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Re: Dear Crow Fans
From Herald Sun online:
Likely No.1 pick's bizarre Bont favour
By Tim Michell
Jamarra Ugle-Hagan already wears the pants at Western Bulldogs.
Ugle-Hagan, from country Victorian town Framlingham, realised he'd arrived in Melbourne for the draft without a pair of jeans to wear to a draft night event.
His first call? Bulldogs skipper Marcus Bontempelli.
"He took me in for a week and looked after me and I obviously learned off him," he said.
"I'm actually taking his pants tonight as well because I didn't have jeans up in Melbourne.
"I think he was the first person I rang, I was like, 'do you have any jeans I can borrow?'
"I'm going to go pick them up soon."
Ugle-Hagan, tipped to be selected with pick 1 in tonight's draft, said he was yet to speak to the player he has been compared to for more than a year – Sydney superstar Lance Franklin.
But he's hoping for a call soon.
"Hopefully soon, to be honest. It's been like a year and a half nearly that talk has been happening and I thought he would give me a message," he said.
"Even like a, 'Mate, you're not Buddy'. Anything would do. He's a good bloke…I look up to him still."
The Bulldogs Next Generation Academy prospect said he had "the worst sleep" on Tuesday night as he waits to learn whether he'll be heading to Whitten Oval.
"I’ve had butterflies in my stomach since this morning," he said on the AFL website.
Adelaide has been tipped to bid for Ugle-Hagan with pick 1 but the Bulldogs will have no hesitation matching to snare the player most clubs rate as the best in this year's draft pool.
Ugle-Hagan said he asked to train on Friday with his new club but had been told draftees had to wait until Monday."I'll give him a hug before the first bounce and then I'll run into my pack and give them orders to rip him apart."Comment
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Re: Dear Crow Fans
Hey Squirrel Grip-suggest you repeat this in the thread on who is excited about Jamarra. He and Bont forming close bond might alleviate concerns Jamarra likely to be poached by Bummers. Unless they go after both !! (I think woofers would burn down windy hill if that were to eventuate...).Josie :)
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And we'll have everything.
We'll share the joy
Just like '54 again.Comment
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Re: Dear Crow Fans
BT COME BACK!
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Re: Dear Crow Fans
According to SA Media, according to the Crows, the Crows went with our man at #1 so we would have to burn more picks, they figured it meant that they were more likely to get Rowe this way.
No idea if we wanted RoweComment
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Rocket Science: the epitaph for the Beveridge era - whenever it ends - reading 'Here lies a team that could beat anyone on its day, but seldom did when it mattered most'. 15/7/2023Comment
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Re: Dear Crow Fans
Rowe gives me Andrew Hooper vibes anyway.Our 1954 premiership players are our heroes, and it has to be said that Charlie was their hero.Comment
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Rocket Science: the epitaph for the Beveridge era - whenever it ends - reading 'Here lies a team that could beat anyone on its day, but seldom did when it mattered most'. 15/7/2023Comment
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Re: Dear Crow Fans
If we wanted Rowe (or anybody else for that matter) it's exactly what we would have attempted to do if possible. A bid at pick 3 would have left us with 3 picks with points attached I think, when we were only taking 1 more player. Makes perfect sense to me.Comment
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Re: Dear Crow Fans
The proposition seems to be from them that they gambled on Pick 1 (or otherwise bid without real intent) because if JUH slipped to 3, something not guaranteed, we might have tried to package two or three late picks to get an end of second rounder to get Rowe, specifically. Did they know we rated Rowe in the second round? Who told them? Who plays with a Pick 1 bid with a range of non guaranteed variables. Did they not consider we could’ve traded down a future first to land a second rounder to get Rowe since we rated him allegedly so highly.
It’s classical disinformation. Focus on the genius 3D chess strategy and focus on Rowe, and not on the fact they handed us Pick 1, deprived their club the Pick 1 hype and gave JUH the NAB cash also.Rocket Science: the epitaph for the Beveridge era - whenever it ends - reading 'Here lies a team that could beat anyone on its day, but seldom did when it mattered most'. 15/7/2023Comment
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Re: Dear Crow Fans
Yes they handed us pick one but it was never going to be a risk of backfiring on them because we were always going to match the bid.
So it's a bit much to say they were gambling, though at any rate, I think they did it because they wanted to burn us for having access to the best talent in the land when in their mind they deserved to as a result of being so terrible irrespective of all of their resources.
Calling the Rowe spin disinformation is probably correct though.TF is this?.........Obviously you're not a golfer.Comment
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