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Coming up this morning on AFL Gettable. 

 

Didn’t give much away at all as expected.

Mentioned a couple of times it will simply be best available at both pick 5 and 9.

Jason Taylor said a lot without giving much away.

Said the Demons are going "best talent available" as is expected.

I did note that he is meeting with Simon Goodwin, the other coaching staff and Tim Lamb later today.

They will probably go through their final rankings for players and who they believe are the "most" talented in this year's AFL National Draft.

I expect it will simply be a case of who falls the Demon's way for both pick #5 and pick 9#.

 

JT is a good poker player …

I don’t imagine JT, Goody and Tim Lamb will login to DL and pickup our learned recommendations !!! 🤣🤣

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I imagine they will have gone through all possible scenarios and permutations of which players they would have to decide between at pick 5 (eg. if Langford, Tauru and Smith were all available, which would they take), and possibly the same at pick 9, but that will depend heavily on who is taken at 5 (eg, if Smith, then Allen…if Langford, then Reid or best small mid available).

14 minutes ago, hardtack said:

I imagine they will have gone through all possible scenarios and permutations of which players they would have to decide between at pick 5 (eg. if Langford, Tauru and Smith were all available, which would they take), and possibly the same at pick 9, but that will depend heavily on who is taken at 5 (eg, if Smith, then Allen…if Langford, then Reid or best small mid available).

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Easiest answer for JT. 

Just say we are going for best available and then pick who you want. Everyone will then think that they were the best available even if you have reached for a need.

1 hour ago, hardtack said:

I imagine they will have gone through all possible scenarios and permutations of which players they would have to decide between at pick 5 (eg. if Langford, Tauru and Smith were all available, which would they take), and possibly the same at pick 9, but that will depend heavily on who is taken at 5 (eg, if Smith, then Allen…if Langford, then Reid or best small mid available).

JT said that who they pick at 5 won't influence who they pick at 9, they're just going for the best talent at both picks.


If they go the way the normally do, I asked once,  as most clubs do, they rank every available player from 1 to whatever, dependent on the picks, some clubs may have a slightly different ranking, but this years draft is so even, most will probably be the same.

They obviously cross out from the list as they get picked.

How Oliver came from nowhere in his draft year, we obviously had him ranked higher than other clubs.

21 minutes ago, Satyriconhome said:

If they go the way the normally do, I asked once,  as most clubs do, they rank every available player from 1 to whatever, dependent on the picks, some clubs may have a slightly different ranking, but this years draft is so even, most will probably be the same.

They obviously cross out from the list as they get picked.

How Oliver came from nowhere in his draft year, we obviously had him ranked higher than other clubs.

No Saty, that "this year's draft is so even" means the various clubs rankings are less likely to be the same.  If the players were more stratified then they rankings would be more likely to be similar.

9 minutes ago, old55 said:

No Saty, that "this year's draft is so even" means the various clubs rankings are less likely to be the same.  If the players were more stratified then they rankings would be more likely to be similar.

Hi Cap'n, speaking to a couple of 'sources' I know, they told me the rankings should be pretty similar across the board from all clubs. Different strokes I suppose.

1 hour ago, old55 said:

No Saty

Why bother?


3 hours ago, Damo said:

Why bother?

Nothing personal, but can we please stop this nonsense.

Reading between the lines, we have plenty of talls in our top 10 wishlist. 

Couple that with Cal Twomey's belief that we'll take Tauru with our first pick if Langford goes to the Crows and that makes things very interesting.

I trust JT, but leaving Draper on the board seems ludicrous on the face of it. You could easily argue that he is the best mid available in the draft.

In that scenario, we could end up taking two key pos players.

This is the most intriguing draft I can remember. 

2 minutes ago, Cheesy D. Pun said:

Reading between the lines, we have plenty of talls in our top 10 wishlist. 

Couple that with Cal Twomey's belief that we'll take Tauru with our first pick if Langford goes to the Crows and that makes things very interesting.

I trust JT, but leaving Draper on the board seems ludicrous on the face of it. You could easily argue that he is the best mid available in the draft.

In that scenario, we could end up taking two key pos players.

This is the most intriguing draft I can remember. 

It certainly is a fascinating draft. I wouldn't be surprised if we went tall with one of our picks but would be staggered if we went tall with two.

18 minutes ago, Cheesy D. Pun said:

Reading between the lines, we have plenty of talls in our top 10 wishlist. 

Couple that with Cal Twomey's belief that we'll take Tauru with our first pick if Langford goes to the Crows and that makes things very interesting.

I trust JT, but leaving Draper on the board seems ludicrous on the face of it. You could easily argue that he is the best mid available in the draft.

In that scenario, we could end up taking two key pos players.

This is the most intriguing draft I can remember. 

Nah because apart from Tauru, who's the other KP in our range? 

I reckon if we go Tauru @ 5 we go Reid or Lindsay @ 9. 


1 hour ago, Nascent said:

It certainly is a fascinating draft. I wouldn't be surprised if we went tall with one of our picks but would be staggered if we went tall with two.

Good thing is Langford is a mid who’s prob 192cm now and marks well overhead so he’s a tall by definition at least..

I still think it’ll be Langford unless Smith somehow falls thru but other pick is between 4-5 at least 

 

22 minutes ago, Tolstoys Nudge said:

Good thing is Langford is a mid who’s prob 192cm now and marks well overhead so he’s a tall by definition at least..

I still think it’ll be Langford unless Smith somehow falls thru but other pick is between 4-5 at least 

 

Correct, by tall I meant your classic key position players

10 minutes ago, Nascent said:

Correct, by tall I meant your classic key position players

I know but I also mean he literally plays as a third talk option rather than small — high hands and a leap to boot! Only ‘tall’ on current radar for 5/9 appears to be Tauru and Travaglia whom aren’t exactly KPP 

 
23 hours ago, hardtack said:

Nothing personal, but can we please stop this nonsense.

I reckon there's a PHD waiting for someone to research how far into a social media thread before there is an ad hominem, snark or off topic post (like this one). Sorta like Godwin's law. Plenty of examples here to start.


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