2015 Draft, Trade & Free Agent Discussion & Speculation Thread

[Grape Bear]

Why is everyone picking us to get another mid-sized player? Isn't the sky falling already? 8)

 

[UFO Tatsu]

Why is everyone picking us to get another mid-sized player? Isn't the sky falling already? 8)

I guess they enjoy a BF meltdown as well

 

[Eski3]

The club has come out and said they intend to draft a "mix" of players. I expect us to take one tall out of our 3 picks.

 

[Grape Bear]

This site needs a sarcasm font.

 

[Scham]

Quite a few phantoms have us taking David Cunningham including now Emma Quayle who has us getting a small like Gresham or Cunningham or going early on Ben McKay.

 

[meima]

I guess they enjoy a BF meltdown as well

If we draft tall BF also meltdown , too slow, too injuries prone and if some small player shine for others team why don't we pick him instead of tall.

 

[go_the_dockers]

If we draft tall BF also meltdown , too slow, too injuries prone and if some small player shine for others team why don't we pick him instead of tall.

I think we will go a small with our 1st pick unless somebody slides and then go tall later.

 

[simpsonwillo]

Would you be happy if we took him with our first pick?

Yes I would

 

[Lachy96]

Fox footy has us bidding on himmelberg with 27 and gws match the bid. Then we end up getting tom cole, jesse glass mccasker and marcus adams. Id be pretty happy with that.

 

[theGav56]

Fox footy has us bidding on himmelberg with 27 and gws match the bid. Then we end up getting tom cole, jesse glass mccasker and marcus adams. Id be pretty happy with that.

Yes I would be too. Can see them all being useful rather than brilliant, but that will do nicely.

 

[Taylor]

Why are we only taking three picks?

I get that running with 38 would mean we could elevate a rookie immediately, so Morabito story rolls on..

 

[Scham]

Yes I would

I'm sorry if it troubled you to have to answer my question, I just wanted to ascertain how keen you were on him.

 

[purplerunsdeep]

Why are we only taking three picks?

I get that running with 38 would mean we could elevate a rookie immediately, so Morabito story rolls on..

Or we save some cash for a big big fish...

 

[Paracleet]

Strong probability No. 2 is going to arrive tomorrow, I'm taking this as a sign.

 

[Dockernut]

Strong probability No. 2 is going to arrive tomorrow, I'm taking this as a sign.

Good luck mate.

 

[FD2646]

Strong probability No. 2 is going to arrive tomorrow, I'm taking this as a sign.

Best of luck Paracleet. I have 3, with them arriving in 2003, 2006 and 2010.....all happened to be years we made finals!

 

[Dockers Fan]

Schoenfeld was the one who smashed the beep tests etc wasn't he?

I think it was the 3k time trail

 

[wayToGo_]

If we have a list of 4-5 KPPs we'd comfortably draft at our second pick but not our first there's no point in reaching IMO. Our first two picks will only be roughly 10-12 picks apart. Hoping for a half back with elite skills if we can't get a tall with our first. We don't really have a mid sized defender with elite skills anymore unless we want to play Hill there, which may happen anyway but it's not ideal.

I'm not sure there will be a good half back left at our 2nd - Morgan perhaps? So I can see why Twomey picked Cole for us - he would fit nicely at half back. Don't see much chance of Collins, Bonner or Tucker lasting to our first. Here are my preferences at each of our picks (assumes a 39-5 profile) - it's a little tall but I think we have to go that way:

1st - Burton (in unlikely event still available), Himmelberg (bid regardless), Cole
2nd - Glass-McCasker, Brown, Allen
3rd - Skinner, Moore, Smith
4th - Adams, Keough, Buykx-Smith
Rookies - Morabito, Deluca, Powell, ?

 

[Alfonz]

After watching the footage out there for most of the likely options, I am quite underwhelmed. I'd honestly be happy to just pick 3-4 of the best state league talls (e.g. Adams/Brown/Keough/Hartley) and hope 1 or 2 can perform adequately at AFL level. Not going to happen though. I'll be surprised if we even get one of them. I'm just hoping that we take people who can kick properly ... which seems to be a big problem with this draft crop.

 

[go_the_dockers]

We will not draft Tom Cole. He is too vanilla for us. We like more high risk high reward pkayers.

 

[Allikat]

We will not draft Tom Cole. He is too vanilla for us. We like more high risk high reward pkayers.

I'm not sold on Cole either. I'd much rather we take best available tall with our first pick, because it's an area we're seriously lacking, and you don't wanna risk having none available at our 2nd. We already can't fit all our midfielders in the side.

 

[Jezzitizle]

I hope we go tall for every pick in the main draft and rookie mora aside. We can wait another year to draft half backs, but we need to put time into tall defenders before johnson and dawson retire. If we got two good talls and the rest were busts I would still call that successful because we need them.

 

[jerms]

If we were to target talls and nearly-talls with all four picks, our recruiting board would probably look something like this (although subjectivity is such that the permutations could be entirely different):

Pick 1 (22-ish): Collins, Burton, Himmelberg, Bonner, Hibberd, B McKay
Pick 2 (35): Adams, Brown, Glass-McCasker, Allen, Markov
Pick 3/4 (60/68): Parsons, Skinner, Surman, Keough, Buykx-Smith, Chol, F Pearce (!), Nyuon, Tiziani, Moore

 

[Taylor]

Best off-season day!!

 

[go_the_dockers]

Best off-season day!!

Or is that tomorrow, complaining on why we didn't select player x