Preview 2024 National Draft Preview Thread Part Deux - Draft Picks: 2 (R1), 62 (R4), 76 (R5), 86 (R6)

[The Nostradamus]

Watching all oppo flock to our board now to try get pick 2 off us so we don’t take FOS

Makes me want FOS even more

Asking price is going up for that pick to make us even consider this late

 

[giantroo]

 

[Aristotle Pickett]

why would we give up FOS for a 3rd rounder?

To get Tauru and another pick

 

[DesertRoo]

To get Tauru and another pick

LOL we ain't exchanging FOS for Tauru, he'd have to come with another top 10 pick.

 

[hoffseason gains 01]

I asked Herald Sun who we would target with a trade back into the first round. They were vague but said GWS is an option to trade with and we have done work on mid-late first round prospects - noting Jack Whitlock as a name.

 

[Hojuman]

Really, do we deserve pick 2 ?

 

[TurnoverMerchant]

Couldn't finish it. I shed an actual tear from the awful amount of cringe I had to endure.

 

[DuckYeah]

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Play on

Nah mate. Thats nonsense. Then when oppo supporters come here, treat them the same way we cop over there.

I like to think of it as each board is a state inside a federal law. The oppo board has no jurisdiction here.

Play on

 

[Coach_Required]

If not for injuries he would have been the clear number 1 pick. His bad luck looks like our good luck!!

What ever it takes to make you feel good about it.

 

[DuckYeah]

So the real pinch points come at the crows pick 4 and tigers pick 6.

crows tossing up between Draper and langford. If they go Draper it’s pretty straight forward. If they go Langford it’s Tauru going to Melbourne.

Smilie v Allan for 6,

If everything goes in an alternative universe could feasibly end up like this and saints fans won’t be crying

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Bo Allen over Smillie? Nahhhhh

 

[DesertRoo]

Nah mate. Thats nonsense. Then when oppo supporters come here, treat them the same way we cop over there.

I like to think of it as each board is a state inside a federal law. The oppo board has no jurisdiction here.

Play on

lol, I just read it as feudal law, yes we own this land and we expect loyalty in return for you coming over and using it...

 

[DuckYeah]

Its just what I've heard from the experts. The point is that this is a very deep draft.

No its not. Its being over hyped because its even. That does not mean its a stand out draft. I rate 4 fifths of **** all in this draft. Tauru looks great until he kicks the footy and he’s considered a top 10 pick? Riiiiightio. Theres about 4 in the draft that will gaurantee you a good pick. The rest are all speculation.

I would be trading up to guarantee a successful young player. The talls look shit, thats why I have Gerreyn so high in my desires. You may aswell take a punt on a 200cm monster with great agility than anything predicted before him.

 

[The Dingrel]

I really don't understand why so many North supporters would be so willing to trade our F1 for not much more than a bag of chips. I'm confident we'll improve significantly next year, but 8 wins from a challenging fixture list probably still only lands us 16th position because I suspect the Crows will improve and Melbourne had 8 more wins than us last season.

A top three pick in a draft that is touted as being better at the pointy end than this year should be treasured. Top three picks have a good 200 gamer strike rate, so why would you trade that in for a punt on a player picked in the mid teens to early twenties? That would be sheer lunacy.

I'm still hopeful we can split #2 for something decent because the potential suitors have so far played their cards close to their chest in the hope of bagging a bargain. On trade night FOMO might set in for some of them to motivate a reasonable offer. A bidding war would be even better. That would take the pressure off Brady to frivolously trade away our F1 out of desperation. Here's hoping, but I'm not confident he won't do it.

Im kinda hoping we just take FOS at 2, and just see how picks start falling. Reckon we'd have our eye on some key forwards to develop, and some will slide down into the 2nd and 3rd rounds. Few if any of Trainor, Shanahan, Faull, Whitlock, Gerryn, Sims, will be taken in round 1. Now we could well be indifferent between a few, makes a lot of sense to wait till draft night and what's available to trade an F2 or F3 in to see who's available at the "minimum cost" in terms of future picks.

 

[giantroo]

Couldn't finish it. I shed an actual tear from the awful amount of cringe I had to endure.

Yeah, that was the worst of the lot.

 

[Passmore]

LOL we ain't exchanging FOS for Tauru, he'd have to come with another top 10 pick.

These clowns are obsessed with pick 2.

 

[Aristotle Pickett]

No its not. Its being over hyped because its even. That does not mean its a stand out draft. I rate 4 fifths of **** all in this draft. Tauru looks great until he kicks the footy and he’s considered a top 10 pick? Riiiiightio. Theres about 4 in the draft that will gaurantee you a good pick. The rest are all speculation.

I would be trading up to guarantee a successful young player. The talls look shit, thats why I have Gerreyn so high in my desires. You may aswell take a punt on a 200cm monster with great agility than anything predicted before him.

It is a deep superdraft by most experts opinion.
There is 7 elite mids then a heap of quality players even if the talls are thin this year.

 

[DesertRoo]

These clowns are obsessed with pick 2.

Small forwards/high half forwards is a bigger gapping hole in our list then key forwards...
I wonder where FOS might play in his first few years?

 

[chubbspeterson]

I think player trading should be allowed on the night. Then if Tauru is taken at say pick 10, you could trade picks for that player.

Yep I agree. A lot more deals would happen if teams could select and trade those players to another team.

 

[the big lebowski]

Nah mate. Thats nonsense. Then when oppo supporters come here, treat them the same way we cop over there.

I like to think of it as each board is a state inside a federal law. The oppo board has no jurisdiction here.

Play on

I’m universally loved and admired on oppo boards.

 

[Footywizard]

Small forwards/high half forwards is a bigger gapping hole in our list then key forwards...
I wonder where FOS might play in his first few years?

Duursma Ford Curtis zurhaar should be able to play that high half forward roll with sheezle as well. I wouldn’t say it’s gaping.
think they have George earmarked for that roll as well if he comes good post ACL.

 

[kangaroos3]

RATD is the biggest FOS lover on our board, me I'm the biggest FOS hater.

Hope you draft him.

And this is the 5th stage of grief - acceptance.

 

[roos_fanatic08]

It is a deep superdraft by most experts opinion.
There is 7 elite mids then a heap of quality players even if the talls are thin this year.

It's not a superdraft.

It's a deep and evenly talented draft.

There is a very big difference.

When you compare it to previous drafts there isn't a tall with the talent of JUH or Darcy and there isn't a generational midfield type like Daicos/Ashcroft/JHF/Reid or Sheezel.

 

[DesertRoo]

Duursma Ford Curtis zurhaar should be able to play that high half forward roll with sheezle as well. I wouldn’t say it’s gaping.
think they have George earmarked for that roll as well if he comes good post ACL.

in terms of pure talent FOS would be up with Sheez, Im sure we could find a place for him amongst that lot.

 

[Passmore]

Not sure if this **** stick posts on BF, but if you want a giggle over lunch have a look at some of the absolute tripe he puts out there under the guise of “working in the industry….

 

[chubbspeterson]

I think that's probably right.

I'm no expert, but going from Twomey's phantom draft and including 20% NGA and F/S discounts, it looks like the following picks will be absorbed.

Ashcroft bid on at 5 - Brisbane pay 27, 34, 42
Lombard bid at 9 - GC pay 39, 41, 51, 61
Kako bid on at 13 - Essendon pay 28 and 31
Marshall bid on at 25 - Brisbane pay 43, 49, 58

(Camporeale probably gets done with just pick 38.)

So you've got 12 picks for four kids, suggesting it'll come down to 55. It'd be nice if Kako was bid on a little earlier than Twomey is predicting, to bring our selection forward another spot or two at the Bombres' expense.

The one thing is Bombers likely move 28 or 31 for future picks. They've got enough points to match Kako with 40's picks.
Then they'll probably try and trade back. The Lions might slide back from 27 for two picks to get an extra 100 odd pts.
So the picks will jump around a bit, but it should be mid 50's you would think.