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It's all talk and promise. I no longer take the 'word' of supposed experts on here and out there - I want to see it before I believe it. Viney and Brayshaw. They are the proven long term answers without question marks of injury or whether they can play in the midfield at AFL level. They are the only ones.

Or neither?

Some of those are ancient... Hawthorn have Roughead, and Gunston. Freo have Pavlich and Taberner? Mundy kicked 10 goals... Mayne 28 as a 188cm HF. WCE have Kennedy and Darling. Sydney have Franklin and Tippett. Richmond have Riewoldt and Vickery. NM have Petrie, Brown, and Waite. Dogs have Stringer and Crameri. Dickson plays a great deal taller than 184cm... Adel have Walker, Jenkins and Lynch. Gunston, Kennedy, Franklin, Waite, and Crameri are trades/FAs at ND29, 4, 5, FS, and a Rookie. Roughead, Pavlich, Taberner, Mundy, Mayne, Darling, Tippett, Riewoldt, Vickery, Petrie, Brown, Stringer, Dickson, Jenkins, and Lynch are 2, 4, Rookie, 19, 40, 26, 32, 13, 8, 23, 47, 5, 57, Rookie, and 13. Run the gamut a bit there... Also interesting how some teams trade in their talls, or get by without high end talent there.

You seriously think that our low clearance numbers and low Inside 50s are due to the fact that our players aren't 'inspired' to kick it to Dawes? Or were you simply being flippant to avoid the valid point? I would argue to get off the Dawes Is To Blame For All Our Forward Woes Bandwagon and think about what jnrmac is saying about our midfield. It should naturally improve with the young talent getting more exposure, but it is still bottom 4 in the league and our 'barely functioning' forwardline has done quite well to score as much as they have with the lack of supply.

We will find you that player, but we are not going to reach for a player who we are not certain can fulfil that role. Midfields win flags, Jesse.

Good, and I hope we pick a talented tall if we pick up one of those two - but I don't want this club to reach past a mid to do it. Our midfield is all promise at the moment - I would argue to add to it. Vince and Jones have a handful of years left, Trengove is a running question mark, Vanders has started well but will be at his peak very quickly, Tyson and Kent have struggled with injury in their short but promising careers, Salem and ANB are yet to play midfield in the AFL, and Petracca yet to play AFL... There is so much promise there to go with Viney and Brayshaw but little room for the aforementioned quality (or seeming quality) to fail or be lost to injury. Jones, Vince, Viney, Brayshaw, Tyson, Salem, Petracca, Kent, ANB, Vanders, and Trengove is not a great midfield. It could be a great midfield...

Hogan is a Forwardline. Suitable role players floating around him should deliver a great forwardline. And there is a great deal of 'if' coming off your proposed midfield. I would like to add another few 'ifs' myself, just to be sure... It's hard to win Finals without a great forwardline, it's impossible without a great midfield. I am happy for us to get a tall at 7 but not if he envisioned to be just a role player in Hogan's Forwardline, only if he is a talent that is seen as worthy of that selection. You don't spend top ten picks on role players...

Where do the non-strange ones come from? Honestly, there will be a handful of players in this very draft we are looking at on Tuesday that will taken in the teens that are better than those taken in the top 10. Because that is the problem with drafting teenagers - the judgements you think are strange can be anything but and the 'locks' we pick can be anything but.

I don't give a [censored] about what their teenage bodies can do.

I will tell you the Dream Scenario for this draft in 2018...

I look at it slightly differently - I see no standouts past those two talls - so I wonder which players taken in the teens will be stars...

It's unlikely that a Northern club will willingly not meet the 'points' and let the player go to the club. BUT let's say that GWS has 5 players in the top 10 one year - they might run up a deficit past the allowable point - at which, they will be forced to let any further players in that draft leave to their nominated club. So they might get 3 of those players and the last two will go to the nominated clubs.

Are you washing my hair?

So it doesn't have to change immediately...

I apologise - they ran a great deal and not much else. There you have it - a synopsis of AFL training in November...

Not only are the best talls at the pointy end of the draft - the best players invariably are - unfortunately that doesn't mean that the pointy end ensures a good player but that is another painful story... Take the best available. Good players and winning games will get him to stick around (along with a healthy wage)...

That is pretty thorough. Have a cup of tea and read through it properly - it isn't a proposed change - it is here whether you understand it or not.

No worries, happy to take you to the nets and work on a few things if keen...

Having strength in your left arm is fantastic for a right hand batsman because it eliminates the variable of the right arm (bottom hand) being needed for power on some shots - it will create a more stable shot. Kids usually go with their favoured hand for their bottom hand because they just want to hit the ball as opposed to direct it and the bottom hand supplies the power. Hence why it is a good way to learn with your dominant hand being your top hand.

I understand what you are saying but it would also involve you going to the football and watching Jack Viney play for Collingwood or Carlton. I can see the Academies as a aide to the Northern states, of course it is, and the future may not have them in our equalise game but these local products just have to sold to local markets playing for local teams right now - it is important to the growth of the game. I would fix the draw and our half pregnant Free Agency before attacking the academies - there haven't been too many dominant Academy players that have come into the system so far have there?

So he bats right handed? The more important arm in batting right handed is the left as the bat is the extension of that arm so if he has more control with that hand he will be better off in the long run.

It is better. It will stick around if we win. Perception of everything at the club is seen within this lens.

Check yo spelling, Whitney.

Jon Brown was a father son from a Fitzroy player. There is a need to define a pathway to locals into the local system and the better ones have a chance to stay locally. The next Ablett that comes out of West Sydney just has to be playing for GWS - this is what they are trying to ensure. I don't have a problem with it anymore - once that Ablett gets taken in the draft with the weighting, the won't have another pick in the draft - they will pay their price.

Yes, the best scenario - they want to showcase the local kids that come through their system to attract locals to watch and attend and get involved in junior footy to start that process all over again. It is a necessity in these growing markets. And they are paying a price for these talents that is finally commensurate with the price any other club would pay. Sydney will get Mills, maybe Dunkley if he nominates them (not a fait accompli apparently, he has 4 days to decide) and fill their list with picks past our 4th pick in the 60s... I don't see a fairer scenario really - they are given an albeit arbitrary value and they must pay that value or relinquish rights to the player. And if three Judds come out of the Harbour next year - they will have to trade away a few players to fit those kids into the team or lose one.