Go Ds

Umm, once we took XT , with the very next pick, wasn't it already too late for any other club to 'intercept'? Certainly if the enemy saw Kosi's face at #5 they could have 'stolen' LSP. But surely not once we had the floor for our own consecutive 'Tracc' picks. No?

Nah! First clause in his contract mentioned this.

Or Dental - short for Transcendental Meditation. Also if he becomes a star 'Tommy-Leigh ' would be amusing.

Well the paternity report said no and in all honesty my memory is not too shabby. Though at times I have to think whether we have a Sparrow or a Swallow.

Which could be misremembered as Matt Tom? Admittedly this is a first-world problem. I'm sure Hawthorn fans weren't calling the future star Matthew Lee once he started making his mark.

My biggest quibble is I'll be calling him Matthew Thomas or Thomas Matthews - whichever one is wrong - for months! Hurry up and get a nickname..... EDIT: Tomato is clever but it's too mundane. Maybe Sauce, Hazmat or, how about, Apostle?

And if another team suddenly picked him in the late 50s we miss the boat? (As an academy player could GC have had first dibs to match the bid?)

Okay, so how good is he? No team rated him good enough to pick him in the main draft? Are we excited about him just cos he'd be a F/S pick? Wasn't he a Gold Coast Academy player? They didn't take him either. I feel like I've missed an essential piece of the puzzle. Is he no good or have DL overrated him?

Umm, what happened to Kalani White? We didn't pick him? Was he not nominated for this draft?

Yep! I remember footage showing, mainly handballs, which seemingly proved an almost psychic connection the Krakouers had on field. It was almost like one could well have been blindfolded yet somehow found the other in space, setting up goals. No pressure .... but imagine if the two Pickets wow us with anything remotely similar. We're halfway there! 🙂

Yeah. I have my doubts. But somthing tells me Pickett is a calculated risk. Clubs do this kind of thing all the time; resting players, tagging, consigning an older player to VFL to blood a younger player, changing playing styles which short-term make a team underachieve etc It's not like we've picked the 723rd best draft prospect. I think we need to have faith the club know what they're doing. I wouldn't be surprised if many players and staff have not enjoyed their work/workplace for the last year or two. Not only will Kosi be happier next season but quite possibly so will the other indigenous players be. This all could rub off on the whole team and staff and happier people tend to perform better. And if Pickett #2 becomes a regular best-23 player what's to say we don't end up getting someone like a Stengle or Bobby Hill-type trade and we look back and laugh at the current doubts and how monumentally astute this risk was.

30 years? ROFLMAO He may not have ever been the best midfielder in his team! There was some story about Bradman being asked how he'd go against the Windies bowlers of the 80's. He said his batting average would have been been a fair bit lower. "But your average was almost 100?!" "Yes, but I'm in my seventies now." Where is Oliver now? He didnt get a Brownlow vote last season. He's managed FIVE (FIVE!) votes in his last 43 plus games. Would you have been happy if we had just brought in the 5th best midfielder from another team and were now paying him a million something a year and this guy also has a lot of problems off field?! Surely not! If Oliver goes on to win the next 2 Brownlows we'll look ridiculous. But it's also ludicrous to make out he's currently the superstar he was and that we only lost out!

Langford and Lindsay?

Clearly you've put a lot of thought into this. But unless Tasmania's admission falls through this is as relevant as it is for a 12-team competition. Sorry.

Yeah, while it could easily turn out that McAdam, as an over-30, ends up consigned to the VFL by year's end the current silly-season criticism is too much. The guy hails from rural WA, has played interstate for yonks, barely played in 23 and 24 and then finally with a great preseason under his belt he misses all of 25 after all that build-up with a big injury. He could have retired months ago, disgusted with his lot. The guy probably has the patience of Job. I wouldn't be surprised if there were coach discussions and they just about insisted he use every second of his break away from football! Hold if on the criticism at least until a few upcoming training sessions are done.

Sometimes the best thing to do is nothing. Christ, we sleep for hours each day. No matter how much people want to push clearly it isnt always the best strategy.

1st and 2nd-placed teams will win the flag more often. So will 5th and 6th. 3th and 4th will win less often and the teams in the wildcard round will rarely make the GF. The wildcard games will feel like a half-final - slightly better than an "eight-point game" in round 24. The excitement a team used to have in the final rounds when they knew they could no longer drop out of the top eight will now be "can't drop out of the SIX." Unless I'm overpraising byes and easy wins I reckon the above is very likely.

A KKK dalek?! 🤣

I know. I'm just saying there could be more good signs in a week or two for next season

Umm, when have the majority of players been good with both feet? If I were dealing with young, teenage players I'd be getting them to develop their other foot. But nonetheless players can still be pretty good using just their main foot. I think youre off on a tangent.

What's to say some senior players are fully revved up for when they return? New coach, new staff, new players and their last or second-last chance to get a new contract.

I still can't get my head around why the kicking is so poor. It's so important that players that couldn't consistently kick well in junior games get drafted late or not at all .... at least I'd like to think so. Did we spend years taking players that can't kick or did our training sessions get so laughable post 2021 that players lost their kicking skills? It's baffling.

Ah, so not Sultana Bran? https://youtu.be/mJpwcBNtl9A?si=qBlszerMMAUNVDO9

Bro's