List Mgmt. 2018 NAB AFL Draft: November 22nd & 23rd

[PaddyMcClunkin]

Who in their right mind would want to live in Adelaide anyway?

 

[SaintsSeptember]

"go home" factor - to Adelaide - fmd - really?????????.

I mean its an hour away on a plane - you can go home and visit your mum and be back for training that afternoon!!!.

Its not like you're 22 yo, virtually skint, in London, and the only way to get home to see the family was a three week trip on the magic bus to Mumbai via Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan and then having to scam a ride on freight carrier back to Melbourne.

I could mention something about soft c*** millennials but I'd probably then get called out for being a grumpy old curmudgeon.

I heard this guy on the radio not long ago. When he went to Czechoslovakia to chase his dream in his early teens he knew no Czech and stayed with a family who knew no English.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Walker

I don't care how tough the AFL guys are on the field, if they can't get by without visiting their mum every day, they are mentally weak.

 

[borderbarry]

Its not that long ago when 18 year olds were going off to National Service, and their Sergeant was their Mummy. Good luck with that.

 

[Dr Spaceman]

Its not that long ago when 18 year olds were going off to National Service, and their Sergeant was their Mummy. Good luck with that.

 

[borderbarry]

Well done Doc..

 

[SaintsSeptember]

Scott Watters did group hugs, that would have helped.

 

[Dr Spaceman]

Scott Watters did group hugs, that would have helped.

Well they certainly warmed to him

 

[plugger66]

I heard this guy on the radio not long ago. When he went to Czechoslovakia to chase his dream in his early teens he knew no Czech and stayed with a family who knew no English.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Walker

I don't care how tough the AFL guys are on the field, if they can't get by without visiting their mum every day, they are mentally weak.

It just could be their group of friends as well. Everyone is different. How many players actually go home. We just hear about the ones that do.

 

[pebblesofsand]

Its not that long ago when 18 year olds were going off to National Service, and their Sergeant was their Mummy. Good luck with that.

Yep and that was the reason I ended up skint in London in 1972. As soon as knew I'd missed out on the "lottery" in 1971 I was out of the country as quick as I could - wasn't gonna give the p***s a chance to change their minds.

Hated the Liberal Party ever since!!!

Whats the "lottery" I hear some asking - just think of it as draft day, but if you get selected you could end up in the jungles of Vietnam trying to avoid being killed - bit worse than ending up at Freo!!!

"Between 1965 and December 1972 over 800,000 men registered for National Service. Some 63,000 were conscripted and over 19,000 served in Vietnam. Although registration was compulsory a process of selection by ballot determined who would be called up. Two ballots were conducted each year. The ballots selected several dates in the selected period and all males with corresponding birthdays were called up for national service. The ballot was conducted using a lottery barrel and marbles representing birthdays."

FI - I was born on the 21st Oct - here's the list of dates drawn in my ballot - October 4, 5, 7, 10, 12, 16, 20, 22, 25

 

[plugger66]

Yep and that was the reason I ended up skint in London in 1972. As soon as knew I'd missed out on the "lottery" in 1971 I was out of the country as quick as I could - wasn't gonna give the p***s a chance to change their minds.

Hated the Liberal Party ever since!!!

Whats the "lottery" I hear some asking - just think of it as draft day, but if you get selected you could end up in the jungles of Vietnam trying to avoid being killed - bit worse than ending up at Freo!!!

"Between 1965 and December 1972 over 800,000 men registered for National Service. Some 63,000 were conscripted and over 19,000 served in Vietnam. Although registration was compulsory a process of selection by ballot determined who would be called up. Two ballots were conducted each year. The ballots selected several dates in the selected period and all males with corresponding birthdays were called up for national service. The ballot was conducted using a lottery barrel and marbles representing birthdays."

FI - I was born on the 21st Oct - here's the list of dates drawn in my ballot - October 4, 5, 7, 10, 12, 16, 20, 22, 25

I also missed the lottery and ended up following the saints. Sorry different lottery.

 

[Sainter93]

Looks our trade strategy so far has been to chase blokes with pace/acceleration/skills.

Rankine fits the bill here if we are continuing this trend.

 

[borderbarry]

I must have won the Lottery. Got taken in the original National Service, in the last intake in 1959. I enjoyed it mostly. Admittedly Vietnam was'nt on, and nobody was shooting at me.

 

[Keg on legs]

I must have won the Lottery. Got taken in the original National Service, in the last intake in 1959. I enjoyed it mostly. Admittedly Vietnam was'nt on, and nobody was shooting at me.

 

[Cornish]

I went in the Army as a 17yo, my Army mum was an S.A.S Sergeant just back from his 2nd tour of Vietnam.
His 1st words to me were " don't worry son i wont make you do anything i cant"

 

[borderbarry]

The trouble with those blokes is that there is not much physically that they cant do!

 

[Cornish]

The trouble with those blokes is that there is not much physically that they cant do!

I learnt that very early in my training, to cap it off our Lewy had won the MM in Vietnam in the infantry for heroics under fire. Us poor blokes had no hope of crying in our undies, and crying for home would of got you a 20 mile forced march before breakfast lol

 

[Gangnam Saint]

Was Bailey Smith even at the combine?

 

[Sab22]

Was Bailey Smith even at the combine?

Injured

 

[Tom_Wilson_55]

So as great as it's been toying over what we'll do with our first pick (we weren't takin' for rankine for nothing guys, c'mon).

Why not shift our attention to what we can potentially pick up with our later picks...

Who are the players who showed plenty earlier on but have since dropped off?
Who are the players who showed little to begin with, but have impressed lately with either end of season form or their combine results?
What state league players could we be potentially interested in?

 

[Verdun66]

Yep and that was the reason I ended up skint in London in 1972. As soon as knew I'd missed out on the "lottery" in 1971 I was out of the country as quick as I could - wasn't gonna give the p***s a chance to change their minds.

Hated the Liberal Party ever since!!!

Whats the "lottery" I hear some asking - just think of it as draft day, but if you get selected you could end up in the jungles of Vietnam trying to avoid being killed - bit worse than ending up at Freo!!!

"Between 1965 and December 1972 over 800,000 men registered for National Service. Some 63,000 were conscripted and over 19,000 served in Vietnam. Although registration was compulsory a process of selection by ballot determined who would be called up. Two ballots were conducted each year. The ballots selected several dates in the selected period and all males with corresponding birthdays were called up for national service. The ballot was conducted using a lottery barrel and marbles representing birthdays."

FI - I was born on the 21st Oct - here's the list of dates drawn in my ballot - October 4, 5, 7, 10, 12, 16, 20, 22, 25

I missed the lottery by a year. Just as I got to a point to worry about it, the war was over. Phew. Years later I worked with two guys who had gone to Vietnam. Nothing was known about PTSD etc at that point, and they certainly didn't talk about it. But their behaviour could be very erratic. I heard not long ago that one of those guys got sorted to a degree in his sixties after finally getting help.

A bullet missed there in more ways than one. Respect to those who went.

 

[Significant]

So as great as it's been toying over what we'll do with our first pick (we weren't takin' for rankine for nothing guys, c'mon).

Why not shift our attention to what we can potentially pick up with our later picks...

Who are the players who showed plenty earlier on but have since dropped off?
Who are the players who showed little to begin with, but have impressed lately with either end of season form or their combine results?
What state league players could we be potentially interested in?

Riordan

 

[Drake Huggins]

I must have won the Lottery. Got taken in the original National Service, in the last intake in 1959. I enjoyed it mostly. Admittedly Vietnam was'nt on, and nobody was shooting at me.

So you made up for it by joining the coppers, BB. Talk about out of the frying pan and into the fire!

 

[Drake Huggins]

"go home" factor - to Adelaide - fmd - really?????????.

I mean its an hour away on a plane - you can go home and visit your mum and be back for training that afternoon!!!.

Its not like you're 22 yo, virtually skint, in London, and the only way to get home to see the family was a three week trip on the magic bus to Mumbai via Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan and then having to scam a ride on freight carrier back to Melbourne.

I could mention something about soft c*** millennials but I'd probably then get called out for being a grumpy old curmudgeon.

Not that there's anything wrong with being a grumpy old curmudgeon. Badge of honour, if anything. You've earned the right.

 

[gringo2011]

I must have won the Lottery. Got taken in the original National Service, in the last intake in 1959. I enjoyed it mostly. Admittedly Vietnam was'nt on, and nobody was shooting at me.

I didn’t realise how old you were Baz, we span a few generations on here. I would have been too fragile for the army, I can’t handle watching footy without losing it. I would have been like Brando in Appoclypse Now after 3 weeks in training.

 

[CursingFijian]

I remember going to a war museum in, or around, Phillip Island. From memory, and I could be wrong, it contained the apparatus that drew the numbers in the draft lottery. I remember being fascinated by the exhibit and wondering how it had literally changed peoples lives.