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AFLW 2024 - Round 9 - Indigenous Round - Chat, game threads, injury lists, team lineups and more.
We have the 3 Academy boys we’ll have to bid on in 2025Not interested one bit of trading anything into the future this is a significantly better draft.
Saints would have to beyond bonkers to take that deal. They won’t.
We have the 3 Academy boys we’ll have to bid on in 2025
Not interested one bit of trading anything into the future this is a significantly better draft.
Saints would have to beyond bonkers to take that deal. They won’t.
Checking my text messages in the past there is no rhythm to itAny news on a press conference for Chad? What time would news usually drop?
There are good reasons to trade into the future, even if it is a weaker draft:
1. We get a significant premium for doing it (and otherwise we don't do it).
2. We have a lot of depth on our list currently, with plenty of good players struggling to get a game. We don't need to add as much quality youth right now, who may also find themselves starved of opportunities going forward. It's better to push our draft capital forward so that we have players blooming when the likes of Heeney and Papley are approaching retirement.
3. We may need draft capital next year to pay for Academy players. (Club will have a clearer idea about this than I do.)
Only thing i raise to this is that if we hold this believe we create a cycling system of using picks years in advance just to cover academy boys. If we can gain marginal value from doing a trade thats gets us more points next year without massively damaging our hand this year then i would be doing itWe have enough points as we can trade 2 years in advance starting next year.
Only thing i raise to this is that if we hold this believe we create a cycling system of using picks years in advance just to cover academy boys. If we can gain marginal value from doing a trade thats gets us more points next year without massively damaging our hand this year then i would be doing it
The possible Hawks deal still retains our draft hand this year, and gives us an additional F1 next year
Lose: 19 and F3
Gain: 33 and F1 (linked to Carlton)
Sure for a future 1, that trade didn’t include a f1. Not interested in a f2 one bit. Teams will have to pay huge premiums to get into this years draft. North offered their future1 for picks on the teens already and have been knocked back.
We actually do need pieces this year and they are available to us- we need keys, we need a small forward and we sure need an inside midfielder.
Literally makes no sense would rather have more picks than we have this year as it is 3 is annoyingly low
Pass, why are we downgrading to 33 and what's the target? Not against it but there has to be a very specific target, and we shouldn't be including our F3 at all. The going rate is 19 is worth a F1 flat and that's at a minimum. That trade seems as if we are paying overs, if we are the ones downgrading this year it should be US getting the better deal not them.
Would actually rather go to West Coast if we are thinking that way, 33 seems way too low it's close to ourt of the range for our needs. WCE have 26.
I'd be very nervous taking Carlton f1's this is a side that was top 2 until they were decimated with injuries, that pick is 30 plus next year with all the bidding.
Because the Hawks are likely to want to trade up as 33 is their 1st pick. They’re into Davis and Hynes so if they want them, they’ll have to pay.Pass, why are we downgrading to 33 and what's the target? Not against it but there has to be a very specific target, and we shouldn't be including our F3 at all. The going rate is 19 is worth a F1 flat and that's at a minimum. That trade seems as if we are paying overs, if we are the ones downgrading this year it should be US getting the better deal not them.
Would actually rather go to West Coast if we are thinking that way, 33 seems way too low it's close to ourt of the range for our needs. WCE have 26.
I'd be very nervous taking Carlton f1's this is a side that was top 2 until they were decimated with injuries, that pick is 30 plus next year with all the bidding.
It's because I like this year's draft that I'm thinking of 2 2nd rounders (1 this year, 1 next) that I didn't propose a F1. That way we can still get 4 players in this draft. Of course, depends on whose future picks and which current picks. For example, I'd be happy to trade pick 22 for Bulldogs pick 25 + F2 or their 25 +35 or for West Coast's 26 + F2.
Not sure why you're saying only 3 picks this year - we have 4: 19, 22, 44, 59. The first two will be pushed back but the latter two will come in with bid matching.
Personally, I don't feel committed to taking Cochrane (other than as a rookie). There may well be other players available with our last pick that we would prefer. How would others feel if we took a different player with our last pick and another team took Cochrane?
I agree we need keys and a small forward. Not so sure about an inside mid, although they're always good to get. We have more quality inside mids outside our senior team than we do quality outside mids i.e. Adams, Sheldrick and Cleary are significantly better than Corey Warner, 'Sid' Mitchell and who else?
Because the Hawks are likely to want to trade up as 33 is their 1st pick. They’re into Davis and Hynes so if they want them, they’ll have to pay.
Pretty sure who I think our targets might be there at 22 (26), and 33 (37)
Also a chance we may end up West Coast’s 1st next year anyways….
You've done your maths wrong. This deal is getting us a future first AND pick 33 (which you seem to be overlooking). I think that is a fair and realistic deal and I'd wait until the pick is live, see who's available, and then do it if we didn't have anyone we loved there.
I don't know anything about these young guys. Why no to Paton?No to Paton
I don't know anything about these young guys. Why no to Paton?
Just relaying what I’ve heard a potential deal might/may beThat's great, then the HAWKS can offer more than the unders you have just given us. Why are we helping the Hawks out again? The trade has to be on our terms not theirs, you've given it on their terms, they would be singing from the rooftop if we ridiculously accepted that!
Just relaying what I’ve heard a potential deal might/may be