WE'RE ALL DOOMED I TELLS YA!!



Actually, I haven't been through the latest Annual Report but i suspect that given our fading glory and the need to ask the AFL to bring forward some of our $$ I think I read about, perhaps Hysteria is one of the few things we still can afford!!

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"Who discovered we could get milk from cows, and what did he think he was doing at the time?" Billy Connolly

I agree the Boekhorst selection was bizarre.
Comment about KPP's isn't correct as we traded for Jaksch in the first round.

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There is no footy god

i certainly believed it was a bizarro selection with that pick at the time

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:lol:

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That’s not a political statement — it’s a harsh reality, and we must act,” she said. “He is a clear and present danger to the things that keep us strong and free. I support impeachment.”

Which may have been excused if he played round 1.. or round 2. And showed signs. But a 21y/o who didn't grow up playing football... at pick 19, just to run around in the magoos and not really stand out at all.

Should have taken Goddard.

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O say does that star spangled banner yet wave.

That would have meant, in exchange for our original first round pick:

Hugh Goddard (age 20) and Kristian Jaksch (age 19). Both 195cm, key position prospects. And we got Whiley who might turn into a really good big-bodied tagger to replace Curnow/Carrots soon (he tagged Pendelbury last year, who was full of praise at how well he did).

That itself would have been a solid draft. With DvR and Clem Smith speculatives.

But no, we get Brokehurst because we lack outside run. OK fine, we lack outside run. At least we'd have some potentially decent talls in play. Now we have neither outside run, and one less tall in our system.

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O say does that star spangled banner yet wave.

If HG is 20 why didn't we draft him 2 drafts ago for essentially free?

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dane's trolling again

I was excluding trades as I still believe in the draft as the primary mechanism to build quality in all positions (especially key position). Henderson and Jaksch have certainly been nice pick-ups but here's our record over the last five drafts in addressing the issue of quality talls given our list departures and age profile:

2014 - Jayden Foster (63)
2013 - Cameron Giles (39)
2012 - nothing
2011 - Sam Rowe (44)
2010 - Watson (18), McCarthy (34), Mitchell (42), McInnes (67)

You have to go back 10 years to 2005 where we took JK (4) and Bower (20). TEN F--KING YEARS! Only drafting one key position player inside 20 (Watson) for the last 10 years (in that time we drafted Kreuzer at 1 and Hampson at 17) has absolutely killed us.

Make no mistake, the pain of our poor drafting is yet to really hit us.

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In WADA we trust

Isnt Boekhurst supposed to be 'the next Issac Smith' ? lol
In all seriousness, we should give the kid a go before we start potting him.

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James Hird and Essendon* FC - #FOREVERDRUGCHEATS

What made it worse was that some lady knew who our first and second round pick was and went public with this information before the draft.

Almost certain that we'd drafted Dr Jekyll during that time.

Or was it Mr Hyde?

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"Hence you will not say that Greeks fight like heroes but that heroes fight like Greeks"?

Winston Churchill

We stuffed up all out first round picks for 2009,10,11
But that was easy due to drafts either being weak (2009) or compromised 2010 and 11

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Later picks in all those drafts aren't followed by anything great we missed out on if memory serves.

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..talia and darling go alright..

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..if you can't be good, be good at it..

I acknowledged that.
The worst is Watson as there were a few options following.

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We stuffed up all our first round picks in 2005, 2006 and 2007 as well Dane.

we just stuffed up our picks.. thats why its sooo bad on the board now...

but it cant be just our recruiting... theres got to be more

can u smell what we were cooking???

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O say does that star spangled banner yet wave.

we're no longer cooking. we're burning. up.