Game Day 2024 Trade Period - Lian Yu - that liminal space between trade and draft.

[oldgoat]

Feels like a lot of people are counting their chickens before they hatch considering the Bolton trade hasn't finalized.

counting their chicks while eating the omlette...
"hey wheres those eggs that were in the incubator?"

 

[Bender571]

If we can stop laughing at WC for a minute, this is just another example of how highly the picks around 9 to 14 are being valued by the other clubs.

 

[Madas]

The eagles trade feels like when someone has to manufacture a question (what to do with pick 3?) to justify the answer (Liam Baker).

That’s literally all it is
To make it worse I think McQualters appointment was another play to get Baker and Graham

They must be keeping Barras now or surely they would have just used his picks to get the Baker thing done ?

It’s truly bizarre

 

[rubydoomsday]

I would say its still possible we pay a stupid price for Bolton and everyone gets upset.

it'll be 10 + 18 + scraps/swaps. they need the picks more than we "need" Bolton.

don't get me wrong, i rate Bolton and think he'll greatly bolster our finals chances/top 6 relevance. hope we do get him, even if we're paying overs to do it (10 +18 is already overs, anything more is stoopid). but "need" is felt more deeply when you're starting a potentially years long rebuild.

everyone thinks you can rebound fast now, because of what Mitchell's done at Hawks ('rebuild' tracking way ahead of schedule).

Yze yet to prove, even with fresh cattle, he's capable of what Mitchell's done.

i f hate Mitchell, but even i can concede he was basically the best coach in the comp (for that group) in the back half of last year.

 

[Wee Jessies]

If only there was a previous year to compare this trade with.

Something like

Sheezle for Hewitt, Baker & Owies. Pick 73 better be a gun.

Official anthem of the 2024 Trade Period

 

[arsesmart]

Sydney have academy players that are forecast to be high draft picks next year apparently. Stockpiling F2's and F3's would be as valuable as long as the points total is good.

 

[Wabjub]

Goddamn stick to 18 and 30. And then either have a crack at kozzy, trade 11 for Melbourne's F1 for Warner next year or take it to the draft.

Vic kids hold WA teams hostage and we get ****ed. Now it's time to do the ****ing.

 

[guidodp15]

WC fans this morning

 

[arsesmart]

i f hate Mitchell, but even i can concede he was basically the best coach in the comp (for that group) in the back half of last year.

The Hawkfawn draw after R5 was basically the juiciest of all time. Damien Drum would've had a longer coaching tenure if he got a draw like that.

 

[wild side]

Don't cave in Freo. Bolton is good, but he's not the messiah
Richmond don't want players that want to be somewhere else

 

[Rob]

It's like someone got into the list manager's ear and said they were in premiership contention

Why else would you give away a top draft pick to top up with a 27 and 28 year old?

 

[Jibroni]

On behalf of the rest of us, please dont fold to Richmond like West Coat just did.

 

[Ge3ks]

If we can stop laughing at WC for a minute,

 

[freocuz]

I would say its still possible we pay a stupid price for Bolton and everyone gets upset.

We could pay 10, 11, 18 & 30 and it would still be only the second worst trade this period.


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[wahooo]

All for west coast cooking their rebuild with this trade but why did they have to let Carlton benefit. Wonder if they will pull off another Paddy Dow

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Paddy Dow

Age

25

Ht

184cm

Wt

83kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

14.1

4star

K

7.0

3star

HB

7.1

4star

M

2.1

2star

T

2.9

4star

CL

2.6

4star

D

7.0

1star

K

4.0

1star

HB

3.0

2star

M

3.0

3star

T

2.0

3star

CL

0.0

1star

D

12.4

4star

K

5.8

3star

HB

6.6

4star

M

1.6

2star

T

2.8

5star

CL

2.6

5star

special with pick 3 this year.

 

[s_wd6]

All for west coast cooking their rebuild with this trade but why did they have to let Carlton benefit. Wonder if they will pull off another Paddy Dow special with pick 3 this year.

That’s my hope. I feel like the chances of them picking a dud with 3 is a lot higher than them getting both 12 and 14 wrong so I don’t mind it too much

 

[Alfonz]

Can we just bid on Champion now and hope they match with their no picks!

The default being that if they don’t match Champion becomes a gun small!

Oh my golly. I’m too giddy with how they’ve gone about this.

All the moving parts like a domino effect of getting worse!

Owies? I can’t even bring myself to stop laughing that Owies was the forgot breaker on 12&14 for 3.

Please please please can we get Bolton for 10 and 18 and unexpected value back our way.

Or they could choose to match and go into a deficit for 2025. That might even be enough to drop their 2025 1st down a spot depending on if/when the bids come for Champion, and where they finish next year.

What makes it even funnier (if that is possible), is that Carlton have 69, 72, 73, but WC could only get 73 for 63+68. They are actually helping Carlton to match Campo bids while sabotaging their own bid matching.

 

[go_the_dockers]

haha


haha

 

[go_the_dockers]

I’m so glad WC and Baker have saved us from ourselves. The desperation to get Baker here is kinda embarrassing

He makes some sense for us, as we should be in the window the next 5 years.

I don't get it at all for them.

 

[mayne iac]

Something incoming

 

[The Lobbster]

Something incoming

Mysterious

 

[mayne iac]

Get ready

 

[go_the_dockers]

Go to the west coast board to have a look.

If anyone says the trade period is boring, you are so wrong.

 

[arsesmart]

Richmond surely can feel satiated enough in getting that for Baker to wander out of the red mist and have a moment of clarity. The 10 & 18 is a good deal for Bolton, get over yourselves and take it.

 

[Arkhitect]

The AFL world reading the details of the deal and looking at WC right now...