before O'Brien and his cronies have a "certain type" of player, that the go for and whilst in the main its been successful, their aversion for proven, consistent WAFL player who play in a position of need has been IMO a Real Concern.
It pains me, to think we may well be ponying up two first rounders for Kelly and then having the opportunity to get " his poor mans alternative " Pickett the last two rookie drafts.
We do some things exceptionally well as a Club, but we also have some alarming drafting misses from right under our noses in the WAFL.
A little too risk averse tbh
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I'd say we avoided Pickett purely because of his past issues. The club obviously doesn't want to hurt its money making ability with sponsors and members etc.
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We had Kelly on our draft list in 2017. As it turns out, Geelong got to him first, and we ended up with Brander, Allen and Ryan. That's an awesome draft for us.
In all possibility, in 6 months time, all 4 including Kelly will be at West Coast.
In terms of Pickett, he was never going to be an Eagle. It is necessary for the club to be risk averse in their player selection. It just is what it is.
It is a great story for Marlion, and the game.
In all possibility, in 6 months time, all 4 including Kelly will be at West Coast.
In terms of Pickett, he was never going to be an Eagle. It is necessary for the club to be risk averse in their player selection. It just is what it is.
It is a great story for Marlion, and the game.
There's a hell of a lot of teams that have passed on Pickett. For a long time. Really hard to point the finger at our recruiters when that's the case.
Perhaps it's more of an industry issue, being risk-adverse?
Perhaps it's more of an industry issue, being risk-adverse?
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It was probably best for everyone involved that Stack was not drafted by WCE or Freo.
I think with Pickett it was more the club didn't feel he fit a need of ours.
We probably had Rioli earmarked for a similar role and were/are banking on picking Kelly up. Hindsight and all that.
Cannot believe Freo passed on him though.
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"Look I think it was more important that we keep McInnes for his 15th year of backup to the backup 3rd reserve ruckman and get Josh Smith for a year or two of completely mediocre seagulling WAFL games instead of drafting a Pickett type. If you look back at our draft history we haven't really missed any. Hindsight etc etc " - Bond & co.It's actually incompetent.
Imagine our list with Kelly and Pickett on it yet we went both Gorter and Burrows.
We missed and passed on both in the Rookie Drafts....... numerous times.
I've said it before O'Brien and his cronies have a "certain type" of player, that the go for and whilst in the main its been successful, their aversion for proven, consistent WAFL player who play in a position of need has been IMO a Real Concern.
It pains me, to think we may well be ponying up two first rounders for Kelly and then having the opportunity to get " his poor mans alternative " Pickett the last two rookie drafts.
We do some things exceptionally well as a Club, but we also have some alarming drafting misses from right under our noses in the WAFL.
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Pickett and Rioli don't play the same role, though.
I thought the consensus before he was drafted was that he'd play high half forward at league.
He obviously rolled through the middle today and at the Bulldogs, so idk.
Regardless I don't think it was because of character that we didn't draft him. He's been clean for years, cleaner than Ryan was when we drafted him at any rate.
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