This Chris Grant memorial board for hail-mary player selection

[Mantis]

Believe that was Tom Davidson.

Sponsored by a local businessman who also funded our attempt to find another NicNat in Fiji.

IIRC he had a laundry service, Sean ??

[Bulldog Joe]

I have literally only ever attended one training session and it was when we have 2 Fijian kids there with no idea what to do 🤣. Pretty sure Patrick Rose was rookied from Williamstown the year after Picken too.

Patrick Rose was definitely the second Williamstown sponsored rookie and probably killed off any further opportunities from that source.

Tom Davidson was in the Werribee days. Think we might have done better if we had taken the Werribee player James Podsiadly.

I did hear that Rocket was a upset that no-one had considered Podsiadly as eligible to Rookie. We also took Nathan Saunders ahead of him from Werribee as well.

[Happy Days]

Didn’t Rose stop us from picking up Dane Rampe, because we thought he (Rose) sucked and he absolutely cooked Rampe in a VFL final right before a draft that we were supposedly keen on picking Rampe in?

[Mofra]

Didn’t Rose stop us from picking up Dane Rampe, because we thought he (Rose) sucked and he absolutely cooked Rampe in a VFL final right before a draft that we were supposedly keen on picking Rampe in?

I think we had concerns over Rampe's kicking.
Shame as I saw him at Willy one day and he must have broken about 30 tackles that day. a HBFer that was just super strong in the hips and really competed.
I did not see his transition to KPD at all though.

[Mofra]

I did hear that Rocket was a upset that no-one had considered Podsiadly as eligible to Rookie. We also took Nathan Saunders ahead of him from Werribee as well.

Not taking Huddo from Werribee was as big a blunder. Didn't "Our Mastermind" veto both players?

Then again, Malthouse liked Picken (plus he would have been a cheap FS for the Pies) but was overruled by their recruitment manager at the time, so sometimes it works in our favour...

[Virgin-Dog]

While none are on the level of the Grant pick, I?d like to acknowledge the ?99 draft.

Not only did we start with Murphy and Gia in the 1st and 2nd round, but we followed that up with Mitch Hahn (3rd round), Lindsay Gilbee (3rd round) and Ryan Hargrave (4th round).

A 300-gamer, three 200-gamers plus Hahn who had 181. Quite possibly the greatest individual draft by any club ever, ignoring father son / academy picks. And only one of those was selected in the top 30

[Guido]

Bassett, I think.

[Twodogs]

I'm going back to the early 1980s and nominate Peter Foster. We were negotiating with Fitzroy for a player called Chris Hansen but baulked at the price they were asking, so Fitzroy threw in Foster as the steak knives.

He went on to be a fantastic player for us.

[Grantysghost]

I'm going back to the early 1980s and nominate Peter Foster. We were negotiating with Fitzroy for a player called Chris Hansen but baulked at the price they were asking, so Fitzroy threw in Foster as the steak knives.

He went on to be a fantastic player for us.

Until Paul Dear? I loved fossy.

[ledge]

Should our backline get a mention ?
Keath , Gardiner , Duryhea , Jones and now Coffield ., a whole backline of rejected players from other clubs that cost bugger all .

[bornadog]

Should our backline get a mention ?
Keath , Gardiner , Duryhea , Jones and now Coffield ., a whole backline of rejected players from other clubs that cost bugger all .

plus Duryea

[ledge]

plus Duryea

And Gardner

[GVGjr]

In recent years we have tended to target tall from other club, Bruce, Gardner, TOB, Martin and Keath and not forgetting Coffield. A couple of them might not meet the BAD definition of talls but you should get what I mean.

[Axe Man]

Should our backline get a mention ?
Keath , Gardiner , Duryhea , Jones and now Coffield ., a whole backline of rejected players from other clubs that cost bugger all .

Only Gardner was a reject from those.

[Grantysghost]

Only Gardner was a reject from those.

It's true however ledge makes an interesting observation.
Who is the last kpd we developed?