One major difference is Sydney still has access to father son, unlike GWS and GC. Mills and Heeney are arguably your best two players. Your academy has had far greater impact on your list than the rookie draft
Yes, one father son went back home to Victoria, and the other didn't want to come to us because he didn't want to leave Victoria. Your last sentence is categorically wrong and we can leave it there.
And you have a North Father/Son becoming elite before our eyes. Personally, I'd scrap all draft concessions. Particularly F/S. Completely undermines the entire point of the draft.
I know Freo are chasing him, it's an interesting one where it seems like there options across multiple states which doesnt happen to often (though did with Dunkley last year I suppose). Given our current trading record with you lot though it might be best we just put a self-imposed ban on any trades with Melbourne
Sounds like we are putting him more on ball this week, he’s never been a proper KPF so it’s be great if we stop trying that. TheWest keeps running hitpieces on Jackson and I’m sure Pickett will take that into consideration.
Yes let's scrap the F/S rule just as we have Kynan Brown, Noah Yze and Kalani White all coming through the Junior elite system.
If they scrap F/S before Oscar Judd is due to arrive at IKON park I'll burn down AFL house myself.
I don't think Yze will be drafted based on what I've seen. Kynan Brown can find the footy but I'd like to see more. He's getting outplayed by 2 underaged teammates in the midfield at the moment. But it means I can't see a bid coming in the top 30. Kalani White is the one I'm excited about.
Yze is still under-age this year. The fact that he's playing already these early rounds is a good sign.
Ahh ok, I didn't know that. I thought he was this year for some reason.
Spot on. If we lost Pickett we'd have to spend all of our draft capital to find another elite small forward. oh wait, there aren't any. Such is their scarcity.
That's a ridiculous take. He covered the most amount of kms last night and worked his tail off for his goals. Rankine is a gun and Kozi is too, both worth top 5 picks in a trade. Almost 0 chance of finding better natural talents in the draft or via trade.
If pickett wanted out and, by some miracle, said he’d be happy to play for the crows at years end and the crows had pick 5 again.
not sure that's a great argument as it has been widely noted Geelong made out like bandits and 2 x abletts, scarlett, hawkins, blake all went for picks in the 40s and was a major reason the rules were changed
It is a great argument (which you have now bolstered), as the post that I was replying to specifically said that Geelong and Sydney's continued success over a long period of time isn't comparable because Sydney had access to a mechanism that Geelong doesn't (academy). My argument was that in practical terms Swans haven't achieved any more of a leg up than Geelong did, and that the distinction being drawn between two different ways of getting players onto the list was largely arbitrary. I've now said my part and won't be drawing this thread any further off topic.
why weren't they competent? - genuine question as I had us getting smashed before the showdown and was greatly relieved that it turned out otherwise. Seriously, Butters, Wines, JHF, Rozee and Drew should be winning enough of their own ball and the crows midfield is at this time certainly not anything like Collingwoods's level. Without derailing this thread, Rankine was electric and covered a shedload of ground and earned his goals. ROB had a day out yes and Lycett was horrid, but Port had the edge in terms of onballers in the night and iirc, Rozee was top possession winner on the ground and he is a super player
Difference at the moment is that the power midfield aren't working together as a team. They are leaving one player to get the ball while the others look for the easy receive. Not enough players wanting to lay a block or a shepherd in order to allow a teammate an easier disposal.
Do they realise Byron works for Port and is at the club all the time?
