Review 2024 National Draft Thread Part Deux - Welcome FOS, M.Whitlock, L.Urquhart & River Stevens

[hoffseason gains 01]

However in that instance Harry was also the more accomplished junior footballer. It's the opposite at the moment.

Matt did have the better year too in terms of pure goal output.

 

[giantroo]

 

[juss]

lol for a while we were told by tiger posters nexts years draft is trash.

Also future trading - 2 years in advance comes in next years.

Well I'm not one of those.
I dont think you can call a strength of a draft 12 months out.

 

[choppy]

He is the list manager and this is a list management stuff up of monumental proportions. We used our future first on Caleb Daniel and then called out the wrong Whitlock. If any of the coaches or recruiters were getting in his ear and encouraging him to do stupid stuff, then it's his job to tell them to pull their heads in.

Melodramatic much ole champ

 

[Sphynx]

No club (industry professionals) wanted our F1 even at the early 20s.

Ppl on here cant see what’s right in front of them.

OR no other club would offer a F1 kicker.

Richmonds F2 is about a $1.05 to be the first pick of the R2.

 

[shinboner magic]

Hopefully we go fishing with one of our F2 tomorrow and address another need

To get a f1 back

 

[Heaps of fun]

Hi guys.

Sup.

 

[CBSlogger]

The probability of this working in our favour is low. Not impossible, but a long shot by most judges.

With several well rated KPFs still available logic says if we'd held fire a little longer our F2 / F3 would've come into play for one of them, without involving our F1.

I admire the optimists stoically defending it but let's be honest, before this move the overwhelming consensus had us finishing bottom 6 next year, most likely making this trade a massive overreach.

Like it or not it'll unfairly put some added pressure on the kid, fingers crossed Matt's made of the right stuff and becomes a NMFC star.

 

[Ichiro #51]

Langford looks like he’s sooking it up a bit

I didn’t get that impression at all. Looks a very serious campaigner to me.

 

[Jimmac31]

If we traded F for and an F and picked a Whitlock with , then dare I say more people would accept it. In fact some would say well done Brady. It’s not about numbers, it’s about the players. Back the club, calm down and save your self a few hours next year on the draft thread!

This

 

[Billy Not Really]

Just checked my phone

Don’t know what to think

 

[perplexed]

I think that when you're entrenched at the shit end of the ladder too long and the miraculous senior coach is on a long term contract, then it becomes very easy for the whole club to back in 'long term development' too far, to the extent it compromises some decisions. We need to win games, for a multitude of reasons, not least of all because the kids who we have drafted in recent years don't just need games under their belt they need WINS under their belt. Call it copium if you want, but by removing the ephemeral hope of a high first round pick then, well, there are no excuses now.

Maybe, but this trade has nothing to do with winning games now. Whitlock is years away.

 

[ohmygewd]

Might be a genius move by Clarko, Will and Brady...we pick up the best midfielder and a KPP that we've been crying out for since the start of the season in this draft...and in 2025 breaks our addiction of picking a midfielder or hybrid forward because we can't...genius l say .

What list spots have we got left, two?

 

[Smoocher]

Good results.

We bring the development one year forward of a tall player.

We gain the 1st pick of the 2nd round next year. We have basically paid pick 10 in next years draft for Whitlock.

FOS will be an absolute gun.

At least we ain't Saints. Pick 8 for Travaglia.

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[Warrboy]

I mean we read out the wrong McKay and that still got us pick 3

Well also read out the wrong Warren Benjamin Warren twice but netted us nothing

 

[Shack18]

If 2025 is as compromised as they say haven't we just given ourselves two very reasonable Rnd 2 picks to step straight back into Rnd 1?

Possibly, but I think we are potentially going to write off the 26 draft, which I think is Tassies first draft. So use as much 26 capital to get back into 25 draft. This would give us a good solid block of 5 consecutive drafts. Reckon 26 we will push finals

 

[Horace]

Strange reaction to a trade that would have surely been ticked off by more than just Brady. Unless I am much mistaken, among others in that room were Viney, Clarkson and Thursfield. Would those people have just left the decision to Brady or would they have been involved in the decision to complete that trade?

 

[hsquid]

Clearly Brady is closely following what's going on in Ukraine and is factoring in the Nuclear Wipeout of October 2025.

 

[perplexed]

Melodramatic much ole champ

 

[FootySmartSimpson]

Now to get his brother Jack tomorrow....

This is really the only way that the situation can be redeemed, really.

 

[giantroo]

 

[Passmore]

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Doesn’t get much better than that.

 

[SWMD]

Feels terrible, no getting around this.

However,

If Richmond accepted 10 or 11 or even 18, then it may have been a straight swap. Looks like they got their guy plus the F2, so internally, they see it as a win that evolved throughout the night.

Two F2's may be used to trade back in to this year or next.

Melbourne just scored pick 9, something similar could be achieved next year with those looking for points.

Still, all this 'overpaying' is stacking the odds against us. Like adding another 0 on the roulette table that only applies to north.


Edit: option no.4 MW turns into a gun abs we ride up thr ladder next year with the trade looking gif in 5 years time.

 

[FlyHigh18]

People are ridiculous if they think the F2 is 19 next year.

The most probable outcome of this trade is we traded a top 5 pick for 27 & 28-30.

There’s more chance we traded a top 3 pick than pick 10-11. Based on the last 5 seasons and complete disaster of a seasons end we had where clearly our players don’t play for pride.

Get your hand off it if you think this is a good decision. What gives North Melbourne the right to have such blind faith in their ability to make the right calls? The last 10 years sure don’t

Irrelevant. It’s still pick 19 against everyone that’s available to us.

 

[Ligma]

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Andrew looks good