A poor selection probably based on family connection. The AFL site says "The 19-year-old booted 32.18 at reserves level for the Bays." Note my highlighting. At senior level, he averaged 10 disposals. Hardly worthy of a high pick.

JT, your mojo has stopped working.

I’m so happy that we’ve taken Latrelle onboard, as it’s about time we had another X factor player running around in our forward line (well, since his cousin has gone into the mid-field, in a more or less permanent posting).

There’s a certain regular poster on here, who I hope won’t take a fence at my comments, but, as my son so wisely pointed out, Sharp would likely have no place in the team in the short term, as he would be somewhat superfluous, seeing that we have Viney and Steele there already. Also, I’d think that Taylor et al are looking forward to next year’s stronger draft, to pick up a mid or two, and there’s also every likelihood we’ll be making another play for Humphrey.

Oh, and I’m reminded of another player who had a lot of x-factor about him, but who’d played little senior level football (Darwin and a trial at Port Melbourne) and was taken pick 3 in the rookie draft, Aaron Davey.

Edited 1 hour ago1 hr by hardtack

6 minutes ago, rpfc said:

Yes, and in the case of Rivers - this Lindsay kid makes it even easier to keep Trent in the midfield.

Sparrow also would want more time in there - I am not the biggest fan as he is one dimensional but you need that dimension, it just tends to be for Viney or Steele.

Which brings us back to the point - we used Petracca’s value to replace Judd and to get Kade and Kozzie a friend in the forward line.

A fine way to spend picks just outside the top 10.

Sparrow will be an interesting one next year as I agree that he’s one dimensional, but I also reckon he looked like he was given a rigid/defensive/negative half forward role that didn’t suit him, under Goodwin. So I’d like to see how he looks in a more attacking King side.

And yes, King (or Taylor?) said we wanted to draft players that hit the scoreboard and we lack a small forward so Pickett just makes sense on that front in filling a need. Frees up other players like you said.

17 minutes ago, redandbluemakepurple said:

A poor selection probably based on family connection. The AFL site says "The 19-year-old booted 32.18 at reserves level for the Bays." Note my highlighting. At senior level, he averaged 10 disposals. Hardly worthy of a high pick.

JT, your mojo has stopped working.

based on your metric, 10 disposals a game makes him two-thirds as good as Cyril. I'll take that in a heartbeat.

I don't suppose JT pulled a video from his back pocket of Cuzzy stalking some unsuspecting young fella then absolutely burying him did he?

35 minutes ago, redandbluemakepurple said:

A poor selection probably based on family connection. The AFL site says "The 19-year-old booted 32.18 at reserves level for the Bays." Note my highlighting. At senior level, he averaged 10 disposals. Hardly worthy of a high pick.

JT, your mojo has stopped working.

since when was a small forward graded on their number of disposals, he needs to be invovled in scoring chains, goals, defensive intent. you can make some argument about spargo here, but he didnt do the goals/pressure part either. picketts do, its in their blood.

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Glenelg goalsneak and draft bolter Latrelle Pickett wowed with four majors in his SANFL League debut on the weekend.

40 minutes ago, redandbluemakepurple said:

The 19-year-old booted 32.18 at reserves level

Going off the last few MFC seasons, I'm pretty happy to have a player kicking a bunch more goals than points at any level.

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43 minutes ago, FireInTheBennelly said:

I don't suppose JT pulled a video from his back pocket of Cuzzy stalking some unsuspecting young fella then absolutely burying him did he?

Every so often I watch that video for a laugh. To be fair, Latrelle laid an excellent tackle in his highlights on the club website.

On 09/11/2025 at 12:19, Wrecker46 said:

You can’t pick someone on their surname but the Rioli’s and Pickett’s seem to be the exception.

The Davey boys went pretty good too.

30 minutes ago, BAMF said:

Every so often I watch that video for a laugh. To be fair, Latrelle laid an excellent tackle in his highlights on the club website.

Haha, so do I. Was immense.