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List Mgmt. 2024 Draft & Trade Hypotheticals
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Did he at least mention the 75,000 members this year?
so the AFL is going to change the Acadamey draft rules the same year we have a bumper crop? Figures...
LukeParkerno1
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Everyone has known about it and it really doesn’t affect us that much. Bare in mind the trading two years into the future comes in too
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Dead nuts if they don’t take the Melb deal, dead set a bottom 6 side next year and pick 28 helps in points
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Yep they could have pick 6 next year alongside their full allotment as well as getting in Lombard Noble and Rioli
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I never knew what your name meant, until I saw us play grand finals.
I dont think any club would just accept a throwaway pick North valued him enough to offer a 3yr deal and he is contracted.
Trainor makes a lot of sense for us at 13.
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Until u realise we have Snell and Cochran who play the intercepting key tall role and Blakey who is the AA in the half back intercepting flanker role
Good decision by the AFL in my opinion. The draft is way too compromised. Had to do something after the Suns got 4 academy picks in the first. First pick in the second round of the 2023 draft was 29. Not fair to the bottom few clubs. We already have 6 players on our list at 20% discount. Some clubs have 0 or 1.
heck next year's academy picks - we need some tough athletic talent NOW.
We can use the following year's draft to get those picks done next year.
Go get a difference maker this year.
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I think King goes in the 15-20 region tbh just due to him having such an injury riddled u17 year and also him being an academy player with a flight risk means he falls 5-10 places
Need someone next year, not in 3 years after they've had a nice run in the VFL for a year.
Window is only open for so long. Trainor back and Blakey forward? We need a foward capable of making a strong lead and marking it in the air. Blakey is it. No kid is going to come in and do that, but they might play intercepting role down back - especially if they are really good by foot too.
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And Trainor takes a couple years of development any so whats your point given he wouldn't play next year?
For a second here lets take the names out of it. You want to move the AA intercepting half back into the forward line for a draftee?
LukeParkerno1
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Can we can the Blakey forward talk he’s awful there. Just no we aren’t moving our AA HBF.
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Only thing I will say is no reason Trainor can’t play games, Michelaeney played games for the Crows as that type early on. Realistically though whoever we pick assuming it’s talls aren’t playing next year anyway- a small forward might though. It’s why I’ve warmed to taking the best small forward first up best tall at 21. Just don’t see the point in trading up I’d rather take one of each at that range
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What’s worse is we say how putrid he was as a forward. There’s a good reason we spent years finding his position and it ain’t as a forward where he’d barely get the ball…and Blakey drives me mad the way he uses it. He's still an All Australian half back he sure ain’t going to be one in the forward line
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I could say maybe to a wing but we have 2 of the best 5 wingers in the comp.
Michalanney was also different because Adelaide defence was and still is dog water so he had to play games. Secondly he isn't really a key defender more so a taller medium defender. For the Swans he would be used as a third tall and wouldn't be playing over Rampe or McCartin or Melican anytime soon
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Plugging in our anticipated academy players over the next two years into the list.
Cochrane in 2024
Carmichael, King and Chamberlain in 2025.
A nice mix of players. Nice size about some too.
Cochrane in 2024
Carmichael, King and Chamberlain in 2025.
A nice mix of players. Nice size about some too.
To add to those I'd like to see a key tall forward up close to 200 but with a decent frame. Chamberlain and King seem like third tall material at 191/2cm unless they bulk up a fair bit. Chamberlain apparently can play wing/outside as well. A bit taller than McInerney.
Carmichael the elusive medium defender.
I wonder if we intend to rookie McCartin.
Yep. Exactly.
Our forward line is so diabolically poor we need to change something.
We are simply not going to win a grand final playing those three talls. Never in a million years.
If we can get someone who can get the same meters gained using their boot as Blakey's running, then have a forward capable of getting away from his man and marking the football.....
It's he or Heeney really. Nobody else is going to do it on our list.
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He WAS awful there.
I'd imagine he is better there now than the people we have there. By some considerable margin.
Mclean out, Blakey in to the forward line.
Anyways I'd at least try it in the pre season.
Whether Trainor is the answer IDK...I quite like the sound of Tauru as the kind of player we need on our list ATM.
