BAD DRAFTING = NO WINNING in the AFL 

One thing that shone a light on the average drafting to me was Dawson becoming captain in his second year at the club. That's not a knock on JD, but rather on the rest of the club, that no one who was already there had the leadership credentials.

The list problems seems be more complex than just poor drafting, the list management appear to be drafting to what they perceive is raw getable talent rather than the players to fill the coaches future gameplan. Adelaide get a cruisy ride when it comes to accountability which has lead them to take patronage for granted (just look at their low efforts to recruit members compared to Port vying for the same people). Need to sort out the off ground staff first then they can fix the on ground list.

So true it hurts. The annoying things is, you point this stuff out to the happy clappers at the club and they just pull the "at least they try /they're a good / funny bloke" etc. or they just point out the handful of good picks we've had go well to avoid facing the reality. The bad picks in '16 - '19 draft has set us back so much. Combine that with a rebuild where we don't really play the young kids anyways and just reply on our veterans who continuously prove the can't get it done. It's no surprise we're sitting whwre we are.

A decade ago I was complaining about how the Crows were drafting well but kept losing our better players to interstate clubs. Patrick Dangerfield, Phil Davis, Jake Lever, Jack Gunston and Charlie Cameron to name a few. Now our drafting is so poor that other teams don't want our players, you have to go back to the 2015 class to find an Adelaide drafted player that's still playing in the AFL but at a different team.

I'm a massive Crows supporter and I got to be honest I did not predict the season to go the way it has

Really feel for the crows. Have been a die hard Carlton supporter for years now and can really sympathise with the feeling of there being no light at the end of the tunnel so to speak. It’s frustrating as all hell as there is nothing that supporters can do except watch from the sidelines. Stick fat crows fans, the rewards will be worth it

Crows game plan had one trick, contested footy (Betts and Walker in their prime covered up a lot of cracks). Laird, Keyes, Matt and Brad Crouch can all win the footy. Higher ups liked what they saw and drafted more of this type of players in Pedlar, Schoenberg, Berry etc. The game now revolves around creating turnovers and fast, accurate movement into the F50 and Crows have no answers, especially with injuries forcing retirement of Sloane and Seedsman. Soligo, Rachele and Nankervis now need exposure and game time which Nicks has been stubborn about. Now finals are out of reach hopefully we can persist with this new group and make another run at finals next year.

Nothing compared to North Melbourne. Over ten years of bad drafting. The three stooges responsible quit before they could be sacked and fully held responsible. The young talent we did have was thrown away so the coach could save face, and they still have no handle on the need to recruit key position players that they desperately need. North is proof that bad drafting/list management can kill a club.

Brilliant video buddy!

Tex was All Australian last year, yeah maybe he was drafted in 2007

Drafting in the 10’s was very questionable. Been solid since 2020 in my opinion.

To be fair Adelaide did try to pick Nick Blakey over Jones damn academy picks 😂 he is legitimately our pick that we are missing the most with Seedman and Smith retired or form slump for the later.

It happened to port a couple of years ago. Don't worry boys you'll be playing finals next year

Scouting, recruiting and development - shit!

The good old Adelaide boys club. Jobs for mates, look pretty but can’t perform

Nah, that drafting has been terrible since the beginning.

In 2025 they should look to tank for Dyson Sharp

I believe you suffer from poor drafting for twice as long as the period of ineptitude. So if you draft poorly for a 5 year period, you will pay the price for a subsequent 10 years. That’s what happened to the Saints because of their poor drafting between 2011 and 2016.

they pick butters (2018 pick 12) instead of jones (2018 pick 8) they play finals last year and it changes their whole club

Really feel for the crows. Have been a die hard Carlton supporter for years now and can really sympathise with the feeling of there being no light at the end of the tunnel so to speak. It’s frustrating as all hell as there is nothing that supporters can do except watch from the sidelines. Stick fat crows fans, the rewards will be worth it

Adelaides recruting team is terrible. The only reason we got dawson and rankine because they were crows fans growing up and are from SA. Adelaide cant lure any other players from interstate no matter how much money we throw at them. Adelaide has had interest in every single free agent and off contract player, never amounts to anything. We are desperate, we don't even have a proper training ground and the style of footy we are playing right now isn't exactly appealing. The problem definitely is development, chayce jones was drafted as we needed a speedy midfielder, it was the right choice but we haven't made him any better. I feel bad for some of the youngsters on our list because I don't feel they will reach their full potential. Guys like rachele, pedlar, schoenberg, berry. need to play more midfield but nicksy only likes playing older players like laird. I used to rate keays but he wont be in our next premiership and he has terrible skills. Rowey spoke for all us fans, its so frustrating watching us play sometimes, and there is no accountability. Only now are some players who have been out of form for a while are being dropped, guys like smith and McHenry. However, at the end of this year I hope they cull the dead weights of the list and people in positions of power go.

Jake Soligo is a gun and will be AA one day.

Sleeping on Worrell like crazy in this vid, he’s an absolute gun

Ogilvie Reid Kelly and Ricciuto have a lot to answer for our drafting and list management. Nicks inability to play our draftees in the position hasn't helped their development.

As a crows supporter, I want to say a big thanks for taking the time to make this video. Our recruiting is atrocious.

Our recruiting has been abysmal. Nothing us fans can do though 😒

Even that infamous pre season camp hurt alot too

Not one lie told in this entire video

Drafting is one thing but development , along with Port Adelaide’s , suffers under the SANFL system. This needs to change as too many 18, 19 yo players have little experience around them on field and they develop bad habits and lose confidence.

I’m no Crows fan so can I comment on this video, but sounds more like a development issue especially with young people. It’s not like a Nth Melb retention issue.

can we get rid of mark ricciuto

This is such an accurate video. Well done. Absolutely hit the root cause of the issue

Going back to footy last year and seeing the crows again was quite funny. There were a lot of "Who tf is Tingus Pingus?!" moments for me, as a lot of the team were knew and I had no idea about. At the end of the year, I could list off a couple Port players off the top of my head: Jones, Jonas, Boak, Wines, Rozee, Butters (can't forget Butters). But then with Crom, I was like: uhh... wow, Tex Walker is still here? Wow. And Sloane? Damn. Dawson I guess (he's never stood out to me), Keays is a new one.. You see what I mean? And at the start of the year, I learnt about more Crows players, but not much else.

I can see Adelaide going hard for unwanted midfield talent from other clubs and trying to draft a game breaking mid. Probably could make good offers to will brodie who had a gun 2022 for freo, or fin macrae who deserves a game at the pies but cant get one. add those two to the mids of Dawson, soligo, rankine/rachele (counts as one player for mid time) they could turn things around

Crows complaining about injuries as an excuse to losing to Richmond, who has had the worst injury list all season, is hilarious

Now do best recruiting clubs

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The last three years I've thought the List Manager has got to go. The fact that we have picked mostly duds and clubs around us have grabbed better players. We didn't even bother to try and lure Horne-Francis over here. He was from South Adelaide for goodness sake. Last time I checked that isn't anywhere near Port Adelaide. That would habe made sense had we traded for him before North gave him away to Port. But ifwe are going to draft players and they are preferably from SA at least get the ones who have become great players at other clubs rather than randos that suck or quit cause they have given up on Footy. I say change your List Manager and get yourselvea better scouts and recruiters.

It's not only drafting it's an inability to have a presence on game day. I cannot recall Mathew Nicks ever getting complimented for making changes during a game that won the crows a game. He is possibly the worst performing coach on game day. I recall the days where the likes of Jack Oatey and Cahill, Kerley, Blight, would be hero coaches who would often make changes that saw their teams reverse trend on match day with changes but Nicks rarely makes changes. The swans slaughtered the Crows last night but Nicks made no effort to change the team dynamics and rarely does. Is that because he has no changes he can make, doesn't like to upset team balance or too scared to make changes in case they don't work and cant handle the fallout criticism. Time for change or the crows face another 20 years in the doldrums.

“No club has drafted as badly as Adelaide since 2016.” You literally made a video just recently about the bad drafting of the Roos.

mind if I print out this thumbnail and hang it on my wall?