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Huh? No Michalanney?
We better still be taking two picks to the draft. Using our three minimum picks as two rookie upgrades and a sole pick in the 20’s is a terrible move, in my book, when we’re still in a position where we need to keep finding talent
You can't do it all though, you're not getting Rankine and drafting a top end mid unless you dip into next years picks and then you're taking others off the table.No issue at all getting rankine. Should be a wonderful player for us for the next decade. It would be nice to draft one of the top end mids and get one of the talls in. I quite liked what i saw of michalanney too. So if we grab rankine and thats it, it looks like a missed opportunity to add further talent whilst retaining some players that look like they wont make it
I don't think it's down to list spots, we could make the room if we saw him as a priority. The fact we may not be means that we either won't have a pick where he's projecting to go and/or we don't see the value in moving what we need to do to get into that position.Turning down Michalanney is a bit disappointing though. If he develops into a good player, we are going to have to justify keeping dead wood rather than paying them out and creating a list spot.
Thats where a big play for jack bowes would have helpedYou can't do it all though, you're not getting Rankine and drafting a top end mid unless you dip into next years picks and then you're taking others off the table.
they still want something back its not 7 and bowes for free in terms of picks/playersThats where a big play for jack bowes would have helped
I had a sense watching C7 news the other night we may keep Borlase on the list.According to SEN
It's Rankine and that's it.
No Michaelaney
We want to keep our picks for next year, possibly get even more if we can but clubs are reluctant to part with future picks.
surely then we try to trade up to get keeler with our second pickSo what picks are we looking likely to use? Our 2nd and a very late pick, I guess?
We don’t need to trade in future pick to draft MichalaneyAccording to SEN
It's Rankine and that's it.
No Michaelaney
We want to keep our picks for next year, possibly get even more if we can but clubs are reluctant to part with future picks.
Don’t we currently have 5, 23 and then a pick in the 70s?We don’t need to trade in future pick to draft Michalaney
Actually, if we grab GC’s 2nd, both Keeler and a classy wing/mid/half back could well be possiblesurely then we try to trade up to get keeler with our second pick
We’re trying to trade out players, we won’t need a lot match and it shouldn’t be hard to get a late pick from gcDon’t we currently have 5, 23 and then a pick in the 70s?
Phew, thought it was a credible rumour but it's only Rendell
I'm not sure why this is surprising to people. Lots of people spent years praying for Rankine and we finally got him and the response is "that's all?". I can understand people being a bit impatient or whatever cause we've sucked for a few years now, but there's some clear signs on what they're trying to do and it involves both bringing in more top end youth and hitting for slightly older players to add to the 22 who'll hopefully be able to give us 8-10+ years service.
It's a difficult balancing act to maintain, but with the huge list turnover in the past 2 years the numbers being moved on every year was bound to slow down eventually and the targets become more specific and less speculative through the pure numbers you're bringing in.
Yeah, I wrote it poorly. They didn't say we wouldn't go to the draft just that we were not pursuing Michaelaney as a father/son and outside Rankine were not going to be trading anyone in
We should go after Narkle if gettable.Any interest in Narkle? Didn’t we want him a while back? Probably proven he’s not quite up to it?
We may have to as depth. Our key back stocks are thin.I had a sense watching C7 news the other night we may keep Borlase on the list.
We should go after Narkle if gettable.
Delisted today.We should go after Narkle if gettable.
We should go after Narkle if gettable.
I’d try and get him. He’d add some class in the forwardline
Rankine - TT - Fog
Narkle- Walker - Rachele
Because Luke Edwards has been tearing it up for WC!So from our draft discount players we're going to end up taking Ben Jarman, Jackson Edwards, Borlase and Newchurch but pass on Luke Edwards and Michalanney?
Only our recruiting team would do something like that...
Yeh.We won't be making the 8 next year - but the core of the team which will get us there (probably in 2025) is already on our list. They just need time to develop.