Where would you rather be drafted to?

[hujsh]

Re: Where would you rather be drafted to?

Success in this comp is cyclical so the ladder position wouldn't bother me. I'd like a club like the Dogs or Sydney which appears to have a decent culture and playing group and to preferably to stay in Melbourne. Going to Freo, Carlton, Richmond or WCE would be my least favourite options.

[mjp]

Re: Where would you rather be drafted to?

Go to somewhere that they will play you so other clubs can develop an appreciation of your abilities. Leave after the compulsory two years to the club where you can earn the most money - if that happens to be the club that drafted you, well, all the better...success is cyclical and will find you.

Not that I am cynical.

[LostDoggy]

Re: Where would you rather be drafted to?

A question by an opposition supporter on another board - querying whether we were looking at Templeton's 15 year old son in SA as a potential father son - does anyone have any information on this?

[anfo27]

Re: Where would you rather be drafted to?

If i was a gun kid about to be drafted i would do whatever it takes to wear the red white & blue. I would be asking the club what do i have to do to put every other club off. I'd stuff up in the draft camp interviews telling the clubs i love to drink & smoke & how i'm not that commited & i might not even nominate.
The only teams i wouldn't play for are Fremantle & Richmond. Fremantle simply because of that disgraceful song, under no circumstances am I ever singing heave ho way to go in a team circle after i have played in a great win. Richmond because i loathe them and they have no idea how to develop their kids.

[LostDoggy]

Re: Where would you rather be drafted to?

If i was a gun kid about to be drafted i would do whatever it takes to wear the red white & blue. I would be asking the club what do i have to do to put every other club off. I'd stuff up in the draft camp interviews telling the clubs i love to drink & smoke & how i'm not that commited & i might not even nominate.
The only teams i wouldn't play for are Fremantle & Richmond. Fremantle simply because of that disgraceful song, under no circumstances am I ever singing heave ho way to go in a team circle after i have played in a great win. Richmond because i loathe them and they have no idea how to develop their kids.

I bet the truth is if you were a potential draftee you wouldn't care less what club you were drafted to!

[mjp]

Re: Where would you rather be drafted to?

I'd stuff up in the draft camp interviews telling the clubs i love to drink & smoke & how i'm not that commited & i might not even nominate.

Yeah...but if you did that you wouldn't GET to draft camp.

Four clubs have to nominate you to even get an invite, and recruiters spend most of their time talking to each other...

[Before I Die]

Re: Where would you rather be drafted to?

I feel really unclean saying this, but Collingwood spend the most on player development and I think it is correct that over recent years they correspondingly have the best strike rate at getting their recruits up to AFL level. Everything else aside, this would have to make them attractive to draft hopefuls.

Excuse me now, I need to go and scrub myself in the shower for the next couple of hours.

[Twodogs]

Re: Where would you rather be drafted to?

In a similiar vein what if you were a decent Sheffield Shield cricketer who was born and bred in Australia but not likely to be selected? If you qualified for another country via your grandparents being born there and they wanted you to play, would you?



I would.

[Sockeye Salmon]

Re: Where would you rather be drafted to?

In a similiar vein what if you were a decent Sheffield Shield cricketer who was born and bred in Australia but not likely to be selected? If you qualified for another country via your grandparents being born there and they wanted you to play, would you?



I would.

I've thought of this a lot as my little bloke qualifies for Australia and New Zealand.

If the New Zealand selectors would let him play Shield cricket for Victoria and test cricket for the Black Caps I would be telling him to be a Kiwi.

[LostDoggy]

Re: Where would you rather be drafted to?

If i was a gun kid about to be drafted i would do whatever it takes to wear the red white & blue. I would be asking the club what do i have to do to put every other club off. I'd stuff up in the draft camp interviews telling the clubs i love to drink & smoke & how i'm not that commited & i might not even nominate.

Mention to that you are a rampant homosexual with a predilection for anyone with Tatoos -guaranteed to work.

[Twodogs]

Re: Where would you rather be drafted to?

I've thought of this a lot as my little bloke qualifies for Australia and New Zealand.

If the New Zealand selectors would let him play Shield cricket for Victoria and test cricket for the Black Caps I would be telling him to be a Kiwi.

My kids qualify for Poland. All we need to do now is get Poland test cricket status some time in the next 10 years...