- Moderator
- #4,082
Follow along with the video below to see how to install our site as a web app on your home screen.
Note: This feature may not be available in some browsers.
AFLW 2024 - Round 9 - Indigenous Round - Chat, game threads, injury lists, team lineups and more.
Take away Ashcroft surely the club has identified 3 targets worth the trade up.There's no way we traded up to 3 only liking 1 or 2 players.
That is a unique take
I love TerryWallet's draft opinions.
Unabashedly forms his own views and is impressively impervious to groupthink.
If you had a Porche 911, would you tow a boat with it?
Why wouldn't Voss play a pick 3 straight away when he was prepared to play O.Hollands (pick 11) and Cowan (pick 30) in their first available games?
Ahh fudge. I haven’t rated Draper really through no solid reasoning and a mate just got me to watch more of his highlights. I’m a spud. I’m sold. He is very good.
I think people also liked 12+14 because on paper you're seeing 2 first round picks traded for 1 first round pick, which had people saying I'd rather 2 first round picks.People like the idea of 12+14 because of how much we build these prospective draftees up. Even though we logically know they wont all make it, until that happens they all feel like potential future stars. Solutions to our problems. Why only take 1 when you could take 2?
The reality is mid to late first round picks are an absolute mine field with more failures then successes. The future stars of today are the whipping boys of tomorrow. History has showed us that.
Just look at Olli Hotton. Not a first round pick but 2 years ago nearly every poster on here would have taken him ahead of Binns. A lot were upset we took him ahead of Cowan. Now he's not even on a list.
Reckon he's all over this like white on rice.We are expected to be a serious premiership contender for the next few years and we have sold our trading farm to get #3 - without losing a major player.
We are unlikely to get this chance of drafting a top pick for a long while…
So, make the right decision and make it count Austin!
Exciting times
We are expected to be a serious premiership contender for the next few years and we have sold our trading farm to get #3 - without losing a major player.
We are unlikely to get this chance of drafting a top pick for a long while…
So, make the right decision and make it count Austin!
Exciting times
Because In two years we get Cody Walker and we go from contenders to certainties ?At least 2 years anyway….
Sent from my iPhone using BigFooty.com
He's no Cripps if that's what you're meaning, but as I stated earlier I'd have handballing as easily the most coachable skill at the top level. It's hard to think of a genuinely bad handballer at AFL level.Nitpicking here, but are Draper's handballs often loopy/indiscriminate?
Just working off highlights here, but it looks like he does excellent work winning the ball in tight and bursting from the pack, only to put a teammate under pressure with a somewhat 'messy' handpass?
In this episode, Twomey was asked who would be available at pick 4 for crows and he mentioned Draper or Langford who were also in the mix for Carlton.Jagga Smith is incredibly impressive in this interview. Oozes genuine confidence, intelligence, humility, poise, and leadership. If he slips through to our pick he would be very difficult to pass on IMO. As much as I love Draper, Jagga could really be something special. He screams 300+ games, multiple AA, future captain etc.
GETTABLE: Early top 10 revealed, 'lifetime offers' for guns, father-son news, Pie plans
Riley Beveridge and Cal Twomey do a special Halloween edition of ‘Askable’ and top prospect Jagga Smith joins the showwww.afl.com.au
I think people also liked 12+14 because on paper you're seeing 2 first round picks traded for 1 first round pick, which had people saying I'd rather 2 first round picks.
But first round picks aren't equal, as several examples have been shown in here. Average games, played, average AAs, then a name by name breakdown all show pick 3 alone is more likely to be an impact than pick 12 & 14 combined.
The only people I've seen have angst around giving up 12 & 14 has been from Carlton fans, other fans and the media have all said Carlton absolutely fleeced West Coast, to the point WC fans have wanted to riot, yet we have some saying "no would rather have had what we did before".
12 and 14 aren't premium picks. West Coast were dumb for giving up 3 for them. We got incredibly lucky they cornered themselves by making promises to trade prospects so would make the dumb trade. Be excited about a once in a decade gem of a trade.