List Mgmt. 2018 Draft Day Thread

[Mofra]

Sydney Stack and Blanck still available.

Interesting to see if go for another mature ager such as Rich or Meek.

 

[Mojorisin]

Did we not upgrade any rookies?

 

[Antares]

Did we not upgrade any rookies?

It obviously gets done separately now. Gowers and Lynch have already been committed to upgrades.

 

[ossie_21]

Is it definitely 3 rookie spots we have available? Didn't think we had that many spots left

 

[VitalDread]

Anyone know what time the rookie draft is?

5pm on Fox Sports

 

[Mojorisin]

It obviously gets done separately now. Gowers and Lynch have already been committed to upgrades.

I was super confused haha. Still a few good players on the board I would be keen on.

 

[Bulldogs Legend]

I’m at work with half my attention on this and the other half the urgent stuff I should be doing

I hope you’re patient survives the operation Doctor GD!


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[Struggle]

Is it definitely 3 rookie spots we have available? Didn't think we had that many spots left

Gowers lynch and nmm went off it

 

[gangsta deluxe]

I hope you’re patient survives the operation Doctor GD!


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Lol I am a doctor but not that kind fortunately

 

[footscray1973]

Lol I am a doctor but not that kind fortunately

Time Lord!? I knew it...

 

[Optimistic Dog]

How to we rate the trade and draft for us probably a B- We added steak knives in the trade but have 2 potential A graders in the draft plus another good pick and a couple of good mature age players.

 

[fronkalicious]

Happy with the players taken.

But still very disappointed that we didn’t land a pick before west.

Trading down from 27 was the easy way out IMO.

We need quality, not quantity. We ended with an extra 2019 3rd rounder, but couldn’t find an extra blue chip first rounder.

Conservative, ineffective management in my view. I’m sure most disagree, but I’m unhappy with Powers inability to get it done.

 

[Yojimbo]

Did Sprague get taken?

no

 

[doggies ftw]

Love our draft! Very happy with that outcome, although dont like the Hayes pick up one bit, its just a freebie though considering Buku slipped!

 

[CaptainMurphy]

Happy with the players taken.

But still very disappointed that we didn’t land a pick before west.

Trading down from 27 was the easy way out IMO.

We need quality, not quantity. We ended with an extra 2019 3rd rounder, but couldn’t find an extra blue chip first rounder.

Conservative, ineffective management in my view. I’m sure most disagree, but I’m unhappy with Powers inability to get it done.

Yeah I'm with you. We had a good opportunity to get another A grader. Ended up limply trading down and then taking Cavarra early with the pick we gained from it. Surely we could have been bolder.

 

[flipper83]

Happy with the players taken.

But still very disappointed that we didn’t land a pick before west.

Trading down from 27 was the easy way out IMO.

We need quality, not quantity. We ended with an extra 2019 3rd rounder, but couldn’t find an extra blue chip first rounder.

Conservative, ineffective management in my view. I’m sure most disagree, but I’m unhappy with Powers inability to get it done.

.Really depends who our list management team rated in that range. There were't to many taken before west today that I thought e blue chip

 

[doggies ftw]

Yeah I'm with you. We had a good opportunity to get another A grader. Ended up limply trading down and then taking Cavarra early with the pick we gained from it. Surely we could have been bolder.

I just dont think it's fair to say we should have done it when we dont know what was on offer. Those late first/early seconds were like gold in this draft, quite clearly dropped off pretty rapidly after that. Look what it cost Carlton to get 19.

 

[Claythesmiths]

5pm on Fox Sports

Is it? It says that's just a replay of last night.

 

[BEaston]

Happy with the players taken.

But still very disappointed that we didn’t land a pick before west.

Trading down from 27 was the easy way out IMO.

We need quality, not quantity. We ended with an extra 2019 3rd rounder, but couldn’t find an extra blue chip first rounder.

Conservative, ineffective management in my view. I’m sure most disagree, but I’m unhappy with Powers inability to get it done.

Looking at the teams that did trade down, they had to give up exhorbitant amounts IMO. Sure it would have been pretty easy to trade 27 down (and likely get somewhat reamed in the process) but I think it's just kicking the can down the road.

I think we maximised what we had this year and got ourselves a little bonus next year.

Not sure we don't need quantity either....

 

[Bulldogs Legend]

Yeah I'm with you. We had a good opportunity to get another A grader. Ended up limply trading down and then taking Cavarra early with the pick we gained from it. Surely we could have been bolder.

I don’t claim to be an expert on this stuff but surely the only way we could have traded up was by missing out on Smith?
That’s alright if that’s what you wanted but if the club wanted him they had to take him at 7.


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[CaptainMurphy]

I don’t claim to be an expert on this stuff but surely the only way we could have traded up was by missing out on Smith?
That’s alright if that’s what you wanted but if the club wanted him they had to take him at 7.


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Nah I'm talking about using our second rounders to get a late first/early second

 

[Sentinel]

Is it? It says that's just a replay of last night.

AFL.com.au says 6pm start for the rookie draft (and I presume the preseason draft beforehand, if it happens). Doesn't look to be televised or even on radio.

http://www.afl.com.au/draft/nab-afl-draft

 

[Doggstats]

In such a strong draft, where early 2nd/late 1st's were so valuable then why didn't we do something similar to what Sydney did with Blakey and trade out 27, to eat up the West bid with later picks and then trade it back in? So we could essentially take a player at 27 before West?

It just seems like we didn't capitalise on our good hand at all and played it very safe.

 

[Mr. Walker]

I missed all of the draft today with a family engagement. Just catching up now and haven't seen anything in the thread relating to my question - but could have missed it so apologies if it has been covered. Fox Sports website says Dogs "eventually" decided to match the bid on West. Was there something in this or is it just a journo putting in an extra word to meet his quota? Was there ever any doubt we wouldn't take West at a pick in the mid twenties? Did we hesitate a long time?

 

[Antares]

Happy with the players taken.

But still very disappointed that we didn’t land a pick before west.

Trading down from 27 was the easy way out IMO.

We need quality, not quantity. We ended with an extra 2019 3rd rounder, but couldn’t find an extra blue chip first rounder.

Conservative, ineffective management in my view. I’m sure most disagree, but I’m unhappy with Powers inability to get it done.

You don't seem to realize that higher pick doesn't necessarily equate to high quality.

If you compared pick 23 to picks 40, 41, 42, 43 in any draft, the four 40s picks together would have a far better chance at producing a high quality AFL player than one solitary pick 23.