I said about trading our future first with Freo for that port 1st rounder
If port freefall and it’s say pick 7
Good chance we can get Lalor and Draper
That’s midfield rebuilt
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If port freefall and it’s say pick 7
Good chance we can get Lalor and Draper
That’s midfield rebuilt
Yeah I’d take him ahead of Draper
This years 1st?
Next years 1st and a Laird or O’Brien?
Curtin?
Rachele?
Not saying to do it. Just for them to weigh up how good Sharp might be and if he is assessed to be in that very top line of player, then get creative.
Love Lalor, doesn't have the disposal polish of others in that top 10 mix but has other tools that make him very enticing. It's looking like a remarkable group right now as more guys push themselves into that top bracket. Where that may have been 6-7 players in past drafts, may balloon out to 12 or more this year. Guys who might be 10 on one club's list, could be 2 on another's.
I think we should always be trading into the future - Melbourne built their current list that way. The future never really comes as you always have next year (and now likely two years) to do it again.
Issue this year is no one is going to want to want to trade out of this year's 1st round with the large amount of elite talent. Will have to likely pay a heavy price.
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We could have last year by giving West Coast Curtin, as it stands we took the guy we don’t know what to do with
Curtin will be fine, none of the 1st round talls from last year are playing much AFL, as is the way with talls. I would, however, have taken that deal in a heartbeat, no way WCE were getting out of the bottom regions of the ladder this year and they knew this crop of mids was coming.
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Issue is we used another top pick on a defender
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You only get to use that hit once though.
Yes indeed, no more premium picks on defenders and 'hard working mids with good characters'. Those picks need to be for mids with speed and skill, forwards who kick bags of goals, game changers, difference makers.
How so? There's always more futures to trade from and into. Two futures even.
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Because when that year rolls around you are one short, sure you can trade again but you are only bringing one pick forward in total.
I feel like having to deal each year you are most likely paying overs each time.
You obviously can't always have 2 x 1st rounders by trading into the future every year but you do get that first one kinda for free. Then there's always players leaving that can create more draft pick opportunities, packaging picks for higher picks. Be bold and aggressive, see opportunities and take them. Our approach to draft picks and drafting has been altogether too sensible, too nice and too beige. And now our list looks like it does.
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Agree with that for sure.
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Draper is a hard pass for me based off the 20 minutes of footage I’ve seen.
But crows will lock into him.
Reminds me of peak VB which is not top 10 worthy.
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You're taking the piss yeah? Otherwise.
What utter bull, you couldn't have found a worse comparison if you tried, Draper has speed, agility and dare that NVB could only dream about. Just one of the outstanding midfield prospects in this midfielder laden draft. When you have a lad like Zak Johnston hardly rating a mention that tells you how deep this draft runs midfield wise.
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So the year we are going to be at the pointy end, we didn’t actually need to be at the pointy end of the draft?
Oh they've been available at our pick.
Zac Butters, Jye Caldwell, Xavier Duursma, Xavier O'Halloran, Caleb Serong, Will Day, Sam Flanders, NWM, Darcy Wilson.
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Providing we don't go all out to scrape together some wins, to help Nicks save face, that then propel us up the ladder out of elite mid territory.
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Butters we were rumoured to be interested in, but people weren't clamouring for him because he'd had some injuries.
Caldwell was only focused on Victoria.
Duursma I don't remember anyone being interested in, and he was traded for less value than the pick used to get him.
O'Halloran people weren't into.
Serong was considered too small, as we were going through a "the Crows midfield is just short people" phase.
Day was under the radar for most, but the SA watchers liked the look of him.
Flanders people wanted.
NWM - were people really saying him instead of Rachele? Some didn't want Rachele, but I don't remember NWM getting much buzz for that early pick, even after it came out he was our next choice.
Wilson - yeah, a few wanted Wilson. Don't think anyone wanted him that early?
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