2020 trading, drafting and list management: players and personnel

Collapse
X
 
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts
  • bloodspirit
    Clubman
    • Apr 2015
    • 4448

    Originally posted by liz
    You have to click it again to remove it from "multipost". It's annoying that it doesn't automatically do remove it once you've included it in a multipost response, but unfortunately it doesn't. (And BF, which has a more sophisticated forum system, has exactly the same issue.)
    Thanks liz. And for figuring out what I meant. Now I have to find out where the posts that I've been quoting the past few days came from to unclick them. Sighh.

    707, thanks for digging out that quote about the mid-season drafts in 2021. I don't know whether we'll attempt to draft more than one person over the year but our low ranking could help us. I keep feeling a rare burst of warmth for Hawthorn and their soundly beating the Suns in the last round, every time I think about it.
    All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated, and well supported in logic and argument than others. -Douglas Adams, author (11 Mar 1952-2001)

    Comment

    • Faunac8
      Senior Player
      • Mar 2014
      • 1548

      Originally posted by Thunder Shaker
      The one you're linking here is not the same as it would have been at the start of the 2020 season.
      My apologies it was done in haste while on a lunch break that makes sense.

      Comment

      • bloodspirit
        Clubman
        • Apr 2015
        • 4448

        Interesting article about drafting: AFL national draft 2020: The curly questions that AFL recruiters and coaches ask young footballers.
        All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated, and well supported in logic and argument than others. -Douglas Adams, author (11 Mar 1952-2001)

        Comment

        • dejavoodoo44
          Veterans List
          • Apr 2015
          • 8664

          Originally posted by bloodspirit
          I quite like our pick a toy and describe it question. I imagine it's a bit like the old Rorschach ink blot test. In that it's unlikely to have any quantifiable diagnostic value, but it's likely to break the ice, ease any tension that may be in the room and give some sort of insight into what the prospective player might be interested in. It would also give a vague indication of communication ability.

          I think less of Essendon's counting and spelling backwards questions. The people who are most likely to be pressured by that, are those that aren't all that good at counting or spelling. So, it's not really a great measure of the ability to perform under pressure. And I suspect that there's been a fair few past football greats, who weren't particularly gifted with letters or numbers.

          Comment

          • O'Reilly Boy
            Warming the Bench
            • Feb 2014
            • 474

            good news to read Charlie Gardiner talking about a commitment to rookie Fox.
            https://www.sydneyswans.com.au/news/838676/key-quotes-charlie-gardiner-on-sen

            Comment

            • sharp9
              Senior Player
              • Jan 2003
              • 2508

              There was an age article - I think on possible de-list nuggets - which definitely said that “due to change in rules Sydney can now place Fox directly on the Rookie List. They may be wrong of course but that is what it said
              "I'll acknowledge there are more talented teams in the competition but I won't acknowledge that there is a better team in the competition" Paul Roos March 2005

              Comment

              • dimelb
                pr. dim-melb; m not f
                • Jun 2003
                • 6889

                Originally posted by dejavoodoo44
                ... I think less of Essendon's counting and spelling backwards questions. The people who are most likely to be pressured by that, are those that aren't all that good at counting or spelling. So, it's not really a great measure of the ability to perform under pressure. And I suspect that there's been a fair few past football greats, who weren't particularly gifted with letters or numbers.
                I am a guinea pig in a research program which involves backwards spelling and/or counting. It makes sense in what applies to me but it has nothing whatsoever to do with playing football. Smoke and mirrors in Essendon.
                He reminds him of the guys, close-set, slow, and never rattled, who were play-makers on the team. (John Updike, seeing Josh Kennedy in a crystal ball)

                Comment

                • The Big Cat
                  On the veteran's list
                  • Apr 2006
                  • 2356

                  Originally posted by dimelb
                  I am a guinea pig in a research program which involves backwards spelling and/or counting. ............. it has nothing whatsoever to do with playing football. Smoke and mirrors in Essendon.
                  Either that or srorrim dna ekomS
                  Last edited by The Big Cat; 29 November 2020, 02:13 PM.
                  Those who have the greatest power to hurt us are those we love.

                  Comment

                  • bloodspirit
                    Clubman
                    • Apr 2015
                    • 4448

                    Kind of cool story about Papley and his draft year in 2015: AFL Draft Sydney Swans how did Tom Papley slip through to the rookie draft?. The best bit is the insight Kinnear Beats on gives at the end into the cat and mouse games recruiters play in trying to influence other picks so that you can get the players you want.
                    All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated, and well supported in logic and argument than others. -Douglas Adams, author (11 Mar 1952-2001)

                    Comment

                    • Mark26
                      Senior Player
                      • Jan 2017
                      • 1535

                      Originally posted by bloodspirit
                      Kind of cool story about Papley and his draft year in 2015: AFL Draft Sydney Swans how did Tom Papley slip through to the rookie draft?. The best bit is the insight Kinnear Beats on gives at the end into the cat and mouse games recruiters play in trying to influence other picks so that you can get the players you want.
                      Thanks for sharing bloodspirit. Nice bit of backstory on Tom and Kinnear.

                      Comment

                      • giant
                        Veterans List
                        • Mar 2005
                        • 4731

                        Originally posted by O'Reilly Boy
                        good news to read Charlie Gardiner talking about a commitment to rookie Fox.
                        https://www.sydneyswans.com.au/news/838676/key-quotes-charlie-gardiner-on-sen
                        Great news.

                        Comment

                        • MattW
                          Veterans List
                          • May 2011
                          • 4223

                          Originally posted by bloodspirit
                          Kind of cool story about Papley and his draft year in 2015: AFL Draft Sydney Swans how did Tom Papley slip through to the rookie draft?. The best bit is the insight Kinnear Beats on gives at the end into the cat and mouse games recruiters play in trying to influence other picks so that you can get the players you want.
                          Great article.

                          Comment

                          • Ruck'n'Roll
                            Ego alta, ergo ictus
                            • Nov 2003
                            • 3990

                            Thanks for sharing bloodspirit. Especially interesting

                            "We had to set up a few things [before the rookie draft], making a few calls as if we were interested in other players - just to put the wind up other clubs so they didn't (pick Papley)," Beatson says. "You're always trying to position yourself as best you can ... you're not trying to manipulate the draft, but you're trying to influence it!"

                            I wonder what influencing efforts KB etal are up to at the moment?

                            Comment

                            • RogueSwan
                              McVeigh for Brownlow
                              • Apr 2003
                              • 4602

                              Originally posted by The Big Cat
                              ... srorrim dna ekomS
                              Isn't that where Connor O'Riordan was born?
                              "Fortunately, this is the internet, so knowing nothing is no obstacle to having an opinion!." Beerman 18-07-2017

                              Comment

                              • The Big Cat
                                On the veteran's list
                                • Apr 2006
                                • 2356

                                Originally posted by RogueSwan
                                Isn't that where Connor O'Riordan was born?
                                ????????
                                Those who have the greatest power to hurt us are those we love.

                                Comment

                                Working...