If he makes it the grade by 22 he is in the leadership group.
The kids getting drafted these days are beyond mature.
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2024 Draft Thread
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The kids getting drafted these days are beyond mature.
What a great description - I haven't even seen footage and when I looked it up it was what I expected. Lean, tough and efficient. Junkyard dog physique (um,...playing days).
I'm a kelpie owner but I would have though in close moving cattle you would go a healer? Anyways....if Toce can land a few quality kelpies mixed with some healers, it will be a good result.
Kelpies and Heelers are good, but Border Collies are elite. We need some Border Collies.
unless you've got a rat and snake problem, in which case they are No.1
Good on sheep in a cool climate if there's a woman about to groom them.
Great on beaches for a single man.
good on a wing
Working Healers went out of fashion with Herefords and The Dean Bros Wreckers pretty much.
you see a few in yards like you say, but Kelpies are ubiquitous in most situations now.
Crosses good.
I didn't really realise when I wrote the simile, how apt it was for footy.
B: Brindle Mongrel Wolf-Hound Brindle Mongrel
HB: Kelpie. Big Brindle Mongrel Kelpie
C: Border Collie. Kelpie. Border Collie
HF: Kelpie Big Brindle Mongrel Jack Russell
FF: Jack Russell. Wolf-Hound Kelpie
Foll: Bull Mastiff, Kelpie, Pit-Bull X Kelpie
Int: Kelpie, Kelpie, Bull Mastiff, mongrel
alternatively if your building a list on the Gold Coast, a heap of labradoodles and golden retrievers and a few rescue greyhounds
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It aint rocket science when you break it down like this. My grandad would have been a gun recruiter
Disagree about Hopper and Taranto. Both are very talented but neither are quick enough to keep up with the seven midfields I mentioned in my post above. When played there separately and with quicker players around they become much more valuable, but without some additional speed from other team mates their lack of speed becomes very much an issue.
Bolton and Rioli D are two of our best and fastest, both with the abilirty and stamina to play some extended periods on the ball. Blind Freddy would have them both spending some time there but it seems that for this season at least, Yze and his mates have a different agenda.
But that isn't the future. I am pretty confident we will go to the draft with at least 2 top 10 picks and 4 in the top 25. I'd hope for three 200 game + mids to result and that we will also pick up Davidson and Ell Nour.
Your suggestion that we can do better with more picks and without Dan Rioli and or Bolton, because Yze won't play them as mids, overlooks the additional value that will come from an injection of this years draft talent.
It also overlooks the massive loss to the team of these two who are now in their prime.
I expect Coulthard, Cumberland, Dow, Grimes, McIntosh, Prestia and Sonsie to finish up and for 3-4 others not including Balta Bolton and Rioli D, to be traded.
25% of the list. That already is massive.
I'd be hard not to get two really good players this year with 7 and 14, ( or 7 and 8!).
so if we can deal for one really good 25 year player out
for two really good 18 yo players in,
its hard to see that not being a win?
I might be dreaming? Hypothetical trading's never been my strong suit.
but I reckon given the quality of this years first round and where our list is at,
we should be aggressively aiming to get our first ranked player in the pool plus 3 more first rounders this year
* it will annoy me a bit if Bakes doesn't just choose Perth and let us auction him. RFC made him.
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When did I ever say anything about Bolton? I have NEVER advocated trading Bolton, save that for the Carters of this world.
Yze doesn't seem to want to try Rioli in midfield, maybe he thinks he can't transition into that role, and he could be correct. I've repeatedly said that we should try him there, but I also said IF we aren't going to, then the trade has merit, if it nets us 2 picks in the top 10 even if we have to give something back.
It doesn't overlook anything, we have a set number of midfield positions. I've never really wanted to trade Dan, and am absolutely against any trading of Bolton, but Dans age does come into it a touch too, as does having Smith in the wings.
I'm sure you've read my posts on here, I've been expecting at least 4, maybe 5 picks inside 25 this year, but we potentially could spread that a bit more over 2 years should a trade for Dan be valuable enough. Obviously if he says he doesn't want to leave, we wouldn't entertain any trade whatsoever anyway, we aren't that type of trade, but I totally reject that you can't play TT and Hopper together, just look at the midfield we just played, Green and Coniglio, neither of them are quick, are all the Lions mids quick? How about the Swans? Nope. The point is, you need a balance and my point was, we absolutely COULD play TT and Hopper together, but you need speedy or evasive mids to play with them.
Yeah. It was more the losing of the Pick 21 that made me not so thrilled.
Bakes for 7 and 14. Yes please! While that is probably overs, I don't know if it is overs when he is playing his best footy.
Interesting times ahead.
Anyone saying West Coast is giving up anything for Baker that includes pick 3 is dreaming.
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The Tigers continue to be linked with other clubs.
yeah i think WCE giving up pick 3 wont happen unless we give a pick in the first 15 back. Even that might not be enough.
If pick 3 is off the table, what else could they give us that we will be happy with?
If pick 3 is off the table, what else could they give us that we will be happy with?
