Rumour Tales from the Henley Beach Cafe: CROWS 2021 RUMOURS

[Doc_]

Pick 1 isnt guaranteed to be an elite player. It just gives you the a better CHANCE at landing an elite player.

 

[Crow till I die]

You know damn fine pick 1 doesnt always make it.
If we bank 2 top 5 picks for pick one it can bight us in the ass big time.
I'm all for getting Horne, but not for 2 top 5 picks.
Thats gambling.
Everyone was we should have bet the farm on Luko, Ranline or Rozee. Hows that looking now?

I'd rather have had lukosius or Ben King or Bailey Smith than both of jones and mchenry

 

[Doc_]

I'd rather have had lukosius or Ben King or Bailey Smith than both of jones and mchenry

The top 10's a lottery and you know it. You didnt include Rankine in that list? Why's that?

 

[Crow till I die]

The top 10's a lottery and you know it. You didnt include Rankine in that list? Why's that?

Sure, i'd rather rankine than bpth jones and mchenry, add in walsh and max king to that list too..and thats now as much as then

 

[Doc_]

I'd prefer we took Rankine too.
Hindsights a beautiful thing.

 

[skittlebrew]

Sure, i'd rather rankine than bpth jones and mchenry, add in walsh and max king to that list too..and thats now as much as then

We went into a superdraft and walked out with some magic beans smh

 

[Doc_]

Ned and Chayce have been busts.
Heck, I wanted Caldwell at the pick we used on Chayce. That didnt work out too well either.

 

[BunjiMac]

Ned and Chayce have been busts.
Heck, I wanted Caldwell at the pick we used on Chayce. That didnt work out too well either.

Think the Tasmanian rule was applied there.

If in doubt look for the good family, if still in doubt, pick the Tasmanian, if in further doubt pick the half back flanker, no half back flankers? Pick the South Australian.

 

[Doc_]

1	Sam Walsh	Carlton	Geelong Falcons	TAC Cup	​
2	Jack Lukosius	Gold Coast	Woodville-West Torrens	SANFL	​
3	Izak Rankine	Gold Coast	West Adelaide	SANFL	Free Agency compensation pick (Lynch)​
4	Max King	St Kilda	Sandringham Dragons	TAC Cup	​
5	Connor Rozee	Port Adelaide	North Adelaide	SANFL	Traded from Brisbane Lions​
6	Ben King	Gold Coast	Sandringham Dragons	TAC Cup	Traded from Melb; received from Freo, Bris, Port, Freo​
7	Bailey Smith	Western Bulldogs	Sandringham Dragons	TAC Cup	​
8	Tarryn Thomas	North Melbourne	North Launceston	TSL	Next Gen. Academy (Indigenous) - North matched Crows bid.​
9	Chayce Jones	Adelaide	Launceston	TSL	​
10	Nick Blakey	Sydney	UNSW-Eastern Sub.	AFL Syd.	Academy selection​
11	Jye Caldwell	GWS Giants	Bendigo Pioneers	TAC Cup	Traded from Essendon​
12	Zak Butters	Port Adelaide	Western Jets	TAC Cup	​
13	Isaac Quaynor	Collingwood	Oakleigh Chargers	TAC Cup	Next Generation Academy selection (Ghanaian descent)​
14	Jackson Hately	GWS Giants	Central District	SANFL	Traded from Freo; received from Port, N.M.​
15	Jordan Clark	Geelong	Claremont	WAFL	​
16	Ned McHenry	Adelaide	Geelong Falcons	TAC Cup	Traded from Sydney​
17	Sam Sturt	Fremantle	Dandenong Stingrays	TAC Cup	Traded from Greater Western Sydney​
18	Xavier Duursma	Port Adelaide	Gippsland Power	TAC Cup	Traded from Hawthorn​
19	Liam Stocker	Carlton	Sandringham Dragons	TAC Cup	Traded from Adelaide at the draft; received from Melbourne​
20	Riley Collier-Dawkins	Richmond	Oakleigh Chargers	TAC Cup

Hindsights a wonderful thing.
Izak at 3?
Rozee? The polish has come off a bit. I still think he'll be ok.
Thomas?
Jones?
Blakey?
Caldwell?
Butters. I like this kid. Absolute steal at 12
Quaynor?
Hately? Cant even break in to our side.
Clark?
Ned?
Sturt?
Duursma?
Stocker? LOL
RCD. A handy pick up.

Yep, superdraft if you pick the eyes out of it in hindsight.

 

[hippyhippy]

It would be nice. Luko's tracking ok, Rankine is a bit of a bust at this point in time and Horne is still an unknown.
I do reckon Rankine can turn it around though.
All I'm saying is its still a lottery even with pick 1.
For every Rowell, theres 4 busts at pick 1. Even Rowell with an injury cloud isnt tracking so good now.
Throwing all your eggs in one basket trading 2 top 5 picks for pick 1 isnt a good strategy.

Lately the pick 1s have been pretty good. Besides st kilda and Melbourne, there haven't been too many busts

 

[Doc_]

Lately the pick 1s have been pretty good. Besides st kilda and Melbourne, there haven't been too many busts

They have been getting better at identifying talent.
With the lack of games being played because of covid, it gets a bit harder.

 

[TryAnHit]

Thomas is starting to look very good for north

 

[Pilchard_Adams]

Thomas is starting to look very good for north

Exactly. Starting to look good.

What were Aaron Hall, Darcy Parish and Touk Miller last season? Average at best. Now they are killing it. Break out seasons at age 29, 23 and 25

Jones and Mchenry are 21 and 20.

Shows that not every player hits their straps at 20 years old...

Be patient people.

 

[Mego Red]

It is an indictment on our club that they give some of us a reason to start thinking this way. Even sadder is that it appears to be true.

No one sensible thinks that way. It's just depressives on this board, spiralling with like minded sad folk.

We're rebuilding. Schoenberg is developing nicely, was in a third of our CBAs on the weekend and adding more every week.

 

[Mego Red]

Francis isn't even really a key defender. He's more Doedee, a player we already have.
Given our protencity to pick Doedee as our second tall for most of the season I wouldn't be surprised if we were this dumb.

Ummm - Jake Kelly?

 

[Mego Red]

It's a massive concern. I highly doubt living closer to home will solve all his issues either. Not to mention I recall he had his share of physical injuries? It's a no from me regardless of price.

Thanks for your expert opinion doctor

 

[Kickin Goals]

Thomas is starting to look very good for north

Was just about to say that myself, his last month has been very impressive. He has composure and skill.

 

[Crow till I die]

I'd prefer we took Rankine too.
Hindsights a beautiful thing.

Except if instead of hindsight some of us were very vocal that the club should be trading up at the time and were despondant when they failed to do so having watched port who started with a weaker draft hand move right on up to get that player they craved

 

[Moonwatcher]

Francis isn't even really a key defender. He's more Doedee, a player we already have.
Given our protencity to pick Doedee as our second tall for most of the season I wouldn't be surprised if we were this dumb.

Here's me looking up 'protencity' expecting to learn a new word for the day

 

[dude316]

Here's me looking up 'protencity' expecting to learn a new word for the day

There are two types of people in this world. Those that are pro ten city, and those that are against ten city.

 

[Mego Red]

Except if instead of hindsight some of us were very vocal that the club should be trading up at the time and were despondant when they failed to do so having watched port who started with a weaker draft hand move right on up to get that player they craved

I think we'd look like idiots if we'd given up 2+ firsts for Rankine, considering where he's at.

 

[CrowsB4hoes]

Except if instead of hindsight some of us were very vocal that the club should be trading up at the time and were despondant when they failed to do so having watched port who started with a weaker draft hand move right on up to get that player they craved

I reckon Port might have won that prelim against Richmond if they had Wingard. By his 3rd year he was already all Australian, something Rozee is a way off.

 

[Rory Walkerfield]

Exactly. Starting to look good.

What were Aaron Hall, Darcy Parish and Touk Miller last season? Average at best. Now they are killing it. Break out seasons at age 29, 23 and 25

Jones and Mchenry are 21 and 20.

Shows that not every player hits their straps at 20 years old...

Be patient people.

Another example is Petracca. Two years ago he was not living up to pick 2 status.

wind the clock forward to him being 25 and having 100+ games under his belt and he is ripping it apart.

not saying this is where our young guys end up, but expecting 19-22 year olds to dominate is foolish.

 

[Crow till I die]

I think we'd look like idiots if we'd given up 2+ firsts for Rankine, considering where he's at.

assuming he was playing like that for us and not differently because of environment / role etc

 

[Crow till I die]

I reckon Port might have won that prelim against Richmond if they had Wingard. By his 3rd year he was already all Australian, something Rozee is a way off.

maybe. but from our end, the best bit was that we already had the draft picks at hand without having to trade out players like port did. For what port paid to get to pick 6, had we offered picks 8 & 13 which was vastly better than what they offered Brisbane, that alone would have put us at Ben King without having to do anything else OR, if GC at 5 wanted King, Rozee would have been there for us at 6...but hindsight is a wonderful thing (unless you were in the trade up brigade at the time like I most certainly was)