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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

it was may at melbourne grammar and langdon was 4 years below them

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

u dont think he's too similar to a lindsay or even windsor, i know u cant have too many good kickers or too much dash but is it the right time to be adding that when langdon still has some time left and i suppose does still have a fair monopoly on that wing

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

HS article today says the crows are eager to trade up for him, fits a need for them for sure and a local lad so maybe we can work with them to slide back and gain something in the future to still get dove, if not us where is schuberts next landing spot? maybe giants? but they took gruzewski not too long ago with cadman so he probably does get to the crows current pick, dogs, blues (would be but dean bid), suns, hawks, eagles probably not in the market for him

you'd prefer a player who showed worse evasive traits and didnt make a lower standard than the one their going into look easy? i think both are positives, he has a genuine point of difference and itll get neatened up there will be a time to do it and a time to not, and he'll probably get caught once or twice early on whilst he adapts but if he just moved at teh same pace all game we would be moaning about that instead that he is too vanilla and is just another woey jack of all master of none

would you be worried that with cumming he's too similar to kolt and if they both don't come on then you've missed twice, or do you double down and hope one of them at least gets there, or ideally they both do and can rotate together i think thats why its grjl and dove then farrow for me so we're targetting different compositions

i hadn't actually followed the whole article yet, sons men rory wright and BOB getting some earlier than expected love, interesting they see the suns passing on addinsal, so we do get our midfielder eventually. whether its realistic im not sure is addinsal and dovaston a better combo than sharp/farrow and talor byrne who cal twomey gave some love to on gettable today

https://readingtheplay.wordpress.com/2025/10/29/2025-afl-phantom-draft-version-2-0/ can someone tally up all the phantom drafts and let us know what the consensus for our picks has been EDIT: can we also get a farrow wce counter

Hope he isnt i dont think he has the mobility and diversity to really damage at the next level also hope the dons take schubert so hes not an option for us i dont think JT and co will want to be so obvious as its easier to be obviously wrong with a stratefy like that, talls and smalls espeically in the fwd half are the easiest tick crosses to grade when revisiting so im certain theyll take a midfield type who can at least get to 100 games or so and even if they arent great theyll become a pass mark. super intersting that twomey and his mail has grjl so deep, if we got grjl and farrow i'd be rapped, or grjl and dovaston who can start at either end of the ground like windsor and kolt, XL and langford, that would be awesome thanks mate, appreciate the compliment, i try my best ;)

gettable confirmed

u might be right, and fwiw i agree re sinnema but i also think he is the best profile for them too, robey or sharp are too similar to lalor and smilie which is the other reason i do think he is in their market

greeves🤮 we dont need a will setterfield type plodding big midfielder when the game is all about burst and spread and ball use

bailey dale-esque?

https://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/2025-afl-mock-draft-who-will-your-club-target-code-afl/video/63b1059c9fd56c5c4aa550a536d4c720 for the paywall peeps its duursma -wce CDT -wce uwland matched gcs patterson matched gcs xav taylor -rich annable matched bris grjl -rich dean matched carl robey -ess sharp -ess schubert -dees lindsay -dees o taylor -hawks cumming -gws farrow -wce phillipou -wbd greaves -adel ludowyke -geel dovaston -carl hibbins-hargreaves -frem marsh -ess sweid matched ess nairn -hawks really hope this isnt the way we go

think tigers will either like cdt if eagles go duurs robey OR xavier taylor to replace broad/vlastuin and pair with gibcus and trainor long term, but i think grjl is the lock for them coz they really liked what he did when he repped them in the vfl

i really like bridge or sharkie as HB options if we dont go farrow at 11 i actually think we shouldn't be selecting a mid this year, more so a player who could move in their down the line as it is a weaker draft and i think we have a lot of options still who can go in there, riv, koz, viney, windsor, langford, steele, even langdon has spent time at CBAs in the last 12 months but we can certainly improve other areas of the ground, most of our delisted players were actually HF/HB types as are the OOC bunch next year, meaning thats where we're likely to be cutting again so we would do well to get ahead of that now with some of these names at 37 or with our rookie pick. (fwiw i think we skip sinnema) the other name @spirit of norm smith has flagged is rory wright as a HB type who could move into the guts in time i also like the hetherton shout too as well but maybe the talls will be a focus next year after we lose potentially 3-4 off the list and given we have white coming in i think its unlikely we take a second tall this year as well (unless we take a rookie ruck like Marcus Krasnadamskis

could have fooled me that the highlights package at the top of this thread was a harley barker one not a sam cumming one, gee he looks good, shame about the acl as he seems a likely type and i'd be probably pushing pretty hard for him if he was fit

the reason i can see us passing on dove or not reaching for him is if we think someone like talor byrne could provide a similar output, or if pickett got to us in the 30s, that pick is going to wildly swing around on the night, will come in as points are chewed up and then go out as bids push people back could land anywhere

i think i prefer NHH to Marsh, he seems to be a really good one touch player at ground level, the one player in our range that i have zero read on is probably cummings, i just assume he's a HB like Isaac cumming and need to actually go and watch some more vision of how he fits in, i think i'm coming around to the idea that CDT is going to slide Duursma -WCE Uwland matched GCS Robey - WCE Grjl -Rich patterson - matched GCS annable matched Bris CDT - Rich xav taylor - ess dean matched carl sharp - ess still leaves us with all the same names and no idea where we're looking

i actually disagree and think he's shown a good contested game and an appetite for going inside that will only enhance with a bigger tank and more strength and power