AFLW 2024 - Round 6 - Chat, game threads, injury lists, team lineups and more.
Who trades down with us though if they know a bid on welsh wipes us out..if he is say projected to go top 5 come the end of next year. Other clubs will take us to the cleaners if ee are overloaded with 1sts not high enough to get in before a bid
But again, in that case the Cats are essentially trading pick 7 for our future first, which isn't really any more enticing for them than it would have been for the Saints with their pick 10. If they can have GC's pick 7 or our future 1st, where is the incentive for them to take our future first instead of just the guaranteed pick 7? They certainly don't have any incentive to do us a favour, I doubt they like us that much.
Geelong make out like bandits with either pick 7 OR our F1 for a salary dump. Why wouldn't they take our F1. So no reason GC don't advertise it as crows f1 to take Bowes. How many cubs was there again trying to nab a high pick to take him?
Like I said, they could get pick 7 guaranteed. They would assume we would see some improvement, so while we had pick 5 last year, chances are that this year's would be further down, and it was. Yeah they'd still be getting a good deal with our future 1st (especially with the contract dodginess they did to spread Bowes's money over 4 years instead of 2), but pick 7 is a better deal. And there's no incentive for them to take the lesser deal. I guess we could have sweetened it with some of the later pick swaps etc we did anyway as part of the Rankine deal but those aren't worth a huge amount. But again, this is all dependent on GC and Geelong willing to work us into that deal instead of keeping them separate. And while that'd work out well for us, there's no real benefit to either of them to do it that way instead of the way it actually got done.
Not if we had gone early saying our f1 was up for grabs in any salary dump so we could get that pick 7. GC know pick 5 is theirs for rankine and before they even put pick 7 up, we cut that deal with them for it to come to us as part of the rankine trade with our f1 going to them.
Yeah we should have definitely hung onto pick 6 and offered gc our 2023 first. What were they gonna do? Take him to the PSD? They would have taken our 2023 1st. We should have taken Humphrey but instead we rolled over as usual.
Geelong probably would have preferred our future 1st as well, like everyone they probably thought we would still bottom 4 this year.
Yeah he looks like a good KPD prospect.
Good in theory but ignores real possibility of AFL corruption to get Geelong a local boy to help their rebuild.
Agreed, just like Carlton couldn't hold Stephen Kernahan.
If we do snag the GCS pick then there is a chance we could do both.
What if welsh is seen as a top 5 projected pick come the end of ext season? - we get absolutely taken to the cleaners to try and get in above that or we have to again trade out and miss that top end mid. This would be the very worst scenario - kick the can down the road this year - no top mid via draft or trade and then screw ourselves next year with 2 1sts that we have to get rid of or burn in matching welsh and missing that mid we crave OR let another team take Welsh to get the mid...ugly stuff all round
This is my worry..
I'd say it's more about the judgement of our current recruiters on early picks like McAsey and how they've also been able to find good players like Murray and Butts way later in the draft too.
Although its not my 1st choice in draft targets this year. I quite like this kid that we are currently linked too.
Hawks are apparently shopping Grainger- Barras. McAndrew did not play on a key position forward against us. All our key defenders are bargain buys.
