James Aish

[Greystache]

Re: James Aish

Seriously?


The question now is can the Crows play Dangerfield football?

Plus "he's still at school, he can't even play next year". Because every rational person knows the success of a draftee can only be measure by what they do in their first season, and in particular what they do in the first 5-10 rounds.

[1eyedog]

Re: James Aish

Given what we'd have to give up, no.

Quality player but I don't think he'll be a 'superstar' player.

Why do you think that because he is all outside and would need to develop an inside game?

I think he'll be a gun player, he's already very good, so skillful and he would compliment our insiders beautifully. If we could get him it would be a great outcome.

[Ozza]

Re: James Aish

Admittedly, I haven't seen heaps of Aish - but from what I've seen, I'd love to see him setting up the play from Half Back.
But for the money being spoken about for him - you'd have to be considering him as pretty central to the midfield plans.

Nice to have - but wouldn't be jumping over others to get him.

[comrade]

Re: James Aish

Prefer WHE from GWS. Not that he's particularly gettable...

[Sedat]

Re: James Aish

Prefer WHE from GWS. Not that he's particularly gettable...

Not sure Boyd was thought of as particularly gettable about 6 months ago

[Go_Dogs]

Re: James Aish

The best one was Ebert vs. Dangerfield; "BUT HE'S NOT EVEN SOUTH AUSTRALIAN CAN HE EVEN PLAY CROWS FOOTBALL?"

Haha, living in Adelaide this is basically the public/media reaction.

Ebert has developed into a pretty handy player too, but it just goes to show the industry is far too quick to judge.

[GVGjr]

Re: James Aish

While I think it's a highly unlikely scenario that Aish would be interested in coming to Vic let alone the Dogs I do believe he is the sort of footballer we should target.

Good list management is about quickly building a young and competitive playing list within a 3 or 4 year span and the addition of Aish who by the end of the year will have already had 2 years of development would help fast track our list with the aim of getting a good number of picks in the first two rounds of each draft.

Lets consider:

in 2011 we drafted:
Pick 17 - Clay Smith
Pick 39 - Michael Talia
and we have since acquired
Pick 30 - Joel Hamling from Geelong
Pick 38 - Jordan Kelly (R) from Hawthorn

That's 4 picks in the first 2 rounds of that draft.

in 2012 we drafted:
Pick 5 - Jake Stringer
Pick 6 - Jackson Macrae
Pick 21 - Nathan Hrovat

That's 3 picks in the first 2 rounds and Hunter and Prudden early in the 3rd.

in 2013 we drafted:
Pick 4 - Marcus Bontempelli
and we have since acquired
Pick 1 - Tom Boyd from GWS

If we added Pick 7 James Aish that would be an awesome result.
That would be 3 picks in the top 10 of that draft.

in 2014 we drafted:
Pick 26 - Toby McLean
Pick 27 - Lukas Webb
Pick 39 - Declan Hamiliton

That's 3 picks in the first 2 rounds with Dale and Daniel early in the 3rd and Biggs as good as handed too us by the Swans.

Not everyone we have drafted or acquired will make it but it's the right formula.
Aish might not be the ideal player for us and more than likely to be heading home to SA but if we could land 3 top 10 picks in one draft I think it's worth considering.

[Remi Moses]

Re: James Aish

Thinking the same thing G
The Bont Big Tom and Aish!
Need a moment alone

[Rocco Jones]

Re: James Aish

Not sure Boyd was thought of as particularly gettable about 6 months ago

Not sure how many $7 million for 7 year contracts cards we can play though.

[Throughandthrough]

Re: James Aish

Aish is a gun. All class on the Footy field.

[boydogs]

Re: James Aish

Not sure how many $7 million for 7 year contracts cards we can play though.

Wasn't it $6m? $200k, $1.8m, $800k x 5

[Twodogs]

Re: James Aish

The club has not said a figure on Boyd's contract.

[LostDoggy]

Re: James Aish

The club has not said a figure on Boyd's contract.

Lots. Just lots. That's all we need to know.

[Twodogs]

Re: James Aish

Lots. Just lots. That's all we need to know.

Shedloads.

[Bornadog]

Re: James Aish

if we could land 3 top 10 picks in one draft I think it's worth considering.

Love your analysis and thinking on this one. Brisbane is along way away from Adelaide, but Melbourne isn't and he may like living here.