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KK would have had a much better career than Tomlinson if he never had the injury concerns. No offence to Tomlinson, but KK is much better suited to a wing. We got Tomlinson because he is a solid best 22 option who is versatile and doesn't have injuries (Until he got to us and got injured immediately). He has shown he can play the wing position and can do it better than the majority of our list. Its a funny question really... How good would Trengove been without the foot injury? How good would the Ox have been without the knee reconstructions? Would Luke Molan be considered a bust if he never got injured? If my grandmother had wheels she would be a bicycle.

Did you wear it to a game?

Happy to see these 2 along with Sparrow, Jordan, Bedford and Chandler develop at Casey this year. There will likely be a few opportunities but I hope they are few and far between. Hoping that Jackson and Pickett are the ones to push there way into the team.

We delisted Pedo, Bull Smith and Keilty over the past 2 years. Do you think targeting Brown has anything to do with Weid? Or maybe we realised we had zero depth when both McDonald and Weid were injured? I can see all three getting a game when fit just like Smith and Pedo did at stages over the past few years. Back to the video. Interesting to see we were keen on Robertson and would have taken higher than he was taken if possible. I wonder why so many others over looked him. I'm also looking forward to part 2. I really enjoyed watching other clubs vids last year. Great insights.

You think that because our recruitment team hope a 17 year old kid who has been injured most of the year slides to our third pick that we have given up on Weid? And you think other people's posts are stupid? FMD.

got me

I hope KK just retires. There is more to life than this. Much more. I assuming he has and that he is just seeing out his contract.

This is great.

The player at the very back on the right hand side sums up how I feel about our club letting us know about these type of things.

Good work for Champion Data to try and apply statistics and rankings to a game that is incredibly difficult to apply statistics to and rank. I think there formula is probably very close to the best way of trying to do it. But these lists are basically meaningless. There is so much that happens in a game that cannot be ranked. Champion Data is basically meaningless

It's Carlton's 4th. And it will likely be a lot higher than that. Everyone keeps talking about next year being a compromised draft due to Academy and Father sons. But that means a heap of later picks will be used as points. That 4th rounder will come in a fair bit imo. And we are much more likely to use it next year than we would pick 50 this year due to not having a first rounder.

We probably were not going to use pick 50

Well played by the club. We get back a second round pick and move back to pick 10. We weren't going to use pick 50. So essentially our trade with North becomes 2020 first round pick for pick 10. We Lose: Pick 26, 2020 first round. We Gain: Pick 10, Pick 28, 2020 fourth round

I always remember him as being the 'running' guy when reading reports about Port. I wonder if his philosophy has changed with experience since his Port days or if it has always been the same and he was just misrepresented.

Looking forward to seeing the melts occur from the [censored] on here when we select Jackson.

Are you on Facebook? Search for Braydon Preuss and find a link to the article (it was a few options down). Pretty sure the AFL page was "AFL flights and big hits" This trick usually works on Herald sun subscriber articles

Will need to see some more photos but May looks skinnier in the face.

Nice. Big group? I.e was it an official training session or just some of the boys?

Hmm... I was going to say that I never rated Aish and that he was more of a Toumpas style too. Then I looked up height and weight from draft years. Aish has put on 1kg since being drafted. I then looked up Bernie Vince as this is who Stephens reminded me of but he is much taller and has much more size. I think you have just turned me off taking him.

Depends who we end up taking I guess. The only ones we have been linked to in a big way in the media are Jackson and Weigtman. Taylor confirmed our interest in Jackson when asked directly and all he really said was that he was one we were looking at and that we had done a lot of work on him. The link to Young is only because phantom draft experts have him around our pick and the fans on here are frothing over his highlights (admittedly, me included). I feel that we have an opportunity to pick up really good players at 3 & 8. But I don't think they are the superstars like in previous years. I don't think there is a Clayton Oliver level player at pick 3 this year which is a shame. Maybe Kemp?

Toumpas had great skills but average speed and endurance coming off hip injuries. Stephens doesn't have these deficiencies but isn't as smooth as Toumpas. In my mind they are completely different type of players. However, I understand the concern.

What's up with KK? Is it still the concussion? Or another injury? A bit worrying for the boy if it's still concussion related. I'm worried for his health.

https://afl.draftcentral.com.au/tag/dylan-stephens/ Norwood/South Australia | Balanced Midfielder 08/01/2001 | 182cm | 70kg Stephens is another lightly built midfielder who despite being just 70kg has forced his way into the SANFL League side for Norwood already in season 2019. Given the Redlegs’ tendancy to restrict kids from being exposed at the top level – see Luke Valente last year – it is a credit to Stephens – and teammate Taheny, to already earn their stripes. He has held his own too, admitedly playing a very outside game, but with many bigger bodies at the Redlegs, Stephens has terrific skills and moves well in transition, able to win the ball in midfield, take off and kick perfectly inside 50. He still has to add bulk to his frame, but he showed when taking on his peers he is capable of playing an inside role as well. Expect him to be the prime mover for South Australia at the Under 18 Championships and raise his stocks with a big couple of months. He was one of the my choices in the poll. Highlights are great. Looks very outside though. I wonder if we are still placing a high priority on players who can win a contest which will mean we overlook him? Seems to me he is the number 1 pick from SA? Wouldn't be surprised to see the Crows pick him up at pick 4. Couple of paywall articles if you have a login https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.adelaidenow.com.au/sport/afl/the-eyecatching-run-of-dylan-stephens-is-his-no-1-asset-but-its-josh-kellys-allround-game-that-he-wants-to-emulate/news-story/b19e0a5590ef00bb838686020a4e1a98 https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/afl/more-news/norwood-youngster-dylan-stephens-has-spoken-to-all-but-one-afl-side-ahead-of-the-2019-draft/news-story/a34acc488c1596a27a976e5490ba6817

Frost bleeds for the jumper? FMD you are serious aren't you? You're perception is [censored] rooted.

I just watched the VIC Country Vs WA game as I thought it would be a good one to watch as I knew it was a close finish. I was wrong. Weightman had a quiet game. WA pressure meant that VC sucked in the first half which was annoying as all the players I wanted to watch were all playing for VC. Weightman Highlights: Q1. A great tackle at the start of the match. This was nearly the only highlight for VC in the first half. WA dominated with pressure and VC never really got going. Q2. Was involved in a few passages which are barely worth a mention. It was a bad first half to be a small forward as the ball didn't come down that way often. Q3. A great quarter. Looked lively, kicked a goal and was ferocious with some of his tackles. Q4. Was not involved in anything worth talking about. Virtually unsighted Summary: Earlier in the thread I said that his highlights from the Stingrays didn't show any small forward talent. I was wrong. This boy can play the small forward role, just not the way I thought he would. He is lively, always on the move, positions himself well and has amazing pressure to lock it in the forward 50. He isn't the mercurial goal sneak that I expected but he does have talent. I will need to watch the other VC games as this one didn't show much. I have no idea why I am bothering to spend so much time researching a kid I don't think we should take, but here I am... I have even created a video of the highlights mentioned above for you guys to watch. I realised early on that there wouldn't be any sound but didn't realise that it would have that watermark in the middle of the screen until it was finished. Just so you know the programme I used was [censored] and I would not recommend it to anyone. Started to crash once the file got too big which was concerning for a 3min video.