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And even then they would fail, I feel.
They have nothing to lean back on. No history of success. No big or marquee MCG games. No well documented culture. No big rivalry.
They’re just irrelevant and when they are competing for the same players that clubs like Carlton, Collingwood, Hawthorn and Geelong are they will almost always lose out.
I don’t think their Chairman coming out and having a whinge session at the B&F about how they can’t compete with other clubs because they don’t have the talent, can’t access the talent and the league is so unfair would help them in any way with trying to sell potential recruits either. That to me was a real bonehead move. Literally announcing that they’ve given up unless the AFL given them a leg up… which they then did.
It takes a real talent to turn Pick 3 into Pick 12.How is West Coast going to rebuild when they only have draft picks 12 ,26 and 73 coming up?
That is not much better than our picks.
And their current list is significantly older than ours.
Much prefer the strategy Richmond is going with
Talented but seems lazy and only goes when he chooses.Wondering if we have a sneaky look at Ash Johnston delisted by Collingwood as cover for an aging Gunston.
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How is West Coast going to rebuild when they only have draft picks 12 ,26 and 73 coming up?
That is not much better than our picks.
And their current list is significantly older than ours.
Much prefer the strategy Richmond is going with
You are probably on the money.The Richmond strategy is going to be 'let's try what the Suns did in 2010' just without Gary Ablett Jnr signed on. If they have even 1 or 2 busts in their current draft hand then they are in for some monumental long term pain.
You are probably on the money.
But at least Richmond supporters go into the new season with alot of expensive new toys and the optimism they bring.
West coast supporters will just have the occasional Harley cameo to provide any excitement
We don’t have list spots to look at any DFAs and if we did not him. One draft pick Cody Anderson re-rookie Gunston that’s all folks.Talented but seems lazy and only goes when he chooses.
Highly doubt we’d be looking at him.
To be fair what choice do they have? They didn’t make a decision then shop players they found themselves with players wanting to go and were incredibly lucky they wanted to go to clubs with great draft hands willing to overpay. They made the best of the situation with no other choice. Take 5/6 good kids push 2/3 picks live trades to next year and get a core group before Tassie is the strategy forced on them and far better than many other clubs including us post 2016 until Mitchell arrived.The Richmond strategy is going to be 'let's try what the Suns did in 2010' just without Gary Ablett Jnr signed on. If they have even 1 or 2 busts in their current draft hand then they are in for some monumental long term pain.
To be fair what choice do they have? They didn’t make a decision then shop players they found themselves with players wanting to go and were incredibly lucky they wanted to go to clubs with great draft hands willing to overpay. They made the best of the situation with no other choice. Take 5/6 good kids push 2/3 picks live trades to next year and get a core group before Tassie is the strategy forced on them and far better than many other clubs including us post 2016 until Mitchell arrived.
True but tge main difference to the suns, is the tigers have success now and a huge fan base so much more likely to be able to bring players in to complement these drafts. But they have to get at least 6 200 gamers from these 2 drafts or it will be a long down period.You're not wrong, and I am not saying it was an active choice - and what they did incredibly well was get stupidly good returns on investment for players. People just seem to think it is some amazing predicament - personally I think it is a roll of the dice they have to get right because they won't get a similar hand next year, have a bunch of players in their final years and their 'marquee' players in Taranto and Hopper are solid B+ players at the very best. If even a couple of these kids this year aren't quality 200-gamers then it'll be an ugly decade for them. The Suns had a far better draft hand in 2010, with one of the best players in the modern era in his prime and never came close to contending.
You don’t win an award for not losing players.My only issue with offering LDU this kind've money which you'd assume would have to be more than what we just gave Battle to net the Roos Band 1 compo is that we need to start being wary that oppo clubs will start to come for our young guns with godfather offers.
I'm not saying that players like LDU and Battle aren't great players but rather that we need to be smart managing our salary cap flexibility wisely. I'd hate for us to get to a point were we were to acquire LDU only to then lose a MacKenzie or Macdonald because we got blown out of the water with an offer we just couldn't get anywhere near.
All I'm saying is it's all good and well to chase after players but we also have to make sure there's a scope to retain our quality kids that will eventually want / earn a bigger slice of the pie.
Oh I wouldn't want to be a supporter of either club right now - it would be bleak. But West Coast still have the second youngest and most inexperienced list - I don't think they need to pile even more kids on that. If they can lure Warner next year then they will be in a better place - if they miss out though it will be a big setback. If I was a Tiggers supporter I wouldn't be harbouring any optimism next year - just bracing myself for the absolute thrashings and hoping to hell some of the kids come on quickly.