Wes Wally for me

1 hour ago, Demon Disciple said:

Wes Wally for me

Maybe this should be on the Look-Alikes thread:

On 05/11/2025 at 16:17, Pennant St Dee said:

Have seen him shut down a few times, you will never stop him accumulating the footy he is smart, apply pressure and you will impact his effectiveness. Run hard on turnover and use his direct opponent to hurt him the other way. He will not chase and it’s what he needs to work on

PSD Do you have a read on Koby Evans?

Obviously has to get his body right and most likely the eagles match any bid but in terms of upside I’m not sure they’ll be another big body explosive mid who will go late in this draft.

1 minute ago, DeeSpencer said:

PSD Do you have a read on Koby Evans?

Obviously has to get his body right and most likely the eagles match any bid but in terms of upside I’m not sure they’ll be another big body explosive mid who will go late in this draft.

Do I keep watching after the flip

Omg 🫣🫣🫣

Would be interesting to see how recruitment teams go about identifying their number 37 pick. Do they have a field of say five or ten possibles ranked and then take the best available on the night.

Ranking ten players in a definite order would be an enormous task. Do less and you run the risk that no player on your list is left or you've missed someone you thought would go at 25.

Much easier at the higher picks as you know the academy and F/S picks etc together with say the top 5.

On 05/11/2025 at 10:16, Timothy Reddan-A'Blew said:

Good(?) ol' GOOGLAI: Fred Campbell, Swans 1999, Saints 2000.

Didn’t get to realise the dream but Freddie Clutterbuck wunderkind from out west. Did spend at least some of the 2012 pre-season at the Demons. In fact if one digs deep enough, there’s an extant Freddie Clutterbuck thread in the DL vaults.

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46 minutes ago, Diamond_Jim said:

Would be interesting to see how recruitment teams go about identifying their number 37 pick. Do they have a field of say five or ten possibles ranked and then take the best available on the night.

Ranking ten players in a definite order would be an enormous task. Do less and you run the risk that no player on your list is left or you've missed someone you thought would go at 25.

Much easier at the higher picks as you know the academy and F/S picks etc together with say the top 5.

5:13 in this video. They spend all year ranking the 50-60 most draftable players they have, because they never know where there picks will fall. That’s the job.

I’m sure in practice they do zero in on guys around the range of their picks. Especially extra research on the top ones and then getting some likely targets at later picks. But the smartest thing to do would be to keep true to the order be flexible about moving up or down when opportunity to maximise talent presents.

3 hours ago, DeeSpencer said:

PSD Do you have a read on Koby Evans?

Obviously has to get his body right and most likely the eagles match any bid but in terms of upside I’m not sure they’ll be another big body explosive mid who will go late in this draft.

I like him, had him under me at 15s development, has some real X factor, building a tank to play consistently through the middle will take some time. He is very coachable and a good kid

honestly I think we should just take the best available player that manages to slide down to this pick, as long as there not clones to our first 2 picks, just think besides our lack of small forward crop I think we have enough depth in most parts of the ground to take best available

2 hours ago, DeeSpencer said:

But the smartest thing to do would be to keep true to the order be flexible about moving up or down when opportunity to maximise talent presents.

But how do you maintain flexibility in the face of multiple permutations.

Algorithmically it's an interesting exercise