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Sibling Rule

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The other Grimes. The other Morton. The other Holland. The other Jakovich (didn't get injured).

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    Has anyone thought about whether there is a pattern to which is the better of siblings? E.g., older versus younger. I would be interested to hear the views of others more knowledgable than me.

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    11 hours ago, spirit of norm smith said:

    Interesting rule. Possible strategy. You could draft an older brother  as a late draft pick to get a younger talented sibling.  

    Like Collingwood did with the Clokes?

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    Shouldn't consider it.

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    11 hours ago, Fanatique Demon said:

    Has anyone thought about whether there is a pattern to which is the better of siblings? E.g., older versus younger. I would be interested to hear the views of others more knowledgable than me.

    My completely dodgy, non-evidence based theory is that the youngest son should be the best because (1) he has older brothers to play with as he's growing up (whereas the oldest brother has to wait for the younger brothers to be old enough to play with him) and (2) because he's the youngest he needs to be better if he wants to be able to compete.

    As I said, I have no evidence to back this up. It's just a thought bubble. 

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    19 hours ago, tiers said:

    The other Grimes. The other Morton. The other Holland. The other Jakovich (didn't get injured).

    Mitch Morton played 1 brilliant game in his afl career. Just happened to be on grand final day.

    Cometh the hour, cometh the man.

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    All three Brayshaw's? Sure I'd take that.

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    6 hours ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

    My completely dodgy, non-evidence based theory is that the youngest son should be the best because (1) he has older brothers to play with as he's growing up (whereas the oldest brother has to wait for the younger brothers to be old enough to play with him) and (2) because he's the youngest he needs to be better if he wants to be able to compete.

    As I said, I have no evidence to back this up. It's just a thought bubble. 

    There sense in your thinking, LDV. Putting aside twins, from my memory there were brothers Abblett, McDonald, Wagner, Matera, Beams, Brown, Curnow, Hill, Jakovich, Daniher, Cornes, etc. It's obvious that T Mac has it over O Mac, but is there a pattern of whether the younger or older is generally better? 

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    13 hours ago, Fanatique Demon said:

    There sense in your thinking, LDV. Putting aside twins, from my memory there were brothers Abblett, McDonald, Wagner, Matera, Beams, Brown, Curnow, Hill, Jakovich, Daniher, Cornes, etc. It's obvious that T Mac has it over O Mac, but is there a pattern of whether the younger or older is generally better? 

    Brian Stynes, Tom Flower and the Cockatoo-Collins twins were all younger brothers. Fair to say none were as good as their older sibling. Four examples (adding in the McDonalds) is hardly enough, though, to form a statistically valid view. 

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    I think the sibling rule is a good idea. There are not enough imperfections in the draft.

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    22 hours ago, Wrecker45 said:

    Mitch Morton played 1 brilliant game in his afl career. Just happened to be on grand final day.

    Cometh the hour, cometh the man.

    Cometh to us.

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    On 5/5/2020 at 9:33 PM, tiers said:

    The other Grimes. The other Morton. The other Holland. The other Jakovich (didn't get injured).

    Please, the other two Mortons. What a dynasty that could have been.

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