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- Aug 9, 2019
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Unlike you recruiters don't have the advantage of hindsight.Whatever the ills of the Crows the lost opportunities and mistakes of the seven drafting years through 2014-2020 have come back to haunt us. These players are aged from 28 to 22 years old and should be the backbone of our squad. Only 12 of the 23 remain on the squad with another couple at least likely to be gone next year.
Here’s who we selected, compared to who we could have taken with the next pick available, or a pick soon afterwards or the very next available SA based player.
Jake Lever (14) – Kyle Langford (17)
Harrison Wigg (35) – Alex Neal-Bullen (40)
Mitch McGovern (43) – Caleb Daniel (46)
Wayne Milera (11) - Charlie Curnow (12)
Tom Doedee (17) – Ryan Burton (19)
Jordan Gallucci (15) – Will Hayward (19)
Myles Poholke (44) – Darcy Cameron (48)
Elliot Himmelberg (51) – Jack Graham (53)
Matthew Signorello (62) – Liam Ryan (66), also Nick Larkey (73), Mitch Lewis (76), Jake Waterman (77)
Darcy Fogarty (12) – Zac Bailey (15)
Andrew McPherson (40) – Charlie Ballard (42)
Chayce Jones (9) – Jye Caldwell (11), also Zac Butters (12)
Ned McHenry (15) – Bobby Hill (24), James Rowbottom (25)
Fisher McAsey (6) – Hayden Young (7), also Caleb Serong (8), Sam Flanders (11), Kysaiah Pickett (12) and Will Day (13)
Harry Schoenberg (24) – Jeremy Sharp (27)
Josh Worrell (28) – Charlie Comben (31), also Trent Rivers (32)
Ronin O’Connor (42) – Hugo Ralphsmith (46)
Lachie Gollant (48) - Jake Ricccardi (51)
Riley Thilthorpe ( 2) – Logan McDonald (4)
Luke Pedlar (11) – Tom Powell (13)
Brayden Cook (25) – Nathan O’Driscoll (27)
Sam Berry (28) - Caleb Poulter (30)
James Rowe (38) – Beau McCreery (44)
Crows Team
B: McGovern, Lever, Doedee
HB; Worrell, McAsey, Milera
C: Cook, Berry, Jones
HF: McHenry, Gollant, Poholke
F: Himmelberg, Fogarty, Pedlar
R: Thilthorpe, Schoenberg, Gallucci
Res: O’Connor, Wigg, Rowe, McPherson,
Sub: Signorello
Ghostly Crows Team
B: Ryan, Ballard, Burton
HB: Daniel, Comben, Powell
C: O’Driscoll, Young, Sharp
HF: Hayward, McDonald, McCreery
F: Neal-Bullen, Curnow, Hill
R: Cameron, Caldwell, Graham
Res: Bailey, Coulter, Riccardi, Langford
Sub: Ralphsmith
We might well be poor at coaching and retention but it is clear Hamish’s record was well below average if not disastrous through those years.
Not one of those picks was really a stretch as most went about where they were expected to go. If the recruiters had their way it would have been Tim English not Jordan Gallucci as our then full time recruiter Phul Bunn put on the record a couple of years ago when interviewed on trade radio.
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