I remember hearing a story that Sheedy called Danny Jacobs and Mark Bolton into his office, put an offer on the table and said: āFirst one to accept it stays.ā
Bolton took the offer, Jacobs was traded. And we got Mark Alvey.
I still find it ironic (and disappointing) that getting him, Stanton and Dyson was pretty close to as well as you could go in that draft with those picks. Mundy, Chaplin, and Adcock were about the only other guys in the top 50 youād have bothered to switch any of them out with (ignoring picks before ours at #6 and F/S selections).
Yeah, he went in the 50ās, and Rischittelli went 61, M. Johnson in the PSD, and then Drummond, Foley, Duffield, Brad Jones, Aaron Davey and Carrazzo on the rookie list. It was a terrible draft, absolutely horrific. Literally from pick #6 on (excluding F/S and first 2 PSD picks), there were less than 15 guys in the entire draft that ever got to 100 games, many of them so-so, and spread out throughout the ND and RD. So most clubs did ok draft wise if they got 1 average to good player out of it.
When you consider we came out of it with Stanton, Dyson, Bradley, Lovett and NLM, it was in some ways a draft for the ages. Just in relative terms.
Top game today and as someone pointed out he has a touch of Silvagni about him. He is listed as 195 and 78k but seems to have filled out nicely already. Loved the desperation and the late spoils and his kicking seemed reliable.
Heās on the list for next year it appears but Iād offer him an extension now before his price goes through the roof.
Highlight for me today was Zerk-Thatcher. Has all the attributes. Good frame, good mark, good vision and uses it well. I think weāve got an absolute gem on our hands.