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17 hours ago, Elegt said:

But I am right. Did you think kyle was the right selection at the time? I knew he was a mistake 

May I just clarify, you're all fired up at the club and proud of yourself for 'knowing' that a player picked in the mid-season rookie draft might not develop to high levels?

And you also believe selecting Dunkley shows how Taylor is obsessed with slow inside midfielders... such as Jackson, Rivers and Pickett... and that "He needs to change his attitude for this year."

I don't think it even counts for trolling credit if people are smirking when they see your comments. 

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    21 hours ago, Elegt said:

    Pickett had an absolute blinder tonight. He is everything dunkley is not. Quick, skilful and tough

    I was working and haven’t watched a replay of the GF yet so don’t know how he played in it, but the rest of the finals series Pickett was average, he got bagged for being soft and fumbling a lot on the radio. ??‍♂️

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    4 hours ago, Little Goffy said:

    May I just clarify, you're all fired up at the club and proud of yourself for 'knowing' that a player picked in the mid-season rookie draft might not develop to high levels?

    And you also believe selecting Dunkley shows how Taylor is obsessed with slow inside midfielders... such as Jackson, Rivers and Pickett... and that "He needs to change his attitude for this year."

    I don't think it even counts for trolling credit if people are smirking when they see your comments. 

    We have a plethora of slow inside mid... Taylor has not drafted one player with a solid amount of pace bar pickett. Id also argue langdon isn't quick but has great endurance 

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    40 minutes ago, Elegt said:

    We have a plethora of slow inside mid... Taylor has not drafted one player with a solid amount of pace bar pickett. Id also argue langdon isn't quick but has great endurance 

    I guess my point is in two parts, a) a speculative pick in the mid-season rookie draft is hardly team-defining, and b) You're insistence on superiority over Taylor is at least a year out of date given the acquisition of Jackson, Pickett, Rivers, Langdon, Tomlinson and Bennell in a single off-season, not one of which is the plodding inside mid you believe he needs to 'change his attitude about' this year.

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    Just now, Little Goffy said:

    I guess my point is in two parts, a) a speculative pick in the mid-season rookie draft is hardly team-defining, and b) You're insistence on superiority over Taylor is at least a year out of date given the acquisition of Jackson, Pickett, Rivers, Langdon, Tomlinson and Bennell in a single off-season, not one of which is the plodding inside mid you believe he needs to 'change his attitude about' this year.

    Tomlinson is a plodder, moves like Tom mcdonald. Also mid season draft is a great opportunity to take a risk to bolster up your deficiencies, instead Taylor decided to continue with the slow inside mid trend

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    15 hours ago, Rodney (Balls) Grinter said:

    We took one, it didn't come off. 

    Get over it.

    Didn't go anywhere near addressing our deficiencies though. Pickett would've been ideal. Mistakes happen I understand but I'm just so fed up with the recruiting over the past decade. Of course mainly prendagasts fault rather than Taylor but I really think we need to recruit faster players

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    22 hours ago, Elegt said:

    Tomlinson is a plodder, moves like Tom mcdonald. Also mid season draft is a great opportunity to take a risk to bolster up your deficiencies, instead Taylor decided to continue with the slow inside mid trend

    dunkley was actually a wise choice at the time, he was in form playing as an overager and the club took the chance to get an extra 6 months development and experience at the level into him given he was likely to be selected at the end of season in the drafts by someone, yes it didn't work out but u can see the thought process and u can't fault it realistically

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    20 minutes ago, Turner said:

    dunkley was actually a wise choice at the time, he was in form playing as an overager and the club took the chance to get an extra 6 months development and experience at the level into him given he was likely to be selected at the end of season in the drafts by someone, yes it didn't work out but u can see the thought process and u can't fault it realistically

    But he lacked pace...

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    18 hours ago, demonstone said:

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    That's one way to get round the profanity censorship!

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    15 hours ago, Elegt said:

    But he lacked pace...

    Depends what our overall game plan and list strategy is. 
     

    As long as they have good tackle pressure and can read the play very well I’m ok with having some inside mids, talls and even the occasional flanker without top pace. They have to bring skills and ball winning to counter but if they do it’s ok to have a balance. Geelong are like that. Port and Brisbane are similar.

    The Richmond model of pretty much the entire team being super quick works for them but even they drafted a guy like Jack Ross who isn’t quick. But he’s a good tackler and ball winner and has played some very good football for them.

    I was fine with Sparrow, JJ and Dunkley as our midfield depth. It’s our lack of effective quick flankers that concerns me more and we had a whole lot of other picks to do better on them. 

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