drdrake

AFL will be concerned about tonight, it might turn out you had more picks on night 1 than what will be taken tonight.

Looking at last night, the boys taken by all clubs looked physically ready to play AFL, big shoulders, physically developed young men. What an advantage the Northern Academies have, you can bring unlimited 12 to 15 year olds in give them elite training and get priority access to them.

It is pretty hard to go back to back in any top level sporting comps in the world. Rarely happens, teams spend preseason working on ways to beat you. The bottom line for our sides you turn the footy over you lose, hit targets by hand and foot you win. I think they need sports physiology just to bring it back to basics and stop over thinking the game. Control the footy you control the game.

Or we think there will be better options with our mid 40s pick.

Yep, the inner city seats you need female or Multicultural policy, might be more for preferences than the vote especially the Greens in that area. Got to be in a swing electorate as well.

Yeh, the government doesn't give a rats if MFC has facilities less than other clubs. They look at the community benefit, you need to add layers, the Pies used Netball to get money then folded their Netball side. Richmond use bash Houli Academy, Essendon paraolyimpics, Carlton and dogs home of female football. What is our sell.

If no club nominates Brown, I think AFL rule is we can put him as cat B rookie, that could be wrong but I remember someone mentioning this last year.

Love to see Bowey move onto a wing, he has a good footy brain and is very good by foot. No idea on his tank.

O'Sullivan if he is there at 6, just gives that key, really Tomlinson, Schache, B Brown, Tmac 2024 will be there last at Melbourne. May and then Petty uncertainly the year after. You get a key, give them 12 months development at Casey to push for selection the following year.

Agree with this, personally wouldn't be drafting any Tassie kids in first round. The lure to play for the Tasmanian team will be to much so no point developing players to get around the same pick for them in 3 years

O'Sullivan or Caddy with pick 6, Wilson or Windsor with pick 11

No idea what has been going on with Oliver and we still need to have real concern for Brayshaw. Billings adds that little more depth.

The kicking into to f50 is the issue so really ticking both or do you mean the Goal kicking. We have banged on about this for years, the game plan is based on the skill level of our players. We need to be a contested team kicking to a contest as we don't have the skill by foot in our midfield. Kicking long, repeat entry, score from pressure, that is us until we get some really good ball users in the midfield

Solving forward line Woes is a midfield, game plan issue not a forward line one. Fix the garbage delivery going in and your 80% the the way there.

It creates clicks and that is all that matters in journalism these days. They won there finals games by basically under a goal in each, doesn't take much for those results to go the other way.

So we have everything we need to prepare our players spread over 2 facilities. I get it not ideal to share and travel but really we have what is needed to prepare our players.

What are we missing? What equipment, infrastructure do others have that we don't have?

Amazing facilities, must have poor conditioning staff as they wouldn't have had many games over the past 3 years that their best 22 played. New facilities, massive injury issues.

Of all the players moving who do you want or who do we need? We have 2 players, a forward/ruck and a mid size forward that want to come to us. Not sure who we would want

It wasn't just Grundy for 11 it was Grundy and our pick 25, even swap pick 33 for pick 44.

With Sydney seeming to be going after a few players, do we go after pick 11 for Grundy with our dockers second round pick

Yep, our two late second round picks get the Fullarton and McAdam deals done. Leaves us with 2 first rounds and after Grundy deal we should have 2 picks inside 30. I reckon we will bundle up picks to improve our draft order taking 3 top 20ish picks and Brown. I think if Harmes goes it will be more about draft position than a later pick.

These top line kids have been tested do many times that not many fall under the radar now. These combines are more about picks 10 to 40 than top 10.

If JVR, Petty and Smith can hold down the AFL forward spots, our VFL will be stacked with talls

Pick 35 to 50 is about his currency, or we use him with to advance a pick