Rumour GFC 2025 Player Trading, Drafting FA, Rumours and Wish lists Pt 1

[Turbocat]

Nah that's not true. At the time this board were extremely happy with Fogarty and Constable in that draft. And fairly happy with Kelly but some questioned his age. See the live draft thread here:

Game Day - 2017 National Draft live tracker .. all picks here

We will fair dinkum have the best midfield in the comp next year with kelly to slot in from round 1 and constable in 2-3 years just need to fix the fwd line.

www.bigfooty.com

Yes its true.. The Taylor for Taylor thing will be somewhere… I remember it being posted. maybe pre draft ..not sure but it will be some where

 

[Footy Smarts]

Yes its true.. The Taylor for Taylor thing will be somewhere… I remember it being posted. maybe pre draft ..not sure but it will be some where

Go read that thread I posted. There's literally not a single negative post responding to the Fogarty selection. Taylor is basically not mentioned in the whole thread.

 

[year of the cat]

I agree ..more than comfortable… and all could fail. But ..one or two could easily have the non drafting mouths scratching their heads again…. If Hofmann becoms a players for us then there will be a tidal wave of effluent that will rain down on the Saints.

Added a couple of guys who could be rucks. , a few options as marking forwards , a HB , and a couple of mids.. good mix and so geelong in that its a no name mix. Others with the picks will continue to pick the names … we will sort thru the fodder trying to find potential, looking for value amung the over looked ..and ultimately try to make the names. Some will fail for sure..its just maths .. but find one or two and plenty will be crying tears of salty blood.

What was the deal we tried to instigate for Shanahan? Id pressume if we had managed to get him ..it would have changed our draft considably.

Our FF was offered to Tigers and WC and then withdrawn after Shanahan was taken.

 

[year of the cat]

Go read that thread I posted. There's literally not a single negative post responding to the Fogarty selection. Taylor is basically not mentioned in the whole thread.

That was the live draft thread. I think you’ll find in the equivalent thread to this one Taylor’s name mentioned. I for one wanted him. Wasn’t shattered when we took Fogarty though at the time.

 

[geelong_crazy26]

Is anyone else really liking the look of hoffman??

 

[stac]

Anyone else see the Lennox Hofmann article posted this morning in the Geelong Addy? Straight up hilarious how he basically shit on St Kilda throughout, stating how he's sad that Cole didn't get drafted, and how he was 'hoping the bid didn't get matched', as he was 'excited at the idea of going to Geelong.' Was apparently so stoked when he got through to us.

Think about that for a sec...aligned with an academy and told you're likely to go there...but then really happy that you don't.

This is why we're a destination club, and Saints are just the place where dreams go to die, lol.

Was talking to a few people yesterday that indicated that senior players really don’t like Ross and were dreading having to return to training
Also mentioned that draftees and managers were worried about being selected by saints

If true sounds like a disaster and a club going nowhere

 

[D BRIDGE]

Hoffmann got a bit of Dylan Grimes about him.

Grimes was also a late pick from memory.

Hopefully the Hoff makes the Aints not matching for basically stuff all points look stupid.

 

[Gazza Greatness]

Is anyone else really liking the look of hoffman??

What surprises me with Lennox Hofman looking at his highlights and that's he looks a lot better footballer than a pick 66 selection, so for that reason alone there's much to like and take a punt on.

 

[My Tilly]

Is anyone else really liking the look of hoffman??

He's going to be a gun.
He and Polkinghorne will be two steals from this years draft.

 

[Lana]

Hoffmann got a bit of Dylan Grimes about him.

Grimes was also a late pick from memory.

Hopefully the Hoff makes the Aints not matching for basically stuff all points look stupid.

Shows a lot of AFL ready attributes, the kind that makes it easy to fit you into a defensive group. We like that defender that can shift between being a tall and a small. I don't think it will take long before he gets his debut.

 

[Footy Smarts]

Shows a lot of AFL ready attributes, the kind that makes it easy to fit you into a defensive group. We like that defender that can shift between being a tall and a small. I don't think it will take long before he gets his debut.

I'm surprised how good he looks defensively. More the Guthrie or even Kolo mould than a Jordan Clark type.

 

[FootyLad0]

Next years draft is looking good at the top end. Even taking into consideration the players already liked via academy. I think club were massively undervaluing those future first round picks.

People were running their mouths (looking at you Tugger fans) about how good this draft was…”It’s Deeeeeep!”

Completely missing the fact the reason it was “deep” is that the top end had no stand out bonefide ready to go superstar or star players (outside maybe Ashcroft who wasn’t available in the open draft anyway)

Honestly pretty much anyone from 1-10 could have gone first overall, I was genuinely surprised it was Lalor.

When you can’t get a consensus number 1 and/or 2 then you know that there’s a lack of supreme talent, just a lot of good talent.

We were smart not to panic trade, that’s why you always have faith in Wells/Mackie. They know what they are doing

 

[geelong_crazy26]

He's going to be a gun.
He and Polkinghorne will be two steals from this years draft.

Makes me think... Why did st kilda pass on him???

 

[Lana]

Makes me think... Why did st kilda pass on him???

Their list was full, they gambled that he was going to get through to be a CAT B rookie

 

[geelong_crazy26]

Their list was full, they gambled that he was going to get through to be a CAT B rookie

Did thet have the ability ar that point to match??

 

[My Tilly]

Makes me think... Why did st kilda pass on him???

1 flag in well over a century . . . enough said.

 

[And_ROOS]

People were running their mouths (looking at you Tugger fans) about how good this draft was…”It’s Deeeeeep!”

Completely missing the fact the reason it was “deep” is that the top end had no stand out bonefide ready to go superstar or star players. Honestly pretty much anyone from 1-10 could have gone first overall.

When you can’t get a consensus number 1 and/or 2 then you know that there’s a lack of supreme talent, just a lot of good talent.

We were smart not to panic trade, that’s why you always have faith in Wells/Mackie. They know what they are doing

I know a few Tuggers fans who are worried they are shit at the wrong time, they were hoping they would be shit in time for a 2001 or 2004 draft where theres players in the top 10 that are standouts, with a few people expected would become elite.

Instead they are worried it will be a 2002/2003 set of drafts, then Tassie come in with concessions and they will have a rebuild on the back of a weak draft.

 

[Lana]

By DVI, our draft spend this year was our the 2nd weakest in the last 17 years. Or the 6th percentile compared to everyone else in that time.

 

[year of the cat]

By DVI, our draft spend this year was our the 2nd weakest in the last 17 years. Or the 6th percentile compared to everyone else in that time.

What year was our weakest by DVI?

 

[Lana]

What year was our weakest by DVI?

2015

 

[year of the cat]

2015

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Year we traded for Dangerfield?

 

[FootyIslanders]

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[Lana]

Year we traded for Dangerfield?

And Zac Smith and Henderson, if we had anything else of value to send we would have

 

[CatToTheFuture]

Anyone else see the Lennox Hofmann article posted this morning in the Geelong Addy? Straight up hilarious how he basically shit on St Kilda throughout, stating how he's sad that Cole didn't get drafted, and how he was 'hoping the bid didn't get matched', as he was 'excited at the idea of going to Geelong.' Was apparently so stoked when he got through to us.

Think about that for a sec...aligned with an academy and told you're likely to go there...but then really happy that you don't.

This is why we're a destination club, and Saints are just the place where dreams go to die, lol.

I think his comments were probably stripped of a little context, and also, he has to say how he's happy to be drafted to us. Hard to answer a question on your bid not getting matched

 

[Pollywaffle]

He's going to be a gun.
He and Polkinghorne will be two steals from this years draft.

Kg and Cornes (senior) have a Saturday morning show here in Adelaide and I just caught the back end of a caller, a local who said that the cats had done it again and picked up up a steal in the draft, I think it was about Polkinghorne. Said the kid was a gun but had experienced an interrupted previous few years.