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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SANFL Player Focus: Latrelle Pickett (Glenelg)

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.

1 hour ago, Rodney (Balls) Grinter said:

The Davey boys went pretty good too.

Still are..

Any close marking HBF in the AFL could go cross eyed looking for one or both of these.

3 hours 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.

If he’s so far off it why was every club in the immediate picks following ours also looking to take him, they certainly didn’t need a family connection on there list to see his potential.

Stoked with this selection.

Kozzie cuz power.

Welcome to the club LSP!

5 hours 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.

I fully agree he was chosen for family ties, but that doesn’t mean it was a bad decision.

I know nothing about him, haven’t followed the draft a heap, I never do until after picks are locked in because it’s all made up until a pick is chosen.

I think the pick would be tactical as it keeps Kozzie here for as long as possible on his contract but again that doesn’t mean the new Picket isn’t any good. 32 goals per season for us is very handy. Better than Sparrow who provides us nothing but nice hair.

I think he was selected for his speed, X factor and goal kicking nouse.

All the above is required to help solve our goal scoring issues.

Best available, then positional need. Let’s see how he turns up and turns it on…. Go the Lisp!

7 hours 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.

He avg 10 disposals and kicked four goals in his debut (avg just under two for the games he played)….it may have been a reach but he has attributes we’re crying out for

1 hour ago, GawnOfTheDead said:

I fully agree he was chosen for family ties, but that doesn’t mean it was a bad decision.

I know nothing about him, haven’t followed the draft a heap, I never do until after picks are locked in because it’s all made up until a pick is chosen.

I think the pick would be tactical as it keeps Kozzie here for as long as possible on his contract but again that doesn’t mean the new Picket isn’t any good. 32 goals per season for us is very handy. Better than Sparrow who provides us nothing but nice hair.

He was chosen then because he was well and truly gone by the time our next pick came around - that also indicates that several other teams were into him as well, not just Melbourne.

Youre also comparing two entirely different players when referring to sparrow?

7 hours ago, hardtack said:

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.

When The Flash started off for Dees I was still living in Melbourne, I used to love his chase down tackles. I think for Latrelle that even if he isn’t kicking goals or helping set them up he can still get involved with his tackling and pressure, Flash at times had them guessing.

9 hours ago, binman said:

The idea that we would use a pick 12 to keep koz is a nonsense.

The key factor I reckon is, as you suggest, it means koz can play as a permanent mid who goes forward occasionally.

We need koz in the middle as otherwise we have no leg speed in there - well, that and the fact you want koz around the ball as much as possible given his damage factor.

And it goes without saying Taylor thinks he has the talent and potential to justify the decision.

BUT the Koz connection is a big, big bonus and almost certainly a factor in the call, for example instead of taking Cairn or Doveston.

For one thing, what a great way playing with your cousin is to help create an environment LP can thrive and love being in.

Ditto for Koz.

And Wheels must love it as it just adds to a really strong core of young indigenous boys, for whom McAdams and Koz are leaders and great supports.

I'll be honest and say I've barely watched any vision of him (but I will now - ill watch every bit of vision I can find on YouTube).

But even so, I have to say I just love this call.

In Taylor I trust

I would call it 360 degree thinking. He can play, he can kick goals (a clear need) he provides an extra level of support to our marquee player.

7 hours ago, hardtack said:

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.

Steele and Viney are the future, so you wouldn’t necessarily NOT pick an inside mid based on that if you highly rate them - there’s every chance they just didn’t rate sharp becoming that level of inside mid and see - to your point - opportunity next year to fill a potential need

9 minutes ago, heath55 said:

He was chosen then because he was well and truly gone by the time our next pick came around - that also indicates that several other teams were into him as well, not just Melbourne.

Youre also comparing two entirely different players when referring to sparrow?

Evidently, yes.

4 minutes ago, GawnOfTheDead said:

Evidently, yes.

Strange