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

[muttley45]

Why weren't the so called "expert's" talking about this instead of constantly trying to get us to reach for him with pick #2 ?

 

[My Left Foote]

Why weren't the so called "expert's" talking about this instead of constantly trying to get us to reach for him with pick #2 ?

Trust me if we’d picked Tauru at 2, this article would have come out the next day, “North Melbourne stressed about Alix Tauru, pick 2 selection could backfire”

 

[Junk yard]

Could be a reason we didn't try and drop back for him. Back stress fractures isn't great for an 18 year old.

Not really an issue at 18, happens heaps in growing kids. Rest and heal and most likely never happen again.

 

[Wild Bill]

Not really an issue at 18, happens heaps in growing kids. Rest and heal and most likely never happen again.

Zach Reid had the same issue and he can’t get on the park.

 

[Junk yard]

Zach Reid had the same issue and he can’t get on the park.

Not familiar with his problems but it's very rarely an issue in footy players. I'm not sure of Alix's background but my guess would be that the lad plays some cricket. Bowling a ball at pace is one of the most unnatural things in a sporting environment that a back can go through, consistently. It's well recognised and managed in cricket pathways these day's and I'm sure it's not going to affect the young Viking in his footy career.

 

[giantroo]

 

[The Nostradamus]

Us rating Draper ahead of Lalor still baffles me

I reckon if tigers went FOS and we went Draper we would’ve lived to regret that and Draper would be back in sa after 3 years

 

[Wild Bill]

Us rating Draper ahead of Lalor still baffles me

I reckon if tigers went FOS and we went Draper we would’ve lived to regret that and Draper would be back in sa after 3 years

We may have ranked Draper higher yet taken a different player - like GWS would have Sheezel ranked higher but took Cadmen due to being safe.

 

[giantroo]

North Melbourne swapped a future first-round pick for the Tigers' pick 27 and Richmond's future second-round pick, and then selected Whitlock. If the Tigers had held that pick and the Swans opted for Shanahan over Bowman, Bowman was considered a likely selection for the Tigers to add a point of difference to their forward mix.

The wheeling and non-dealing continued on day two, as Richmond put up its first pick of the night for sale. North looked again – this time to reunite the Whitlock twins at Arden Street – and offered two future second-round picks as part of a deal, but the Tigers' held to take Thomas Sims.

That negotiation, in isolation, perfectly summed up the attempted draft snakes and ladders of 2024: just because a club can use other picks to get up the order, trade in ahead of others and make moves to target their player, it doesn't mean they will.

But they will sure as hell try.

 

[Shinboner1]

North Melbourne swapped a future first-round pick for the Tigers' pick 27 and Richmond's future second-round pick, and then selected Whitlock. If the Tigers had held that pick and the Swans opted for Shanahan over Bowman, Bowman was considered a likely selection for the Tigers to add a point of difference to their forward mix.

The wheeling and non-dealing continued on day two, as Richmond put up its first pick of the night for sale. North looked again – this time to reunite the Whitlock twins at Arden Street – and offered two future second-round picks as part of a deal, but the Tigers' held to take Thomas Sims.

That negotiation, in isolation, perfectly summed up the attempted draft snakes and ladders of 2024: just because a club can use other picks to get up the order, trade in ahead of others and make moves to target their player, it doesn't mean they will.

But they will sure as hell try.

at least we tried

 

[Better Loosen Up]

North Melbourne swapped a future first-round pick for the Tigers' pick 27 and Richmond's future second-round pick, and then selected Whitlock. If the Tigers had held that pick and the Swans opted for Shanahan over Bowman, Bowman was considered a likely selection for the Tigers to add a point of difference to their forward mix.

The wheeling and non-dealing continued on day two, as Richmond put up its first pick of the night for sale. North looked again – this time to reunite the Whitlock twins at Arden Street – and offered two future second-round picks as part of a deal, but the Tigers' held to take Thomas Sims.

That negotiation, in isolation, perfectly summed up the attempted draft snakes and ladders of 2024: just because a club can use other picks to get up the order, trade in ahead of others and make moves to target their player, it doesn't mean they will.

But they will sure as hell try.

I would be very surprised if Jack stayed at Port beyond his first contract and I think we would be best placed to pick him up to play alongside his brother.

 

[The Nostradamus]

North Melbourne swapped a future first-round pick for the Tigers' pick 27 and Richmond's future second-round pick, and then selected Whitlock. If the Tigers had held that pick and the Swans opted for Shanahan over Bowman, Bowman was considered a likely selection for the Tigers to add a point of difference to their forward mix.

The wheeling and non-dealing continued on day two, as Richmond put up its first pick of the night for sale. North looked again – this time to reunite the Whitlock twins at Arden Street – and offered two future second-round picks as part of a deal, but the Tigers' held to take Thomas Sims.

That negotiation, in isolation, perfectly summed up the attempted draft snakes and ladders of 2024: just because a club can use other picks to get up the order, trade in ahead of others and make moves to target their player, it doesn't mean they will.

But they will sure as hell try.

did the tigers say no to f1 for 27 and 28?
That part is not confirmed but assumed

They must’ve valued their future second lower than pick 28

They ended up taking sims another key forward I’d argue they would’ve been better keeping their f2 over him

 

[Sphynx]

North Melbourne swapped a future first-round pick for the Tigers' pick 27 and Richmond's future second-round pick, and then selected Whitlock. If the Tigers had held that pick and the Swans opted for Shanahan over Bowman, Bowman was considered a likely selection for the Tigers to add a point of difference to their forward mix.

The wheeling and non-dealing continued on day two, as Richmond put up its first pick of the night for sale. North looked again – this time to reunite the Whitlock twins at Arden Street – and offered two future second-round picks as part of a deal, but the Tigers' held to take Thomas Sims.

That negotiation, in isolation, perfectly summed up the attempted draft snakes and ladders of 2024: just because a club can use other picks to get up the order, trade in ahead of others and make moves to target their player, it doesn't mean they will.

But they will sure as hell try.

Well, at least Richmond can go down as one of the other worst deals of the day.

Knocking back 2 x F2's for Sims is crazy, as much as a liked him. I can't believe they rejected that deal in all honesty. Especially as they had already taken Faull, Armstrong and Trainor....


Richmond could have walked into the 2025 draft with 2 x R1 Picks (Rich & North) and 3 x R2 picks for essentially the net loss of Bowman (who they got anyway) and Sims.

Thats a shocker.

 

[The Nostradamus]

The rejected f1 for Tauru saints pick will be interesting to evaluate in a years time

 

[The Big O]

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[BlueandWhiteinmyBlood]

North Melbourne swapped a future first-round pick for the Tigers' pick 27 and Richmond's future second-round pick, and then selected Whitlock. If the Tigers had held that pick and the Swans opted for Shanahan over Bowman, Bowman was considered a likely selection for the Tigers to add a point of difference to their forward mix.

The wheeling and non-dealing continued on day two, as Richmond put up its first pick of the night for sale. North looked again – this time to reunite the Whitlock twins at Arden Street – and offered two future second-round picks as part of a deal, but the Tigers' held to take Thomas Sims.

That negotiation, in isolation, perfectly summed up the attempted draft snakes and ladders of 2024: just because a club can use other picks to get up the order, trade in ahead of others and make moves to target their player, it doesn't mean they will.

But they will sure as hell try.

Richmond only gave us that second rounder 24 hours earlier, is it allowed to be able to trade a club back their own pick of which they had already held?

 

[Masked Avenger]

Gotta love the weasel words that Carlton were happy with the narrative that they were interested in FOS when they really wanted Smith.

Narrative my clacker - they put it out there.

Let's hope that FOS bites the Tigers big time. I think he will.

Also, those decisions by Clubs to knock back our F1, a likely elite player, deep in the first round will come to haunt a few Clubs.

 

[King Hansen]

Knocking back 2 x F2's for Sims is crazy, as much as a liked him. I can't believe they rejected that deal in all honesty. Especially as they had already taken Faull, Armstrong and Trainor....

How do we even trade 2 x F2 after trading our F1?

 

[The Filth Wizard]

How do we even trade 2 x F2 after trading our F1?

We would have asked for a 3rd rounder back.

 

[Shinboner1]

How do we even trade 2 x F2 after trading our F1?

magic

 

[King Hansen]

We would have asked for a 3rd rounder back.

I thought you'd need a pick in each round after if you trade out a F1.

 

[The Filth Wizard]

I thought you'd need a pick in each round after if you trade out a F1.

Unsure of the rules there but the trade was definitely offered.

 

[King Corey]

Pretty frustrating that Richmond won 3 flags then cashed out in a deep draft to potentially rebuild both their midfield AND spine in one go.

Fair play to them very well executed while losing nobody who was really going to influence their future fortunes.

**** it.

 

[TennisPlayerAndy]

Pretty frustrating that Richmond won 3 flags then cashed out in a deep draft to potentially rebuild both their midfield AND spine in one go.

Fair play to them very well executed while losing nobody who was really going to influence their future fortunes.

**** it.

Let’s hope it’s reminiscent of their 2004 draft.

 

[BlueandWhiteinmyBlood]

Pretty frustrating that Richmond won 3 flags then cashed out in a deep draft to potentially rebuild both their midfield AND spine in one go.

Fair play to them very well executed while losing nobody who was really going to influence their future fortunes.

**** it.

They could have ****ed it too, Lalor wasn’t the number 1 for a lot of clubs, they selected a few key position types and you never know with those almost speculative to be honest and another of their first rounders is coming off an ACL, I think we all know how those can go. So yeah on paper they killed it but I wouldn’t he counting my chickens.