Game Day 2024 Draftmatmas live celebration and melt thread

[tiger_tough]

True. You'd waste their top pick on duds like Smith.

It's okay, you can relax now campaigner, we didn't select him.

Time to move on from your strange Jagga Smith complex.

 

[Coach_Required]

It's okay, you can relax now campaigner, we didn't select him.

Time to move on from your strange Jagga Smith complex.

No way Carlton will never let it go that they got the best kid in the draft. This is going to backfire spectacularly for someone.

 

[tiger_tough]

No way Carlton will never let it go that they got the best kid in the draft. This is going to backfire spectacularly for someone.

Plenty had him as the best. Who gives a ****? He's a Carlton player now. They did well trading up to land a top 3 pick. Now hopefully he never has any success at the Blooz.

 

[richoatthedisco]

and Smith isn't even as good as Marc Murphy.

Or Bryce Gibbs.

 

[richoatthedisco]

Plenty had him as the best. Who gives a ****? He's a Carlton player now. They did well trading up to land a top 3 pick. Now hopefully he never has any success.

He won't, because wherever he goes that dud Smith will be in the team.

 

[Coach_Required]

Plenty had him as the best. Who gives a ****? He's a Carlton player now. They did well trading up to land a top 3 pick. Now hopefully he never has any success at the Blooz.

I'd rather eagles picks of Bo Allen and Shanahan lol

 

[LTT]

No thanks to LDU and others. Imo, we should chase Reid, if it doesn't come off we go to the draft.

Think of the pure joy of forcing North to pay overs to retain LDU. Just like they did with Dusty.

 

[LTT]

Bottom 3 could still be

West Coast
Norf
Richmond

LDU leaves that s**tstain of a club via FA (Band 1). Means picks are:

1. Richmond
2. Richmond
3. Norf
4. West Coast

Richmond trade 2 and 2026 1st to WC for Reid.
West Coast trade 4 and Hawks 1st to Sydney for Warner

1. Sharp (Tiges)
2. Rodriguez (Eagles)
3. Another midfielder (Norf)
4. Whoever is left for WCE

Sharp and Reid makes us shoot up the ladder in 2026, so our 1st then isn't super low

Doesn't seem a very good deal for WC TBH. The big question to me is, is Ried that much better than Sharp? If we target Ried, can we pay Lalor and Smillie and a couple of KPP when they are all in their prime and worth $2M each in a few years as they develop. It just seems unlikely even with the future cap space that we could afford to overpay another No1 draft pick in Ried.

 

[richoatthedisco]

Reid is fathoms better than Sharp.

 

[Morro]

Reid is fathoms better than Sharp.

Reid just came back lookin like a xmas puddin.

 

[Lord of the Wings]

First of all he said likely, not would. And secondly he said the risk was too great that someone would swoop in for Saints 2nd pick to pinch Smillie. Which given how many 1st round pick offers were being thrown about must've been a real chance.

Saints knocked back a Kings Ransom for their 2nd pick - it was no chance of being traded out

 

[tiger_tough]

Saints knocked back a Kings Ransom for their 2nd pick - it was no chance of being traded out

If by Kings ransom you mean Norfs F1, which may well end up around the same mark but in a worse draft, then sure

 

[Coach_Required]

Saints knocked back a Kings Ransom for their 2nd pick - it was no chance of being traded out

Doubt that very much, king's ransom. Like what?

North offered them their future first and rightly so, it was knocked back, saints made it well known prior to the draft that they were open to trading their 2nd pick for the right price, they wanted a couple of 1st rounders for it.

Could two become three? Saints 'open' to idea of splitting first-round pick

Splitting one of its top-10 selections into two high-calibre talents is a move the Saints could be open to on draft night depending on the circumstances, says EGM Football David Misson.

www.saints.com.au

To say saints had no chance of trading is 100% incorrect. Richmond did the right thing instead of leaving it up to chance. Just because we didn't pick a player you obviously rated doesn't make the decision made by the club wrong.

 

[Lacustrus]

weve reached for all our picks

Reach around more like it

 

[richoatthedisco]

Reid just came back lookin like a xmas puddin.

Bulking phase.

 

[NZ_Tiger]

Sounds like we had massive intel on what the Swans were wanting to do all night. Wonder who the leak was at the Swans?

Also, Smillie wasn't sliding to our next pick, as the article said there was a real possibility that another club would have traded up for that pick so taking him at 7 was a wise move. So, if you honestly think he was going to be available you are a tad naive.

I think it’s largely made up by twomey. Every year we seem to be grabbing a player before Sydney. Brown the last one.


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[Coach_Required]

I think it’s largely made up by twomey. Every year we seem to be grabbing a player before Sydney. Brown the last one.


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Maybe but out of all the media pre-draft none of them picked the first 9 correctly. I think there is some truths in what he says whether a few clubs feed him wrong info deliberately isn't him making it up.

 

[Lord of the Wings]

If by Kings ransom you mean Norfs F1, which may well end up around the same mark but in a worse draft, then sure

There were a lot more of offers than just norfs for that pick.

 

[Lord of the Wings]

Maybe but out of all the media pre-draft none of them picked the first 9 correctly. I think there is some truths in what he says whether a few clubs feed him wrong info deliberately isn't him making it up.

Clubs are very open with their intel and order post draft. Twomey has written this type of article at least for the previous 2 drafts also

 

[Lord of the Wings]

Doubt that very much, king's ransom. Like what?

North offered them their future first and rightly so, it was knocked back, saints made it well known prior to the draft that they were open to trading their 2nd pick for the right price, they wanted a couple of 1st rounders for it.

Could two become three? Saints 'open' to idea of splitting first-round pick

Splitting one of its top-10 selections into two high-calibre talents is a move the Saints could be open to on draft night depending on the circumstances, says EGM Football David Misson.

www.saints.com.au

To say saints had no chance of trading is 100% incorrect. Richmond did the right thing instead of leaving it up to chance. Just because we didn't pick a player you obviously rated doesn't make the decision made by the club wrong.

We played it conservatively. If we weren’t so risk adverse we could have ended up with a higher rated and better balanced haul. Lindsay or Tauru plus the same first 4 we did get

 

[tiger_tough]

We played it conservatively. If we weren’t so risk adverse we could have ended up with a higher rated and better balanced haul. Lindsay or Tauru and plus the same first 4 we did get

Conservatively? We went for the high upside players when there were more bankable players with nearly every pick.

 

[captain blood 17]

We played it conservatively. If we weren’t so risk adverse we could have ended up with a higher rated and better balanced haul. Lindsay or Tauru plus the same first 4 we did get

 

[NZ_Tiger]

We played it conservatively. If we weren’t so risk adverse we could have ended up with a higher rated and better balanced haul. Lindsay or Tauru plus the same first 4 we did get

It’s bullshit because if we don’t take smillie we have to take someone. If it’s travalligia or tauru then smillie doesn’t fall past the saints.

Or if we take Lindsey he doesn’t pass the dees.


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[Danog]

Bulking phase.

That's my excuse too. Endless bulk

 

[Sir_Loin]

We played it conservatively. If we weren’t so risk adverse we could have ended up with a higher rated and better balanced haul. Lindsay or Tauru plus the same first 4 we did get