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Could we piss Powa off and pinch their NGA Benny Barrett?
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Could we piss Powa off and pinch their NGA Benny Barrett?
Is Cochrane tied to Port in any way?Dougie Cochrane is the one. Special talent.
Van Dyk and Edwards also decent.
Is Cochrane tied to Port in any way?
Trouble is I now want Lalor AND Draper.From a poster on the Hawks board:
'My mate coaches South Adelaide and Sid Draper played on the weekend SANFL. Played really well, my mate said he is better than JHF at the same age, as he coached him at south too. He reckons Sid will captain an AFL team one day, no go home or dickhead factor like JHF. He probably won’t get past the crows pick, but if he does and we could get him, would be huge.'
Goes without saying any form he picks up in the seniors at Panthers will outweigh anything he did in U18's Championships. Just shows he has a great chance to be a straight up starter for any club next year in being able to mix it with grown men.
If Gold Coast continue to tumble our 2025 first for Pick 6 - Lalor looks ideal.Draper has to be priority number one. Reckon his injury has meant people have really forgotten how good he is. If we want to take a second mid I'm supportive, but he looks to have all the tools to flourish at AFL level.
Think about it though - if they did tumble to 13th and got pick 6, the players that might be gone at that pick are FOS, Smillie, Smith, Draper & maybe Trainor so GC 'could' get a pick in before a bid on their academy player Lombard. BUT, would we risk bidding on him to try and get a sweetener trade with GC for their pick bgut risk them letting us have him and them taking another mid like Draper themselves?If Gold Coast continue to tumble our 2025 first for Pick 6 - Lalor looks ideal.
So this fella claims to be a mate of Mark Clayton? Hmmmm.From a poster on the Hawks board:
'My mate coaches South Adelaide and Sid Draper played on the weekend SANFL. Played really well, my mate said he is better than JHF at the same age, as he coached him at south too. He reckons Sid will captain an AFL team one day, no go home or dickhead factor like JHF. He probably won’t get past the crows pick, but if he does and we could get him, would be huge.'
Goes without saying any form he picks up in the seniors at Panthers will outweigh anything he did in U18's Championships. Just shows he has a great chance to be a straight up starter for any club next year in being able to mix it with grown men.
Me too, but potentially if we are able to get another pick in the first round, it seems unlikely that we can get these 2.Trouble is I now want Lalor AND Draper.
There's going to be some pretty decent mids still available 2nd round possibly even 3rd round. talents like Zak Johnson, Archer Day-Wicks, Lucca Grego, Cooper Hynes, Luke Urquhart, Kade Herbert, Oliver Depaoli-Kubank and there's probably some I've missed. A player I really like is Gippy Power's Xavier Lindsay amongst the most composed and best kicks in this draft, even he could slip outside the 1st round so strong is the midfield depth in this draft.Me too, but potentially if we are able to get another pick in the first round, it seems unlikely that we can get these 2.
Maybe Draper/Lalor with our first and someone like Langford?
People do have friends hereSo this fella claims to be a mate of Mark Clayton? Hmmmm.
This sounds a bit like the McGregor is better than Pavlich call made when they were both 17.From a poster on the Hawks board:
'My mate coaches South Adelaide and Sid Draper played on the weekend SANFL. Played really well, my mate said he is better than JHF at the same age, as he coached him at south too. He reckons Sid will captain an AFL team one day, no go home or dickhead factor like JHF. He probably won’t get past the crows pick, but if he does and we could get him, would be huge.'
Goes without saying any form he picks up in the seniors at Panthers will outweigh anything he did in U18's Championships. Just shows he has a great chance to be a straight up starter for any club next year in being able to mix it with grown men.
Or you could go with this Mark Clayton quote LOLThis sounds a bit like the McGregor is better than Pavlich call made when they were both 17.
Trouble is I now want Lalor AND Draper.
So this fella claims to be a mate of Mark Clayton? Hmmmm.
If he turns out better than JHF, or even close to as good, and we pick him up, I will be forever thankful!Or you could go with this Mark Clayton quote LOL
“Sid has great speed and power and works really hard. His speed from stoppage is elite. The younger brother of (current South and former Collingwood player) Arlo Draper, I expect him to go quite high in the draft. He reminds me a bit of Chris Judd (dual Brownlow Medallist) with the way he goes about things and his work around the stoppages. Sid is very professional and diligent and wants to do everything well. He’s first class. He ticks a lot of the AFL attributes athletically, professionally and personality wise.’’ – South talent manager and under-18s coach Mark Clayton.
Brisbane will also almost certainly want to trade their first pick with Ashcroft coming in with an early pick.Anyone willing to do the mental gymnastics on how Reid & Co get that one over the line?
The article Mutineer posted just before shows both an opportunity and a curse for us in terms of getting two high draft picks.
The opportunity in that we might be able to bring in draft picks across the next 2 years into this year, the curse being that it looks like everyone is going to try and do that...
Realistically the only club that I'd imagine would want to trade out of the draft would be Gold Coast (everyone else needs draft picks), but they'll be tied up with getting some Richmond players in and gift the Tigers some high draft picks for their rebuild it'd seem. I'd imagine Tigers will ask for one of GC's high draft picks, but I'd certainly be asking for the other.
A lot of punters out there seem to think Lombard (GC Academy) will go top 6, so you'd think that's another reason for GC to want to get out of the draft. If we could offer up a future 1st and something else, I think we could nab one. GC also have a high prospect next year in Uwland, so would surely want some collateral for that...
Something working for us is that we got the Rankine deal done fairly quickly last year, so seems to be decent trade relations..
Well the poster didn't say which coaching level, could have been Ressies even?
I was down South a few weeks ago to watch Panthers v Crows and spoke to the former coach of the womens team, who essentially said the same thing. Apparently he's a ripper of a kid.
Question, you have seen enough of the other top end kids, if we end up with pick 4, do you think he is likely still on the draft board for us? or is he already likely gone.Or you could go with this Mark Clayton quote LOL
“Sid has great speed and power and works really hard. His speed from stoppage is elite. The younger brother of (current South and former Collingwood player) Arlo Draper, I expect him to go quite high in the draft. He reminds me a bit of Chris Judd (dual Brownlow Medallist) with the way he goes about things and his work around the stoppages. Sid is very professional and diligent and wants to do everything well. He’s first class. He ticks a lot of the AFL attributes athletically, professionally and personality wise.’’ – South talent manager and under-18s coach Mark Clayton.
I think he is, discounting Ashcroft and Lombard. Pick 5, touch and go. It’s still very even though, of the nominal 1 & 2, Smilie had an ok but not exceptional carnival and O’Sullivan has barely played. Any of the top 10-12 could go in the first 3 with a big finish to the season, lots of football yet to play.Question, you have seen enough of the other top end kids, if we end up with pick 4, do you think he is likely still on the draft board for us? or is he already likely gone.
Only the recruiters know the answer to that, it will all be down to where individual recruiters rate them, all I know is I most certainly wouldn't be disappointed if he's our guy, similarly with most in this top 8 or 10 it gets down to what type of mid we prefer. Sid is what I'd class as a balanced mid with inside/outside talent and some decent explosiveness. Personally I'd take Sid before both Josh Smillie and Jagga Smith of those in the "öpen" draft, that said need to see more of Finn O'Sullivan now he's back.Question, you have seen enough of the other top end kids, if we end up with pick 4, do you think he is likely still on the draft board for us? or is he already likely gone.