Colm

Nothing but irrelevant BS in all these threads now. I’m out till the new year. Merry xmas and Happy new year to all.

This thread is about our new recruit Xavier Taylor or at least it’s meat to be. Maybe start a new thread about private schools I that’s your thing.

Interesting that he noted that Taylor was one of the big 5 and it sounds like we would have had him rated the same. Top 5 of available talent. We have been quiet fortunate the way thing have worked out the past couple of drafts with Langford getting to our pick last year and Taylor this year.

have been wondering about putting Maysie up forward. We need to get games into Adam and Taylor now. If Petty is going back full time then it might make sense to give our new backline as many games as possible to gel. 2026 will see be another low finish but hopefully we can put the pieces in place for a better year in 2027.

Going to be an interesting DR. I don’t hate the Suns like I did with Freo. I’ll prob watch a decent amount of the Suns games. Will be keeping a close eye to see how Bailey Humphrey plays and also hoping the brand continues with his goal kicking woes. Suns will continue to lose good players over the coming season as they can’t afford to keep all that talent on the list. As well as BH, King and possibly Walter’s ( more so if Jamarra can hold down a spot)could be on the move next season. All makes for an interesting death ride.

Don’t stress folks, Maysie will take him under his wing.

@Demonland Andy any chance you manage to snare the great man himself-JT for another post season interview this year?

All done and dusted. Few surprises overall. No one would have picked us talking those 3 names and no mids. I think Taylor is one of the safest bets in this years draft crop and rate him very similar to how I rated XL this time last year- very solid player with a very high floor that should be a 200 gamer. Perhaps getting such a high quality and safe bet(IMO) with our first pick allowed us to take more of a punt on our second?! Going to be very exciting to see how our small forwards develop over preseason and coming years.

Edit- deleted post in case I shouldn’t have posted it.

Yup.

Bailey Humphrey best mate. That’s who

Same

Richmond played the game well this year to see if they could get us or the Bombers to move up and grab a player while given them an extra pick and they still would have got player they wanted. Them picking Grlj threw Cals phantom out the window. I wonder did we do something similar by seeming to cool on Pickett while talking up Nairm. Also talked up our want/need for mids and didn’t take one. Perhaps JT did played the game a bit more than usual this year.

Be very annoying to be beating by Saints to another player this year.

If things fell differently, Bombers were linked with the pick after ours, and North were set to pick him a couple of picks later if he got through. GWS had also put a lot of work into him over the past while. None of them have a cousin already in their list.