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Premierships: AFL 1954, 2016 VFA - 1898,99,1900, 1908, 1913, 1919-20, 1923-24, VFL: 2014, 2016 . Champions of Victoria 1924. AFLW - 2018.Comment
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I hope we force Norf to use their number 1 pickComment
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Could we offer GWS pick 4 for Adams and jaksch?Comment
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Deconstructing that, one of them drops our first rounders value and the other one uses the pick (I.e. Jacksch and pick 4 for pick 10 - Adams for pick 10).
If this was/is accepted wisdom, I'd rather Jaksch and keep pick 10 for a kid like Sheed if that was possible.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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NORTHERN TERRITORY
Daniel Cox, Southern Districts
Errin Wasley-Black, NT Thunder
QUEENSLAND
Jonathan Freeman, Aspley
Archie Smith, Mt Gravatt
Only four blokes invited to draft camp, from an area of land bigger than Texas and Spain....put together! ( well, near enough Geography experts )
That's a bit sad isn't it?You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships every day. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity. ― EpicurusComment
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You don't get the development of players in QLD. It's not a game kids play at primary school and beyond. Soccer followed by league would be the norm. Can't speak for NT.Don't piss off old people
The older we get the less "LIFE IN PRISON" is a deterrent...Comment
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If you kicked five goals and Tom Boyd kicked five goals, Tom Boyd kicked more goals than you.
Formerly gogriffComment
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Check out the NSW/ACT squad. It's made up of ex-pat vics and those that live/lived on the border.Comment
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Loss of key draft picks to haunt Adelaide Crows in Tippett aftermath by: ANDREW CAPEL •From: The Advertiser
Members of SA's triumphant Under-18 side and three key draft picks, from left, Matthew Scharenberg (Glenelg), Luke Dunstan (Woodville-West Torrens) and James Aish (Norwood). Source: News Limited
ADELAIDE'S worst draft fears have been realised, with the Kurt Tippett salary cap penalties about to hit it like a sledgehammer.
The club's ban from the first and second rounds of this year's national draft is poised to cost it one of the AFL's top eight teenage draft prospects, dealing a massive blow to its rebuilding plan.
The suddenly-untouchables include SA stars James Aish and Matthew Scharenberg.
Draft-hampered Adelaide could not have picked a worse year to bottom out.
If the Crows stay in their current position of 13th, they would have been granted pick six - their highest draft selection ever, beating the No. 7 pick they wasted on Laurence Angwin in 2000.
And they would have been rewarded with one of the draft's top guns - Aish, Scharenberg, likely No. 1 pick Tom Boyd, his fellow Victorians Jack Billings and Josh Kelly and Ben Lennon or WA star Dom Sheed.
Matt Crouch - the younger brother of emerging Adelaide star Brad Crouch - would have been another possibility for coach Brenton Sanderson's side.
But with their first selection not coming until the third round - unless they can somehow vigorously trade their way up - the Crows will be looking at the draft and thinking what might have been.
A rival recruiting scout has warned the fallout from this year's draft, as well as last year when it also lost its first and second-round draft picks, will haunt Adelaide for years.
"And it will be felt the most in three-to-five years when there will suddenly be holes in the list,'' the scout said.
"To lose draft picks is one thing but to lose a top-10 selection, which appears certain, is an incredible blow to the club.''
This year's draft is considered deep but not star-studded.
The guns are in the top 10, particularly the top six, and are headed by so-called once-in-a-generation key forward Boyd, who will be at the centre of a bidding war between clubs.
Norwood's Aish and Glenelg's Scharenberg will be certain top-six selections and could go as high as pick two.
Billings, Kelly, Lennon, Sheed and Crouch are also considered can't-miss products.
Adelaide will also rue losing its second-round draft pick, which right now would have stood at No. 24.
Last year it lost selections 20, which it likely would have used on Glenelg key forward Tim O'Brien, who joined Hawthorn, and 54.
Crows list manager David Noble expressed regret at not being able to zero in on one of this year's most highly-coveted draft aces.
But he said the club would just have to "get on with things''.
"It's disappointing that we don't have a pick early but that's what we've got so we've just got to deal with it,'' Noble said.
"We've conditioned ourselves for a while now to not worry about it and to just make sure our recruiting guys are looking a little bit deeper into the draft to see if we can find something that might just be bubbling along when we have our first pick, whenever that might be.''Comment
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