Resource 2024 AFL Draft discussion thread (Wed Nov 20 to Fri Nov 22)

[Crow till I die]

Means very little. We had Moir and Keeler around us as well and took neither.

Yeah nah, smith is touted as a pick 1 player and richmond are right in the hitting zone for him.

 

[rumour_troll_626]

Heard over this weekend that the club is very confident that Draper will be there at pick 4.

 

[Big Dub]

Heard over this weekend that the club is very confident that Draper will be there at pick 4.

I see no reason not to trust a brand new poster called rumour troll with a rumour . . .

 

[spenze]

Did you forget to login to your other account?

Must be a lot of work

 

[cleanhands]

Must be a lot of work

Sure is

 

[Mr MysteryGuest]

Heard over this weekend that the club is very confident that Draper will be there at pick 4.

 

[1990crow]

Not too indifferent to yourself then i suppose

How would you know, 14 posts guy.

 

[Big Dub]

Not too indifferent to yourself then i suppose

 

[Apsaalooke]

Not too indifferent to yourself then i suppose

Indifferent = Disinterested

 

[119others]

Over the next few days we're going back to the start of the season to fill in a few performances that were missed. Here we see Harvey Langford, still sporting the long hair, playing more forward than mid and taking a number of impressive contested marks. If his lack of pace does impact his ability to play through the middle at AFL level he can always fall back on his ability to impact the game as a medium forward.

Yeah you don’t want to be falling back to a medium forward with pick 4…esp when our other pick is a…medium forward.

Must be elite mid without question

 

[119others]

Yeah nah, smith is touted as a pick 1 player and richmond are right in the hitting zone for him.

Honest question, is anyone touting Smith as pick one? They were at the start of the year but recently I haven’t seen him being talked about as a pick one chance but perhaps may have missed it

 

[NewDarkNavyBlues]

Honest question, is anyone touting Smith as pick one? They were at the start of the year but recently I haven’t seen him being talked about as a pick one chance but perhaps may have missed it

Not anymore. Seems to be sliding as the high impact per possession players are in vogue. If you guys have a chance to select him at 4 it’s a steal.

 

[whattagun07]

Get Brad Crouch vibes

not a player I'd compare him to.
he reminds me of a mix of rozee and butters tbh.
the first in terms of build and movement,
second in stoppage work and style

 

[119others]

Not anymore. Seems to be sliding as the high impact per possession players are in vogue. If you guys have a chance to select him at 4 it’s a steal.

Probably prefer the SA lad but agree hes a good consolation prize

Your knowledgeable “C4..Yo door“ dude thought Blues were taking Smith

 

[glengowan]

I've listened to the advice of others and will be satisfied with what we get given out of Lalor, Draper, Smith or O'Sullivan. It's like losing the toss on a wicket you're not sure whether you should bat or bowl.

The real challenge will be compiling a list of players in this draft who would be worth our Future 1st?

 

[NewDarkNavyBlues]

Probably prefer the SA lad but agree hes a good consolation prize

Your knowledgeable “C4..Yo door“ dude thought Blues were taking Smith

I’d say Smith would be the least likely from the top 4 mids.

We moved up for speed and point of difference. We have accumulators.

Lalor, Draper and FOS definitely the targets. I wouldn’t be mad with Smith though. Future captain.

 

[Dewy006]

How much money do you think Burgess is on? Do you think our list is at maximum cap this year?

It would be irresponsible with the makeup of our list as it currently stands to not be spending 100% of the cap.

In all likelihood with a number of younger players on either their first or second contracts, we should be front loading contracts of the more established guys so as to free up cap space down the road.

 

[Mr MysteryGuest]

Get Brad Crouch vibes

In what way?

 

[Tex Danger]

I'd be absolutely staggered if Smith and Draper are there at pick 2 (if North trade to Richmond) and Richmond don't take Smith. They have been a long time into him and it still would not shock me if they took him at pick 1

Have they been more into smith than Draper though?

Isn’t the smith reporting partly as he was at the club, played vfl for them and went well? Something they didn’t have the option with with Draper…

 

[Tex Danger]

That doesn’t not mean we weren’t trying to get Peatling before that. You’re making stuff up and why are you having a conversation with yourself?

It’s not unfathomable we were chasing Peatling and luko knowing neither was guaranteed or even most likely to choose us but knowing if preference 1 (or even 1st to commit) chose us we’d either have to pull out or commit to a contract that made it unlikely

I’d be disappointed with the club if we were putting all eggs into 1 speculative basket.

Also what some are ignoring is even if we had money to get both doesn’t mean we have money now. We could say to 1 yeah the $$ still stand but we need to spread this out over the latter years (maybe add a bit more money) because out cap can’t fit it now but we’ll manage our TPP in coming years to accommodate (easily done)