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isn't she the gws recruiter who used to work in the media?

is there enough of a difference between nairn and leray to justify one at pick 12 over the other at 34? to me, no. leray is the same size, good overhead and a nice kick but maybe it was nairns two week block at the back end in the guts that is what we really liked, so they could u go cumming and nairn? probably not when u already have tholstrup idk much to weigh up

i dont think jack ison knows his own game, hes more of a dusty mould than a cyril or kox

r12 was so much more impressive than r13 less fumbles better attack and just a more solid game especially early

feel like this is appropriate at this time, particularly looking at the ranking of the players without the club tied talent, it sort of puts it in perspective, leray at 33 is rated as the 23rd open pick, so pascoes placement of greeves at 50 is basically 35th

honestly i'm not supper excited by him, i think he doesnt have a heap of scope for improvement and has probabky bullied some smaller players at stoppages across this year a little too much, prefer sharp or farrow i think they have more traits that would translate

i just watched his highlights and i actually think contested footy and close attention were his strengths, he was clean one touch and always able to get his hands free to dish the ball out when under pressure and importantly was hitting chests with his handballs they were accurate and intended. wasnt able to see enough about his running but he showed enough burst, would probably start at HF rather than HB but looked neat enough. Don't know if its a lazy comparison but Rivers did come to mind Looked through some other profiles too, Sam Allen the small mid who has an acl atm, he looks a likely type i can see why people havent forgotten him Mikunda might be around there, BOB all probably start as HF types and could finish there too but are on the smaller side

interesting that Cal didn't name drop us with the dovaston links at the end, grjl and farrow is good but also theyre likely to play similar roles to begin with at HB rotating into CBs or exclusively at HB with riv and windsor exclusively in the guts i've probably been too harsh on sharps prospects, but can see the bombers or even the eagles taking him anyway, would be interesting who falls out if the dons are as keen on cumming as expected and the eagles go with a mid at 2 duurs sharp or robey cdt taylor or robey sharp or taylor cumming ? grjl ? doesnt seem to even be any names floated whatsoever other than MID?

somewhere between butters and holmes and rozee with his movement possilbly a bit of the chad, does anyone have a closer comparison

i was going to throw up matt leray as a prospect but i do think he presents as a blake howes type, good size, good foot skills but isn't a good competitive aerial threat like lever and probably gets thrown around a lot positionlly at the next level

cadman was a bolter almost on par with robey, grew 20cm in a short period of time

i can see the parallels between this thread and was it the humphrey thread?

i just dont think he's any chance at getting to us, for the tigers he's a oerfect broad vlastuin replaement and a more reliable option than ridley in terms of staying on the park and an immediate upgrade on "prior" at essendon. i think we're no chance i think grjl is the one who could slide as tiges got hotton who can add that zip to their midfield last year

i don't think he needs to be, he provides damage, good possessions are the go these days, i think the cats had something ridiculous like idk 5 games this year with a player having 30+ even with holmes and baz, they A share the load and B dont need to have heaps of it to have an impact, they make them count and don't fluff around with it

JT is good at what he knows, he was quick and clever enough to maximise the trading game before just about anyone else, we have taken a lot of first round selections over the last 10 years without giving up a whole heap to have those picks BUT he doesn't have a good eye outside the first round, you could argue his cards have been read this year with robey and pickett but since 2020 Johnson X Kentfield ? Adams ? Verrall X Sestan X KyeTurner X Howes X Woewodin X McVee ✅ Rosman X DeakSmith X Turner ✅ was actually pretty good in the period before that but since then he has not only missed but he has also moved away from picking beyond there in the draft in favour of recycling talent and has missed there too

best case for us is sharp and cumming off the board at our pick, i dont like them so would prefer we didnt have the option hahaha it does mean grjl must be the slider which im all for and you cant pair grjl with farrow which means NHH or our man the dove as the second pick

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bergman had lots of major injuries in his time at NM never got a good run at it

saints played an irish guy this year Liam O'Connell, and also have Eammon Armstrong on their list the article i read said he was joining mid 2026 after final exams, so its probably a birthday between now and them and this is just an official commitment, cat b rookies can be recruited whenever so he can probably be listed now at lodgement to join in june or whenever st kilda is also referred to s county kilda by expats as the area of melbourne as a huge irish community and presence

i prefer draftguru when looking at numbers like this it pairs picks with list spots so it cuts out the [censored] in the 100s

as i said the other day i think JT is feeling pretty stitched up at the moment, the two smokies he had in the back pocket have become first round bottlers because of the shallowness of the draft

think i prefer him to lindsay but i think his range is probably hawks onwards as we will be shopping in a different bracket dont know where he lands as i see him being a fit at hawks, giants, crows, cats and dogs

can we throw some respect the walpiri wizards way too please

i think whilst similar enough dove and pickett are very different players, afl teams even our shoddy team of the neeld/bailey era have space for electric forwards. latrelle has a wicked side step and the type of goal sense u cannot teach likewise his balance. he can take a game away from u in 5 minutes with 4 goals and you wouldn't even be surprised, whether the timing for him is right with where our list is at now, think liam ryan and willie rioli as cherry on top mature age selections who got 6ish years out of themselves, or could he be a tippa, stengle, cyril and has that prime at 25-26 but then loses it a bit sooner too weightman went at 6 too, it is quite a similar connundrum to the dove v pickett debate on our hands this year in some ways, although weightman is more a leadup then a genuine small. i think latrelles forward craft genuinely is a step above say a jesse motlop, he has lighter steps and quicker movement than jesse did in his draft highlights i just went back and watched them a month ago robey and pickett were rookie picks and JT was laughing and he had already sold our first round picks so could sell to the members that it was so hence our exit, now not so much, those players are first round locks and we have to make two prominent choices

ive convinced myself he goes at 3 to the eagles now 1 duurs 2 uwland bid 3 robey