Pulp Fritschon

Not sure if this has been mentioned (haven't gone back through the entire thread) From Tim Lamb's comments on the live stream Friday and reading between the lines a bit - given the NAB league has gone to a 19 year old rule this year - Deakyn Smith will still be eligible for us to take as a NGA in next years draft. Can anyone confirm this? From what I have read and heard he looks like a good prospect but the urgency to take him in the SSP is not really there unless we wanted him to play this year. We can let him tick over in the NAB league and still have first dibs on him next year. ( The new NGA rules then may come back to bite us)

The two players either side of Trac - any ideas?

Great Report Pickett. Love reading this stuff in particular! Go Dees!

10-12 gee that sucks. At least it is February and 6 of those will be eaten up prior to round 1. Lets hope it is isn’t a wasted year for him and Sammy gets back on the park for 15 games plus finals.

Very happy to hear Hunt is training with the backs. Going back to 2016 & 2017 he looked a potential A grader. It wasn't just his run and dash that impressed me, I thought he looked good defensively where he showed good commitment. Definitely has the pace to line up on those small forward types. With Nev struggling I hope this works out.

Kozzie will be good. Brings a lot to the table but what most pleases me is his kicking. He is near technically perfect on both feet.

Ben Brown Petty Weideman Lever TMac

With what they bring I can easily see Bowey and Laurie being best 22 next year. Could be as early as round 1.

Good draw. More positives than negatives. Hard draw coming home but would rather that the other way. Get the win loss ledger in the right direction early and build from there. Looks like we have finally got the right outcome around our Alice and QB games. After the Alice game we will have a minimum 8 day break into QB. Then we have the bye after QB. Floating fixture allows for some decent timeslots if we are showing a bit. Also I see the Bombers have to play down at Geelong (first time in 28 years I believe). They are really on the nose these days. Nice.

Good. A low key round 1 game at home. Won’t be a big build up to this and I think it is best we have a low key preseason. Get the work in for sure but we don’t need to tell the world how good we are tracking. Less emotion, less fanfare, more winning.

If we move to Casey full time it wouldn’t be to grow our supporter base it would be to give our club the best chance to win a flag. Pert/Bartlett are on the new base close to the G ticket and I hope it happens. But I just wonder if it doesn’t get up in the next few years maybe they or the next CEO/President might have to look strongly at Casey. Be an absolute massive call but maybe the sensible one given our current setup and ongoing endless search.

Lockhart May Lever Salem Petty Rivers Langdon Oliver TMac Fritsch Weideman Harmes Pickett Brown Jackson Gawn Petracca Viney Int - Brayshaw, Sparrow, Bowey, Laurie Emg - Chandler, Tomlinson, Hibberd, Spargo

Negative - On the road again Positive - We play two weeks in a row and we get a Friday night game ( telecast into VIC)

I stumbled upon and watched the GWS draft night video. Some observations - - Clubs didn't enter selections via computer, they rang them through - GWS didn't rate Cox or Perkins in their group of players they targeted. They must have rated Reid. They were happy to get Bruhn. (could sense some dislike towards the Bombers) - Chapman was on their list but Freo took him. They then took Stone who they rated. - They were going to select Laurie with pick 24. When we picked him they did a trade with Collingwood for their future 1st pick

Really like what I see and read about Laurie. That step he has reminds me of Sam Mitchell.

We had plenty of options at 21 & 22 and I like what we went for - ZIP!!!! Exactly what we needed. Don’t see these guys as small forwards in the Kozzie mould at all. Will add to our mix around the midfield/wing. And both look excellent kicks. I like this very much.

I believe have 5 spots to fill on our list. It looks to me like it will play out like this - 3 tonight (National Draft) 1 in the rookie draft 1 spot to remain open for the midseason draft

Carroll Bowey Angwin

Not sure this is either good or bad. I suppose you just have to hope that Pert and Bartlett know what they are doing. Jackson wanted him to be our next CEO. 2018 is certainly long time ago for everyone.

Foxsports have us linked to Jack Carroll. Nice. Fingers crossed Final draft board: The top 20 AFL prospects, and where they’re likely to be picked

Given the effort the AFL put it to making the draft a constant part of the news feed the lack of player highlights this year is particularly poor. Budget cuts I guess. Looks like we will have to wait for the players to be called out on draft night to see some vision as this will be released by the clubs.

I would have thought on draft night when a certain player had slipped through they could have go something better then. Looking at Geelong they have a suite of 2nd round picks. When it came to the crunch on draft night they might have handed over one of them.

Terrible call Jackson looked good in the Ruck against Goldy. Then he got injured after that. His real strength as everyone knows (except Dwayne) is that he plays as another midfielder when it hits the ground. Looks every bit a Grundy clone (the good Grundy version) to me.

With all the handouts GC just don't value their draft picks as much as others. Geelong the beneficiary on a the last few occasions. Other clubs could have also made offers though. Lucky thing for all of us that GWS made them pay for Cameron. The academy bidding system/NGA points ect has provided the opportunity for some dead set 'rorts' of trades. The sooner they fix this the better but we need to remember we did quite well in our trade with Freo last year to allow them to get ahead of a bid. We swapped 8 for 10 and 28.

Slow news day