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There's a middle ground between glazing it and downplaying it. Based on what we know about these players now? Before they've played a single AFL game? C'mon now. They've done well to maximise their draft hand knowing that so many of their peak age players wanted out, and that deal with North was gold, but it's perfectly reasonable to want to see how these kids go before proclaiming a dynasty.

With expansion clubs we've seen massive commitments in single drafts and it hasn't exactly yielded a lot of success. The problem with committing this much to one draft is that you're making a tonne of list decisions where every player is an unknown, you can't wait and see how they go and then adjust and pick differently the next year. You also don't know how badly it might affect them playing in a team that could be as abjectly bad as Richmond could.
I'm not saying that.
I just think they have drafted an exceptionally good bunch.

Lalor as the forward/mid
Smilie the inside brute who could also have some versatility in defence.
Hotton - huge upside. ACL is not the end of the world, and they could afford the risk with their draft hand.

Faull, Armstrong, Trainor - yeah good. Solid, no complaints.
But the first three are very good.

It's a draft.
Just like we all had opinions before the draft, we can have opinions after the draft.
Of course it's early to proclaim assured dynasties etc

But let's not kid ourselves, they've played a blinder.
Moved on a bunch of players who did nothing to stop them from finishing at the bottom.
Harvested a top draft hand.
Executed perfectly.

Bravo.
 

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Who goes first ? Someone will trade up to get shanahan, Dodson comes into play at this part of the draft. Bulldogs might go small then grab him, they have no pure rucks behind english. Freo had interest in berry, someone like Jasper Alger would fit their list, or they beat us to hamish Davis. If we don't go tall I'm hoping for Angus Clarke, seems like he has alot of untapped potential.
 
We traded up for Weddle and the Cats traded a F1 for Holmes. Can see the value of trading into the first round for who you want. Problem is Roos traded a top 3 pick and the first rounder they got is actually a mid second rounder.
 
I'm not saying that.
I just think they have drafted an exceptionally good bunch.

Lalor as the forward/mid
Smilie the inside brute who could also have some versatility in defence.
Hotton - huge upside. ACL is not the end of the world, and they could afford the risk with their draft hand.

Faull, Armstrong, Trainor - yeah good. Solid, no complaints.
But the first three are very good.

It's a draft.
Just like we all had opinions before the draft, we can have opinions after the draft.
Of course it's early to proclaim assured dynasties etc

But let's not kid ourselves, they've played a blinder.
Moved on a bunch of players who did nothing to stop them from finishing at the bottom.
Harvested a top draft hand.
Executed perfectly.

Bravo.

Is it really.. well done to them.. they’ve just got bloody lucky and picked using a bit of common sense..
Bolton, Baker and Rioli wanting to leave couldn’t have worked out better. Further fortune is that they wanted to leave for teams that had picks aplenty.
Further luck again that 10 teams didn’t take North up on their future first offer..
Stars have aligned for them.. Let’s see if it means success because there are a lot of examples of picks not equating to the success you’d expect.. Development trumps high picks every day of the week..


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Is it really.. well done to them.. they’ve just got bloody lucky and picked using a bit of common sense..
Bolton, Baker and Rioli wanting to leave couldn’t have worked out better. Further fortune is that they wanted to leave for teams that had picks aplenty.
Further luck again that 10 teams didn’t take North up on their future first offer..
Stars have aligned for them.. Let’s see if it means success because there are a lot of examples of picks not equating to the success you’d expect.. Development trumps high picks every day of the week..


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Don't be salty bro.
Just admit they drafted well.

We know the rest.
 
Richmond did great no question and they had no choice. It’s an unbelievable position to be in when bottoming out. Expecting they take Whitlock at 28 and it’s a lock dogs take Moraes at 29 so I’m with VandoHawk offer 35 and f2 for 30
From eagles and take shanahan would be an amazing result for both clubs. Eagles slide 30 to 35 and add 45 and a f2 almost covers over the cracks of the pick 3 trade.
 
Would love to trade up for a Jobe Shanahan but how without the f3 is the question. With our current hand we could offer tigers 35 f1 for 28 but would need an f3 coming back which they don’t have. Not immediately apparent how we could secure that f3 separately to facilitate the deal. Would someone like Port take 65 and f4 eagles (57) for their f3 (50ish)?
What do you disagree with exactly I’m curious? It was a proposal of how to get the first pick of night 2 to get a specific player and the challenges with that felt very factual.
 
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I'm not saying that.
I just think they have drafted an exceptionally good bunch.
Others have said that.
Lalor as the forward/mid
Smilie the inside brute who could also have some versatility in defence.
Hotton - huge upside. ACL is not the end of the world, and they could afford the risk with their draft hand.

Faull, Armstrong, Trainor - yeah good. Solid, no complaints.
But the first three are very good.

It's a draft.
Just like we all had opinions before the draft, we can have opinions after the draft.
Of course it's early to proclaim assured dynasties etc

But let's not kid ourselves, they've played a blinder.
Moved on a bunch of players who did nothing to stop them from finishing at the bottom.
Harvested a top draft hand.
Executed perfectly.

Bravo.
Their best work was done in turning the players that were leaving into a glut of draft resources, that's pretty much all that can be said about it. They got Pick 1 for being horrible, Lalor is a guaranteed gun as pretty much every Pick 1 outside of rucks/key forwards has been, the others they've picked well but it's 100% too early to say anything more than that.

I reckon if you asked the tigers "would you rather these picks or would you rather have retained a motivated and in form Bolton and Rioli?" that they would have picked keeping Bolton and Rioli every day of the week. The best of a bad situation, definitely, the only thing where I think they've really nailed it is getting that future 1st out of North.
 
It’s quite amazing to think that they actually had priority picks given to them for this year and won two games for the entirety of the season and then they go trade away a first round pick which is almost certainly going to be a top 3 pick.

Adelaide finished 3rd last with 8 wins in 2024.

If they come out this not looking like complete clowns I’ll be surprised.
What’s even funnier is that the pick they traded for was one of the priority picks that they were given last year.
 

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Don't be salty bro.
Just admit they drafted well.

We know the rest.

Im not even slightly salty.. I like the tigers, my brother barracks for them.. But they just have had a silly amount of luck .. and they picked players they should have as far as I’m concerned.. Some other clubs would’ve made a mess of it so well done for that…


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Did North effectively turn a F1 into Caleb Daniel?
 
So who are the potential players that we could draft that are remaining?
There's still some quality there depending on taste depending whether we want a tall or a mid/fwd.
Shanahan might be gone of the talls but Sims, Gerreyn should still be there.
Moraes and Ough might get snapped up but others like Gross, Boxshall or Davis should be there.

Yeah still some quality indeed.
 
Richmond killed it.
Based on what we know about these players now, they've done exceptionally well.
Anyone downplaying their draft haul on day one is being a hater.
How could they not kill it?

That’s about the 4th time you have had a tug about the Tiggers and anyone who says otherwise you accuse them of being salty.

We get it the Tiggers did well with their draft pics, we really do get it.
I just think people want you to have a spell from telling us they did well and stop with the “If you don’t agree with me you are salty” bullshit routine.

Will you be salty when they go Back2Back spoons?
 
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There's still some quality there depending on taste depending whether we want a tall or a mid/fwd.
Shanahan might be gone of the talls but Sims, Gerreyn should still be there.
Moraes and Ough might get snapped up but others like Gross, Boxshall or Davis should be there.

Yeah still some quality indeed.

Looks like a few from this group will be available at our pick (eighth pick).

KPF - J. Shanahan
KPP - J. Whitlock
KPF - T. Sims
KPF - K. Gerreyn
KPF - N. Mraz
Mid - C. Moraes
Mid - J. Ough
Mid / Forward - T. Gross
Mid / Forward - H. Davis
Ruck - A. Dodson
 
Is it really.. well done to them.. they’ve just got bloody lucky and picked using a bit of common sense..
Bolton, Baker and Rioli wanting to leave couldn’t have worked out better. Further fortune is that they wanted to leave for teams that had picks aplenty.
Further luck again that 10 teams didn’t take North up on their future first offer..
Stars have aligned for them.. Let’s see if it means success because there are a lot of examples of picks not equating to the success you’d expect.. Development trumps high picks every day of the week..


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They also got incredibly lucky dealing with West Coast who were seemingly desperate to pay overs and the Gold Coast who did their usual trade period stupidity and overpaid excessively.
 
Don't be salty bro.
Just admit they drafted well.

We know the rest.

You honestly can't say a side drafted well until a few years down the track when the kids have runs on the board. They traded well to get their draft hand, yes. They drafted as expected. Good for the Tiggers for having a half dozen young players to get excited about - it'll make the season of thrashings that tiny bit more tolerable.

Remember when * were hailed as geniuses for getting 3 sequential picks in the top 10 in 2020? That turned into Reid, Cox and Perkins - wow! Remember when we had our D+ draft night in 2022 but ended up getting Mackenzie and Weddle? Draft night analysis on draft night is always going to run the high risk of looking silly in years to come.
 

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