they need points to match bids on their 2 academy kids who are likely to get top 10 bids.

London if it comes from the Pooper Scooper on 3AW the info needs to be taken with a grain of salt
Has been categorically wrong about Kreuzer Rhys Palmer and John Barker

Monkeys with typewriters...

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Came from Caro

Ok thanks London

london and Caro are an item?

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Which is why GWS may be amenable to trading in a few extra second round draft picks.

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Winston Churchill

The GWS fire sale. Last time that happened, Anthony Miles was in the rookie draft.

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It is not as bad as you are lead to believe.......it is %$#^& worse!!!

also have multiple gun academy kids for the 2016 draft so maybe they'll be open to trading players this year for a future second round pick.

Sumner will be an easy get. GWS offered him last year instead of Whiley.

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Looking forward to seeing our potential realised.

Sumner hasn't really played a game for GWS for 2 years, is he worth the hassle, he was pick 10 in 2011 is this the kind of talent spotting SOS does? Hope he doesn't feel obliged to give his ' unsuccessful ' picks a second chance with us....
Anyone seen this 22 yo play?

I don't know whether it's good or bad that we want a player we rejected last year.

He should be steak knives at best...

After what we picked up last year Sumner may well be a good get.

Sumner and Lamb would both be reasonable additions, such is the state of our list, after our 10 best players. Both add skill and speeed and goal kicking ability.
Plowman and Phillips are sound propositions , would be sound contibutors to be developed with more opportunity.
At a guess both would be worth about our pick 20.
Ciao

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Does one need steak knives with Lamb....or is Lamb the steak knife?

'Food' for thought.

I wonder why we get overly hung up on 1st round picks. Obviously "really" early picks tend to statistically prove their worth (with notable exceptions- ahem... Watts) but after that it is incredibly subjective. Consider Hawthorn's Preliminary Final team. Below are the top 5 possession winners from the prelim with their draft history.
1. Mitchell - 2001 Pick 36
2. Duryea - 2009 Pick 69
3. Gibson - 2005 Rookie elevation
4. Hill - 2011 Pick 33
5. Hodge 2001 - Pick 1

Other than Hodge, these guys were not considered any better than 2nd round when they were initially drafted. What this tells me is that our recruiters have misfired with tragic effect and our coaches, senior and assistant have been chronically inept in developing the talent we have. Worse still we have coughed up, Kennedy, Betts, Waite, Jacobs, Laidler, Robinson, Garlett and Grigg, who were not considered good enough for us or were booted out. And we will soon lose Henderson and Yarran. Other than the Kennedy trade that gave us Judd, all of these illustrates the point that both our recruiting and coaches have drastically under performed.

By all means get the best talent available but make sure they want to be at Carlton, they fit into the strategic plan and we FREAKING DEVELOP what we pick. Hopefully Bolton and SOS get it right, otherwise we are seriously screwed.

So a message to SOS...
1. Bring no-one in that is older than 23 - no matter how good they are - yes, even Dangerfield.
2. Pay no-one over 600k per season - see above
3. No contracts greater than a 3 year term
4. All contracts should be heavily weighted on performance
5. Pick local. If we have to choose between interstate talent and local, 9 times out of 10 pick local - I think I will spontaneously vomit if I hear that Cripps is homesick in the next year or two.
6. Exploit father son picks ONLY if we consider them worthy of a spot. That includes Jack Silvagni.

That'll do for now but its a long overdue rant I just had to have...

Peace Out...

FYI people... no priority picks for us or Brisbane. As expected, maybe they'll give Hawthorn one cos they're getting to old?

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-reject ... jy3kg.html

What the hell has possessions got to do with best players?? What about the rest of Hawthorns 1st round picks Roughhead Rioli Lewis Birchall and Isaac Smith added to 1st round picks traded in from other clubs McEvoy Frawley Burgoyne Hale................?? Plus Buddy!!!

The ones that have walked have been local

But I do get your point on our obsession with interstate recruits!!!!

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We are Carlton, @#$%&! the rest !!!!!!