I’m guessing that he didn’t say anything re contract?
Just that his management was on to it.
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He seems from the outside to be a bit of a ‘social glue’ type member of the team.
Not sure we can afford to lose the handful of those that we have.
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Id love three rop ten picks, but Draper is lookong awesome this year. Hopeiflly he l9ves the boys and melbourne life enough to stay. Seems to. Adelaide is a short trip to see family. Hope he stays.
Aside from Zach, he’s the player that could win a Norm Smith…bit of work to get there of course
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Nothing against his game, he was huge. But I would have thought skip would have ranked higher? Can someone please enlighten me, I don’t think I follow
Nice to see him ahead of Gawn also 
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Yeah I was surprised to see Zach’s game wasn’t highly rated - not sure if he had more turnovers than usual etc but his overall rating dropped a bit after this weeks game
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Merrett’s kicking seemed well off.
I think he just works himself into the ground trying to carry the team.
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Nobody knows how those ratings are worked out but I imagine:
- contested marks and possessions are considered very valuable
- clearances are considered very valuable
- metres gained are considered very valuable
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Unless we low ball him he’s staying
On the weekend I asked you if the Crows offer 950k x 6 years, should we match ?
Your answer was “probably not”
What should we offer him ?
With Bryan doing an acl that changes now
Not really for you because you never rated Bryan anyway.
Barring a disaster, Bryan should be ready to go early next season.
The risk factor of re-injury perhaps will add some $$$ to Draper’s offer, even though it shouldn’t.
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Not surprising
Does he want to be a ruckman resting forward or a forward helping out in the ruck? That report seems to say that Bryan is our preferred ruck with Drapes dropping to help out. Might put his nose out of joint if he feels like he’s unwanted as number one ruck.
I don’t think Draper cares if he’s not the number one ruck seems happy to play forward and ruck
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Yeah I agree, he’s like Hooker just loved the contest. No whinging.
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They all play where the coach tells them. Doesn’t mean to say they’re happy it.
I notice he has been using the tag ruckdemption in his IG story and Jones tagged him using the same tag. Not sure if that’s referencing his preferred position or just an inside joke.