Interesting to see which SSP players train with us for the 1 pick.
Would like to see Archie May, Mutaz and Lefau get a chance.
Are there any U18s left worth looking at?
Interesting to see which SSP players train with us for the 1 pick.
So we are leaving a spot open for the summer. I wonder who the train on invitees are.
Yeah you can add Rudd and Gawith who''s still available,l guess it depends what area they are looking at.I was hoping for Koen Sanchez or Jack Callinan so either of those would be good. Riley Weatherill might also be worth a look. We can take 2 to have a look at so it will be interesting to see which way we go.
I was hoping for Koen Sanchez or Jack Callinan so either of those would be good. Riley Weatherill might also be worth a look. We can take 2 to have a look at so it will be interesting to see which way we go.
Nothing like the AFL to change something once Richmond work out how to benefit from it. Next year there will be no trading of junk picks for points or something like that.
Rookie List Williamsburg Tiger.I thought the SSP could only add players to the main list - can this be used for rookie list as well or do we need to make some moves first?
Pretty sure we can only take 1.
Anything Richmond. I'm starting to wonder how Bash's academy works for us to recruit. Are these pricks going to audit every little thing?It may be a stretch, but maybe Richmond did this to get the AFL to change the rules. We never had a big draft hand this year so our ability to trade in a pile of junk picks for next year was not costly for us, and we clearly telegraphed what we were up to, we made it very very obvious, even the morons at AFL House would have been capable of reading our moves with a little bit of assistance from those with an IQ greater than their (British) shoe size.
Anyway, just a bit of speculation on my part.
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Of course they'll screw us over. Nothing like Richmond using the system to our advantage to get things changed. The system is a farce & needs to be changed so well done to us.Seems a decent haul from our draft hand. Looks like loading up for next year, clearly wanting to trade up to better picks, hope it works, but the suspicion that the AFL will somehow screw us is more than justified given their form.
I'm not a big draft watcher, but I did notice the pic from the AFL web site of the first round:
Ok, so that's the first round is it?
There are 18 teams in the AFL, I see 19 players who will end up at 11 teams. How is that not contrived? How do you end up with the first 19 and 7 teams miss out? What a farce. By the way, shouldn't there be more North Melbourne jumpers there, I thought they got 15 picks in the top 10. I suppose some of the picks were interstate, but it still strikes me as a rigged system. Drafts are supposed to equalise the competition, I figure some are more equal than the rest.
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I'd not really thought of it as we didn't have much of a hand to begin with, i was hoping we'd package the 2 60's picks for a future pick but overall we have done much better than that. We have plenty of options next yr, we can be involved with Trade & also be able to invest in the draft. 2 birds 1 stone.The trading of picks into next year is not something many here considered. It's such a complicated business now the draft.
I have no idea whether that was the right play or not but it does highlight there's a fair bit more strategy to it than just picking the players you like.
Not to mention the countless interview conducted with each of these potential draftees & the data bases they have access to that track players from years out with an eye on future drafts.
Here's hoping our FT professionals get it right after having all the information at hand.
Time will tell..
He can take Ablett with him, would have liked $1 for everytime he told us GC were paying fair value for rorting the draft.Shifter needs to be shifted on after this.
Year after year, boring as batshit.
Cal at least knows what he's on about, the sidekick can go tho.Cal Twomey or his idiot sidekick, thats who they would bring in. Nobody wants that.
The AFL coverage with Twomey and Beverdige is 1000 times better than Foxtel.Cal Twomey or his idiot sidekick, thats who they would bring in. Nobody wants that.
Given the clubs have an issue with the system and rightly so, i just wish they'd stop trading with them to give them the picks, they are outnumbered 14-4 so nothing they can do about it. As for Norf bidding at 3 instead of 2, seriously....True but it would’ve made it almost impossible for the suns to stockpile 4 first round picks as clubs wouldn’t be helpful to them in that situation you wouldn’t think. I think a limit on the amount of academy players you can match bids for might work. Maybe limit it at 2, then the suns would have had to decide who they wanted most out of those 4 kids
Given our draft hand next yr, we could well end up with another 5 inside 30 scenario (pending trade of course) which would give us the chance to finish off the core group we started in the '21 draft. At least we'll be able to see the full picture this time next yr & essentially rate what we have done over 3-4 yrs.Tend to agree, in some small way this strategy could drag the Hopper trade into the realms of respectability if we work some magic with these stockpiled picks. It's a longshot but it does give Clarke a fighting chance to even the ledger. The bill for Hopper is Keeler & Curtin, two talls and highly skilled ones at that, but it now becomes plausible the second round pick which I advocated trading last year now becomes 2 or 3 players - McCauliffe & 2 future third rounders next year. I think it's only fair to reserve judgement until the conclusion of the 2024 draft and trading period.
I'm kind of with you on the actual cattle we selected, Simpson & Murphy higher on my rankings too, although I would have had a stab at Schoenmaker with one of those picks.
Each to his own I suppose. I find the constant checking and big noting about the accuracy of CT phantom draft very hard to take. So self indulgent and unprofessional. If they got rid of that it would be OK.The AFL coverage with Twomey and Beverdige is 1000 times better than Foxtel.
I would take them in a heartbeat over Shifter and Ablett. At least Cal and Bev do their homework.
I'd scrap the discount altogether, being able to jump the que is more than enough already. For mine it's wrong when 1 Club can match 4 1st rd bids for 2nd/3rd rd picks yet another Club can't match at 28 as it's under 40. That system is a farce. Make no mistake if it was the other way around the noise from up Nth would be so loud we'd hear it like we were sitting in the same room. Let's not forget how the NGA's academy's became basically useless under the current rules & where the noise came from that made sure of that.indeed. The size of discount, the fact it applies to an unlimited number of players, and comes on top of the flawed points/ junk picks situation is terrible.
If I was the AFL, remembering they won't to anything too radical. 10% discount on first player only, must use a pick in the same round as the bid.