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Don't tell Ben Hur that. He has a massive chip on his shoulder re BGS (one of them stole his girl and beat him up apparently).

He would much prefer they went to an eastern suburbs private school and might cry again.

What makes it worse for the poor boy is that Salem is also a BGS lad.

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I get the feeling that MFC will go for someone like Blake Acres or Luke Dunstan, they seemed pretty damn confident that the player they wanted @ 9 would still be there, and to me that suggests that it

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Tapscott was not out of left field. He was a slider (to the outside world) if anything.

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Would love Dunstan at the Dees! He may not be the most athletically gifted but he has all the attributes that we need. He is a strong leader that will give 100% all day, he can win his own ball and ma

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Don't tell Ben Hur that. He has a massive chip on his shoulder re BGS (one of them stole his girl and beat him up apparently).

He would much prefer they went to an eastern suburbs private school and might cry again.

What makes it worse for the poor boy is that Salem is also a BGS lad.

Now that is a good reason to recruit Salem! (Salem, Dawes and Watts)

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Not true I know the father well of one of his close friends and he is not a Freo fan

dunno....pictures dont lie :rolleyes:

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I'm interested in Tom Cutler. Very athletic, great user and a really good size. Could well be the sort of player that we'd be interested in with his size and attributes. Also, given how confident we are that our man will be there at pick 9, it wouldn't surprise me if that player was someone that isn't being spoken of a lot in media circles (eg, Cutler, Acres).

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you must have been waiting for that post with baited breath

It was a measured response, jazza.

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I think some on here have taken Taylor's words in the wrong context. I don't think he is saying he is confident of getting one particular targetted player at each selection, but rather that he has a group of players in the mix for each selection and that he will get one of that group, at each pick.

Therefore I don't think you can draw the conclusion that we are picking someone from left field for each selection or who is thought not to be in the mix for that particular selection.

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If anyone follows the NBA here, there had been a consensus number 1 pick all year called Nerlens Noel. Not quite as certain as Tom Boyd but every expert said he'd go pick 1 bar one.
The draft came Cleveland picked a complete random 1, and so it went he fell to number 6.

Cal Twomey and others are glorified guestimaters as much as we are. Football clubs are as quiet in regards to the draft than at any point throughout the year.

I wasted my time to read his live blog on the AFL website and he answered every question with 'I guess', 'it could', or 'most likely'.
For all we know Luke Dunstan could be rated the 4th best midfielder on every clubs draft board and Nathan Freeman could be the 15th. I don't think it is the case but none of us know. One of the most important parts of the draft is the interview process, which no supporter and no journalist has any indication of.

Hopefully some of us guessed right, but I'm completely expecting the top 15 to be way different to expected and the draft after that to be an absolute crapshoot.

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If anyone follows the NBA here, there had been a consensus number 1 pick all year called Nerlens Noel. Not quite as certain as Tom Boyd but every expert said he'd go pick 1 bar one.

The draft came Cleveland picked a complete random 1, and so it went he fell to number 6.

Cal Twomey and others are glorified guestimaters as much as we are. Football clubs are as quiet in regards to the draft than at any point throughout the year.

I wasted my time to read his live blog on the AFL website and he answered every question with 'I guess', 'it could', or 'most likely'.

For all we know Luke Dunstan could be rated the 4th best midfielder on every clubs draft board and Nathan Freeman could be the 15th. I don't think it is the case but none of us know. One of the most important parts of the draft is the interview process, which no supporter and no journalist has any indication of.

Hopefully some of us guessed right, but I'm completely expecting the top 15 to be way different to expected and the draft after that to be an absolute crapshoot.

I get your point, but the Noel reference is a bit off.. He slipped a long way because he tore his ACL. Debut is still not in sight, likely to miss entire season

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I get your point, but the Noel reference is a bit off.. He slipped a long way because he tore his ACL. Debut is still not in sight, likely to miss entire seasom

Blake Griffin missed the entire first year of his rookie year from a pre-existing injury and still went number 1. All I'm saying is that sometimes we don't know everything thats available, so you never know who will slide or rise.

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can we lock this... somone's obviously dlcking around :huh:

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I recollect the AFL/MFC had a competition to nominate pick 9 and those who were correct went into a lottery to win a signed jumper form the eventual #9 who we now know to be Salem. Does anyone know if the results of the lottery were published somewhere?

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