32 minutes ago, The Taciturn Demon said:

Interesting (if true, which is always an important caveat with the Herald Sun). Not sure they have a lot to work with to trade up. Their finals series was awful, but they didn't fluke the minor premiership, so I'm not sure if clubs will be rubbing their hands together for future picks.

16 + F1 for 8?

19 minutes ago, old55 said:

16 + F1 for 8?

Yeah, having said what I said, we might be one of the few clubs who would consider it.

Mainly because I wonder if 7 and 8 are no-man's-land picks in this draft - high enough to make everyone think you should be getting a very good player, but not high enough to gurantee that very good player from a shallow pool. Does 16 give a recruiter more freedom to have a swing at a bit of a smokey, rather than feel obligated to pick a sure thing (who becomes a C grade, 125-game plodder)?

Maybe it's moot when it comes to Jason Taylor, whose selection of Pickett, Jackson, Windsor and Tholstrup suggest he couldn't give a stuff about what others think.

It's also moot if Taylor is confident he can get two beauties at 7 and 8.

If it's not, I don't mind the idea of banking picks for next year before Tassie really messes up the top of the draft. And it is fun to think about Adelaide going full 2023 Fremantle next year.

I’m surprised that with one exception when it was raised almost as an aside nobody has asked the obvious question and that is whether our Aidan is possibly related to Franz Schubert,  the Austrian superstar composer of classical music. Admittedly, Franz has been deceased for almost two centuries, but we shouldn’t ignore the fact that Aidan hails from South Australia which is full of people of Germanic extraction so there might be some connection here. On the other hand, Franz’ bio tells me he was just 156cm tall (5’1”) and that his cause of death was both typhus and syphilis so if there is a genetic connection, he might be ruled out on the grounds of new coach’s no d*ckheads policy. This is going to be a fascinating watch.

11 hours ago, Dockett 32 said:

We might soon with Max’s age, but Heath & White arriving, wouldn’t think another tall is a necessity.

Similarly we are ok for smalls Picket, Viney, Chandler, Tholstrop, Laurie.

More bigger fast running Mids , to replace Trac and Clarrie seem to be the requirement.

we definitely dont look ok for smalls on the basis that only two of those are smalls (pickett and chandler) and only one of those is stationed i50 at a time essentially

not to mention laurie is 12 months away having the choice of port melbourne or werribee and viney is 32 with a full 14years of afl and a history of shoulders

not to derail the thread or anything but had to be said

Edited yesterday at 13:361 day by Turner

7 hours ago, Whispering_Jack said:

I’m surprised that with one exception when it was raised almost as an aside nobody has asked the obvious question and that is whether our Aidan is possibly related to Franz Schubert,  the Austrian superstar composer of classical music. Admittedly, Franz has been deceased for almost two centuries, but we shouldn’t ignore the fact that Aidan hails from South Australia which is full of people of Germanic extraction so there might be some connection here. On the other hand, Franz’ bio tells me he was just 156cm tall (5’1”) and that his cause of death was both typhus and syphilis so if there is a genetic connection, he might be ruled out on the grounds of new coach’s no d*ckheads policy. This is going to be a fascinating watch.

Aidan Johnson is more likely related to Brute Bernard.

Edited yesterday at 13:441 day by bluey
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