AFLW 2021 trade and draft period - DRAFT NIGHT

[kruddler]

We signed free agent from Sturt in SA today: a ruck who is mates with Kerryn Harrington: Jessica Good
183 cm tall and a little older.
There is our ruck.

Yes, and going back to what someone was saying earlier, THIS is why you pass in the draft. You can pick up players from other states that you couldn't pick up on draft day.

....and SA is the place to take some talent. Adelaide have had the pick of the bunch for a long time. Time to start stealing some talent.

[DJC]

We signed free agent from Sturt in SA today: a ruck who is mates with Kerryn Harrington: Jessica Good
183 cm tall and a little older.
There is our ruck.

Imogen Milford, Paige Trudgeon and Serena Gobbs can fight it out for the marking key forward spot.

The others to replace Chloe Dalton, I guess.

No guarantee that Mimi Hill will be right to play for the season either.

I am a little happier than I was on Draft Night. It does look like we've addressed some of our areas of weakness from the 2021 season. Have we done enough? Have we chosen correctly? Far too early to tell. Our AFLW recruiting has generally been pretty good, but even a good bunch can make disastrous errors.

Jess is 185cm and 26 years old Crash, and looks to be very strong too.  I understand that she played with Adelaide Lightning alongside Kerryn Harrington so an elite sportswoman too.

I reckon that we've done alright with our list changes but time will tell.

[kruddler]

https://womens.afl/news/73506

An interesting take on our draft night.

With the understanding of why we took who we took, i'm a little happier than i was the other night. The recruitment of Jess Good also covers one of my biggest issues from that night.

Still have question marks over some kicking techniques, but at least i can see why the players were chosen. Lets see if they live up to those expectations.

[Thryleon]

Its nice to read that, but are they really going to come out and tell us we missed all our targets but did the best we could?  Probably not. 

[DJC]

Its nice to read that, but are they really going to come out and tell us we missed all our targets but did the best we could?  Probably not. 

Why would Riley Beveridge massage the story?  He is an AFL media person paid to report things from an AFL perspective.  If our draft plans had gone down the gurgler, it would probably be of more interest to the AFL audience.

With the exception of Georgie Prespakis, who was never a realistic chance to slip through to our first pick, we got who we wanted.  The question now is whether our talent scouts, coach and list manager are on the money.  No excuses if they're not.