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I just watched Jacksons hls, He moves well, but im not sure he can kick that well. That is not exciting to me!

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    26 minutes ago, Demon3 said:

    I just watched Jacksons hls, He moves well, but im not sure he can kick that well. That is not exciting to me!

    That's good he will fit in well with the rest of his team mates.

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    I’d be excited if I was him too...

    The bloke can finally go on an absolute bender on Friday night!

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    1 hour ago, drysdale demon said:

    We haven't chosen anyone yet.

    Once again the club is slow to act! #sackgoodwin #sacktaylor #sacknorthey

    But seriously, good luck to Jason Taylor.  His night(s) of the year where he gets to go on an giant easter egg hunt.  And word is he is actually pretty good at it.

    If we do grab Jackson there's a case for being optimistic - Oliver was the same kind of deal. We identified a player we absolutely believed in, paid the price to get them rather than follow the implied rules of the hundreds of phantom drafts, and came out laughing.

    Doing that with a tall inside midfielder is great. To do that with a ruckman/forward, at a time when young rucks in particular are in desperate short supply, would be truly stellar.  There must be only half a dozen truly outstanding rucks of any age in the AFL at the moment - the All-Aus selection is an annual two-horse race and there just aren't that many future contenders lurking in the under-25 age group.

    If it works, the rewards are enormous and if Taylor & co believe in him, then it's a thrill.

    Sorry.  Got a little off topic to the Jackson debate.  I guess my main point is - that's got to be a thrill, having that much responsibility when you believe in your own ability to shine through.

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    3 hours ago, demonstone said:

    Shame about the poor spelling and grammatical errors.  Is Ben Gibson the work experience kid?

    Good to see they've fixed the schoolboy howlers.  Credit where it's due etc but it should never have gone out like that.

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    "You’d expect that the early selections would go on to play some really significant AFL footy."

    Well yeah, because a few of the past selections have opened up the opportunity for them, by playing insignificant footy...

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    7 hours ago, demonstone said:

    Shame about the poor spelling and grammatical errors.  Is Ben Gibson the work experience kid?

    Gibbo is the young fella who does the interviews on the club website. He's usually pretty solid but unfortunately, he's had a clanger there.

    Gone are the days of editors and sub-editors - he would have had 15-30 minutes to get that up on the site, so I'll cut him some slack.

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    3 hours ago, Little Goffy said:

    Once again the club is slow to act! #sackgoodwin #sacktaylor #sacknorthey

    But seriously, good luck to Jason Taylor.  His night(s) of the year where he gets to go on an giant easter egg hunt.  And word is he is actually pretty good at it.

    If we do grab Jackson there's a case for being optimistic - Oliver was the same kind of deal. We identified a player we absolutely believed in, paid the price to get them rather than follow the implied rules of the hundreds of phantom drafts, and came out laughing.

    Doing that with a tall inside midfielder is great. To do that with a ruckman/forward, at a time when young rucks in particular are in desperate short supply, would be truly stellar.  There must be only half a dozen truly outstanding rucks of any age in the AFL at the moment - the All-Aus selection is an annual two-horse race and there just aren't that many future contenders lurking in the under-25 age group.

    If it works, the rewards are enormous and if Taylor & co believe in him, then it's a thrill.

    Sorry.  Got a little off topic to the Jackson debate.  I guess my main point is - that's got to be a thrill, having that much responsibility when you believe in your own ability to shine through.

    Great post.

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    Taylor hasnt had any high picks to play with for a few years.. or no first rounders at all really (May and Lever trades)

    He will be feeling like a kid on Christmas Eve

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    7 hours ago, Demon3 said:

    I just watched Jacksons hls, He moves well, but im not sure he can kick that well. That is not exciting to me!

    So sick of all you Jackson,s no good and we want young, whinging , probably the same lot who wanted the essendon bloke instead of Oliver, Jackson will be twice as good as young, that is why taylor is picking jackson

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    7 hours ago, deebug said:

    Great we chose Jackson and in two years time he is on a plane back home to WA.

    like Nev Jetta?

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    8 minutes ago, Paulo said:

    So sick of all you Jackson,s no good and we want young, whinging , probably the same lot who wanted the essendon bloke instead of Oliver, Jackson will be twice as good as young, that is why taylor is picking jackson

    A good bold call, we’ll done, I would be very disappointed if we didn’t select him.

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    So will pickett and that bloke we took at at 28, what's his name 

     

     

     

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    Pickett will kick 8 on young one day

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    2 minutes ago, Paulo said:

    So will pickett and that bloke we took at at 28, what's his name 

     

     

     

    Parrot

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    7 minutes ago, Hobson said:

    Parrot

    So will parrot

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    11 minutes ago, Paulo said:

    Pickett will kick 8 on young one day

     

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