Dear Crow Fans

[bulldogtragic]

Out:

Ellis Yohlmen
Betts
Jacobs
Greenwood
Jenkins
Keath - Power called their bluff

Crouch - only second compo, St Kilda called their bluff
Atkins
Hartigan

Head coach gone
A heap of assistants and footy dept gone
Kids like McAsey not extended

2019 Camp...
2020 Wooden Spoon


... For all this pain, your going to choose to not select your Pick 1 player. Adelaide members, go microwave your memberships. You deserve after this run to have a Pick 1 player at your club. If your club wants to deprive you all of that pointlessly, wants to offer it to us, give JUH thousands of dollars in the process, then what’s the pain been for? Call your club and demand that you want the Adelaide crows to have AND use Pick 1 as the reward for two years of neglect and international pain. Don’t continue the pain by pissing away your Pick 1 light at the end of the tunnel.

Please share. Support the Crows members in solidarity.

[boydogs]

Disagree with this. Easy to explain to your selection that you just wanted WB to pay top dollar, knowing that we would match

[bulldogtragic]

Sorry, that’s better. My tongue was stuck in my cheek.

[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]

Disagree with this. Easy to explain to your selection that you just wanted WB to pay top dollar, knowing that we would match

I don't disagree but for devil's advocate purposes....
A bit harder to explain or justify you diddled your selection out of an extra $20k bonus for being 1st selected?

[The Doctor]

I think our Marketing Dept would be delighted if Adelaide handed us the number 1 pick.

[bornadog]

Be nice for JUH to get the cash.

[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]

Any chance with Adelaide set to bid number one, and push us to the back of the draft, that Power and Co have any capital to pull any moves to get us back in to the draft earlier?

[Axe Man]

Any chance with Adelaide set to bid number one, and push us to the back of the draft, that Power and Co have any capital to pull any moves to get us back in to the draft earlier?

There are no moves to pull unless we want to trade a future pick (I believe we only have a first and fourth rounder left) which seems unlikely and ill-advised given 2021 is meant to be a stronger draft.

[G-Mo77]

I think our Marketing Dept would be delighted if Adelaide handed us the number 1 pick.

This, we have enough points. Let them bid and we get the #1 pick and pick the best player in the draft. They're kind of writing a pretty cool story for us.

[SquirrelGrip]

Be nice for JUH to get the cash.

He could buy himself his own jeans rather thank borrowing the skipper’s.

[comrade]

He could himself his own jeans rather thank borrowing the skipper’s.

Bont and Marra have already developed a Bromance.

[KT31]

Bont and Marra have already developed a Bromance.

Marra will have to get in line.:D

[Grantysghost]

This, we have enough points. Let them bid and we get the #1 pick and pick the best player in the draft. They're kind of writing a pretty cool story for us.

Imagine I'd be pretty annoyed if another team, who won the flag 4 years ago and just played finals got the number 1 pick and Treloar.

For us, I'll allow it! :cool:

[Axe Man]

He could himself his own jeans rather thank borrowing the skipper’s.

I've read this 5 times and still don't know what it says.

[bornadog]

He could buy himself his own jeans rather than borrowing the skipper’s.


I've read this 5 times and still don't know what it says.

Fixed.

On Draft radio, JUH mentioned he borrowed Bon't pants.

[Axe Man]

Fixed.

On Draft radio, JUH mentioned he borrowed Bon't pants.

Just as well Caleb didn't take Marra under his wing then.

[SquirrelGrip]

I've read this 5 times and still don't know what it says.

From Herald Sun online:

Likely No.1 pick's bizarre Bont favour

By Tim Michell

Jamarra Ugle-Hagan already wears the pants at Western Bulldogs.
Ugle-Hagan, from country Victorian town Framlingham, realised he'd arrived in Melbourne for the draft without a pair of jeans to wear to a draft night event.
His first call? Bulldogs skipper Marcus Bontempelli.
"He took me in for a week and looked after me and I obviously learned off him," he said.
"I'm actually taking his pants tonight as well because I didn't have jeans up in Melbourne.
"I think he was the first person I rang, I was like, 'do you have any jeans I can borrow?'
"I'm going to go pick them up soon."
Ugle-Hagan, tipped to be selected with pick 1 in tonight's draft, said he was yet to speak to the player he has been compared to for more than a year – Sydney superstar Lance Franklin.
But he's hoping for a call soon.
"Hopefully soon, to be honest. It's been like a year and a half nearly that talk has been happening and I thought he would give me a message," he said.
"Even like a, 'Mate, you're not Buddy'. Anything would do. He's a good bloke…I look up to him still."
The Bulldogs Next Generation Academy prospect said he had "the worst sleep" on Tuesday night as he waits to learn whether he'll be heading to Whitten Oval.
"I’ve had butterflies in my stomach since this morning," he said on the AFL website.
Adelaide has been tipped to bid for Ugle-Hagan with pick 1 but the Bulldogs will have no hesitation matching to snare the player most clubs rate as the best in this year's draft pool.
Ugle-Hagan said he asked to train on Friday with his new club but had been told draftees had to wait until Monday.

[josie]

Hey Squirrel Grip-suggest you repeat this in the thread on who is excited about Jamarra. He and Bont forming close bond might alleviate concerns Jamarra likely to be poached by Bummers. Unless they go after both !! (I think woofers would burn down windy hill if that were to eventuate...).

[bornadog]

Just as well Caleb didn't take Marra under his wing then.

or English

[Grantysghost]

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[Throughandthrough]

According to SA Media, according to the Crows, the Crows went with our man at #1 so we would have to burn more picks, they figured it meant that they were more likely to get Rowe this way.

No idea if we wanted Rowe

[bornadog]

According to SA Media, according to the Crows, the Crows went with our man at #1 so we would have to burn more picks, they figured it meant that they were more likely to get Rowe this way.

No idea if we wanted Rowe

They knew Happydays was on to Rowe

[bulldogtragic]

According to SA Media, according to the Crows, the Crows went with our man at #1 so we would have to burn more picks, they figured it meant that they were more likely to get Rowe this way.

No idea if we wanted Rowe

Not bad spin.

Although Rowe went at Pick 38. North or Sydney bidding on him we wouldn't have likely had a Pick to get him.

They gave their Number 1 Pick away. But it's not bad spin, if you don't over analyse it.

[Axe Man]

Not bad spin.

Although Rowe went at Pick 38. North or Sydney bidding on him we wouldn't have likely had a Pick to get him.

They gave their Number 1 Pick away. But it's not bad spin, if you don't over analyse it.

As discussed in another thread and as the Crows say in the video they were concerned we could package up our remaining picks to trade to another team and jump ahead of them to grab Rowe.

[comrade]

Rowe gives me Andrew Hooper vibes anyway.

[bulldogtragic]

As discussed in another thread and as the Crows say in the video they were concerned we could package up our remaining picks to trade to another team and jump ahead of them to grab Rowe.

I've heard more plausible conspiracies this week. Long live Hugo Chavez.

[Axe Man]

I've heard more plausible conspiracies this week. Long live Hugo Chavez.

If we wanted Rowe (or anybody else for that matter) it's exactly what we would have attempted to do if possible. A bid at pick 3 would have left us with 3 picks with points attached I think, when we were only taking 1 more player. Makes perfect sense to me.

[bulldogtragic]

If we wanted Rowe (or anybody else for that matter) it's exactly what we would have attempted to do if possible. A bid at pick 3 would have left us with 3 picks with points attached I think, when we were only taking 1 more player. Makes perfect sense to me.

The proposition seems to be from them that they gambled on Pick 1 (or otherwise bid without real intent) because if JUH slipped to 3, something not guaranteed, we might have tried to package two or three late picks to get an end of second rounder to get Rowe, specifically. Did they know we rated Rowe in the second round? Who told them? Who plays with a Pick 1 bid with a range of non guaranteed variables. Did they not consider we could’ve traded down a future first to land a second rounder to get Rowe since we rated him allegedly so highly.

It’s classical disinformation. Focus on the genius 3D chess strategy and focus on Rowe, and not on the fact they handed us Pick 1, deprived their club the Pick 1 hype and gave JUH the NAB cash also.

[jeemak]

Yes they handed us pick one but it was never going to be a risk of backfiring on them because we were always going to match the bid.

So it's a bit much to say they were gambling, though at any rate, I think they did it because they wanted to burn us for having access to the best talent in the land when in their mind they deserved to as a result of being so terrible irrespective of all of their resources.

Calling the Rowe spin disinformation is probably correct though.

[boydogs]

I don't disagree but for devil's advocate purposes....
A bit harder to explain or justify you diddled your selection out of an extra $20k bonus for being 1st selected?

Yeah maybe. What are your thoughts on the Bedendo selection, bidding on not one but two other players that were matched before calling him out?

[jeemak]

Yeah maybe. What are your thoughts on the Bedendo selection, bidding on not one but two other players that were matched before calling him out?

You cold bastard. :)

[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]

Yeah maybe. What are your thoughts on the Bedendo selection, bidding on not one but two other players that were matched before calling him out?

Are you implying that our soon to be canonised recruiters, those most pious of men, Sam Power and Dom Milesi were up to nefarious drafting hijinks???

You wash your mouth out with soap and water...

Seriously though, I'd say they were very genuine by that stage of the draft. I reckon by pick 50 whatever they were very much guided by their list of who they thought was best, and cognisant that both clubs may choose not to match.

[boydogs]

Are you implying that our soon to be canonised recruiters, those most pious of men, Sam Power and Dom Milesi were up to nefarious drafting hijinks???

No, but that we can't tell Bedendo we rated him in the top 40 or whatever when we get to the 50's and read two other names before his

Simon Dalrymple was pumping up a player in this way I think in the Dunkley/Collins draft

[Twodogs]

Yeah maybe. What are your thoughts on the Bedendo selection, bidding on not one but two other players that were matched before calling him out?

That at the number he was drafted at he's not really going to care whether we nominated players before him or not. He's just going to be happy to be on a AFL list.

I reckon that the only thought he's going to give to us nominating players before him is "thank Christ the other clubs matched the bids"

[boydogs]

I reckon that the only thought he's going to give to us nominating players before him is "thank Christ the other clubs matched the bids"

JUH might be thinking the same thing :)

[Bulldog4life]

Rowe gives me Andrew Hooper vibes anyway.

Who will ever forget Hoop's goal.