Who do you think is most expendable?
Pick 3 a future first and an established player is a joke. Reid isn’t as good as 3 players. If it’s Cmac I’d be livid. He’s tracking like Rozee.
In order Ward, McKenzie than McDonald.
He’s just signed a new contract. I’m sure you can’t trade a player after just signing?
I don’t see them trading with us at all unless they’re sure they’ll get Curtin at that pick.
We can have a whole bunch of nice players and not really go anywhere. What some of you need to understand is Reid is head and shoulders the consensus number 1 pick. And that's with some great young talent up for grabs around him. Think the club are good enough judges of the sort of player he can be otherwise we're not even entering the conversation. Could all come to nothing and ATM it's still the likely outcome so we all need to just relax.
Maybe. Could have a great season like Ashcroft and do a knee. May never be the same player again. That’s a huge price and risk. A couple of those young kids have 2-3 pre seasons behind them now and could see them explode this year.
Me too, been out.
It depends on where we line him up. I think he plays his best footy in the Sicily role, but it would be a big ask to get him to defend AFL forwards day one and we don't have ny shortage of half-backs. If I had to guess, he would come in to the Bruest role in round one and start deep, building up his fitness and confidence taking a medium defender and playing from a deep base rather than asking him to put the gut running efforts of Moore, CMac, and some some of our other HHFs. The best comparison for a first season will be somewhere on the JHF Y1 to Y2 spectrum, at worst I think he's a low teens disposals and a couple of shots on goal a game and at his best he'll win us games off his own backs with some special efforts and walk away with the 10 votes. Reid could walk into a team and bring one or two efforts of unstoppable production, his development will be around building fitness and consistency to make sure he's getting those opportunities as often as possible. Eventually that probably means moving him into the midfield, but early on getting him into the forward structure and learning how to play off the big guys and when to play one-out will be key. He's still probably the favourite for the RS, but I could see Colby, Curtin, or Sanders winning it if they get a good role in a rubbish team. Tracc's development might be a good comp, but Harley has shown he can run out games better than Tracc as a junior.
saw this on the Pick 1 thread from a Essendon Fan responding to North fan, explains the delay in McKay free agency delay
I have faith in the club.
If one of those are to be involved it can’t be with 2 firsts.
I’d be going very hard. He is the best prospect since Trac and even then he was coming in off an injury.
I'd be comfortable with that deal. I don't believe Ward is ever going to be the sort of player that we can't do without.
His best position is hbf or mid imo even though he loves a goal, you want him in the play, I see him playing that Hodge role as hbf interceptor team first type who can impact through the midfield, he could easily pop off straight away or take some time like JHF, depends on his mental ability to fit into his teams strategy ect.
