Welcome Welcome to Adelaide: Sid Draper - Pick 4, 2024

[Cleric]

Watching his press conference he was pretty transparent that Adelaide is where he really wanted to end up.
It's good to have local kids that love the club and you don't have to worry about them leaving after at the first opportunity, or the club having to overpay them to keep them.

 

[ABAB]

Watching his press conference he was pretty transparent that Adelaide is where he really wanted to end up.
It's good to have local kids that love the club and you don't have to worry about them leaving after at the first opportunity, or the club having to overpay them to keep them.

Double edge sword, the clubs remain loyal to them like Smith and Laird.

 

[Billy Cart]

Fist pumps all round.

 

[Geoffa32]

Watching his press conference he was pretty transparent that Adelaide is where he really wanted to end up.
It's good to have local kids that love the club and you don't have to worry about them leaving after at the first opportunity, or the club having to overpay them to keep them.

It's great when a genuine fan of the club gets to play for that club.

 

[Crow till I die]

Tailem Bend actually.....

To coach

Sounds like the prize in that old show 'don't forget your toothbrush'...you can win a trip to paradise islands...or....policeman's point

 

[glengowan]

So Port traded up one spot to get Joe Berry.

I've never understood pick trades that move you up a single spot. Surely if the club you're trading with wants the player you're going to pick, then they won't do the trade. And if they agree to the trade, they weren't going to take them anyway, right?

West Coast just picked the best local lad with their pick, they were never going after the player Port wanted. Why give up pick 45 for nothing?

This may have already been answered, but I presume Freo were keen. If Freo knew Port were also keen on Berry and contacted West Coast, West Coast may have got on the phone to Port.

 

[Samcro24]

Nice work Jenny, ears to the ground always

She’s a sleuth like Jessica fletcher

 

[BunjiMC]

It's great when a genuine fan of the club gets to play for that club.

Especially when it's a top 4 pick in a super draft.

 

[spenze]

Does anyone else View attachment 2170928think Draper is a bit of a Michelanny look alike?

Big Jim you old devil

We could have had two father sons this year

 

[Golumless]

Double edge sword, the clubs remain loyal to them like Smith and Laird.

No different to Sloane, or eventually Tex.

That said, it's league wide thing. Coaches tend to be quite slow to admit that someone the club has relied on for a decade doesn't have it anymore. Especially if their production is in the weird twilight zone of diminished but hasn't genuinely fallen off a cliff.

It's probably where mantras such as form is temporary, class is permanent comes to bite a selection group.

 

[TBM]

Future captain all over him. Love the fact he openly brought up 'character' as a strength he brings

 

[n4sir]

Sounds like the prize in that old show 'don't forget your toothbrush'...you can win a trip to paradise islands...or....policeman's point

I'm old enough to remember that!

 

[Archie87]

Wow Draper looks the goods.

It's only highlights but I'm not getting bad kick vibes from him. He's such a wonderfully manic player but his kicking looks quite good when he has the time to slow down...

 

[Firewalker]

First player the Crows men have selected from South Adelaide since James Turner & Rhys Archard in the 2006 Rookie Draft

 

[Crow till I die]

Looks like not all blues fans were happy with picking Jagga..lol

C4[2]Yo`DooR

 

[Jars458]

Feels right. Mark Bickley

Mark Bickley

Age

55

Ht

178cm

Wt

82kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

19.4

5star

K

11.7

4star

HB

7.8

5star

M

3.3

3star

T

2.7

4star

No current season stats available

D

21.2

5star

K

11.0

4star

HB

10.2

5star

M

3.2

4star

T

3.8

5star

was from South.

 

[Moonwatcher]

Guess my source in August was spot on.

Keep that one in the fridge

 

[Firewalker]

The 2023 U/18s performance was the one that gets Sid selected where he was tonight for mine, to make that U/18 All-Australian team as a bottom ager showed his capabilities.

 

[Moonwatcher]

Double edge sword, the clubs remain loyal to them like Smith and Laird.

Smith and Laird helped us get Draper

 

[Danger Zone]

12 months ago I was hoping for Draper, Welsh and Cumming as a FA.

So if I start manifesting now we might get Dyson Sharp, a developing ruck and NWM as a trade in a year's time

 

[rubbers0ul]

He's shown the scope that he will in his stint. 17 disposals as a 2nd year player on a wing is nothing to scoff at, especially when paired with 0.4 goals/0.7 goal assists (The GA was rated elite for midfielders, and there aren't a lot of wings above 1 GGA).

He's a bit of a quiet achiever, but Dowling should probably be our number 1 wing coming into next year to see if 17 disposals can be pushed to 19-20 and what that it does to the offensive numbers.



Well the what if in regards to not getting done for draft tampering to keep Tippett.

Dowling has high footy iq which is essential for a winger, doesn’t get sucked into the footy and let his opponent get an easy out the back, does a lot of unrewarded running pushing back to fill holes and take space plus spreads well despite knowing he probably isn’t going to get the ball even if he’s in a better position than a more senior player.

When they dropped Dowling and moved hinge to a wing post the geelong game we got found out big time, hinge was running around like a headless chook ball hunting and his opponent cleaned up with uncontested ball.


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[ams4crows]

Feels right. Mark Bickley was from South.

Sid to be the next premiership captain?

 

[hippyhippy]

Looks like not all blues fans were happy with picking Jagga..lol

C4[2]Yo`DooR

Don't know why he's not happy... I'd still be happy with jagga

 

[WAG]

Welcome Sid.

He's exactly what we need, and I am still gobsmacked that we didn't try anything cute to **** it up!

I'm sure there would have been temptation with Norf doing Norf things.

It's been a long time since I've been 'genuinely' excited about the Crows list/trajectory. I'm still tempered a little with Nicksy at the helm, but I'm almost starting to believe..... almost.

I'll be a full believer if Smith plays SANFL and Laird is nowhere near the middle.

 

[Moonwatcher]

Sid to be the next premiership captain?

Dual premiership captain thank you