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Do you think West Adelaide would still be bottom if it had held onto these blokes?

Bloods fans can be excused for hating the draft.

F: Luke Jericho, Cameron Wood, Tim Schmidt

HF: Jason Porplyzia, Adam Hartlett, Sean Rusling

C: Nathan Eagleton, Adam Cooney, Byron Schammer

HB: Henry Slattery, Sam Fisher, Beau Waters

B: Jordan Russell, Ben Rutten, Chris Schmidt

c'mon mully - you're not gonna throw that one around are you?
that draft - those players lost - are providing some dividends back to the club.
hasn't been a problem for the Eagles who have had just as many players drafted....

Some top names in that list, but I think Westies have had many more issues to discuss than just the players they've lost to the AFL.

You should be proud that West have been able to develop such talent, and have some claim to those players when you watch them parading around in the AFL.

And yes, you would still be bottom because those players were all bound to leave anyway.

Dogwatcher wrote:c'mon mully - you're not gonna throw that one around are you?
that draft - those players lost - are providing some dividends back to the club.
hasn't been a problem for the Eagles who have had just as many players drafted....

It was an observation - nothing else.

Doesn't Jericho play for Norwood?

with no ruck, rover or ruck rover? yes they probably would still be bottom

Constance_Perm wrote:Doesn't Jericho play for Norwood?

yeah, he does now. went there from the bloods last year

Bob Loblaw wrote:with no ruck, rover or ruck rover? yes they probably would still be bottom

funny man.

at 6'8'' I'm pretty sure cameron wood could handle the ruck duties.

Good side but they would still be down in the bottom 4. Every side has players in the AFL.

schimma wrote:Good side but they would still be down in the bottom 4. Every side has players in the AFL.

Not that many...

And put it this way, I reckon any AFL club would love to have a team like that right now.

All very promising young players that would win a flag together in three years if they hung around.

I was interested to learn whilst watching the Carlton vs. WCE game last week that Beau Waters heralds from the same "hit a bloke from behind when he isn't expecting it" THUG school as former THUG, Dean Howard.

Some blokes are tough, which he is undoubtedly, but he loses my respect when he thinks tough can sometimes mean hitting blokes from behind.

Still...a handy side, but the argument remains that most other clubs could name a half decent side of players that have gone to the AFL.

Dogwatcher wrote:c'mon mully - you're not gonna throw that one around are you?
that draft - those players lost - are providing some dividends back to the club.
hasn't been a problem for the Eagles who have had just as many players drafted....

The only difference between West and the Eagles losing so many is that West lost 5 - 6 in one year and most of them played in the 2003 GF...Unfortunately the Honorable Mr Rehn and Co. did not recruit well enough after to replace them and decided to stick mainly with juniors. But as we all have seen the cream was taken and what was left were not good enough to go on to play league footy. (well, not enough good juniors anyway).

TigerBoss wrote:I was interested to learn whilst watching the Carlton vs. WCE game last week that Beau Waters heralds from the same "hit a bloke from behind when he isn't expecting it" THUG school as former THUG, Dean Howard.

Some blokes are tough, which he is undoubtedly, but he loses my respect when he thinks tough can sometimes mean hitting blokes from behind.

Still...a handy side, but the argument remains that most other clubs could name a half decent side of players that have gone to the AFL.

Centrals not being one of them. We don't have 22 current players playing AFL. That probably explains why we are having a period of dominance in the SANFL.
Here's a list of home grown Central players playing AFL
-M.O'Loughlin
-B.Symes
-J.Westoff
-M.Westoff
-J.Giles
-T.Varcoe
-S.Butler
-S.Hurn
-E.Sansbury
-A.Obst
-N.Grima
-J.Nash
-S.Dew
I no doubt have left out some players but at work so i don't have time to look up the rest of the list. That not a very impressive list of AFL players at this stage, though a few may devlope into brilliant players.

Perhapsb without all those transfer fees they would have died 3 or 4 years ago?
Perhaps lucky and not unlucky.

PS Wouldnt have minded the Hollands, Jarman and Wayne Carey at North in the 90s.

It would be interesting to see which SANFL club has supplied the most AFL players to the competition from when it began. Westies would likely be in the running for a top position as they do seem to have a dispraportionatley high amount of players there as opposed to other sides!

Wedgie wrote:Perhapsb without all those transfer fees they would have died 3 or 4 years ago?
Perhaps lucky and not unlucky.

PS Wouldnt have minded the Hollands, Jarman and Wayne Carey at North in the 90s.

Throw in Sean Wellman, Ben Hart, Josh Francou etc.

Sojourner wrote:It would be interesting to see which SANFL club has supplied the most AFL players to the competition from when it began. Westies would likely be in the running for a top position as they do seem to have a dispraportionatley high amount of players there as opposed to other sides!

Reckon Port would have and by some way as well.

firstblood wrote:

Dogwatcher wrote:c'mon mully - you're not gonna throw that one around are you?
that draft - those players lost - are providing some dividends back to the club.
hasn't been a problem for the Eagles who have had just as many players drafted....

The only difference between West and the Eagles losing so many is that West lost 5 - 6 in one year and most of them played in the 2003 GF...Unfortunately the Honorable Mr Rehn and Co. did not recruit well enough after to replace them and decided to stick mainly with juniors. But as we all have seen the cream was taken and what was left were not good enough to go on to play league footy. (well, not enough good juniors anyway).

Very true.

Rehn did recruit quite a few players during his time, but injury meant they never contributed as much as the club hoped. (i.e. pat steinfort, ben marsh, mark dragacevic, andrew crowell, patrick wiggins)

injury or attitude Mully?