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Emma Quayle on the Draft

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in a deal that allowed them to keep Clayton Oliver from (the evil clutches of) Essendon.

 

Semantics. 

Bottom line is Clayton was saved from being forced to represent Essendrug

all that matters

So now that we've reached a conclusion on Emma's word-choice and the true function of quotation marks can we turn our attention to deciphering the meaning of the thread title?

 

If the thread title was Emma Quayle's Wassail then I am certain BBO would be interested ...??


I think you should reconsider your word-choice C&B. Putrid seems a little overstated.

...but I'll continue it anyway!

More than just getting it on the record, I think the bidding on academy players was also to keep the clubs intending to take them honest i.e. making them take them at the highest point in the draft.

And you could see the bidders smile at the 'farce' of it each time it happened.

I think that one of the more desirable things about trading our first round pick in the next draft is that it allowed us to get a second good young player into the list and the team a season earlier than otherwise would have happened. We are constantly fielding the youngest team week in week out and by getting the kid in earlier it gives us an opportunity to get games into them. This, to my mind at our stage of development is critically important.

 
8 hours ago, TeamPlayedFine39 said:

My recollection of this trade period was Essendon was all over Oliver.  We needed to get a pick ahead of them when we realised he wouldn't bet there by the time our first pick came along.

Recollections can be funny things. I just went back through some of the phantom drafts and Oliver was hardly mentioned. Paige Cardona had him at 24. Quayle did have in in at 4 in her final draft but before that hardly mentioned him I think..


Makes me feel ill just imagining Oliver in Essendon colours. So, so glad we got him instead of Essendrug.

About the 6th big time recruiting coup by the club. I've never been more impressed. Meanwhile our recruiter's old club is falling apart.

Oliver vs Parrish I have Oliver just ahead. I think over both players' careers? Oliver's basic package on his worst day is startling. Parrish just very good.

11 hours ago, ManDee said:

I read that too and wondered what she was trying to say. Perhaps, Melbourne in a master stroke of trading, swapped picks in order to get future champion Clayton Oliver before evil Essendon.

who is emma quail ? 

 

9 hours ago, BarnDee said:

who is emma quail ? 

 

Emma Quayle 

Emma Quayle

FOOTBALL WRITER WITH THE AGE

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Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/why-there-should-be-more-shade-in-the-giants-academy-debate-20160511-gosvjp.html#ixzz48O8FFM2p 
 

 

Edit: Much later- Oh,  quail not Quayle. 

Edited by ManDee

17 hours ago, mauriesy said:

Allow can mean 'permit' or 'authorise'. But it can also mean 'give the opportunity for'. Emma is using the latter.

Words can have multiple meanings, you know. :rolleyes:


That may be, but "enabled" is more elegant.


19 minutes ago, nutbean said:

 

  Image result for quail

Got me. I didn't notice the misspelling. I am such a Richard.

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