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I'm on holiday in the Queensland sun and reading the book The Draft by Emma Quayle (I left my unread volumes of James Joyce and Tolstoy at home). She followed a number of draft prospects through the year of the 2007 National Draft and writes about what the players went through during the time. In one chapter, she follows a number of the players to South Africa with the AIS academy squad and this paragraph comes at the end of the tour:

At the post-match dinner, the boys had a final job to do. Each player had been assigned a quality and had to vote for the team member that best personified it. The award was named after Ben Mitchell, a member of the 2001 intake, who died in a car accident the following year aged only 17. The qualities were things like pride, patience, poise, care, trust, skill and sacrifice ; the boys could interpret these things any way they chose to and the winner was Jack Grimes.

Just thought I'd like to share that with everybody.

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Cheers WJ, more evidence on Grimesy's qualities. Enjoy your holiday - did you have to mention Queensland, sun & holiday?? You bugger... :(;)

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Nice find.

What do you think of the book?

The book's fantastic. Well written and moves along at a nice pace. I'm trying to read it while reading another heavier book so it creates a nice balance. And High Tower, it's great to be sitting out in the glorious sunshine and doing nothing else but readin and having a nice cool drink.

Cheers

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I'm on holiday in the Queensland sun and reading the book The Draft by Emma Quayle (I left my unread volumes of James Joyce and Tolstoy at home). She followed a number of draft prospects through the year of the 2007 National Draft and writes about what the players went through during the time. In one chapter, she follows a number of the players to South Africa with the AIS academy squad and this paragraph comes at the end of the tour:

Just thought I'd like to share that with everybody.

thanks for that, very interesting indeed - wasn't Grimes captain of Vic Metro? To slip to 14 seems like an absolute gift... was it the injury concerns that did it? Anyway, to think Lethal Leigh, in his infinite wisdom, handed us to him for Johnstone still makes me giggle

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The book's fantastic. Well written and moves along at a nice pace. I'm trying to read it while reading another heavier book so it creates a nice balance.

Thanks - might have to pick it up.


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it is an excellent book.

follows in detail hawthorns recruiting strategies.

for example. they decided that they needed key position forwards. so they went and got roughead and franklin - even though they rated some midfielders in that draft higher.

and last year they got rioli because they needed a small forward, so they picked the best small forward availiable - not the best player availiable.

they picked for their needs.

we have needed a CHF since the ox..................................

they also had very good things to say about maric - best kick in the draft they think. wooooo

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it is an excellent book.

follows in detail hawthorns recruiting strategies.

for example. they decided that they needed key position forwards. so they went and got roughead and franklin - even though they rated some midfielders in that draft higher.

and last year they got rioli because they needed a small forward, so they picked the best small forward availiable - not the best player availiable.

they picked for their needs.

we have needed a CHF since the ox..................................

they also had very good things to say about maric - best kick in the draft they think. wooooo

Maybe this post should be moved to "drafting and trading". It vindicates my argument that we should be drafting according to needs this year.

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it is an excellent book.

follows in detail hawthorns recruiting strategies.

for example. they decided that they needed key position forwards. so they went and got roughead and franklin - even though they rated some midfielders in that draft higher.

and last year they got rioli because they needed a small forward, so they picked the best small forward availiable - not the best player availiable.

they picked for their needs.

we have needed a CHF since the ox..................................

It sounds like the strategy that Craig Cameron employed when drafting Luke Molan. ;)

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