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AFLW 2024 - Round 10 - Chat, game threads, injury lists, team lineups and more.
OMG - secret to the universe pick!
Because of one player, who left after a Covid impacted year? We've had plenty of SA players in the past (Crouch, Grundy, Fosdike, Hewett etc), and several still (Gould, Hayward, we didn't get scared into not picking Roberts), without much issue.At 42 or whatever we’d surely be interested but Adelaide scares me with these SA kids!
I would respond, but it'll end up in me getting accused of bringing him up again and not getting over it.Have to say getting another Hewett in just to trigger ceasar is getting slightly tempting!
Because of one player, who left after a Covid impacted year? We've had plenty of SA players in the past (Crouch, Grundy, Fosdike, Hewett etc), and several still (Gould, Hayward, we didn't get scared into not picking Roberts), without much issue.
I don't get your point. So you're saying we should only draft talls from NSW? Yeah, let's see how that works out.Maybe so but I’d rather other areas to target personally especially talls where you put work into development massively
I don't get your point. So you're saying we should only draft talls from NSW? Yeah, let's see how that works out.
Clubs will come looking for anyone with promise. Whether they are tall makes no difference.Country Vic would be the ideal area actually. Metro no thanks. Have yo be careful with talls as it is clubs come looking
Clubs will come looking for anyone with promise. Whether they are tall makes no difference.
I honestly reckon if Beatson & Dalrymple looked at this board and saw us all bickering over who is riskier, SA kids or WA kids, Vic Metro or Vic Country kids, they'd think we're absolute loons.
I don't know why but Beatson strikes me as the sort who one finger types and only uses Internet Explorer as it came with the computer.
Pulling this one up from a month ago, from caesar88 . I think we concluded that Rankin is also from Vic Metro.Talls take longer to develop- that’s the point. We need to be careful where we target these from personally blacklist all players from Metro unless their talent is so much more than the alternative and you’d be gambling. Metro kids more likely to want to go home
Do you have evidence to suggest Vic Metro players are more likely to request a trade out of Sydney than anyone else?
Over the last decade, we've lost three players because of homesickness - Lewis Jetta, Zak Jones and Jordan Dawson.
A Victorian (from Vic Country, not from Vic Metro), a South Australian, and a West Australian.
Based on the number of players we've had on our list from those states, we've lost 10% of our WA players and 9.1% of our SA players to homesickness, as opposed to 2.3% of our Victorian players.
If you want to go further, removing all reasons for trades - be it homesickness, money, opportunities - we've lost 27.3% of our Victorian players, which is more than our SA players (18.2%), but less than our WA players (30%).
In the last decade we've lost only one player from Vic Metro, and it was Dan Hannebery, who we traded out on our own accord, but not before he'd played 200 games, won a premiership, 3 All Australians and served in the leadership group as Vice Captain with us.
Of our current players, four are from Vic Metro - Hayden McLean, Ryan Clarke, Ollie Florent and James Rowbottom. All four played in our grand final team, two of them are contracted to 2024, and one of them could end up our captain one day. I'd say we're going OK with Vic Metro players.
Other clubs might struggle with Victorian players. It doesn't apply to us. Move on.
Not sure really, it’s a bit odd. Seems to have potential, maybe just needs to be in the right environment to realise it.This lad. Any knowledge on why they moved him down back?
Harry Lemmey Draft Profile
West Adelaide forward Harry Lemmey is one of the more perplexing key position prospects available, but could end up a steal come draft time.central.rookieme.com
They describe a weakness as "competitiveness". That would be kiss of death I think.Not sure really, it’s a bit odd. Seems to have potential, maybe just needs to be in the right environment to realise it.
I can’t see why he’d be any more of a “flight risk” than any other player we might be looking at picking up at that point. And if there were then I’d back our system to make him to want to stay.At 42 or whatever we’d surely be interested but Adelaide scares me with these SA kids!
Yeah that doesn’t sound like a great attributeThey describe a weakness as "competitiveness". That would be kiss of death I think.
Yikes. Not great. That's arguably the hardest flaw to fix... well except for height but even then we stan a short kingThey describe a weakness as "competitiveness". That would be kiss of death I think.
Reading him on the other board he seems like a good rookie pick but I'm not certain on grabbing him in the draftAnyone got thoughts on maybe picking up Harry Lemmey if he's still there at our third pick? He was quite widely rated as an early first round pick 12 months ago but has had a tough year and slid right down the pecking order. There is obviously some talent there though, might be someone who we could back our system and coaches to get the best out of.
First topic: who will we take at our first pick....
We can agree (I think) that we can definitely rule out: Ashcroft, Cadman, Wardlaw, Sheezel, Tsatas, Humphrey, Clark, Mackenzie
Pretty likely gone: Phillipou, Ginbey, Busslinger, (I'd be happy to take any of these if they slipped through)
After that possibilities include: Hollands, Hustwaite, Allan, Hewett, Hotton, Konstanty, Jones, Jefferson, Hayes, Weddle, Hotton, George, Cowan.
How confident can we be that our first pick will be one of these names? 90%? 99%?
Of these, are there any that we rule out? If so, why?
I think Konstanty and Jones may be good players and they could play a role we could use but they are not priority needs and I doubt they will be best available so I'm tempted to rule them out.
I have fluctuated in my feelings about Jefferson and Hayes: they are both Vic Metro kids and I was a bit concerned when I saw that Hayes was unable to finish the time trial. But they both fit our needs well. Jefferson is a KPF and they're hard to get and an area of need for us plus he's a different type to Logan McDonald (more of a marking target). I'd be happy for us to take Jefferson if he gets to us. Hayes offers genuine height (199 cm), speed, and has a December birthday. Somehow I can't see us recruiting Hayes, and I think Jefferson will probably be gone. However, if we do draft one of them, I'll back our recruiters to have made a savvy choice and be relieved that a key position need is hopefully taken care of for the forseeable future.
Of the rest I'm leaning to Hustwaite or Allan - I hope we get one of those two. And I think at least one of them (or Jefferson, or one of those I said would pretty likely be gone) will be available.
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Second topic: pick trades I'd be interested in
1. Trading our second first rounder to Essendon for pick 22 and their future second (and maybe throwing in a little something extra to get the deal over the line)
2. Trading our second first rounder to Collingwood for their picks 25 & 27 (apparently they're interested to get a pick inside the top 20). Then we could hopefully get one of Keeler or Barnett and some other likely type that slides through e.g. Cowan, Weddle, Konstanty, Gruzewski, George.
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What do you think?
Dont like the trades as I don't think they really favour us but I agree with your draft analysis.
Assuming one of the top 10 don't somehow slip through to us I really do like Hustwaite. He fills a real need and while I am worried about Hayes endurance and the fact he is from VIC Metro we have struggled against the bigger key forwards for a while and Hayes would help a lot with that.
I can see an argument for Barnett too, but if we drafted him realistically he would not be in our best 22 until 2025 at the earliest.
Thanks for the response.
How can you not like sliding back just 5 picks for Essendon's future second? It's a deal that might make sense to Essendon because it gives them three top 20 draft picks this year (pick 4, pick 17 and Alwyn Davey Jr who is rated thereabouts) instead of just two.
We're pretty much on the same page or close.First topic: who will we take at our first pick....
We can agree (I think) that we can definitely rule out: Ashcroft, Cadman, Wardlaw, Sheezel, Tsatas, Humphrey, Clark, Mackenzie
Pretty likely gone: Phillipou, Ginbey, Busslinger, (I'd be happy to take any of these if they slipped through)
After that possibilities include: Hollands, Hustwaite, Allan, Hewett, Hotton, Konstanty, Jones, Jefferson, Hayes, Weddle, Hotton, George, Cowan.
How confident can we be that our first pick will be one of these names? 90%? 99%?
Of these, are there any that we rule out? If so, why?
I think Konstanty and Jones may be good players and they could play a role we could use but they are not priority needs and I doubt they will be best available so I'm tempted to rule them out.
I have fluctuated in my feelings about Jefferson and Hayes: they are both Vic Metro kids and I was a bit concerned when I saw that Hayes was unable to finish the time trial. But they both fit our needs well. Jefferson is a KPF and they're hard to get and an area of need for us plus he's a different type to Logan McDonald (more of a marking target). I'd be happy for us to take Jefferson if he gets to us. Hayes offers genuine height (199 cm), speed, and has a December birthday. Somehow I can't see us recruiting Hayes, and I think Jefferson will probably be gone. However, if we do draft one of them, I'll back our recruiters to have made a savvy choice and be relieved that a key position need is hopefully taken care of for the forseeable future.
Of the rest I'm leaning to Hustwaite or Allan - I hope we get one of those two. And I think at least one of them (or Jefferson, or one of those I said would pretty likely be gone) will be available.
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Second topic: pick trades I'd be interested in
1. Trading our second first rounder to Essendon for pick 22 and their future second (and maybe throwing in a little something extra to get the deal over the line)
2. Trading our second first rounder to Collingwood for their picks 25 & 27 (apparently they're interested to get a pick inside the top 20). Then we could hopefully get one of Keeler or Barnett and some other likely type that slides through e.g. Cowan, Weddle, Konstanty, Gruzewski, George.
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What do you think?