I know you need to sell a message to players but I never understood those choices, you pull 3 cups and hit the end of your run, the smart play is to start a soft rebuilt around a good core - they chose to gamble on two players that had never been able to take their club to the pointy end. Gambled a potential short rebuild on an extreme long shot for mine.
It's not comparable to us at all. We delisted our old players, they traded their players that were worth something. They had a swag of first round picks in the first draft of their rebuild.
Personally, over the next few years when we’re going deep into finals I couldn’t give a shit who Richmond pick up with our first rounder in 2025.
That's intriguing. Tauru especially.
I’m not just saying it because we didn’t draft him, but during the year it was always a bit speculative where he would fit in the top ten and FOS was always around that no.1 - 2.
Love to know as well.
I'm not comparing to us though. Just pointing out that 8 picks at the pointy end of the draft doesn't guarantee anything. GWS / GC are enough evidence of that. Just because everyone says it's a great draft doesn't mean it will be seen that way in 5 years.
And some of those senior players they’ve still got have had injury issues like lynch/ Prestia ect.
I was a little surprised they took so many kids in the end. I thought they would have traded a few picks into next year and looked to fill those last spots with some SPP players, to protect the younger draftees as you say.
Agree with your post. But adding my 2 cents ...
Agreed and if given the choice, I think Draper would have been a better character fit for our team ahead of Lalor.
Yes its a bit confusing, usually you trade a future first or second and third but this year you could trade out future firsts and second or what ever, it was allowed by the AFL headquarters, probably because next year you can if you want trade out 2 future firsts you can so lots of leeway given this year.
Yes 100%, yet people were blasting Brady and Will for not trying or having no idea when in fact I did say pick 8 is where we should really go hard and then let it ride and see what pick we can get with Harry Armstrong, Matt Whitlock still on the table and that's exactly how it played out but no one wanted to trade out, club had certain players and didn't want to take the chance. Can tell you if we really like a player in next years draft, clubs will this time come calling if we offer something really good, depends if that player is a first round pick or second round pick , we have two future firsts to dangle for someone in the draft or even free agency, we have options.
Don’t we have 2 future firsts to offer 26/27 plus also 2 second rounders next year? Ours and tigers? If a club with academy link ect looking to trade down surely we can use some of that capital to push back into top 5-10?
