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

[Eddie Murphy]

Will hold him in good stead at AFL level. Just have this feeling about Draper, going to be a special player if he can address his flaws which have been overblown.

Think they’re especially overblown with our current midfield mix. Draper doesn’t need to be a great user when he’s surrounded by Rankine, Dawson, and Soligo.

 

[StonesThrow]

That clip does nothing to alleviate the concerns that he lacks poise and handballs to players in worst positions.

This was last year. I wasn't overly impressed with him last year based on his sold. This year he improved quite a bit though imo. Especially his handballs. Watch his latest footage

 

[Danger in Texas]

Think they’re especially overblown with our current midfield mix. Draper doesn’t need to be a great user when he’s surrounded by Rankine, Dawson, and Soligo.

Also have said this about Draper a few times - he’s handball-happy, but not in a Crouch or Laird sense where he stands still. Sid’s always running and always looking for the best link-up options

The most important thing is that his agility and line-breaking will be an incredible compliment to our mix

 

[WaynesWorld19]

This Draper has very wide shoulders .....he's going to be a beast when he fills out ....ala Thommo

 

[1990crow]

This Draper has very wide shoulders .....he's going to be a beast when he fills out ....ala Thommo

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His physical advantages (pace) plus wide shoulders, muscle growth he can achieve makes him about as close to a Dangerfield prospect we have had since he was drafted.

 

[Eddie Murphy]

Also have said this about Draper a few times - he’s handball-happy, but not in a Crouch or Laird sense where he stands still. Sid’s always running and always looking for the best link-up options

The most important thing is that his agility and line-breaking will be an incredible compliment to our mix

Oppo mids loved to peel off Crouch and (especially) Laird, forcing them to actually move the ball themselves rather than feed others. They’ll be shooting themselves in the foot if they try that with Draper.

 

[dogs105]

I get why we did it, even if it wasnt the move I would have made.

AA U18 and the MVP in a side with Rowell and Anderson, in a spot on the ground where we really needed it at the time. Wouldnt have been an easy year to be drafted for a kid who had any doubts about the move away. Then some stuff with family happened and that was all she wrote.

Mind you it was he or Dylan Stephens.... probably a slight loss at this stage you'd say but Stephens hasnt amounted to anything either.

Choice between Dylan Stephens, and McAsey & Pedlar.

 

[George Kramer]

This was last year. I wasn't overly impressed with him last year based on his sold. This year he improved quite a bit though imo. Especially his handballs. Watch his latest footage

I did and that’s when I started getting worried about his poise and disposal

 

[WaynesWorld19]

Oppo mids loved to peel off Crouch and (especially) Laird, forcing them to actually move the ball themselves rather than feed others. They’ll be shooting themselves in the foot if they try that with Draper.

This is a good assessment

 

[SugarShane]

Or god forbid he makes his own way.

34 is the number of a club legend as well as 9.

If we get a Ben Hart quality career out of him you'd be satisfied I'd think.

34 is fine. The number stuff is always kind of weird. I have an admiration for the players that stick with higher numbers.

32 was nothing before Ricciuto. 43 was nothing before Kouta. Platten in 44, Ling in 45.

Make the number yours. Not the other way around.

 

[Cromulant]

If we get a Ben Hart quality career out of him you'd be satisfied I'd think.

34 is fine. The number stuff is always kind of weird. I have an admiration for the players that stick with higher numbers.

32 was nothing before Ricciuto. 43 was nothing before Kouta. Platten in 44, Ling in 45.

Make the number yours. Not the other way around.

Shaun Rehn and 52

 

[Executive Landlord]

The obsession with numbers is one of the most cringe and bizzare obsessions I have seen from grown men.

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

If we get a Ben Hart quality career out of him you'd be satisfied I'd think.

34 is fine. The number stuff is always kind of weird. I have an admiration for the players that stick with higher numbers.

32 was nothing before Ricciuto. 43 was nothing before Kouta. Platten in 44, Ling in 45.

Make the number yours. Not the other way around.

52 is one of our best ever...

 

[whattagun07]

23 was nothing before MJ

 

[GreyCrow]

23 was nothing before MJ

Dermott

 

[Cromulant]

Dermott

Im not certain but I reckon they both wore 23 for the first time in the same year ??

 

[Shifty Crow]

The obsession with numbers is one of the most cringe and bizzare obsessions I have seen from grown men.

agree

I always love when a player decides to make a number his own, instead of jumper hoping to a number of a past great


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[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

The obsession with numbers is one of the most cringe and bizzare obsessions I have seen from grown men.

 

[GROTTO]

52 is one of our best ever...

Have we had a player with a higher number play an official game?

Is 52 a result of the maximum squad size of the AFC at the time, ie 52?

 

[WaynesWorld19]

The obsession with numbers is one of the most cringe and bizzare obsessions I have seen from grown men.

LOL ....I've never understood it

Logo's also do nothing for me in Footy

When I lived in Adelaide & followed the Bloods religiously .....I was manic over whether we'd play with white or black shorts .....the Bloods kit was so much better in black ....I thought the same with Glenelg, better in black

 

[cmndstab]

Have we had a player with a higher number play an official game?

Is 52 a result of the maximum squad size of the AFC at the time, ie 52?

I'm not sure about maximum squad size (I think the other teams had smaller squads) but yes, we were permitted a squad of 52 (which was trimmed from our initial invited group of 70 players) and so the numbers ran from 1 through to 52. For interest's sake, #51 was Randall Bone, and #50 was the Weed.

You can see them all here:

The first 52 Crows of 1991 | Adelaide Football Club

Adelaide finalised its first AFL list only two weeks before its first premiership game. The inaugural 52 included ten junior footballers and players from all ten SANFL clubs of 1990.

crowshistory.afc.com.au

I'm not sure what the process was for assigning the guernseys, though. A lottery system, perhaps?

Edit: Reading up further on this, it looks like there was an initial squad of 42 players plus 10 juniors. Players were generally assigned the number they had previously played in at SANFL level, with seniority breaking the ties, so the juniors tended to end up with later numbers.

 

[WaynesWorld19]

I'm not sure about maximum squad size (I think the other teams had smaller squads) but yes, we were permitted a squad of 52 (which was trimmed from our initial invited group of 70 players) and so the numbers ran from 1 through to 52. For interest's sake, #51 was Randall Bone, and #50 was the Weed.

You can see them all here:

The first 52 Crows of 1991 | Adelaide Football Club

Adelaide finalised its first AFL list only two weeks before its first premiership game. The inaugural 52 included ten junior footballers and players from all ten SANFL clubs of 1990.

crowshistory.afc.com.au

I'm not sure what the process was for assigning the guernseys, though. A lottery system, perhaps?

Edit: Reading up further on this, it looks like there was an initial squad of 42 players plus 10 juniors, so the juniors got the numbers 43-52. Hence Ben Hart ending up with #43.

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Why Shaun Rehn stuck with number 52 throughout his career​

It’s not the most fashionable of numbers, so why did Shaun Rehn stick with number 52 for his entire AFL career?
Rehn insists he was “never enticed” to swap his lofty number for other digits.

The two-time Adelaide Crows premiership ruckman carried the weighty number on his back throughout his 167-game career which also took in a couple of seasons at Hawthorn.
He donned the jersey in his debut season in 1991 and never looked back, wining two All-Australian selections, one Crows best and fairest and two flags in the no.52 which is a number generally put aside for reserves players.
Asked what encouraged him to remain with the high figure, Rehn revealed the logic which includes one quirky piece of reasoning.

“Two things - the Coodabeen Champions did a song and it was all about the number 52, how there’s 52 weeks in a year and 52 this and 52 that,” he told SEN’s Bob and Andy.

“For some reason 52 seemed to be a number that resonates in different parts of life and it was quite a funny thing, as they do (the Coodabeens).

“And when Chris McDermott retired (in 1996), our captain, he asked me whether I’d like to wear his number which was 10 and I guess I’d been wearing it (52) for long enough and I actually grew to like it.

“So I just chose to stay with it and try and make that number my own.

“I was never enticed (to change). I was pretty quick to say to Chris at the time that I’m not really interested, I’m going to stick with my number

 

[George Kramer]

The obsession with numbers is one of the most cringe and bizzare obsessions I have seen from grown men.

You might want to look up the definition of obsession

 

[Brenton Davy]

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111/1, 222/2 etc

 

[crows dude]

Have we had a player with a higher number play an official game?

Is 52 a result of the maximum squad size of the AFC at the time, ie 52?

Yes we had a squad of 52. Numbers 1-52