Analysis 2016 AFL Trade Week Thread

[finbarr]

I like the final move of trading away pick 9 and getting 14 and 17 and having 4 picks inside the top 30 (ish). Will get some quality with that hand.

 

[FranKenHinckley]

I am stunned by this board. Our future is offically dead now

Words fail me. I am utterly shocked. We are likely to have pick 5-8 next year, we have that away for pick 17 and 31 basically

We gave 9 away for 14 so as to pull 19 down to 17

There are no words

I am reading some of the most ridiculous nonsense here spinning this. Right on cue. We could trade pick 1 for picks 10, 11, 30 you would say its great. "3 picks inside top 30"

 

[RossFC]

Also what scares me is by the time we challenge guys like Boak, Gray, Westhoff and Hartlett will be gone.

Hartlett will be here forever. Chris Davies will make sure of that.

 

[philthy05]

Anyone , who like me has bemoaned the lack of genuine mids drafted should love this opportunity


4 picks under 31 in a draft known to be deep with genuine mids


Hopefully our drafting team seizes it

 

[Port 2004]

Can we stop kidding ourselves and simply not point to the crows please

Why? Enough Port people on this board with egg on their face now.

 

[Doctor Feel]

Loving all the doom and gloom, it is apparently a fact that we will finish 11th or lower next year.

Based on the results of the trade period, it's understandable groupthink that we will slip next year.

As another has said, the biggest concern of this period was our failure to trade out some of the dead wood or stale players. However we have sort of attacked this another way in that we are going to draft a pile of fresh kids right in the sweet spot of the draft and do the clean out in reverse, back the kids to force them out of the side and out of the club.

 

[Black 18]

So in summary we traded two top 10 picks for two picks in the mid teens and two picks in the 30s. How anyone can spin that as a win is absolutely beyond me.

We also failed to improve our list either by trading out under performers or by trading in fresh faces.

Just another chapter in a year of water treading and more evidence that our football department is akin to a team of zombies asleep at the wheel. God help us.

Exactly

Player Managers and List Managers from all other clubs must be lining up to del with us. Here, have a contract with us that no other club would even think about doing, here have our two top ten picks for your average stuff. Come deal with us we are the good guys of the AFL.

The only people that could be happy with this are the crew who think every draft pick nets you a winner.

 

[wilbur_15]

Do you know what the sad thing is? we can't really laugh at the crows over Gibbs because our club didn't do much either. We really needed quality, was hoping we could've bought in someone like Deledio, Vardy or Black. Might be a mini or long rebuild for this club.

Also what scares me is by the time we challenge guys like Boak, Gray, Westhoff and Hartlett will be gone.

Something doesn't add up in this sentence.

 

[BornPort]

I like the final move of trading away pick 9 and getting 14 and 17 and having 4 picks inside the top 30 (ish). Will get some quality with that hand.

We also traded pick 19.

I don't get it. It really doesn't seem like a great deal to me.

 

[Port 2004]

Why the fk would we give up pick 9

Because after pick 6 the draft is very even up to around our last picks. Bloody great move by the Cripps and Co.

 

[1954]

I'm ringing sportsbet to ask for odds for whoever Sydney get at pick 9 to be BOG against us in 2018.

X Plenty, might pay to get the odds on which future megastar the tingles get with the pick immediately before our first as well.

 

[Doctor Feel]

We also traded pick 19.

I don't get it. It really doesn't seem like a great deal to me.

We traded 19 for 17 m8.

 

[bomberclifford]

So in summary we traded two top 10 picks for two picks in the mid teens and two picks in the 30s. How anyone can spin that as a win is absolutely beyond me.

We also failed to improve our list either by trading out under performers or by trading in fresh faces.

Just another chapter in a year of water treading and more evidence that our football department is akin to a team of zombies asleep at the wheel. God help us.

Aren't you making a big assumption that we would have had pick 10 next year?

 

[port_adelaide_1870]

People really overrating the value of picks between 9 and 14... Drafts usually have a clear top 5-7 and after that it's usually guess work. Some clubs rate draftees more than others etc.

In the end we are getting the 14th best 18 year old instead of the 9th.. Barely any difference

 

[finbarr]

Words fail me. I am utterly shocked. We are likely to have pick 5-8 next year, we have that away for pick 17 and 31 basically

We gave 9 away for 14

There are no words

"We are likely to have pick 5-8 next year..."

You truly are boydman, aren't you. Have you ever had anything good to say about anything the club has ever done? From accusing the club of systematic doping to chronic mismanagement on all levels. Why don't you just microwave your membership if you hate the club so much?

And no, I'm not being delusional about the club's chances next year, but some of the stuff in this thread is just way over the top.

 

[Port 2004]

Oh for f$ck sakes i hate this list management group f$cking morons

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Why are they morons?

 

[TeeKray]

I get pick 9 but who is the other top 10 pick?

Next year's top 10 pick that we now miss out on in the likely event that we miss finals.

The fact is that quality > quantity when it comes to draft choices. Travis Boak was pick 5, Chad Wingard was pick 6, Ollie Wines was pick 7. That's where the vast majority of the cream of the draft crop comes from - the top 10. And what did we just do? We traded ourselves out of the top 10 and into the 15-30 range which is practically a lucky dip. We have totally bottled this.

 

[manureid]

Cannot wait until we draft at 14 and the brains trust tells us that is exactly who we wanted at 9.

Picks 9 through 13 (and specifically those 2) will be talked about for many years ala pick 16 Jercobs I feel.

 

[Adz2332]

thing is we miss out on finals next year i feel, pittard or trengove or the like will leave and we will have our top 10 pick again

 

[MrPortAdelaide]

very happy, well done

 

[Port01]

Pretty cool how we got out of the top 10 and picked up heaps of points to match bids on our academy kids.

 

[BornPort]

We traded 19 for 17 m8.

Just thought Finbarr was putting a big of spin on it saying "I like the final move of trading away pick 9 and getting 14 and 17".

Still, we move out of the top ten picks just to get a slight upgrade on 19 and 49 to 31. Time will tell whether it was a good move I guess.

 

[Magus]

thing is we miss out on finals next year i feel, pittard or trengove or the like will leave and we will have our top 10 pick again

Trengove is leaving why?

 

[El Zorro]

So what exactly are these "personal reasons" for Gibbs to move to SA that I keep reading about?

 

[wilbur_15]

Do you know what the sad thing is? we can't really laugh at the crows over Gibbs because our club didn't do much either. We really needed quality, was hoping we could've bought in someone like Deledio, Vardy or Black. Might be a mini or long rebuild for this club.

Also what scares me is by the time we challenge guys like Boak, Gray, Westhoff and Hartlett will be gone.

?

haha, snap!