1 hour ago, BAMF said:

Does anyone know who we were aiming to draft when we traded up and got Tholstrop?

At the moment the only thing that suggests that we weren't going to get Tholstrop is that we did a late dash to his home in W.A which suggests we got word that our target wouldn't be available.

2 reasons.

1) we never wanted to use that pick. It was the highest pick we could get and the trade was Windsor, Kolt, and Langford picks for pick 1 (Reid). Im not sure in hindsight it was worth it, but we don’t end up with pick 5(?) in the Langford year if we had Reid. We had too many close games he would have had an influence on.

2) Taylor believed (and so did everyone else) the pool became very, very shallow after pick 15. And that’s borne out to be true somewhat bar a few notable exceptions. Remembering we turned down the offer to trade down from the Windsor pick as Adelaide wanted Curtain. Leake was also in our sights at the Kolt pick if he was off the board. Not sure why we didn’t have Wilson up there.

4 hours ago, KozzyCan said:

I'm surprised so many people think Oliver can get back to the player he was. I was hopeful at the start of the year but we're now two and a half years since seeing him play at a consistently high level. His best this year was just okay and I tend to think that's the player he is now.

I hope King can get him back but I'm not holding my breath.

1 hour ago, The Taciturn Demon said:

I'm the same. I think the best we can hope for is about the same but with much less nervous nowhere handballing.

If we look at his last couple of games this season there was a marked improvement.

A clear preseason and there's no reason Clarrie can't get back to his best.

It was always going to be a couple of year project...

Clarry's last few games, from about Round 20 were getting back to his extraction standard and his ability to wrack up possessions and tackles, which is not surprisingly linked with fitness.

If he has another uninterrupted pre season, Clarry will be back IMO. Bookmark it.

Edited 7 hours ago7 hr by Adam The God
Sorry rjay, as binners would say, Snap!