Is FOS all he is cracked up to be ? I saw highlights on YouTube where he played vic metro & he only had 7 disposals
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Trade Week - Richmond Only
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Cartoon gave up 12 14 for pick 3 and we’re supposed to give up 6 10 11 or 6 10 18 for pick 2?
Wouldnt trade pick 6 Its 10 & 11 for 2 Lolnorf can take it or leave it
alot of commentators are saying that the draft is strong, we need to select various positions, couple of 3 mids, key backman and forward that five players within the top 20 selections.
with picks 20,23,24, we need to get from each pick either a future first rounder or and swap for a latter pick with a future second. for example carlton has pick 38, we swap pick 20, for 38 with a future second or third, bulldogs pick 35 for pick 23 and a future second, etc. What also may happen, is clubs may want our swapped picks of 38 & 35. we again do the same trade them for this round and futures. as we did last year.
Not as silly as it looks.
Bris would be peeved if we did it and Dees bid for [email protected]
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Agree. It is a dart board, the more darts we throw at the board the better chance we hit a bullseye. Trading up to 2 could end up being too smart by half. I mean, Dusty was pick 3 when he was drafted and that was his relative measure at the time against the other 17 year olds. He just grew and grew and grew in capability and stature more than anybody else in any draft in modern times. There are many stories like his. You just don't know.
LOL, I'd bet the clubs aren't discussing that, Blair would just turn around and walk out and head to the draft. We have the list spots so no issue there, if we didn't we could trade into the 2025 draft, so we have no risk and there isn't a defined superstar at 2, sure he will be expected to be a better player, but not to that extent.
IMO its the Fos/Jagga combo all along.Both compliment each other.Ones an accumulator/Distribiture(Jagga) who will get it too the silkier FOS more often than not.
Our season went bad.
Started early and while it doesn’t take much to go wrong, nearly every thing did. Dusty missing..
Finished with us releasing our three best players, one of whom was leaving anyway and that couldn’t have been prevented. (Deeply conflicted. Of course he got pissed. Who wouldn’t).
It was supported by some very poor handling of our very best player, which ultimately helped deliver pick 1.
Also propelled by poor fortune on the injury front plus a level of failure in our strength and conditioning and a general malaise, which itself led to a potentially dangerous level of disenchantment.. Is he wartime?
It was all over pretty quick, but there is always a tomorrow and the tomorrow is fascinating..
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They might try, but I doubt they get the same currency.
Petracca at 30 going into the 2026 season compared to Shai at 26
Oliver would be a similar age 28) to Rioli but is damaged goods it appears.
Injuries this year have sped up the decision making that we have made, and has accelerated our rebuild to the point that our top 10's should be in place prior to the Tassie drafts (assuming we pick well), the Dees are heading face first into the Tassie drafts being their rebuild drafts. Ouch.
Sounds perfectly logical to me, but unfortunately there's always the factor of people trying to snatch what someone else is looking at first. Happy if we can simply get a full hand of the best kids we can find with our selections rather than somehow trying to out think n out maneuver everyone else just because we need to have all the shiniest toys first.
I think we probably end up a bit better than that. The 1st pick in the 2nd round could get a number of bids, maybe Port, Freo, Saints, Hawks etc like someone that has slid, they may offer us a 2nd to drop a few spots back in the draft. We will get offers for that pick, its whether taking a single late 1st / early 2nd, is better than maybe slipping back a few times and taking the 2nds and 3rds we are offered. Whilst points aren't as valuable next year, with so many academy players next year, there will certainly be trading of late picks back into the 1st round which we could be all over again.
Remember last year, we got Freos 3rd for sliding back 2 spots in the late 2nd round, and the same from West Coast for sliding back 3 spots.
Don't reckon we'd be dropping from 20 to 38 for a single 2nd or 3rd pick.
Understood the season wasn't good. However the C+ rating was for Richmond's performance during the trade period, not sure from the above whether that was transparent. Obviously for those who saw - the Age may have gone back and changed it to B- afterwards. Still BS in my opinion.
Reality is if Geelong or Collingwood ended up with the picks we got after trade week everyone would be falling over each other to shoot their loads and call it the greatest trade period in history.
People just need to realise that we are rebuilding. Forget the players we lost. We needed a severe rebuild. We have been able to set ourselves up to kick start it in a single trade period. With Tassie coming in it could have taken us 5-6 years to do. That is what our trade should be measured on. Not the players we lost. The fact we have allowed ourselves the chance to rebuild overnight.
People just need to realise that we are rebuilding. Forget the players we lost. We needed a severe rebuild. We have been able to set ourselves up to kick start it in a single trade period. With Tassie coming in it could have taken us 5-6 years to do. That is what our trade should be measured on. Not the players we lost. The fact we have allowed ourselves the chance to rebuild overnight.
