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AFLW 2024 - Round 9 - Indigenous Round - Chat, game threads, injury lists, team lineups and more.
How is this related to matching an earlier academy bid?
Who says we rate him late?Why match a round earlier than you have them I’ll be happy when the new academy, nga and FS riles come in anyway
Who says we rate him late?
You match him because you have no choice, you match or you lose them.
I could understand us letting him go to protect our first 2 picks, but probably not pick 40 if we're getting another in the 50s.
Kudos to Bloods86 & LukeParkerno1 - if your banter on here was a tennis match, it'd be a 5 set epic, currently tied at 23-23 in the 5th.
That's fairly short term thinking, but ok.You actually do have a choice despite you keeping on saying that you don’t. If you don’t rate him that high easy, don’t match take the two picks maybe there’s a defender higher on our board
Only if there were no rules and faults weren't counted.Kudos to Bloods86 & LukeParkerno1 - if your banter on here was a tennis match, it'd be a 5 set epic, currently tied at 23-23 in the 5th.
That's fairly short term thinking, but ok.
Only if there were no rules and faults weren't counted.
I would definitely be channelling McEnroe quite a lot.
Would be awfully disappointing if we went to only 36 on the main list given that the AFL gives us picks at the end of the draft due to open list spots. Effectively meaning we would rather have worse players on rookie A deals rather than senior list players
Actually pretty mild mannered, but I have "dropped" my racquet a bit years ago when I last played.Sorry just imagining you more like the Marcos Baghdatis at the Australian Open thrashing racquets
I could be wrong - but I thought the decision to revert back to 36 would be a strategic decision linked to salary cap?
Yep but the picks will be given to us at the start of the draft. Might as well use them in some fashion whether that be by selecting with them to get to 6 ND picks or use them enabling Sydney to trade 44 for value next year.They only give us picks if we intend to use them. We have always passed on these picks as do most clubs to allow space in for the rookie draft.
I want 37 or 38 on the main list. I don't want rookie picks because we are effectively slipping 40-60 picks down the order just to save cash
Yep but the picks will be given to us at the start of the draft. Might as well use them in some fashion whether that be by selecting with them to get to 6 ND picks or use them enabling Sydney to trade 44 for value next year.
Yep but the picks will be given to us at the start of the draft. Might as well use them in some fashion whether that be by selecting with them to get to 6 ND picks or use them enabling Sydney to trade 44 for value next year.
I'd rather we take players earlier in the overall order, than wait for at least an additional 16 rookie picks. Yeah, there's the risk we lose them, but it's an increase in quality.We save no cash.
Cat A rookies are counted under the cap. It use to be a saving but not anymore.
The benefit is the ability to keep them on the rookie list for up to 4 years with very little risk of them leaving or pressure to develop (ducks from C88). Only difference the senior list two years and we lose all control.
I'd rather we take players earlier in the overall order, than wait for at least an additional 16 rookie picks. Yeah, there's the risk we lose them, but it's an increase in quality.
They would be pick like 79 & 80 not 95 and 113, as not every team will have list spots open to gain draft picksAlso the picks are currently slotted to be picks 95 and 113. These aren’t given at the start of the draft but on final list lodgement.
You haven’t discovered anything new.
Not exactly true. 2nd year rookies that reject a contract offer are considered a delisted free agent and therefore an unrestricted free agent. That would i believe make it the same length of deal that we would get from a guy on the main list, Thus we are just dropping down 20-40 players down the list for someone to be on the rookie list compared to the senior list. Literally 20-40 positions just for a change of contract nameWe save no cash.
Cat A rookies are counted under the cap. It use to be a saving but not anymore.
The benefit is the ability to keep them on the rookie list for up to 4 years with very little risk of them leaving or pressure to develop (ducks from C88). Only difference the senior list two years and we lose all control.
Assuming our list team aren't inept, it increases the likelihood of quality.Draft order does not indicate quality.
Makes no sense to me that we have effectively moved Francis and Hamling on to the rookie list and no change to what we were originally going to do at the draft. Effectively just exposing ourselves to multiple different risks for the same outcome that could be achieved by just holding on to Francis and Hamling on the main listAssuming our list team aren't inept, it increases the likelihood of quality.
Or are you suggesting we'd do just as well trading out of the first 4 rounds and only ever taking players after everyone else has had several selections?
I am not sure this post makes any sense. Freeing up main list spots allows for drafting in this and next years draft. Does that make sense.Makes no sense to me that we have effectively moved Francis and Hamling on to the rookie list and no change to what we were originally going to do at the draft. Effectively just exposing ourselves to multiple different risks for the same outcome that could be achieved by just holding on to Francis and Hamling on the main list
Francis and Hamling both had contracts for next year, them being on the main or rookie list makes no difference for 2025 or 2026. Given that someone above said that it doesn't help with salary cap, it makes no logical sense for Sydney to expose themselves to the risk of Hamling or Francis being picked up by someone only to do the same thing in the draft. Also by taking 4 ND and 2 rookies you are exposing yourself to the risk that the players top of your board aren't there from the last live pick (#44) to the first pick in the rookie draft (#17) which is going to be like 30-40 selections.I am not sure this post makes any sense. Freeing up main list spots allows for drafting in this and next years draft. Does that make sense.
1. Francis and Hamling both did not have contracts for next year. Only Hamling until 2025.Francis and Hamling both had contracts for next year, them being on the main or rookie list makes no difference. Given that someone above said that it doesn't help with salary cap, it makes no logical sense for Sydney to expose themselves to the risk of Hamling or Francis being picked up by someone only to do the same thing in the draft. Also by taking 4 ND and 2 rookies you are exposing yourself to the risk that the players top of your board aren't there from the last live pick (#44) to the first pick in the rookie draft (#17) which is going to be like 30-40 selections