2024 Phantom draft all invited

[Giant Strides]

Update of the selections to date (picks moved down from #21 when Sam Marshall was bid/matched):

1. Richmond - Sam Lalor
2. North Melbourne - Alix Tauru
3. Brisbane Lions (bid matched) - Levi Ashcroft
4. Carlton - Jagga Smith
5. Adelaide - Sid Draper
6. Melbourne - FOS
7. Richmond - Harvey Langford
8. Essendon (bid matched) - Isacc Kako
9. Gold Coast (bid matched) - Leonardo Lombardo
10. St Kilda - Murphy Reid
11. St Kilda - Tobie Travaglia
12. Melbourne - Harvey Armstrong
13. Richmond - Luke Trainor
14. Richmond - Josh Smillie
15. Western Bulldogs - Bo Allen
16. Port Adelaide - Joe Berry
17. Fremantle - Cooper Hynes
18. GWS - Xavier Lindsay
19. GWS - Harrison Oliver
20. West Coast - Tom Gross
21. Brisbane (bid matched) - Sam Marshall
22. Richmond - Jobe Shanahan
23. Sydney - Taj Hotton
24. Richmond - Jesse Dattoli
25. GWS - Oliver Hannaford
26. Sydney - Thomas Sims
27. Richmond - Jack Whitlock


Round 2
28. Richmond - Christian Moreas
29. West Coast - Matt Whitlock
30. West Coast - Hamish Davis
31. Port Adelaide - Jonty Faull
32. Fremantle - Kayle Gerryn
33. St Kilda - Alex Dodson
34. Hawthorn - James Barrat
35. Western Bulldogs - Angus Clarke
36. Port Adelaide - Jack Ough
37. Geelong - Lachie Jaques
38. Carlton -

 

[LukeParkerno1]

Swans bid on Champion
SumaGodCoach

Like this bid

It’s Bidney we have to bid on one otherwise it ain’t a draft but this suits us

 

[THE_GUN]

THOUGHTS on Richmond's picks?

I would have taken Hotton & Faull over Shannahan & Moreas

 

[SumaGodCoach]

Swans bid on Champion
SumaGodCoach

 

[SumaGodCoach]

Matched

 

[4tune8]

THOUGHTS on Richmond's picks?

Lalor, Langford, Smillie and Dattoli are great picks.

It's just me, but I'm keen for the Tigers to add pace and elite kicking to that lot and I really don't rate the KPP's available above those types. So players like Lindsay, Berry and Oliver are higher on my wish list. Hotton is desirable for everything else bar his kicking (as was pointed out to me) so....

Instead of Trainor---Lindsay
Instead of Shanahan----Hotton
Instead of Whitlock----Gerreyn
Should have traded Moraes for a later pick and an F1 (if possible)

I get why you went with 3 talls, but we desperately need a ruck/forward either Sims or Gerreyn fit but Gerreyns upside is huge. We're reasonably set with our defensive talls and our 2nd and 3rd tall forwards are showing promise. We can obviously improve down back and a top line KPF is a must. There're a few irons in the fire though and with future trading, pick trading (salary cap) and the high probability that we'll be down the bottom of the pile for a couple of years which gives us the capital to hit the FA market hard next year and the year after.

 

[Cobblers]

No, actually we only have 4 spots for ND, then 2 in the rookie draft. So, in reality, a trade of this nature would have needed to be made before the ND spots are finalised. I am effectively replicating that outcome.

I would think that in the next week or so, GWS will either:

• bundle up 2 (or even more) picks to grab an earlier round 1 pick, OR
• trade a single pick (#16, 21, or 37) into 2025.

Otherwise we will simply lose pick #53, which seems a waste.

I think #37 is a big chance to be moved because of the risk that Logan Smith will be bid before then; but we might take the risk and simply have a trade out ready to go on the night. #37 for a F2 from a team likely to be at the pointy end of next year's ladder is a good result, and GWS will hope that they actually do poorly and it becomes more valuable.

I could have just taken a selection here and not worried about the reality of list spots (I had someone in mind until the trade offer popped up), but this mock draft has given me some thoughts so happy to make the trade.

I'd also note that with the revised points system to match academy and father/son bids, I suspect second round picks will become more valuable in future (vice currently third round picks). This trade would add a third second-round pick in 2025 for Giants - I see this would be creating value in possible trades for round 1 picks next year (Lions and Suns, for example, will likely do their usual trade back to increase points for guys like Annable & Uwland).

Does that make sense?

Great response thank you.
I understood the logic re pick 37 and Logan Smith.
I didn't realise that Peatling was on the rookie list and thought that with him Perryman Cumming Haynes Fahey Keefe and Preuss all off the senior list that the Giants were likely to take 5 or 6 picks in the national draft.
I would like the Giants to get pick 8 or 9 via a pick swap with a view to getting Travaglia but also like what you have done with the first 3 picks in this phantom draft.
I also wouldn't mind getting Ben Patton as a DFA or rookie.
Thanks again for the detailed response.