2018 Draft

[RoarEmotion]

I’m one of the silent readers who enjoys the work. Thanks. My suggestion is to work out if you still enjoy doing the analysis or not and let that be your guide. Not what other people say. They act of making a prediction in writing puts it out there so it’s definitely going to get comments. The knowledgeable posters here, which includes you bully, have a pretty impressive strike rate to my uneducated eyes.

 

[FitenFitenWin]

Thanks for all the hard work over the years BH. Your knowledge and integrity will be sorely missed.

 

[MorrisMinor]

No... please don’t go Bully... Love your work!!!

 

[H tiger]

sh!t.

I hope you get the fever back and mumford yourself bully.

Your junior analysis is top 5 fav thing on pre for me.

Hear here

Hope you resume at some point Bullus

 

[tigerdell]

I will add my thanks to Bullus, and all who share their knowledge of the juniors.
Totally loved reading the top 50, was top shelf. Thanks

 

[Scoop]

Caldwell, good grief.

Baller.

 

[TigerFlag2017]

What does a baller mean?

 

[Scoop]

What does a baller mean?

Star player.

 

[Stylo]

Star player.

Took a while to get into the game but looked very classy

Butters looked excellent today as well

 

[Scoop]

The 2018 crop, looks incredibly strong.

Lot of really good kids are going to have decorated careers.

 

[Blind Charlie]

I'm actually getting pretty fed up with some of the comments in this thread, of course I'd hope for a decent player but this is all just hindsight stuff isn't it? And if the truth be known, I would have looked at ways to get back into the first round with a 2020 first (presuming Maurice Jnr shows rapid improvement).

But whatever, I'm calling it now, I won't be doing any draft stuff this year & beyond, Scoop can take over, or you can if you like. It seems the more work I do the more sh!t I cop. Definitely understand why Phantom gave up all those years ago, truly thankless task.

FWIW its great reading on the juniors threads from your self and other junior watchers and I say that having been a fly on the wall type of poster on here for what must be the best part of a couple of decades.

 

[Rfc4Ever]

Hately looks the goods too.

 

[Giardiasis]

And Chayce Jones

 

[Dont Argue]

Not recruiting Bytel has officially bitten us on the arse.
Because he's broken down, St kilda has put him on the long term injury list and stolen Marsh from our VFL team.
Sliding doors moment right there

 

[Scoop]

Not recruiting Bytel has officially bitten us on the arse.
Because he's broken down, St kilda has put him on the long term injury list and stolen Marsh from our VFL team.
Sliding doors moment right there

So you'd give up next years first to have a midfielder on the long term injury list and coming from a long way back pretty long odds to make it now (and you need to take current player off the list, say Sydney Stack, Luke English or Jack Ross) for a defender that would have played in our VFL side in 2019(we don't have a spot for him this year so you would need to draft him next year so you are giving up another pick next year on top of the first rounder) and Bailey Williams.

It might be a sliding doors moment for a massive bullet we have dodged.

 

[tigertim]

Not recruiting Bytel has officially bitten us on the arse.
Because he's broken down, St kilda has put him on the long term injury list and stolen Marsh from our VFL team.
Sliding doors moment right there

That’s some bizarro logic right there.

 

[T-Shirt Tommy]

That’s some bizarro logic right there.

Sure is.

It seems that the season cannot start soon enough for some of us.

 

[Dont Argue]

So you'd give up next years first to have a midfielder on the long term injury list and coming from a long way back pretty long odds to make it now (and you need to take current player off the list, say Sydney Stack, Luke English or Jack Ross) for a defender that would have played in our VFL side in 2019(we don't have a spot for him this year so you would need to draft him next year so you are giving up another pick next year on top of the first rounder) and Bailey Williams.

It might be a sliding doors moment for a massive bullet we have dodged.

Was being sarcastic.
Should have added :

 

[Disco]

Found out today that my wife's cousin - her son has been selected in the Northern Knights U18 squad. I believe it's the lower age group.
Looking forward to see how he develops this season.

 

[tigerdell]

Not to.reignite old arguments but interesting report out of west coast,
From the afl site:

Bailey Williams was the hero for the Eagles, with the youngster slotting the match-winning goal late in proceedings to help his side to a two-point victory over Claremont.

Williams finished with three goals for the match