dazzledavey36

Welcome @RickyD and good on you for your letter. You have myself and a legions of supporters who fully support what you're trying to push. i also like you because you trigger the happy clappers who are delusional in thinking there is nothing wrong with the club. keep it up.

The huge upside with him is that he's never really completed a pre season which why clubs have him really high up in the draft. The scope around his potential is incredibly high. There's a bit of Clayton Oliver 2017 element in terms of the upside with his conditioning and stripping down weight to an elite athlete type body to play more midfield minutes. I would be stoked if he fell through to our pick.

Nothing wrong with it. He's obviously worried like every other parent that have kids playing for the Dees with all the noise and leaks coming out of the club. Spoke to a parent of a current player few weeks back now and they too shared their concerns around some of the player behaviour and culture issues inside the club. Same parent that told me the Petracca camp had some serious issues against the Melbourne Football Club. Tom Morris then broke the story two weeks after that.

Keep an eye out for the name Tye Hourigan from Traralgon Football Club 23 year old smokey defender in the same mould as Tom Stewart and we have strong interest in him. One to watch.

Huge get for Carlton.. bugger.

Players not fussed if Oliver's traded.. speaks volume in itself.

He's staying at GWS. They're pretty adamant after talks this weeks and a few proposals put forward to them that he's staying. Just remember GWS have a history of this with Cam McCarthy.

Nothing more cringe then a drunk fan annoying an AFL player..

Few of the young boys are over in America doing their training as well.

With the potential bid of Kako inside top 10 there is a fair chance we could go after Essendons pick 9.

That's Jason Taylor's opinion of the draft testing, not mine. I'll happily take his opinions over anyone that attempts to day otherwise. Transition run isn't about speed.. it's the ability to cruise at a level that can get you to and from contests. Sam Mitchell was one of the slowest midfielders going around but it was his ability to gut run to and from contest at a consistent rate is why he was a champion inside midfielder. Langfords 2km was rated top 10 which means he's got the endurance to cover the ground.. massive tick. Langfords hands inside are just as impressive with his ability to get first use and disturbe cleanly to the outside. He's a one touch player with clean hands and ability to manoeuvre into space and use his left peg. One thing that's separates Langford from any other midfielders in the draft is that he's a goal kicking midfielder. In 15 games this year he's kicked 20.17 which shows he's got the versatility to go up forward and have a major impact as well. His best performance was a 33 disposal 4.0 game against Gippsland Power in round 9. This is where the game is going in terms of midfielders being able to score and have an impact up froward. This is something we severely lack as we are far too often relying on Petracca as our one and only mid who is capable of doing this.

Jason Taylor has been on record through a number of podcast that draft testing gives them a good reading more on there mental capacity then physical. He has also stated that its not the be end all for determining that players draft selection or his footballing ability So yeah, in other words it barely makes that much of a difference either way.

Going off this, I take it you've barely watched him play. Hilarious how most of you on here put so more emphasis on a simple athletic testing more then the footballing ability in itself. Mark my words, Langford will be a 200 game elite player of the competition in years to come.

Their times were pretty much similar...

Yeah interesting. I'm intrigued to see what happens to our NGA prospects in Riak Andrew and Ricky Mentha then.

Do you think we've changed our focus to the draft now?

Cripps and Bont were also on the bottom half for their 20m sprints in their draft years. Made zero difference to their respective careers.

It's looking like a very quiet trade period for us.

GWS pretty adamant that they won't trade him. Shut the door in this one.