{"id":71760,"date":"2021-05-16T13:12:47","date_gmt":"2021-05-16T13:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=71760"},"modified":"2021-05-16T13:58:33","modified_gmt":"2021-05-16T13:58:33","slug":"roos-legend-devastated-by-priority-pick-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=71760","title":{"rendered":"Roos legend 'devastated' by priority pick talk"},"content":{"rendered":"

North Melbourne great David King<\/a> has admitted he felt "flat" after his club's coach David Noble<\/a> indicated that the Kangaroos could ask the AFL for a priority draft pick this year.<\/p>\n

Noble's Kangaroos snapped an eight-match losing streak with a courageous seven-point win over Hawthorn, but not before suggestions that the club required AFL assistance.<\/p>\n

Priority picks are typically handed out to struggling clubs chained to the bottom of the ladder for years on end. The Gold Coast Suns<\/a> are the most recent team to be handed an extra pick at the top of the draft, where Matt Rowell<\/a> and Noah Anderson were selected in 2019.<\/p>\n

King, a two-time premiership winner with North, wanted no bar of his club asking the AFL for help, saying it went against the fabric of the Kangaroos.<\/p>\n

"They're ten weeks into a rebuild," he told Fox Footy's First Crack<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"David<\/p>\n

"You've got to give clubs their decisions. If they want to take the club backwards to go forwards, then you can't help them. <\/p>\n

"At the core of the Kangaroos football club, the fabric of the club doesn't ask for handouts. I'd be devastated if in the next two seasons they ask for a handout. <\/p>\n

"They like the fact that everything is against the odds. They like the fact that they're the have-nots, that's the Shinboner spirit, to have success despite all of that. That's a part of who they are. <\/p>\n

"I love David Noble and I love what he's doing, but I was a bit flat when he said it's an option. Don't ask for that. That's not who we are. <\/p>\n

"We're here because we decided to go backwards to go forwards. Do it on your own."<\/p>\n

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