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[hemingway 7,615]

Hogan had stress fractures also , weideman talked bout his grandfather who lives in adelaide , the kid is a tiges supporter and talked glowingly of learning from the likes of Jesse Hogan. I reckon we will annoy the hell out of eddie and his gang for many years to come.

Hope your right City. Eddie runs with the hare and hunts with the hounds. If he turns out to be a dud or injury prone, Eddie will be smug and say I told you so. Now if the opposite is true, Eddie will be totally [censored] off and will be trying like hell to attract him to Pie land down the track. But we all hope that one day, Weideman plays a blinder against the Pies. Goal after the siren would be just perfect. A grim angry Eddie would be worth seeing.

[Lucifers Hero 39,279]

Hope your right City. Eddie runs with the hare and hunts with the hounds. If he turns out to be a dud or injury prone, Eddie will be smug and say I told you so. Now if the opposite is true, Eddie will be totally [censored] off and will be trying like hell to attract him to Pie land down the track. But we all hope that one day, Weideman plays a blinder against the Pies. Goal after the siren would be just perfect. A grim angry Eddie would be worth seeing.

With you all the way there, Mr Hemingway!

Just one thing to add to the underlined sentence: Goal after the siren, in the Grand Final would be just perfect!

Payback!!

...altho I don't think I could cope with the suspense...

[spirit of norm smith 16,092]

I call it A ... Taylor has picked up 2 gems in Oliver and Weideman

[Left Field 313]

Great to see Bluey is still posting.

"1 vote. 0.39% I'm not happy with our results, we are still in trouble".

Bet it was.

[Macca 16,900]

My vote was B because I was hoping that the club might have recruited at least one ready-made top player. That doesn't mean I'm disappointed though as the rest of the trade period seems to have worked out really well (at least on the surface)

To recruit any more than 4 good to excellent players in any given year is very difficult ... that's why it takes longer these days for a club to extract itself from the bottom reaches of the ladder.

I prefer to look at our recruiting from the end of the 2012 season onwards ... out of the 2012, 2013 and 2014 off-seasons we look to have picked up about 9 (3 per year on average) good to excellent players ... Viney, Hogan, Salem, Brayshaw, Tyson, Vince, Garlett, vandenBerg and the now retired Cross.

15 others recruited in that time period all have a chance of becoming good players or better ... Kent, Petracca, Stretch, Lumumba, JKH, ANB, Harmes, Dawes, O-Mac, Newton, Michie, White, Max King, Frost & Hunt - a number of those 15 won't make it to good status of course but on an overall basis, it's a more than tidy return for those 3 off seasons.

At a guess I'd say we may get 3-4 of those 15 to end up being at least good players (Petracca especially) so our return for those 3 off seasons could end up being 11-12 good players (or better)

Add to that this year's crop and the list is starting to look like a proper AFL list capable of winning more games than it loses. And why would we not think that our recruiting in the 2015 off-season would not mirror at least the last 2 previous off-seasons?

Out of Begg, Melksham, Kennedy, Oliver, Weideman, Hulett, Mitchell King & Wagner we could expect to end up with at least 3 good to excellent players. That quite conceivably brings our tally of good players brought in over 4 off-seasons to at least 14-15. Compare that with our return from '07 - '11.

There's a lot to look forward to.

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Edited November 28, 2015 by Macca

[Coq au vin 755]

It's much too early to say. We didn't know about Lucas Cook, Jordan Gysberts, Colin Sylvia, Sam Blease and co for months to years. Wait till they all play some games!

[Moneider96 1,045]

Review of our draft by Cal Twomey and Nat Edwards (skip to 20:45): http://www.afl.com.au/draft/road-to-the-draft