So if Essendon would have taken Robey and Sharp rather than risk someone doing a deal with us to take Sharp, would we have taken Taylor and Farrow?

2 minutes ago, The Lobster Effect said:

So if Essendon would have taken Robey and Sharp rather than risk someone doing a deal with us to take Sharp, would we have taken Taylor and Farrow?

The opposite, my interpretation was if Farrow, XT and Pickett were on the board, we still wouldn't have selected Farrow

Great content except they missed night 2 of the national draft...

44 minutes ago, The Lobster Effect said:

So if Essendon would have taken Robey and Sharp rather than risk someone doing a deal with us to take Sharp, would we have taken Taylor and Farrow?

Does JT not literally say if Essendon take Sharp, we'll pick Taylor and Pickett? Or am I going crazy?

1 hour ago, dazzledavey36 said:

Onley is a big lad, love that. Built. Hope he gets bigger and breaks packs like Tom Hawkins

1 hour ago, The Lobster Effect said:

So if Essendon would have taken Robey and Sharp rather than risk someone doing a deal with us to take Sharp, would we have taken Taylor and Farrow?

Nope, our order of the 5 players left in our tier of players (perhaps our second tier behind the Eagles guys and perhaps Cumming) was:

Robey (unsure where but likely first), Taylor, Pickett, Nairn, Farrow.

And as explained by Twomey had Essendon gone Taylor we would’ve picked Nairn at 11 just to get Pickett in the 12 slot.

Top 3 insights:

Taylor: best on ground with the wrong boots! Plus confidence that he’ll mature into a leader and finals type player.

Pickett: Love the line from Lamby that if his name was Latrelle Richardson they’d still pick him. The belief in his talent being obvious even in 2023. And the confidence that he can play wing or even on ball.

Matthews: exciting to hear about how good they think he is athletically and how he complements our other small forwards.

clearly they were beyond thrilled that xavier 'nephew' taylor fell through to our selection while latrelle pickett was always going to be selected by us

the wraps on matthews are strong; exciting to hear

I've been waiting for this video and feared it wouldnt be produced this year. Fantastic insights into the process. I enjoyed the banter between the team.

40 minutes ago, DeeSpencer said:

Pickett:

Kingy was very complimentary...

8 minutes ago, rjay said:

Kingy was very complimentary...

That was my takeaway too. It’s highlights and edited, but Kings looked so poker faced until he was talking about Pickett

Everyone should do themselves a favour,

Watch the video on the MFC website

Fantastic insight into what they thought .

No doubt similar things were said about players and interviews if blokes we did not get but……

We should all thank JT and TL. And all the other staff About the work they did. Following Latrelle for 30 months Insane to actually get him

Can someone load the video. Great watch

1 hour ago, 640MD said:

No doubt similar things were said about players and interviews if blokes we did not get but……

We should all thank JT and TL. And all the other staff About the work they did. Following Latrelle for 30 months Insane to actually get him

Can someone load the video. Great watch

It's edited so they are hardly likely to say publicly damn our preferred pick was taken so got our next pick who's not as good.

Enjoy it for what it is. We have drafted 4 very good/exciting candidates with high ceilings

2 hours ago, 640MD said:

Everyone should do themselves a favour,

Watch the video on the MFC website

Fantastic insight into what they thought .

No doubt similar things were said about players and interviews if blokes we did not get but……

We should all thank JT and TL. And all the other staff About the work they did. Following Latrelle for 30 months Insane to actually get him

Can someone load the video. Great watch

Ess, Carl and Syd have also produced a similar videos. Worth a watch also if your really keen.

42 minutes ago, jnrmac said:

It's edited so they are hardly likely to say publicly damn our preferred pick was taken so got our next pick who's not as good.

Enjoy it for what it is. We have drafted 4 very good/exciting candidates with high ceilings

I think it's pretty obvious from how it was edited that there was at least 1 prospect they discussed before Taylor. From all of the whispers/rumours, it seems that was probably Robey. Hard to tell if there was another.

But they seemed genuinely glad that Taylor got through. And from the video, it does seem like Latrelle was always coming at pick 12

1 hour ago, jnrmac said:

It's edited so they are hardly likely to say publicly damn our preferred pick was taken so got our next pick who's not as good.

Enjoy it for what it is. We have drafted 4 very good/exciting candidates with high ceilings

Who misses out?

JT mentioned in describing Taylor before the draft that he's not the centre forward player they are also searching for, that midfielder that can go forward, but he turns defence into offence. So obviously best available at the pick not needs based.

Edited 14 hours ago14 hr by Its Time Again

On 28/11/2025 at 20:54, DeeSpencer said:

Pickett: Love the line from Lamby that if his name was Latrelle Richardson they’d still pick him. The belief in his talent being obvious even in 2023. And the confidence that he can play wing or even on ball.

Then perhaps we should have had a flier on him with a late pick in the 2024 national draft or rookie draft, rather than using pick 12 in 2025.

I found the way they interviewed the players rather comical rather than getting to know the player.

During the draft they were not very business like, I think ex-footballers don't realise football has become a serious business were a clubs future is dependent on team performance.