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The other Liam… a goal kicking ruckman.

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Gold Coast signed him up today - will be an interesting journey to follow.

Confirmed that Liam Patrick has been signed Gold Coast Football Club (GCFC) - GFC STRUCK BY LAJAMANU LIGHTNING.

I believe that the Bombers were considering taking him with their pick in the PSD. I thought once a player nominated for the draft then you couldn't just sign him outside the draft but I was wrong - obviously. 

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    Confirmed that Liam Patrick has been signed Gold Coast Football Club (GCFC) - GFC STRUCK BY LAJAMANU LIGHTNING.

    I believe that the Bombers were considering taking him with their pick in the PSD. I thought once a player nominated for the draft then you couldn't just sign him outside the draft but I was wrong - obviously. 

    I am surprised that they can take someone who is in the draft and just put him on their list. Also why wait until now when he could have been taken in the main draft by another club.

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    I am surprised that they can take someone who is in the draft and just put him on their list. Also why wait until now when he could have been taken in the main draft by another club.

    Seems to me that GC17 can do whatever it wants and it will get the OK. How does it get Nathan Ablett and Karmichael Hunt onto its list outside of a draft system? I could understand Hunt perhaps because he comes from completely outside the system but young Ablett? Imagine the uproar if Hawthorn announced it had signed him outside the draft system?

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    Seems to me that GC17 can do whatever it wants and it will get the OK. How does it get Nathan Ablett and Karmichael Hunt onto its list outside of a draft system? I could understand Hunt perhaps because he comes from completely outside the system but young Ablett? Imagine the uproar if Hawthorn announced it had signed him outside the draft system?

    I could be completely wrong, and probably am, but wouldn't Patrick come under their zone as they can draft/pick players from NT. And as Ablett is no longer on an AFL list he can also be drafted under a zoning thing as he lives on the GC

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    Thats a shame. But good luck to him. If he can follow in Jurrahs footsteps its the kind of excitement a new team needs.

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    They breed them tough in the Northern Territory. This week Palmerston Magpies goalsneak Dallas Cook was forced to call on his hunting skills to hold on to a 1.5m saltwater crocodile at training. I'm all for drafting people with such skills or at least giving people like Cook a gig as our tackling coach :lol: !

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