Live draft thread

[ace]

So our draft is done yeah? We have used all our picks if you include the elevation of Sinclair?

Sinclair is promoted but his named will not be called.
We had picks
18 Jade Gresham
40 Brandon White
49 Bailey Rice

[joeyjohnw]

Wow we could actually get Mathieson at 40. Would be absolutely incredible

Would be a stretch. The commentators are saying in the 30's at a stretch

We were bloody close!!!

[Con Gorozidis]

Promisingly, matho and tucker both have go-home factor. Plus they are both saints fans so we hopefully have dibs

What is the obsession with Mathieson on here? I dont get it.

[Con Gorozidis]

Surely Balic goes Collingwood now. Next Pendlebury

Except Pendlebury was pick 5.
If I had 5c for every time someone said 'the next Pendlebury' I'd have a piggy bank full of 5c coins.

[saintbrat]

JUST IN: @EssendonFC have selected Mitch Brown with pick 54. #AFLDraft #9News

[magnifisaint]

Promisingly, matho and tucker both have go-home factor. Plus they are both saints fans so we hopefully have dibs

What is the obsession with Mathieson on here? I dont get it.

Someone on bigfooty said we were going to get him. They obviously have NFI, Went pick 39

[Con Gorozidis]

Jaxons strikes again!

To all those on the matho wagon. Yes u were sucked in and ur sources are s***.

Brian spoke again!

He sure did. BS by name and BS by nature.

[magnifisaint]

JUST IN: @EssendonFC have selected Mitch Brown with pick 54. #AFLDraft #9News

so what?

[Con Gorozidis]

So he's an elite ball winner and user...

Is Jade fast?

Like Boomer Harvey fast. Very quick over 20-30m. Not so fast over 100m. But 20m is all you need for footy most of the time so he is footy fast yes!

[silverhalo]

Promisingly, matho and tucker both have go-home factor. Plus they are both saints fans so we hopefully have dibs

What is the obsession with Mathieson on here? I dont get it.

+1
I'm glad it's not just me that doesn't understand what the fuss is all about

[joeyjohnw]

Just realised, white and rice are very good mates. Interesting

[Bluthy]

JUST IN: @EssendonFC have selected Mitch Brown with pick 54. #AFLDraft #9News

I'm glad Mitch is a getting another shot at the big show. By all accounts he played his ass off at Sandy and showed great form. His time playing for Don's obviously impressed them. Should be able to provide forward support while Daniher develops.

[Con Gorozidis]

Just realised, white and rice are very good mates. Interesting

Well our recruiters chose the white rice combination over the the brown rice combination.

[SMS]

Gach Nyuon? in the rookie? we need to trial any ruckman out there. Hickey and Longer just not looking to become elite .. they threaten to but then fall away ... We need a COX, a GOLDSTEIN, a NICNAT, or at least a HALE. Reason we lost clearances .. ruckman no good and dunstan was injured. Gresham an insider. Add A fit dunstan and a gun ruckman .. 2019 flag is ours.

[sunsaint]

Well our recruiters chose the white rice combination over the the brown rice combination.

or Jaded White Rice you might say
it might very well have been RIoli White RIce

Does this draft put to bed the much argued theory you only draft "best talent" not "Type"
or is just that some draft pundits get it very very very wrong....?

[skeptic]

JUST IN: @EssendonFC have selected Mitch Brown with pick 54. #AFLDraft #9News

I'm glad Mitch is a getting another shot at the big show. By all accounts he played his ass off at Sandy and showed great form. His time playing for Don's obviously impressed them. Should be able to provide forward support while Daniher develops.

Good luck to the guy...

Wish he fell to us at the rookie draft

[Bunk_Moreland]

Jaxons strikes again!

To all those on the matho wagon. Yes u were sucked in and ur sources are s***.

Brian spoke again!

He sure did. BS by name and BS by nature.

Yeah? He said White back in June.

Even if Matho was available we were going to take White.

We had Gresham @7 and White @14.

[cwrcyn]

So our recruiters ranker Gresham as the 7th best players in the draft and white the 14th best ... is that real information?

[Enrico_Misso]

So we and the other 17 clubs are ALL extremely pleased with their draft selections!

[Devilhead]

So our recruiters ranker Gresham as the 7th best players in the draft and white the 14th best ... is that real information?

Apparently from the phone of Matt Finnis via Preserving Saint (BigFooty) who was at the draft standing next to him ..... that's the word anyway

According to MF's phone Mathieson wasn't even in our top 20 so even if he was available we would have gone with White

Don't know about Balic and where he was ranked

Other reports have our table high 5ing each other after we called out White's name

[Con Gorozidis]

So our recruiters ranker Gresham as the 7th best players in the draft and white the 14th best ... is that real information?

Apparently from the phone of Matt Finnis via Preserving Saint (BigFooty) who was at the draft standing next to him ..... that's the word anyway

According to MF's phone Mathieson wasn't even in our top 20 so even if he was available we would have gone with White

Don't know about Balic and where he was ranked

Other reports have our table high 5ing each other after we called out White's name

So as anticipated all the flogs on here acting like they were ITK about Matho were duped. Another sucker punch from Brian Speaking. Well played.

Add that to the list - O'Meara? - Err no.
Cameron? - Oh please.

[Q-TRAIN]

ST KILDA pick 18 and future brownlow medalist - Jade Gresham hmmmm

First female AFL player?

And a tear runs down Jade Rawlings cheek

[Bunk_Moreland]

So our recruiters ranker Gresham as the 7th best players in the draft and white the 14th best ... is that real information?

Yes. Guy at the draft got the info directly off Finnis

[Bunk_Moreland]

So our recruiters ranker Gresham as the 7th best players in the draft and white the 14th best ... is that real information?

Apparently from the phone of Matt Finnis via Preserving Saint (BigFooty) who was at the draft standing next to him ..... that's the word anyway

According to MF's phone Mathieson wasn't even in our top 20 so even if he was available we would have gone with White

Don't know about Balic and where he was ranked

Other reports have our table high 5ing each other after we called out White's name

So as anticipated all the flogs on here acting like they were ITK about Matho were duped. Another sucker punch from Brian Speaking. Well played.

Add that to the list - O'Meara? - Err no.
Cameron? - Oh please.

You really are sad.
BS PMed a few on BF a few days back about Gresham and in June about White.

But carry on Con. You know best.

[cwrcyn]

Someone just told me that we were even weighing up taking Brandon White with our first pick. Not sure if that is true, but would be nice if it was