No..better we take Allen..then sell him to the highest bidder in a few years..or use him to bring H Reid to Richmond.
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2024 Draft Thread
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There should be private PRE event on at the London Tavern on draft night 1. Will be a big night.
The more I think about it I'm not too fussed if we get 2 or not. The draft is so deep in talent that we will pick a gun at 6 anyway. North is in no position to dictate to us. If they get 6 that will ensure they get the flying biking but the next pick should be 20 or 23. Well, It all depends on how much we want pick 2, so it might be just hand over 18 or 20 to get it done but we call the shots here and without us, LOLnorth doesn't get another first-rounder. Interested to see how this all pans out.
Na, all I've got is that he "ran a strong 2km for a player his size" at the Combine from Batten and Cavanagh's Top 60 article, and that he only started running four weeks prior.
I reckon he comes into it as early as the late teens. Sydney. Us. Port at 13 should grab one of the small forwards given theirs are awful/non-existent, but their key back stocks are also dreadful. I could see them possibly trading 13 and 29 for our 18 and 23 or similar. But if they're smart they grab the small first - there will be talls at 29.
Or we just pick him.
Or we take him and keep him for 10 years and a couple of flags, then reluctantly let him go home for two first-rounders.
H.Reid we should be targeting with Tassie-compromised draft picks.
Yeah, agree with this. We are in a super strong position and can walk away from any possible pick 2 trade if it doesn’t suit us. I want 2 but given where the club is at, I’m not sure it’s worth trading out 2 first rounders this year, particularly if one of those is 6. It’s up to North to make it attractive to us. Not the other way around. Thanks Blair - again.
Let's say we keep 6 and Langford and Smillie are there for the taking. I like the look of Langford but his lack of pace doesn't sit well. We already have Taranto, Prestia, Hopper, Ross, and McAuliffe who don't possess breakaway speed.
Langford has a neat left foot on him, good overhead, and is always good for a goal. It helps he's a Tiger supporter.
But some are forgetting how good of a player Smillie is. I know at times seems like he is coasting but his 3.08 secs stood out in the combine and has that breakaway speed. His decision-making and kicking to advantage is sublime. He tackles hard also.
If they are both there at 6, im leaning towards Josh.
Langford has a neat left foot on him, good overhead, and is always good for a goal. It helps he's a Tiger supporter.
But some are forgetting how good of a player Smillie is. I know at times seems like he is coasting but his 3.08 secs stood out in the combine and has that breakaway speed. His decision-making and kicking to advantage is sublime. He tackles hard also.
If they are both there at 6, im leaning towards Josh.
Do we have to be careful about taking 2 players with injury concerns with our early picks? I know we have a shed load of picks to mitigate the risk somewhat but it’s still a risk
Pick 6 not totally as bad as some might claim. Whether we like them or not, or consider them to be dickheads or under achievers. Blokes like Rachel n King aren't exactly spuds as players. Even the likes of Sampi, Yazzy n Men of Rohan or SPS weren't exactly spud players. Also the likes of Crapler Bradley n Tom Williams weren't complete write off disasters as players.
Reckon pick 6 itself is somewhat over rated in the actual draft pecking order. Always just at the outside fringe of where the elite junior players are picked from i.e. Just missing from that premium first 5 pick range but always expected to be somehow superior to the actual 6 to 10 range of existence.
I don’t think the nature of the FOS injuries makes him a concern, his combine results are probably a good indicator of that. The Lalor hamstring was a bad one so that is definitely more concerning but we just have to back our new high performance manager to sort that out and we should have a very talented player going forward.
PRE's own version of Mad Monday. Everybody nudes up n gets excited as each of our picks gets called. Be interesting to see if anyone's got the stamina to be just as excited at our last pick as our first. Reckon there'd be a few old stagers struggling to show much enthusiasm by about our 4th or 5th pick.
at the same time Norf need us much more than we need them. We're in the driver’s seat and they know it so they'll have to come to the party, I hope we play hardball.
Clubs would have access to medical reports and prognoses. They'll factor everything in and make a call.
I think we can trust Blair in this situation (if we keep pick 6 ) to have good intel on Big Smillie compared to Langford…..
From The Age….
“Richmond are enamoured with big-bodied midfielder Josh Smillie, too, who hails from Park Orchards, the same club Hartley has coached at for years, including his son’s under-14s team this past season.”
He would know a bit about him.
In BH we trust.
Regards,
Stan
I’m not showing you my d#ck no matter how nicely you try to frame it.
I don't think that accounts for how keen the Kangas are (or should be) to split the pick to avoid overreaching on the type they need.
I wrote elsewhere that I still think the likely outcome is they keep pick #2 and take O'Sullivan. Longer odds they take Tauru at #2, but possible.
I have serious doubts that Richmond entertains trading pick #6. We just don't need to do it as much as North wants to trade out of #2.
The other problem for North is that #6 doesn't guarantee them Tauru anyway. It wouldn't shock me one bit if the Dees took him at #5.
If North insists that #6 is part of a deal with us, I'd be massively disappointed if we didn't walk away. And if that's the case, I don't how else North splits #2.
Assuming Richmond is happy to give up #10 and #11 for #2 (the most I'd be happy to see us pay), North can get Trainor (definitely there), Armstrong (possibly there) or Tauru (less likely to be there) plus they get someone like a Berry, Langford, Hotton, Trevaglia, etc.
North would be mad to pass that up.
Agree .
Don’t think I’d want to do this unless we rate our number 2 player ahead of any potential number 1 pick next year however , next years first for 2 and the Roos first , or a deal that they get the higher pick , in saying that I’m not keen at all to give up our future picks , also I don’t want to give up any in this super draft , I’m leaning more to taking the first 6 to the draft and possibly aging future 1sts and small slides in this years drafts with our last 2 picks . Again comes down to how highly we rate FOS or Lalor and
who we believe slides to 6
Also I don’t want read half back/ midfielder or half forward midfielder, I want to read midfielder with 3 of our first few picks , absolute genuine junior mids for me
