This shouldn't come into consideration at all.
List Mgmt. Should we ask the AFL for a Priority Pick?
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If we finish last I think there's every reason why we should get one.
GWS the last consecutive Spooner had the most talent ever given to a new franchise.
Before that Melbourne were given a priority pick.
GWS the last consecutive Spooner had the most talent ever given to a new franchise.
Before that Melbourne were given a priority pick.
Punchy Bassett
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Have you watched the last decade and Vic clubs?
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Well if we are not winning another game this year the decision might be taken out of our hands and the AFL might look at it finishing bottom 2 years straight (assuming north get another win before playing us and they certainly look like they have one in them)
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I'd ask.
I think there’s something missing in the all our early picks were expected to be early picks mitigation
Yes, there aren’t too many who weren’t taken thereabouts of expectation, but the expected base of rate of failure is 50% or higher.
There is a built in fail rate that the good recruiters are expected to navigate past.
We haven’t. We pick up too many fail cards and not enough hit cards
Just saying we picked from the right deck isn’t much of a creditable argument
His hit rate in the early rounds could be matched by random luck and possibly bettered
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Won’t happen.
More chance of North finishing above us, giving us back to back spoons and then the vic centric media justifying the league giving North a priority pick instead.
Seriously this league takes any opportunity to knock us down and penalise us. They ain’t throwing any help our way.
More chance of North finishing above us, giving us back to back spoons and then the vic centric media justifying the league giving North a priority pick instead.
Seriously this league takes any opportunity to knock us down and penalise us. They ain’t throwing any help our way.
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The AFL would likely laugh at us if we ask for a priority pick. Their first response would be "Why are you asking for a priority pick when the chief architect of your demise in Mark Riccuito along with his cohorts in Reid and Ogilvie are still there?" Would we have the cheek to not fix the problem but asks for handouts? Probably. I'm sure they would tell us to get our house in order before we have the gall to ask for a priority pick. I I believe they would also mention that giving priority picks to the same failed group who have put the club in the worst predicament since it's inception would waste the handout anyway. They would be right.
In saying that we do need assistance but any help the AFL gives us must start with a new board and chairman along with the immediate resignation of Riccuito, Reid, Ogilvie, Kelly.
While I don't rate Nick's at all he hasn't been given a fair shake. In saying that, in the current position we find ourselves in I would be targetting Clarkson or the next best along with Neale Balme as our football head of ops. A decent head of recruiting and head of list management would be the next roles to fill. The AFL must begin to help us help ourselves. If they don't we will be a basket case for sometime. The club is a good club but it has been hijacked by people who don't have its best interests at heart or are incompetent.
In saying that we do need assistance but any help the AFL gives us must start with a new board and chairman along with the immediate resignation of Riccuito, Reid, Ogilvie, Kelly.
While I don't rate Nick's at all he hasn't been given a fair shake. In saying that, in the current position we find ourselves in I would be targetting Clarkson or the next best along with Neale Balme as our football head of ops. A decent head of recruiting and head of list management would be the next roles to fill. The AFL must begin to help us help ourselves. If they don't we will be a basket case for sometime. The club is a good club but it has been hijacked by people who don't have its best interests at heart or are incompetent.
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I agree with all the criticisms, but isn’t refusing an equalization measure kind of self defeating? It would be like having a JUH-type windfall land in our lap and then refusing to match a bid, just to prove how committed we are to getting success only when we really deserve it.Yes!!!
How can this thread exist when we're not even sitting last in the ladder?
Because we are tracking that way
That's really not like big footy to overreact and say something stupid.
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jackster83
The leader of the bunch.
10 wins in our last 44 games.
What did it take for other teams to get it?
North have won something like 11 in the same time. They give give both of us priority picks?
jackster83
The leader of the bunch.
GC had 7 wins in 44 games
Brisbane got an end of first round PP with 7 wins in 44 games (2015/16)
finishing last isn't a pre-requisite though.
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What has happened to the blue skies being enjoyed by many on here after round 4?
Priority Picks - forget the GC package, that was done because the AFL themselves botched their introduction, so ignore that in any PP discussion.
Since the Melbourne non tanking episode waaay back when, there has only been one PP given, pick 19 to Brisbane after they had become a basket case.
Talk of a PP for us or anyone else is a waste of key strokes, it's just not happening
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Whilst it's pretty much doom and gloom at the moment, in the preseason, most people said that a good result this year would be 5-6 wins as it shows we are improving. Given that we've made that mark, how do we feel now? Apart from the last 2 weeks and GWS game, we've been competitive in most matches, are we on the right track? I've liked what I've seen when our skills have been able to keep up with the game plan (usually for 3 quarters, how bad we are in the other one has determined the match result but it's usually been baaaaad), butts and schoey are looking good, TT obviously looks to be a future gun, murray is an unexpected bonus, getting games (if not better roles) into the kids. Is this year just part of the gradual process of getting better? We're at least 3-4 years off so do we just have to be patient and look to the draft?
Rebuilds take 10 years. We're doing as well on field as could be expected.
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