Skuit

Our fine young princeling out for his first run with the pack:

'Yesterday I woke up sucking on a lemon' - from Everything in its Right Place by Radiohead. Edit: Bonus points for the first line of second verse: 'There are two colours in my head'

I ran AVB's photo through an age-guess app and it came out as 47.

For all those who say our club has no soul.

You should start a 'Rating Skuit's rating our 2019 draft thread contribution' thread.

I was going to argue the point and then decided against it. But I'm still really curious to know what the bolded is meant to mean?

He still looks like he's carrying a few extra kegs

He's quick, with a (as in one, according to those highlight) long kick.

I just had a serious rush of blood.

Just to clarify - we'll never know whether Freo rated or if forced would have taken Young or Serong in the order they did. My suggestion is that we could have had Young by bending over Freo when we knew for certain they wanted Henry on top. The threat of a bid on Henry at 8 (generally rated above Pickett) might have got us a handshake agreement on Young. Otherwise, holding onto 8 pre-draft would have at least caused some instability for Freo with others looking to trade up.

Happy with our draft haul but feel like we could have been tactically shrewder. I'm sure there were other things going on behind the scenes, but: Swapping out 8 for 10 and 28 pre-draft seemed hasty. 8 was the sweet spot. 28 was also lower than expected - and as shown again, pick ~20 proved another good hand. I have no idea how much (if at all) we rated Pickett above Henry . . . - But there was no way that Freo would let him go, and we still handed them a platter. In my mind we've potentially given up Young over Picket, or could have had 'Pickett' plus. Be that Weightman or Pickett as well as a sub-20 - or then 25ish and some juice for next year In saying that, I support our approach in deciding who we want, and then ensuring we land them. And Pickett and Young are now my new favourite players - behind Clarry of course. It should however be kept in mind that we've also spent most of our cookies next year. B to B+

MFCSS: or they'll prove a constant reminder for one another of their wonderful former life back home.

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Hats off to the poster with the LJ midfield mail (apologies on forgetting who exactly: @Yokozuna?). I had trust in Taylor, but that was when my opinion was swayed - we were obviously onto something big. But I think it's fair to forgive any earlier doubts - as we really were in the dark as to the available footage.

Compared to last year it has been a pretty weak draft for names. Now that I've seen his full name is Kysaiah Kropinyeri-Pickett I'm completely sold. Who's down with K.K.P - yeah, you know - me.

The Vitruvian Man!

Interesting. I recall in recent times we were running drills with attackers outnumbering the defence?

While we're all sharing our car-rolling stories: my best friend barely clipped a round-about in his Subaru on a Sunday morning once and we briefly went up on two wheels before landing safely and breathing a big sigh of relief. We'd been doubling-down on MDMA for around the past 14 hours, so according to the law of diminishing returns I don't think it would have been a major factor by then.

I have a random question (for those on here in the know): do the recruitment team ever consult the current players on their thoughts prior to the draft? It would make sense - but I don't think I've ever heard of this spoken about.

Fair enough. I have no idea of his basketball credentials - but evidently they were decent. So being willing to back out of a potential but unfulfilling career at a young age could also indicate a high level of maturity.

Those losers have to deal with faulty Centrelink robo-debts. But ask @ding: just give the kid a big fuzzy ball and some jelly and it will be fine - freeing up Papa to concentrate on football.

We need an Elijah Taylor thread. Although Taylor picking Taylor might be a bit too Inception for some.

Definitely bid on Green. It doesn't matter if we're flush with inside-mids: our draftees won't make a difference to our immediate flag chances. If we uncover another blue-chipper like Oliver in Green - then the investment will pay dividends in a couple of years. Whether that be trading out Green, or another one of our insiders. Oliver is worth close to two pick 3's. Paraphrasing, but Taylor said in his recent Road to the Draft interview that Green will have a stellar AFL career.

Amateur-hour contribution but I sense a go-home factor in Deven which may be limiting the commentary. (Same for Henry, but he's already being marketed by Freo, so there's no way they will let him slip regardless). For whatever reason, I don't have the same feeling re. Jackson. Maybe it's his previous exposure to the world? That raises an interesting point regarding Jackson though - which only just occurred to me now: Kid was on a lucrative path toward the NBA. Called his mum while on camp and gave it up. It doesn't scream mental fortitude to continue through the hard times . . . (No serious aspersions intended).