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2024 Draft Thread
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Mate of mine has first hand knowledge of how the GWS academy works. He’s son was a gun footballer throughout his junior career at Wodonga. He got a visit from a representative of GWS when his son moved up to the under 18’s. Said they had been watching him for years but can’t draft him whilst playing for a Victorian club. Said if he moved to the Nth Albury club they could claim him as part of their zone. He did everything they told him to and nominated for the draft. They contacted the day before advising that he was in the mix and what the process would be once drafted. That was the last he ever heard from them. No further contact. No reason why they didn’t take him, no things to work on, nothing.
I laugh when I hear the AFL talk about how much work GWS does for the academy kids and those in their zone. Seems to me like they do 9 10ths of bugger all.
The recruiters will speak to many people when they start seriously looking at a potential draftee. Kids with bad attitudes get found out quick smart. In fact the bad attitude kids rarely get through to their Coates League teams.
Given that we can't match a bid prior to 40 yet GC can match 4 within 26 with later/junk picks, the real question is, why would we even bother?
Bailey Smith was dropped from Vic metro for an attitude adjustment. It worked
Premium talent not just a maybe hopeful. Good to see the attitude adjustment lasted long enough for him to get an assault claim alleged against him n then get sprung for going Sniiifff.
Dusty had something similar leveled against him but assume you're making exceptions to your besmirching ?
Buddy wasn't good in interviews before the draft..
I still believe if we had drafted him, he wouldn't have been the champion he was at hawthorn..
Ooooh. Was I involved in a rampant besmirching there? Yeah, Nah. Dusty's an even more premium talent than Bailey, many many sins and human failings get overlooked and managed when you're a premium talent. Unlike the rest of the fringe *smile* kicker plebs, it's just the way the system works.
Apprantly we will trade out late picks to Carlton because they need points to get the Camporlae boys.
Possible
Our pick 4
Carlton's pick 14
Freos 1st pick 8 and 2nd rounder.
We could possibly have another 5 in 30.
But 4 picks under 20.
Deledio Tambling Polo Meyer & Pattison
Can't wait
Possible
Our pick 4
Carlton's pick 14
Freos 1st pick 8 and 2nd rounder.
We could possibly have another 5 in 30.
But 4 picks under 20.
Deledio Tambling Polo Meyer & Pattison
Can't wait
We hit another premium draft hand that badly again, we'll spend another 20 years waiting for something good to happen.
Don't need to tell you zips that the draft that produced Franklin Roughhead Lewis and Deledio was one of the worst drafts of all time.
Hawks nailed it. We didn't.
I think Baileys problem then was he thought he was gods gift and didn’t have enough people telling him NO. His application to his footy was full on
Watch Murphy Reid, is getting better each time he rolls out.
Luke Trainor 194cm back, plays in Vlas style
That was the Greg Beck era. We ran our recruiting on the smell of an oily rag. We had bugger all scouts and certainly no recruiters in the interstate markets. We just didn’t have the intelligence gathering capabilities then and the results showed.
