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In fairness Harry beat us both… MM’s now on thin ice with me. We all get it wrong, but the past two rumours were both overtly negative and shot down in less than 24 hrs. Not cool.

This aged well 🤙

The biggest factor for us in 2025 is a fast start, IMO. The age of our list means that playing catchup in the grind of winter leaves us on a knife’s edge when you’d like to be managing the squad. A fast start to the year shields us from that. I was initially seething at our draw primarily...

Not cool. Let’s have a real conversation here. If I build a connection with a 15yo AFLW prospect that is absolutely dead wrong and I’m not walking past a standard I wouldn’t accept in my personal life. I wouldn’t want my son knowing people twice his age who aren’t teachers or relatives.

The thing about this one is unlike the others it gives you the absolute best chance of making it if you’re not at the top end of the talent tree. Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard!

It’s a testament to what Membrey’s been able to achieve and why I think it was so clever bringing him in. He just knows how to kick goals. McReery’s a beast though he’d sit alongside Danger as the most powerful/ explosive player in the game. It’s a shame he probably never makes a midfield move...

In the space of 40 minutes you’ve gone from eyeballing him as “a little less fit/lean than others” to it potentially factoring into his draft position 9 years ago! Let it go I reckon.

Agreed and I’d suggest there might be scope for him to be a bit better (I’ve put it out there that I think he’s the 4th KPD in the clubs mind). My post though was purely aimed at the posters that froth over Jen loving the track form of a certain player every single offseason! The Chugg Cup has...

And we have our 2025 pre-season overhype in the first week! Let’s hope McInnes doesn’t share the same fate as Eyre.

Sheehan is the absolute worst person you could put forward in defense of your view! He is literally paid to be overtly positive to every conceivable draftee. Anyway if your preference is to be triggered by my feedback on your point so be it.

Fly was spotted at the Willi v Tigers VFL WC match and the theory at the time was that he was taking a look at a prospect. The main candidate was Sam Davidson and whilst he’s more AJ/ Membrey than the tradition KPP I wouldn’t be surprised if we went with him over the more fancied types on this...

I’d suggest you tone the language down then. Walker is the best KPF Adelaide has ever had meaning he’s one of one in terms of what he offers so as a nuffie when I read that there’s a kid potentially available at our selections that’s a taller clone of him my immediate reaction is that’s bullshit.

This absolutely kills me, but I’m with Carl here. I’m not in any way invested in the draft so I’m not here to rate or not any player. That said if a taller Walker clone were available he’d go top 5. Tex himself probably goes top 10 back in the day if he were in the open draft and to think we...

3 of the top 4 from 2024 in the first 6 matches plus another three finalists with the cherry on top starting the season with consecutive 6 day breaks. That’s actually ****ed.

This was coming via Sam Edmund and it seemed to me to be based on the carryon over the bye situation last year. The theory being they’ll knock them over quickly and make sure no team has two byes before another club has their first. I threw Hawthorn out there purely for the type of resurgent...

Collingwood are contracted to play 14 matches at the G so unless it’s replacing an interstate match our away Marvel clash I don’t think it’s even possible. Essendon going down there on the other hand seems legit this year.

I agree and it feels like the only scenario the club would have for supporting the concept, but I can already picture an outcome where we start with the Giants, roll into say Hawthorn on the Saturday night of Rd 1 and then have the Dogs on the Friday. All so that Ch7 can broadcast 3 matches in...

Zero chance of the last, but Brisbane away is guaranteed. It’s not the first 6 day break that gets you, but the 2nd as it did in 2023. I think it’s likely though that we have the bye in Rd 1 with Rd 2 v the Bulldogs on a Friday night and all of the OR byes will need to be cycled through by Rd 4...

Trust you to notice the autocorrect miss... Anyway I should have also been more clear in suggesting defending multiple rolls.

Like U18 level the numbers only tell part of the story. Donovan Clingan went at 7 averaging 13ppg 7rb and 3bl whereas Zach Edey went at 9 averaging 25ppg 12rb and 2bl. I’m not completely across what NBA scouts are looking for in bigs, but I’d guess it’s more about their ability to play multiple...

Do you mean the guy that’s got a long known history of management through training loads due to serious soft tissue injuries early in his career? The same guy that also started late in 2022 and 2023? Who’s played 71 of our past 73 matches and is our most important KPP?

On a separate note it’s good to see Mitchell back for day 1! Some would remember me as a doubter late in 2023 and I got turned around on his importance with his Herculean finals series. The obituaries are being written for him already for post 2025 and I’m excited to see what he can bring on the...

From my completely ill informed perspective that’s a better move than axing him as I’d feared. He seems a really good communicator who was just unlucky in the VFL senior role with injury because that was one of the stronger VFL squads we’ve fielded the past 20 years, IMO. All of Hutchison...

What’s the go with Fraser? I feel like I missed an announcement because I had assumed he was let go with Otten replacing him as VFL coach and then his name pops up in a training report.

That seems to me to be 5 ND picks even though we all know we’ll be taking 3. Essentially there’s nothing stopping us from drafting both AJ and Markov in the ND on top of the three live picks aside from stupidity.

Correct me if I’m wrong here, but my understanding is that our current senior list has 33 on it after the delistings of AJ and Markov?

It suggests to me that we also plan to move 52 & 55 for a pick in the 40’s. No idea who with or when though.

Firstly it’s debatable whether you’re planting the correct tree. Let’s say you are and it’s a sapling in this instance you’re planting a runty one that’s unlikely to ever flourish. I’m not going to second guess the club if they pick say West (who does look the most handy of the talls on offer...

Therein lies the rub of so many of the preferred targets on our board. Even if by some miracle the speculative KPP that we’ve never had luck with in the past kicks on and does something the earliest we’re likely to bear fruit from that decision is 2028. A draft haul of say Bice, Davidson and...

That one was weird. My guess is the Dees told them if they held pick “9” Kako wouldn’t get past the Dees pick. What I can’t figure out is why Essendon didn’t hold the pick and sell it to the highest bidder after trade week in the lead up to draft night. I guarantee North would have offered more...