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rpfc
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Which well-worn point am I?

Nasher
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You're not suggesting that we drafted poorly circa 2008 are you? My God. Thank heavens you are here to point that out, we may not have noticed otherwise.

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Not sticking up for Jack necessarily, as he's fallen well below what we hoped for, but you forgot to mention all the other games where Nic Nat had one or two highlights then went missing for 3.5 quart

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I've got a better question: Would Nic Nat have become the player he has at Melbourne? I'm certain he would be getting a hatorade shower on here weekly while Jack Watts would be tearing it up at West Coast.

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If you don't think Jack Watts would've kicked that, you've got rocks in your head. One of the better kicks in the league.

He wouldn't have kicked it because he wouldn't have gotten the ball. He would have been tucked up playing lose man in defence waiting for his confidence to build

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If we had have drafted Nic nat, he would have decided he was home sick and left by now anyway, hopefully we leave jack watts up forward and keep him on next year, a forward line of

Howe Hogan Watts

Dawes Clark Blease

looks pretty good to me.

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If we had have drafted Nic nat, he would have decided he was home sick and left by now anyway, hopefully we leave jack watts up forward and keep him on next year, a forward line of

Howe Hogan Watts

Dawes Clark Blease

looks pretty good to me.

Yep...and they'll have long careers with few wear and tear injuries because we still wont be able to get the ball to them

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If we had have drafted Nic nat, he would have decided he was home sick and left by now anyway, hopefully we leave jack watts up forward and keep him on next year, a forward line of

Howe Hogan Watts

Dawes Clark Blease

looks pretty good to me.

I agree Watts needs to play forward but that set-up looks too tall. I'd play Mitch in the ruck changing with Gawn and have Dawes play the high-half forward role as a marking option comin out of defense. We need another (a?) crumbing forward in there similar to a Stokes, Christensen or Varcoe at Geelong, Betts, Garlett or Yarran at Carlton, Rioli, Breust at Hawthorn, Elliott, Blair etc at Collingwood.

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He would have had to mark it first.

would have had to have been in the forward line and really really wanting it first

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Edge col out the door and throw a big contract at Thomas and lecras ;)

Midfielders would be a more pressing need but yeah one of those guys would complement our falls nicely (though Thomas needs to quit diving like a soccer player).

Edit: just realised you probably meant Daisy Thomas!

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If we had have drafted Nic nat, he would have decided he was home sick and left by now anyway, hopefully we leave jack watts up forward and keep him on next year, a forward line of

Howe Hogan Watts

Dawes Clark Blease

looks pretty good to me.

So if Hogan had dreadlocks, would he get homesick and leave?

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Midfielders would be a more pressing need but yeah one of those guys would complement our falls nicely (though Thomas needs to quit diving like a soccer player).

My opinion is we back trenners, jones, grimes and viney as our inside mids thomas and lecras i think would play as outside mids with us, we don't have the depth to play LeCras as a small forward full time, i actually think Carazzo would be an alright target also.

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The only thing I think I love more than the MFC is footy in general. What a finish what a game loved every minute of it. Yeah NicNat is probably better than Watts we should have picked him bla bla bla...

Love watching anyone do good, love footy, love it.

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Praise The Lord someone has pointed out we drafted watts instead of nik nat. Boy o boy wowee as a Melbourne member I never realized this. I'm telling everyone I know about this as I bet they have no clue either as I know for a fact it has never been raised as an issue before. What a breath taking day to witness such insight. I feel one step closer to heaven as this information can only be compared to when Moses recited his.

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I've got a better question: Would Nic Nat have become the player he has at Melbourne? I'm certain he would be getting a hatorade shower on here weekly while Jack Watts would be tearing it up at West Coast.

If Melbourne took Nic Nat he would already be back in Perth after asking for a trade due to homesickness.

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The only thing I think I love more than the MFC is footy in general. What a finish what a game loved every minute of it. Yeah NicNat is probably better than Watts we should have picked him bla bla bla...

Love watching anyone do good, love footy, love it.

... from the bits I saw last night, I was disappointed with NicNat.. neither NicNat/Watts have done Yet what they should have... thought he wasn't Imposing himself.. only that last roll of the dice... IMO Daw has more natural footy flair.

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Nic Nat made it plenty obvious that he wasn't leaving WA for more than 2 years if drafted by us.

Watts is the prime example as to why you don't draft a kid out of school footy and expect him to play AFL within his first contract. Rushed and under developed and crucified by the masses.

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