Freddy Fuschia

Interesting that some posters are making jokes about his name but this bloke is a seriously good footballer.

A point of difference - no Jefferson at 13 and Foster at 37

I was at Princes Park when WA played Vic Metro and Elijah Hewett looked a ready made AFL player to me - far more than any other player on the ground that day with the exception of Will Ashcroft. I’d like to know what he’s done wrong since that game that caused him to slide to a projected top 20 pick.

Are they training the houses down or are the houses on fire? I can never tell the difference.

I take it that Oskar Baker remains uncontracted which means it’s highly unlikely that he’ll be renewed if we draft Hunter.

Anyone know his contract status?

Seems about the right place to secure Jaxon Binns.

Just in case people are wondering why there hasn’t been much in the news about the AFL Draft Combine, it’s because the first two days were taken up with interviews and medicals. The actual athletic testing is today.

There are other key position forwards available who would be in the 10 - 20 range if that’s where we want to go. Jetterson, Lemmey, Keeler or Gruzewski who could all turn out as good as or better than Cadman. No need to fret if GWS nab him with the 2nd or 3rd pick.

No, he’s not a slightly better version of Jimmy Munro. It’s Knightmare being Knightmare - he likes pushing forward mature age footballers and hyping up players who are NQR. His October Power top 20 rankings he’s included Casey Voss (son of Michael) who he’s been trying to get drafted for about 4 years without a sniff and he’s also pushing Port Melbourne’s Ethan Phillips. Neither will ever make it.

Who?

Not top 20 anyway.

He’s quick.

I hope Yze gets a senior coaching gig but a word of advice, stay away from the hangar.

Finn played well in a badly beaten up side last night in the NAB League GF. His stats were 14 kicks, 3 handballs which was one disposal less than the best for the Stingrays (Jaxon Binns) and strangely enough, the most kicks. He disposes of the ball very nicely and could do with a couple of pre seasons at AFL level, possibly as a rookie.

Great start from the Dragons leading 25 - 0 in the first quarter.

More hurt than anything else.

Absolutely loved the book. So much to remember.

I wonder what our injury list would have looked like immediately after Friday night’s game?

From memory, Callow was one of Knightmare’s big favourites but he missed out altogether in his draft year and was finally selected by the Hawks in the mid season draft of 2021. Was there a problem with him that led to him being overlooked by every club in 2020 and why was he discarded at the age of 20?

Thanks for a great read. I think we can expect 8 out of those 9 young players (Rosman out with concussion) to take part in the VFL Grand Final on Sunday. A great experience for them and may it hold them in good stead for the future.

It stands to reason that the clubs with the more experienced lists will also rank higher in the above list but we are definitely travelling okay at the moment as far as injuries are concerned.

Please tell me they're still not loading?

I’m guessing that we’re done with loading for this year.

I agree that while country zoning was a big help if the zone was productive, it was clubs like Carlton, Richmond and North who also recruited well from interstate and from other clubs who prospered the most. At the end of the day, it was still about the clubs that had the most professional approach to recruiting that won out - we were well behind.