If we get four champions we can trade in anyone else we need. But yeah, drafting them would be better.
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2024 Draft Thread
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On the other side of that you need to try and miss Lennon at pick 12, the 5 in 30, Higgins, Gilmore .
I’d be disappointed if we couldn’t pull that off at the very least. I’m hoping for another mid under pick 12
Plenty of good mids will slip into the second round as well
Bolton is great when the rest of the side is up and about.A great weapon.
Thats 3yrs away for us.
Prime perhaps.
But with 3 premierships under his belt and a 4th not likely in the rest of his career with us.Seems like a situation of a win/win for player & club.
We should be going down operation 5. 5 picks in the top 25, and then aiming for 3 mids and 2 tall forwards. We will likely pick up Lockwood with some later picks as an NGA (tall defender).
Perfect draft for us would be something like FOS, Lalor, Sims, Faull and Allan with Lockwood as an NGA.
I heard Cal Twomey say he planning to do a 'consensus' first round. Interesting exercise, wouldn't be easy I'd imagine. I've always said that even if a player is a bust, you can't really call it a botched pick if every other side would have done the same thing. And also, if most sides would have picked player A, but we pick player B, and player B is better, they are the most inspired picks.
I agree with both points of view.
I wouldn’t trade him but you are absolutely right that he would be a better player in a top team.
He'll still be a very good player for us through that time. He needs a stable midfield behind him to allow him to do his thing forward of centre, he hasn't had that this season, but if we get a couple of good midfielders in the draft then we are building that. He needs that protection behind him, much like Dusty did through those premiership years.
I suspect Bakes and Graham will leave, and I reckon our 2nd will be on the table as part of a deal with the Suns.
I reckon our targets will be 2 of those Freo 1sts, not sure if we get all 3 and give something back, 1 of the Suns picks and or the Lions pick (which will likely be a teen pick, they will make finals for sure now).
We need to trade hard and get 5 picks inside 20-25, which I think is possible, but obviously as you say, only if 1 or 2 players leave.
Its all going to come down to what the AFL do regarding the bidding system and which year it impacts.
The problem is that the jungle drums beating are that Baker is more likely to want to go to the Eagles than the Dockers who have the picks.
If he goes of course.
Can see why Freo are interested.He's the type of player their missing up fwd.
