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Some have evolved since those days.
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Feel for him last game heāll play
This is terrible news. Poor fella. Club hopefully will look after him but this sounds like his AFL career will be coming to a premature end. 
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Sounded that way in Brads presser Iāll be shocked if he plays again
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(History nerd mode, engagedā¦)
Generally, no they didnāt. Both gladiators and lions were too expensive for that. Fights between trained gladiators most often ended in mercy unless one got unlucky or roused the crowdās ire by putting in a poor showing (insert EFC joke here). Lions etc were mostly used to execute restrained and relatively helpless criminals/prisoners if theyād been trained for the arena, or killed by professional hunters if not.
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I assume itās for the AFL to prove they have performed their duty of care, ie. avoid litigation
Independent of the club (so no conflict of interest).
Would most likely be experts in the field of TBIs vs the Sports Med Drās that AFL clubs employ.
No different than going to see an oncologist, orthopaedic surgeon, neurosurgeon, psychiatrist etc for an opinion over what your GP says.
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2020 draft has been a total disaster
We took the best player in that draft with our third selection. Itās just that itās been awful hard getting his body right.
The only disaster about it was taking 3 first rounders. Perkins and Cox are about as good as the average first rounder from 2020.
To me itās clear Zac Reid is every bit as good as Thilthorpe.
Given how weak this years open draft is( touted by AFL media), Iām hoping this year we trade out picks to the clubs with academy talent and trade into 2026s draft.
And get footballers on the trade table.
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Great idea actually. Thinking outside the square. I agree thatās a great option. This year there are so many teams looking for academy selections who may need some points so be on the other side of that
2020 draft was a complete and utter disaster. Holmes and Gulden both in 2020. We took 2 skinny project players and a a lazy but athletic player who cannot defend and barely turns up most weeks. Reidās body may never be right. Last night is huge concern. Thank you Adrian you incompetent fool.
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Gulden was an academy pickā¦
Weāve been very unlucky with injuries.
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I think the 2020 draft in general has panned out as was expected. Not very deep, some wild misses at the top end, and a more random spread of quality than most years. Which is what youād expect if you basically had to draft based on 17 year old form every year.
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It was a talls draft.
IMHO the clear two best talls are Thilthorpe and Reid. We got one of them, the other went pick 2.
Above our picks McDonald, Barass, Ugle Haden have all been busts or underwhelming.
The smalls in the open draft are overall pretty average.
Maybe id have Conor Stone instead of Cox. But thatās simply because Cox has been scrubbed with concussion. Not had the chance to develop as expected.
The only problem with 2020 is perhaps that we took three picks.
The silver lining is that if we didnāt have 3 we might not have Zac Reid on the list. We would be left with Perkins and Cox.(or well just Perkins, since poor Coxy is looking like losing his dream to concussion)
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Holmes over Cox?
Cats getting Holmes was a shock, not sure he was rated that highly. I find it hard to use that as an example of poor recruiting.
Fark Dodoro and all but that Covid year was a debacle.
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Good player in a great team.
I donāt think Holmes was rated pre draft and has blossomed in a great environment. He would be at the pointy end if you were redoing the draft for sure.
Was worth us going tall. Iām disappointed in Perkins. I thought he looked a little one sided in drafting and has continued that way.
But Cox and Reid were the right choices imho. Cox has just been very unlucky
they drafted cox as a 200 cm skinnny winger. in no way shape or form was that a smart decision. there is a reason there arenāt tall wingman.
hasnāt been helped by injuries obviously, but they recruited a tall kid without really thinking about how it actually works, how it works within the side itself, and the fall back position if it didnāt.
the plan seems to have been, tall, can run thatāll do, we will figure it out later how it works with the rest of pieces.
will probably go down as the worst draft period the clubs ever had.
3 top 10 picks and all could end up busts, 2 cos of injuries and one cos he didnāt wanna leave victoria.
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Holmes was considered a reach at the time, and there was discussion whether or not Sydney would match a bid on Gulden as they were already committed to Campbell, which might have been charades, but worth noting nonetheless.
Really was a raffle of a draft.