ORFFA 2014 PreSeason Draft Thread

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  1. Len

    Len Cockburn Knightrider Staff Member

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    Following the homeboy tradition. The Misfits with pick 16 welcome Luke Dunstan StK.
     
  2. graeme

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    With pick 17 the Incorrigibles select Dawson Simpson, cats, ruck.
     
  3. G-Train

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    Pick 18. Nathan Freeman, MID, Collingwood
     
  4. Len

    Len Cockburn Knightrider Staff Member

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    Raptor wrote:
    Pick 18. Nathan Freeman, MID, Collingwood that could cause some gnashing of teeth round Gundagai way :)
     
  5. Len

    Len Cockburn Knightrider Staff Member

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    I've nudged Simon, but it's 3am there, I doubt he will be around for an hour or 3, though happy to be proved wrong :)
     
  6. TerryinBangkok

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    Big gnashings, with Scharen also gonsky. Fortunately being 3 am in NY he is probably too sleepified to get the nuke codes right.
     
  7. grav

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    chels wrote:
    With pick 17 the Incorrigibles select Dawson Simpson, cats, ruck. Nice get chels, expected him to go earlier
     
  8. graeme

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    Thanks Grav, in combination with HMac he provides some decent back up to Sauce. The pivot tables came in very useful!
     
  9. Len

    Len Cockburn Knightrider Staff Member

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    chels wrote:
    Thanks Grav, in combination with HMac he provides some decent back up to Sauce. The pivot tables came in very useful! Fess up chels, you have nicknamed your abacus 'pivot tables' :p
     
  10. graeme

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    Nah Len, what we are calling a pivot table is a white board from the footy department on top of one of the massage tables on the bumpy floor of the local bowls club bar. Hi tech has come to Waipukarau.
     
  11. Bandit

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    I was tempted on Simpson... But have enough rucks stocks I think.... Good get Chels
     
  12. snoz

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    And up.......6am to Midnight online yesterday was like watching grass grow............sorry lads, 7am best I could do this morn. #19 ~ Lewis Taylor, Brisbane
     
  13. Len

    Len Cockburn Knightrider Staff Member

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    Simonoz wrote:
    And up.......6am to Midnight online yesterday was like watching grass grow............sorry lads, 7am best I could do this morn. #19 ~ Lewis Taylor, Brisbane lol, no probs mate, apart from stealing pick 20 from under my nose........ brb, with a new strat
     
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    chels wrote:
    ' color: #000000;]A year ago Brodie Grundy went at five, higher than most of us expected and that selection paidoff. It is great to see people follow their instinct and this selectionmight end up like the Grundy one.' color: #000000;]
    An interesting view Dean. One of the upshots of Grundy going early was Brad Crouch was available at pick 6. The Waikicks were more than happy to pick a young guy who averaged 87 in his first 14 games and might well turn out to be one of the better players from that draft. I appreciate Grundy was, and still is, the best ruck available but there is an opportunity cost involved in every pick. Who know how we will view a pick in five or 10 years time?
    Chels, it will be very interesting to see how we view a pick in five or 10 years time. At this early stage I am placing as much weight on how an ORRFA coach thinks his draft pick is performing as I am on the player's actual on-field (and supercoach) performance. The 18 ORFFA Clubs are looking at the draft pool from different perspectives due to varyingpositional needs and preferences for age and experience of their players.

    In writing '[span style='background: white; color: black;]A year ago Brodie Grundy went at five, higher than most of us expected and that selection paidoff.'
    [span style='background: white; color: black;] [span style='background: white; color: black;]I wasn't commenting that Grundy was the best possible selection at 6, it was more based on the role that Grundy is performing for Raptor's team Powlett Plains. In just his second season Brodie Grundy is already performing the role Raptor selected him for, the number 1 ruckman of Powlett Plains. Very few players are the number 1 ruckman for an AFL (and ORFFA club) at just 19 years of age and given Raptor's long term view Grundy is going to perform a pivotal role for Powlett Plains. [span style='background: white; color: black;] [span style='background: white; color: black;]Brad Crouch wasone of the best first yearplayers in the complast season and looks set for a fantasticcareer. The main point is that both Raptor and yourself are as satisfied as you could be with your respective selections of Grundy and Crouch a year ago and the role they are performing for your team, and at this early stage you can't ask for anything more than that.
     
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    Great selection Simonoz, Taylor was my preferred selection at 23 as well, not that I expected himto last until then.
     
  16. J_C

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    dmandrews wrote:
    Great selection Simonoz, Taylor was my preferred selection at 23 as well, not that I expected himto last until then. Agreed. Looks like he'll be a ripper.
     
  17. Len

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    With pick 20 the Misfits welcome Andrew Boston GWS. Henceforth to be known as the altTaylor
     
  18. grav

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    You done with the mumble and sweat Len? Thought you might have gone to bed to sleep on it :)
     
  19. Len

    Len Cockburn Knightrider Staff Member

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    gravenger wrote:
    You done with the mumble and sweat Len? Fair to say I was channeling left field grav, but it was Taylor, an unpicked back or Boston, and in 2-3 years time I am confident he will be an inspired pick, or we will nickname him 'ZacDawson' and make him run down Pitt st in a purple jumper... Done mumbling :p
     
  20. snoz

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    Len wrote:
    </br> With pick 20 the Misfits welcome Andrew Boston GWS. Henceforth to be known as the altTaylor Damn ! Actually had visions of him lasting till pick 37. Very astute Lenski
     
  21. dmandrews

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    Len wrote:
    With pick 20 the Misfits welcome Andrew Boston GWS. Henceforth to be known as the altTaylor Len, As permy recordsAndrew Boston is a Rookie listed player for Gold Coast not GWS. Great to see you get Dunstan at 16 adding to your Saints/GWS midfield, joining Steven, Ward and Josh Kelly.
     

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