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SherbertLemon

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I remember people talking about how good our spine was like 5 years ago with the likes of Carlisle, Hooker, Hurley, Ryder....

What's the point of that when your mid field are a bunch of spuds who can't win the ball?

Reckon sheeds was right about talks then mids 30 years ago, but not in the modern game with all the running.

Christ, Best mids available pls.
 

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I hope we don't go too narrow with our picks. Unless there is someone that is perfect for us, trade down and take more picks into the draft. It allows a greater chance of having multiple quality midfielders coming through and allows us to make a greater turn-over of our current list.
 

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I’m that disappointed in the players and the club. The only few players I wouldn’t want them putting up for trade at seasons end are:
Fantasia
McGrath
Smith
Daniher
Merrett
Gleeson
Maybe a few kids who haven’t had a good crack.

That’s it.
 

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Why is Hurley a liability?
A key defender should be defence first, rebound second. At the moment, teams have figured him out. Play through his opponent.

We have enough offensive weapons at half back we don’t need a key defender doing this
 

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A key defender should be defence first, rebound second. At the moment, teams have figured him out. Play through his opponent.

We have enough offensive weapons at half back we don’t need a key defender doing this
Remember when he and Rance were spoken about in the same breath. Mum had me in Tigers gear when I was born, started primary school in 2000, decided they were shit so I switched.




Sorry Mum
 

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No way.

Just like you pick McCartin, Watts, Weitering, etc, etc.

Get midfield right first then get your talls. Midfield, midfield, midfield.
Lukosius is a different beast to the players listed - The funniest thing is I have been beating a drum for two years that clubs mistakenly take tall players too early in the draft. Ask DPS what he would do ?
 

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I remember people talking about how good our spine was like 5 years ago with the likes of Carlisle, Hooker, Hurley, Ryder....

What's the point of that when your mid field are a bunch of spuds who can't win the ball?

Reckon sheeds was right about talks then mids 30 years ago, but not in the modern game with all the running.

Christ, Best mids available pls.
AGREED. AGREED. mids make Stewart, Ambrose etc. look like guns. Get the ball and deliver. Mids every time.
 

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We must take some decently sized pure mids with at least our first two or three picks this year. Looking likely to be a top 4 pick and a low 20s pick.

No more utilities with no best position or skinny flankers please.
We don’t have our own 2nd this year if I’m not mistaken. I’m pretty sure GWS have it & we have theirs.
 

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I ban our club from picking anyone but big bodied inside mids. Literally every pick should be the best inside mid/clearance specialist/tackling machine/gut running until we're overflowing. I can't be bothered seeing us build a spine that can't be used because we can't actually win the ball to begin with. Spine brings promise. Midfield brings results.
 

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We don't have any one's 2nd rnd pick, Dogs have em.
Yeah we have GWS’s 2nd rounder. It was part of the trade for Smith.
We don’t have a 3rd rounder though.
It was Smith, 2017 2nd, 2018 2nd for 2017 1st, 2018 3rd
Gold Coast have our 2nd this year (straight swap for Saad).
The dogs got 2 2017 2nds for Stringer.

So our picks are:
EFC 1st rounder
GWS 2nd rounder
EFC 4th rounder
EFC 5th rounder
And so on
 

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A key defender should be defence first, rebound second. At the moment, teams have figured him out. Play through his opponent.

We have enough offensive weapons at half back we don’t need a key defender doing this
We don’t have enough offensive weapons at half back though? All our attack comes from Half back and you want to cut off our main supplier. We would be lucky to kick 3 goals for a match.
 

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Did they end up introducing 'live' pick trading for the 2018 draft? I know it was talked about late last year.
If there are no stand out mids in the top 5 it would be interesting to see what we could get from teams looking to trade up on draft night for a KPP
 

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We don’t have enough offensive weapons at half back though? All our attack comes from Half back and you want to cut off our main supplier. We would be lucky to kick 3 goals for a match.
Time for the rest of the team to pull there heads in and reign in there ego to improve the output from other parts of the ground. Attacks from half back are out
 

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We currently hold picks; 4, 28, 58, 75, 75, 94, 112
We really need to focus on a list rebuild IMO. Problem is we have too many players with little to no trade value, this stems from holding onto the wrong players for too long, overrating and overvaluing them until we eventually bite the bullet and trade them for peanuts or delist them a few years too late. We need to start being a forward thinking club and actually planning ahead rather than simply waiting for something to blow up and then hastily trying to patch it.

If we wanted to try and get 4 or 5 picks inside the top thirty this year, what would that take?

(IMO the only players that are "off the table" are: Zerrett, McGrath, Daniher, Fantasia, Parish and Begley)
 
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