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WELCOME TO THE MELBOURNE FOOTBALL CLUB - AUSTIN BRADTKE

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1 hour ago, Stormy Dee said:

If that’s his dad in the picture and they’re on a flat surface with similar shoes on his Dad must be 215cm tall!

Many, many years ago I met Mark in a pub. Nice bloke and an absolutely massive, massive unit. I'm 6'2" and I felt like I only came up to his chest. Was like having a beer with a tree

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    4 hours ago, Skuit said:

    Collingwood supporters generally cry into their porridge rather than cornflakes. It's a dental thing.

    I like the way you've covered up the real reason for crying into their porridge by claiming it's a dental issue when everyone knows the real reason is their incarceration in prison.

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     A caller on SEN rang in and said he'd watched Austin play Under 12s, U13s and U14s and said he was as good as the Kings.

    Whopping grain of salt alert, but.....sounds pretty exciting!

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    17 minutes ago, Roger Mellie said:

     A caller on SEN rang in and said he'd watched Austin play Under 12s, U13s and U14s and said he was as good as the Kings.

    Whopping grain of salt alert, but.....sounds pretty exciting!

    Just hope the caller wasn't referring to Max and Mitch King.

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    Find a talented junior and put him in to another sport for a few years and grab him free of charge, sounds like a Swans Academy player.

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    12 hours ago, spirit of norm smith said:

    Petracca Maynard Joel.Smith. Bradtke. Gawn. 

    Starting 5 

    Jesse H also a star baller

    as was lewis.

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    6 foot 7 inches tall.  17 years old.  State footballer at 15.  State basketballer at 16 and 17.  A son of successful pros.  Lifelong Dee fan.  For nothing? 

    Huge get.

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    3 hours ago, Demons11 said:

    There is no way he would be a first rounder. 

    He hasn’t played footy in 3 years and is a speculative pick at best.  

    Not saying he would have been a  first rounder, but he clearly has talent/potential if half a dozen or more teams were after him.

    So while we wont have our first round pick we are adding a draft age player at no cost to help cover it.

    The last paragraph of The Age article touches on that  -

     

    'The decision is also a boost for Melbourne, who appear finals bound for the first time since 2006, as they do not have a first round draft pick at this year's national draft having traded a future first rounder to Adelaide to secure Jake Lever. '

    Edited by Petraccattack

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    If he is half as good as his old man was at Basketball with the footy, then we have the potential steal of the year.

    Melbourne Tigers royalty. Up there with Gaze, Copeland and Simmons.

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    Austin Bradtke said on the video on the MFC website that he will be focusing on weights and running laps because his skills are "pretty good".

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    1 hour ago, deebug said:

    Well didn't see this one coming. Welcome Austin☺️

    Thanks Mr Neeld

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    So, if we don't have the footy success we all crave this year, maybe we can pull out of the AFL, and join the NBL instead!

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    27 minutes ago, Petraccattack said:

    Not saying he would have been a  first rounder, but he clearly has talent/potential if half a dozen or more teams were after him.

    So while we wont have our first round pick we are adding a draft age player at no cost to help cover it.

    The last paragraph of The Age article touches on that  -

    To add to this, and some mentioned it earlier, he has already played some rep footy during his junior years so he isn't coming from a long way back.  He will know what he is doing pretty quickly.  

    The beauty is that, at 17, time is also on his side and he can develop his craft at Casey without being thrown to the wolves too soon.  With Gawny taking him under his wing he has a good chance of developing into a player for us.

    And we got him for nothing.  Gold.

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    11 minutes ago, Clint Bizkit said:

    Because of a 17-year old rookie ruckman who hasn't played football for three years?

    He may not necessarily be groomed as a ruckman, chances are he will, but today you see players that size playing key position, Daniher is nearly the same height, even Paul Salmon was 6'6" tall and played at full forward.  

    Forward/Ruck may be his ideal position, then he'd be competing with Weid.

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    2 hours ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

    I like the way you've covered up the real reason for crying into their porridge by claiming it's a dental issue when everyone knows the real reason is their incarceration in prison.

    champagne comedy

    real late show stuff

    bravo sir

     

    I am glad for Demonland's existence, with a family of inlaws full of Collingwood, one must maintain a pretense of civility (for marital harmony if nothing else) politely remarking on a CFC win or commiserating for a loss. Meanwhile, one can come to Demonland to revel in the Carringbush bashing we all know deep down is just the right thing to do

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    I often wonder what happens behind the scenes with these multi-sport talents - especially the basketballers, when they’ve chosen the other sport, then suddenly rock up at Cat B rookies in the AFL. 

    Given that there’s daylight between the career prestige and cash between the NBA and the AFL, you would owe it to yourself to have a crack at the former first and fall back to the latter when it was obvious it was not going to happen.

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    52 minutes ago, Clint Bizkit said:

    Because of a 17-year old rookie ruckman who hasn't played football for three years?

    He turns 18 in May, so he's either turned 18 or will in the next week, which means he's roughly 18 months younger than Filipovic.

    I'd say he'd be aware of a looming threat.

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    My research shows that Austin Bradtke's last official game was in a losing side with East Sandringham against Mordialloc Braeside in a South Metro Junior Football League Under 14's grand final in August 2014.

    The King twins from Haileybury College. Bradtke wore the number 25. Other teammates in that side with interesting names were Samuel Stynes and Darcy Tilbrook. I can't figure out how a team with those names lost the game.

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    There's some talk of us starting to shape as a destination club. This is all good. But what's more exciting is that there's evidence that we're now perhaps considered a Rookie destination club with a strong development programme and clear pathway as demonstrated by Maynard and Smith. It's great if everyone in the AFL wants to come to us, but we will still need to pay for them and juggle the cap - so it's even better if we can keep getting first dibs on potential top-line young talent for free.

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