So Kako off the table and guaranteed to Essendon.Bombers kissed on pecker
And Malaka Champion to West Coast.
What a scam
So Kako off the table and guaranteed to Essendon.Bombers kissed on pecker
Shultz was contracted, Freo didn't want him to leave, they made Collywobbles pay overs to release him.Ive never really got trading value for picks. always seems pretty random.
but how the hell does Lachy Shultz get pick 7 (Collingwood future first)
and Bakes get 18?
same age, same size.
one is a double premiership star, one is struggling to get a game
So Kako off the table and guaranteed to Essendon.
And Malaka Champion to West Coast.
What a scam
Some talk here on Academy's. Leysy's view.
Not stressed about interstate clubs academy's. The AFL are on record that it will all change and clubs paying a truer worth compared to the joke it is now. The only question is this year of next. For our sake with all our later picks let's hopefully it is next year.
The NGA is the one am worried about. You can hear the jungle drums that some clubs and the AFL want to open this up. i.e. If you have an NGA product you can draft him anywhere. Bad Bad move. Most of these players would have been drafted anyway. Unlike club academy's in growing states, you aren’t bringing these guys into the game, they come in on a pathway the same as everyone else. Look at Mac Andrew - One of the very very best players of his draft year and a future star you can build a club around. He would have went to Melbourne who had won that years flag. On the back of doing very litttle to develop him. Ugle-Hagen similar.
They aren't expanding the game and there are two very big downsides:
- It will even more compromise the draft. Between Academy's and NGA half the first round (or more) in any given year will be academy selections.
- And even more importantly, it will be impossible to make zones equal. Some clubs will get fantastic zones that will have a truckload of talent. Similar to the 80's where Hawthorn's era was largely built on being gifted the best recruiting zone in the league. Whilst other's will have a scarce supply of talent - year after year. Unfortunately can see it happening as interstate clubs are pushing heavily for it. Can also see it being an unmitigated disaster that will absolutely cruel some clubs. The whole NGA academy's should be wound up, not expanded.
As long as he’s under pick 40 we get the value of the new rules. But we’re not that luckyThat also means Zayden lockwood to us.
So Kako off the table and guaranteed to Essendon.
And Malaka Champion to West Coast.
What a scam
As for Taranto and Hopper together is there one game this year when you thought that has been a success?
The truth is our mids have been smashed all year. And the other truth is that these two when together have shown evidence of trying very hard, which effort hasn’t been enough.
No, just that Taranto and Hopper in the midfield together at a centre bounce are too slow to be able to compete successfully against the mids of the seven odd teams I named, which actually have vastly superior speed.So you are saying that our midfield issues are solely their issue and not the balance that the others bring? Strange take.
B.Scott getting a favour from his former employer.AFL proposes change to NGA access for this year’s draft
The AFL is set to walk back its rule limiting clubs' access to their Next Generation Academy players for this year's draftwww.afl.com.au
Georgie Costanza was a great Jack Russell. Every team needs at least one.Just don’t get a Jack Russell - they’re uncoachable.
Remember the first pick of round 2 is highly sought after so I wouldn't be giving that up too easily, assuming we remain on the bottom.West Coast trade Pick 3 to Freo for Picks 7 & 10.
Pick 10 to Richmond for Baker and Pick 21.
You had the audacity to say a post I made the other day was "dumb", when you'd missed the joke, then you post this?Picks:
1, 21, 34 Fremantle, 39, 41 West Coast, 52 Fremantle, 57, 63 Collingwood and 66 Port Adelaide.
Delist:
Colina,* Coulthard, Cumberland, Dow, Grimes, Prestia and Sonsie.
Trade:
a) Baker, Broad, Graham and future 2nd to West Coast for pick 3.
b) Lynch to Melbourne for Oliver and pick 6.
c) Picks 41, 52, 57, 63 and 66 (1,032) to Brisbane for future 1st.
List:
42-6-4+ Blight, Gray, Oliver and
Picks:
1 Smith,
3 O’Sullivan,
6 Lalor,
21 Armstrong,
34 Lindsay
and 39 Davidson
plus pick 1 in PSD Ell Nour, a list of 42 + Hale Brown.
B Blight Miller Vlastuin Vice Captain,
HB Brown Ell Nour Trezise
C Ralphsmith Rioli D Bolton
HF Bauer Balta McAuliffe
F Davidson Lefau Gray
R Nankervis Captain, Oliver Taranto
I/C Gibcus Hopper Mansell Martin
Sub Short.
No, just that Taranto and Hopper in the midfield together at a centre bounce are too slow to be able to compete successfully against the mids of the seven odd teams I named, which actually have vastly superior speed.
Yeah we might have a good one in 2026,Tanner Armstrong ,he has been playing really good football for Vic country in the u16 champs .Does our NGA exist?
We got anyone worth developing or picking up?