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In Jason Taylor we trust!

Bobby Clark
Bobby Clark
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Hannan was a smart pick. I watched him last year and thought he was up to AFL level. Taylor seems to be one of the better scouts out there. Hopefully he can get us a quality junior. Just keep our stocks replenished. It would be good if we could land a Fyfe/Cripps type player with a first or second round pick. It would just be a massive bonus on top of an already promising list.

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    1 hour ago, Moonshadow said:

    I've heard next year's draft is a cracker. This year's is shallow. Would JT consider a deal involving our 1st rounder + player this year to Hawks for their 1st rounder next year (assuming future pick rules petmit)? Gets them back in early this year for another ridiculous high profile trade and gives us a second 1st rounder for 2018 draft.

    Obviously not as simple as that, but you get my intent. 

     

    1 hour ago, Moonshadow said:

    I've heard next year's draft is a cracker. This year's is shallow. Would JT consider a deal involving our 1st rounder + player this year to Hawks for their 1st rounder next year (assuming future pick rules petmit)? Gets them back in early this year for another ridiculous high profile trade and gives us a second 1st rounder for 2018 draft.

    Obviously not as simple as that, but you get my intent. 

    This season’s taught us that looking too far ahead can be fraught, but the assumption would be that Hawthorn’s pick next year would be quite high, so you would have to offer a lot for them to do the deal.

     

    Similar situations with Brisbane and probably Fremantle I suppose. I’d be surprised if we threw in players that are genuinely rated highly enough to net us those sorts of picks in return (even when bundled with our pick this year, which looks like it’d be a pick around the fringes of pick 10).

     

    I’m not sure if the list management team is as pick focused these days and I suspect we are well into the phase of supplementing the core of our young team rather than targeting high draft picks. If we were chasing a high pick, we’d probably have to take a punt and bundle our first round picks from this year and next into a package for next year’s first from a team we’d don’t expect to go well. Would probably look a lot like what St Kilda achieved in their trade with Hawthorn, so maybe if Kelly decides to leave (and doesn’t come to Melbourne) we could do well as third party facilitators.  

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    We should change this to 

    THANK YOU JASON TAYLOR 

    just done a superb job 

    after the wines toumpas disaster, he joined us to deliver 

    Salem

    Petracca 

    Brayshaw 

    Oliver 

    Fritsch 

    Spargo

    Petty

    Sparrow

    Jackson

    Kozzy 

    Rivers 

    Bowey

    sure some top 10 picks but others were 2nd and 3rd round gold 

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    Yes, thank you, Jason Taylor. What an amazing recruiter. Can't wait to see his work this year.

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    On 9/26/2021 at 9:48 AM, spirit of norm smith said:

    We should change this to 

    THANK YOU JASON TAYLOR 

    just done a superb job 

    after the wines toumpas disaster, he joined us to deliver 

    Salem

    Petracca 

    Brayshaw 

    Oliver 

    Fritsch 

    Spargo

    Petty

    Sparrow

    Jackson

    Kozzy 

    Rivers 

    Bowey

    sure some top 10 picks but others were 2nd and 3rd round gold 

    Of all of those, only Trac and Brayshaw pick themselves. Most of the others were picked ahead of where they were projected. Great recruiting, well done Taylor and team

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    Also big big props to Josh Mahoney who made a lot of pivotal trades happen, when others carried on like pork chops about overpaying. 

    Hibbo

    Lever

    May

    Tomlinson

    Langdon 

    Brown

     

    Who gives a single sh&t about how much we paid for Lever now, hey? 

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    On 9/26/2021 at 9:48 AM, spirit of norm smith said:

    We should change this to 

    THANK YOU JASON TAYLOR 

    just done a superb job 

    after the wines toumpas disaster, he joined us to deliver 

    Salem

    Petracca 

    Brayshaw 

    Oliver 

    Fritsch 

    Spargo

    Petty

    Sparrow

    Jackson

    Kozzy 

    Rivers 

    Bowey

    sure some top 10 picks but others were 2nd and 3rd round gold 

    Fantastic, historically we have proven even top 10 picks are hard to nail, so hats off Jason.

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    22 hours ago, Jaded No More said:

    Also big big props to Josh Mahoney who made a lot of pivotal trades happen, when others carried on like pork chops about overpaying. 

    Hibbo

    Lever

    May

    Tomlinson

    Langdon 

    Brown

     

    Who gives a single sh&t about how much we paid for Lever now, hey? 

    Agree, and not just for the players we traded in. He also actively and wisely managed to trade picks as well. That gave Taylor the chance to get some of the players he wanted (eg, Pickett). Another reason to thank Josh Mahoney.

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    Looking forward  to watching an interview with JT on the club website. JT and his team have done a great job.

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    The recruitment and list management team have done an amazing job of putting the team together.  Top 10 picks normally sort themselves out, but they have consistently hit gold with much later picks which makes a huge difference to building a team as it creates depth.  As for there trades, they have had a clear plan over multiple years to build the side we have. 

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    On 9/27/2021 at 4:47 PM, Jaded No More said:

    Also big big props to Josh Mahoney who made a lot of pivotal trades happen, when others carried on like pork chops about overpaying. 

    Hibbo

    Lever

    May

    Tomlinson

    Langdon 

    Brown

     

    Who gives a single sh&t about how much we paid for Lever now, hey? 

    The phrase “bent over” was horrendously  thrown around in relation to Josh and clearly WRONG. 

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    2 hours ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

    Agree, and not just for the players we traded in. He also actively and wisely managed to trade picks as well. That gave Taylor the chance to get some of the players he wanted (eg, Pickett). Another reason to thank Josh Mahoney.

    And players, Hoges, Watts, Dom T. 
     

    I think Josh M would have been sitting back with a nice hard drink on Sat night loving every minute of what he was watching. 

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    58 minutes ago, Cards13 said:

    And players, Hoges, Watts, Dom T. 
     

    I think Josh M would have been sitting back with a nice hard drink on Sat night loving every minute of what he was watching. 

    Absolutely and deserves a lot of credit. He was a big part of the rebuild and the list we have today. 

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    Yes a massive thank you to Jason Taylor for his amazing work over the past lot of years. I was a bit surprised I didn’t hear his name mentioned more(if at all) in the post game interviews over the past few days. 
    Keen to see what he does over the coming weeks. 

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    JT was a Mark Neeld appointment believe it or not. Liked what he did at Collingwood.

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    29 minutes ago, dee-tox said:

    JT was a Mark Neeld appointment believe it or not. Liked what he did at Collingwood.

    well if nothing else it certainly proves that the old saying is true ie ..even a broken clock is right twice a day. 

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    I cannot sing Jason Taylor's praises high enough.

    He has been a wonderful recruiter for us! 

    Let's hope we can get a few gems in this year's AFL draft too!

     

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    Had a conversation with a Collingwood supporter today who wanted to bask in some of our glory by pointing out that Mark Williams and Alan Richardson had played with Collingwood. I told him that our best ex-Collingwood recruit may well be Jason Taylor. Not sure if that made him feel better or worse. 

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    Jason Taylor and Tim Lamb have done wonders for our club and set the league benchmark.

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    On 9/27/2021 at 4:47 PM, Jaded No More said:

    Also big big props to Josh Mahoney who made a lot of pivotal trades happen, when others carried on like pork chops about overpaying. 

    Hibbo

    Lever

    May

    Tomlinson

    Langdon 

    Brown

     

    Who gives a single sh&t about how much we paid for Lever now, hey? 

    We didn't pay enough!

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    26 minutes ago, Wrecker46 said:

    I've heard Bowie isn't even our best player from that draft.

    Jason Taylor is a weapon.

    What've you heard? 

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    7 minutes ago, Wrecker46 said:

    Bailey Laurie.

    Interesting considering he was injured the bulk of the year. But yeah looked class on his draft tapes.

    Who has been pumping him up to be better than Bowey?

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    8 minutes ago, Wrecker46 said:

    Bailey Laurie.

    I reckon Laurie will be a weapon next year. He will cut through traffic like butter. I predict both Laurie and the Weed will be regulars next year.

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