What They're Saying - The Bulldogs Media Thread - Part 2

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Fellow Eltham boy and used to be coached by Bont's uncle. They might already know each other.
I would never question Simon Dalrymple and don't know that much about what recruiters look for. Good vertical leap, good below his knees, elite kicking skills etc I get but "coached by Marcus Bontempelli's uncle" is a new indicator i was not aware of. Granted it was not the only attribute they listed for Lipinski but i was surprised to see it!
 
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I would never question Simon Dalrymple and don't know that much about what recruiters look for. Good vertical leap, good below his knees, elite kicking skills etc I get but "coached by Marcus Bontempelli's uncle" is a new indicator i was not aware of. Granted it was not the only attribute they listed for Lipinski but i was surprised to see it!
Yeah and what's more he coached him in table tennis.



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And i bet straight after those drafts they didn't say the Bulldogs were the big winners this draft. Find it funny when straight after a draft they declare the big winners.
When people are talking straight after the draft big winners = recruited the most players who got a lot of media coverage
 

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When people are talking straight after the draft big winners = recruited the most players who got a lot of media coverage

Exactly. Much rather be the big winner from a draft four years later, rather than four hours later.
 

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Exactly. Much rather be the big winner from a draft four years later, rather than four hours later.
Remember Brisbane's 2013 draft? Walked out as the "winners" because they had a heap of picks because of the walk out 5 and drafted every single slider/media coverage player there was. Not even 4 years on it's not looking that great for them.
 

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Did they really re-draft Ben Brown ahead of Rory Lobb?...
Vlastuin at 9 the year before says a lot too. The drop off from Hunter at 8 to him is enormous.

There were eight good players taken in that draft. We nailed three of them from five picks (60%). The other seventeen clubs collectively got five from 65 picks (8%).
 

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Remember Brisbane's 2013 draft? Walked out as the "winners" because they had a heap of picks because of the walk out 5 and drafted every single slider/media coverage player there was. Not even 4 years on it's not looking that great for them.
It's already happened this year. Have a look at all media ratings of clubs' drafts. Pretty much A+ to any club that had top picks. And the saints got a lot of cudos for drafting Battle who was a big slider in media talk. Can't imagine he can be that good if every team passed on him twice
 

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It's already happened this year. Have a look at all media ratings of clubs' drafts. Pretty much A+ to any club that had top picks. And the saints got a lot of cudos for drafting Battle who was a big slider in media talk. Can't imagine he can be that good if every team passed on him twice
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