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15 minutes ago, DeeSpencer said:

The only thing I can think of here is that Sydney don’t want to encourage teams to make high bids on academy picks given they have a few coming next year. 

Or, Occam's razor says that it is probably because they don't rate him as the best player at pick 5. Likely not even the best player of his type.

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    11 minutes ago, Axis of Bob said:

    Or, Occam's razor says that it is probably because they don't rate him as the best player at pick 5. Likely not even the best player of his type.

    Then they kind of tricked GWS to trade up with Adelaide, which also tipped the Giants hand that they were getting ahead of a bid. Seems incredibly low risk for the Swans to bid. Surely Freo bid just to keep them honest. GWS aren’t taking picks 40, 59 and 60, they are using them to match! 

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    Not sure y we are so into this kid, under sized ruck by modern standards and not shown enough as a key fwd IMO and those are speculative enough as is with high picks, surely we need a player like Hayden Young more, hard to see any return on this kid inside the next 4 years 

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    5 hours ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

    My mate, who goes for Fremantle, has been keeping a close eye on Jackson, this is what he had to say: 

    “If Melbourne pick up Luke Jackson at pick 3 it will be an absolute prize... he is Josh Kennedy esk in the air and Nic Nat on the ground and probably Patty Ryder in the ruck... if you haven’t watched his highlights tape, you should... he is full of talent and will dominate the comp for the next decade”

    A bit over the top or does anyone share his views? Obviously I hope he’s spot on. 

    Will he still be available at pick 3?!

     

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    34 minutes ago, Garbo said:

    Not sure y we are so into this kid, under sized ruck by modern standards and not shown enough as a key fwd IMO and those are speculative enough as is with high picks, surely we need a player like Hayden Young more, hard to see any return on this kid inside the next 4 years 

    Looks like he could be an oversized mid...

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    On 11/25/2019 at 7:07 PM, Skuit said:

    Yes, it does seem like Taylor is a bit of a basketball fan. I think I heard somewhere that Pendlebury used to play b'ball as well.  

    Well, maybe if they don’t work out, we could start a MFC Basketball team lead by Bradke and Jackson ?

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    6 minutes ago, monoccular said:

    Well, maybe if they don’t work out, we could start a MFC Basketball team lead by Bradke and Jackson ?

    I can't believe Jason Taylor drafted Austin Bradtke instead of Ben Simmons :mad:

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    2 minutes ago, John Demonic said:

    I can't believe Jason Taylor drafted Austin Bradtke instead of Ben Simmons :mad:

    We wanted the little bit extra Salary cap space ?

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    50 minutes ago, Ron Burgundy said:

    Will he still be available at pick 3?!

     

    Well......have a read of post #47 in the ‘Nearest the Pin’ thread and you’ll find the answer you seek. 

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    I’m off work at the moment so watched almost the entire AFL Draft telecast via the app. Cal Twomey said that he had asked a number of recruiters who they’d take at three and he said the majority did not hesitate to say Jackson.

    I know this fact won’t sway the Demonland experts but seriously cannot wait to giggle at the reaction on here to Jackson’s name being called at Pick 3.

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    8 minutes ago, the fork said:

     

    I know this fact won’t sway the Demonland experts but seriously cannot wait to giggle at the reaction on here to Jackson’s name being called at Pick 3.

     

    I have questioned the possible Jackson pick, as have many others.

    If we take him, I will still be very excited. He will be a Demon player,  thats all that matters. Also I have been wanting the club for years to bring in some X  factor and flair,  and they are doing that.  Its great.

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    7 minutes ago, the fork said:

    I’m off work at the moment so watched almost the entire AFL Draft telecast via the app. Cal Twomey said that he had asked a number of recruiters who they’d take at three and he said the majority did not hesitate to say Jackson.

    I know this fact won’t sway the Demonland experts but seriously cannot wait to giggle at the reaction on here to Jackson’s name being called at Pick 3.

    ...and they all would have taken Scully at 1 ahead of Martin at 3.

    Let's hope we get the right one at 3.

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    6 hours ago, Older demon said:

    The latest draft predictor from the Adelaide journo's has us taking Jackson at 3 and no bid on Green. Tactically GWS take Ash at 4 and Sydney make a bid for Green which GWS match  so Green goes at 5. Sydney then get pick 6(Flanders) Adelaide have 7 (McAsey) Freo 8 ( Robertson a W.A. boy) Freo have next pick 8 (Stephens) Carlton bid for Henry at 10 which Freo match. That means Freo get picks 8,9,& 10 wow. At 11 Carlton may go for Serong leaving MFC with pick 12 and in this mock draft Young is still there and so is Picket.

    Young might slide to 28, that would be great

    1 jackson

    10 pickett

    28 young

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    Go home factor is impossible to ignore. It's going to be a big risk taking Jackson. I think he'll be good but Perth is just so different to Melbourne. Hope the club has interviewed the bejeesus out of him to make sure he's not a flight risk.

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    If young and taylor were both there at 28 i think we take taylor at this pick, we need goal kickers not hb flankers

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    1 hour ago, the fork said:

    I know this fact won’t sway the Demonland experts but seriously cannot wait to giggle at the reaction on here to Jackson’s name being called at Pick 3.

    Seriously hope you’ll still be giggling in 4 years time and we’re all very happy campers. 

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    38 minutes ago, Paulo said:

    Young might slide to 28, that would be great

    1 jackson

    10 pickett

    28 young

    Absolutely no chance that Young will be available at pick 28. He will be picked in the first round without a doubt.

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    1 hour ago, leucopogon said:

    Go home factor is impossible to ignore. It's going to be a big risk taking Jackson. I think he'll be good but Perth is just so different to Melbourne. Hope the club has interviewed the bejeesus out of him to make sure he's not a flight risk.

    Maybe we need to rethink the way we acclimatise Jackson to Melbourne. The current plan seems to be boarding with a caring host family then quickly in to a share house with team mates in a nice inner city suburb with lots of things to see and do.

    We might be better off just dumping him in a dilapidated house in Cranbourne (near to Casey) or even better Frankston (right by the beach) with a few meth addicted neighbours and plenty of bogan in the air. Buy him a jetski and he won't even know the difference (until June).

     

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    A ruckman at pick 3. I still can’t believe it. 

    Lets hope he can develop into a fwd 

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    Thinking he might be a Giants player come tomorrow 

    and we will have another Green in the red and blue. 

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    53 minutes ago, Patches O’houlihan said:

    Thinking he might be a Giants player come tomorrow 

    and we will have another Green in the red and blue. 

    And then we'll trade Gus for Hogan next year :laugh:

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    8 hours ago, leucopogon said:

    Go home factor is impossible to ignore. It's going to be a big risk taking Jackson. I think he'll be good but Perth is just so different to Melbourne. Hope the club has interviewed the bejeesus out of him to make sure he's not a flight risk.

    I don't particularly like comparing players with chattels and I hope he doesn't want to leave, but if he's a good player and wants to go home, he's still a valuable asset. It's not like he would go home leaving us with nothing in return.

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    20 hours ago, one_demon said:

    A few years and he'll want to go home to Perth

    I Agree.  Why has there been very little on the go home factor especially to WA.  The processes now mean contracts are worthless if someone wants to leave compared to the old days. The kid might spend a year at Casey and wonder ' what the hell'.

    I can see 5 - 6 years of a Jesse Hogan type angst each off season.

    Be warned .

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    7 hours ago, Patches O’houlihan said:

    Thinking he might be a Giants player come tomorrow 

    and we will have another Green in the red and blue. 

    Word is we won't be bidding on Green because we are set on Jackson.

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