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

[pK75]

If we don't have faith in Voss and Jones, I would rather we target Gerreyn in this draft than Shanahan.

Two reasons:

• I'm not confident we have the ability to retain a promising, high draft pick from Victoria in development mode/back up in the WAFL.
• a genuine forward/ruck like Gerreyn gives a lot more flexibility in covering injuries than a pure forward.

Our biggest big man injury risk is Darcy. Gerreyn gives positional options for how to cover him.

I like the look of Gerreyn as well, thought we might be targeting him with our second pick, the fact we re-signed Jones makes me think he won’t be available at that pick so we’ve backed in the guy who plays that role already on our list.

 

[MakeshiftMartyr]

It's also probably a pretty significant investment for someone who would likely only ever play when Jackson is injured.

 

[Dockeroo]

I really hope we look for a match winner type small to medium forward with pick 14, but if Walls likes Lindsay or Travaglia better if they slide I’m 100% on board with that decision too.

 

[Docker82]

If we don't have faith in Voss and Jones, I would rather we target Gerreyn in this draft than Shanahan.

Two reasons:

• I'm not confident we have the ability to retain a promising, high draft pick from Victoria in development mode/back up in the WAFL.
• a genuine forward/ruck like Gerreyn gives a lot more flexibility in covering injuries than a pure forward.

Our biggest big man injury risk is Darcy. Gerreyn gives positional options for how to cover him.

The list of better KPFs that are outside their best 22 and are better than Voss wouldn't be very long IMO.

Think people want too much from our depth players tbh.

 

[Fred Ziffel]

Allan is quite similar to Erasmus and Johnson, can't see us picking him if he's available.

I would prefer Berry but I reckon VFL take him.

 

[Fred Ziffel]

In hindsight we’ve done very well from that draft. It looks like an all time terrible draft (the excuse is quite obvious) tbh - Getting Chapman, O’Driscoll, Walker and grabbing Treacy as a rookie is crazy good really.

At the time I thought Chapman and Walker should’ve gone higher, O’Driscoll about where he did. Hadn’t heard of Treacy tbh.

Most of this board didn’t want Chapman due to him being a backman. He’s still slotted in very nicely despite this board thinking we didn’t need one. That’s why I’m still big on Bo Allan despite this board not thinking we don’t need a mid - we don’t have a midfield of prime GAJ, Judd, Fyfe, Dusty, Pandles and Bont so a really good mid still fits in perfectly. You can disregard this statement if the eagles pick up though (jk), which I think they’d be mad not to.

Didn’t we do a quick hustle when we realised Nathan was gonna be available ?

 

[Taylor]

Fremantle traded up to pick O'Driscoll, yes.

 

[Superkoops]

Didn’t we do a quick hustle when we realised Nathan was gonna be available ?

We traded up if that is what you mean. I think he fell a slight bit and we had concerns one of the clubs just ahead of us would pick him so upgraded to 27 and selected him.

 

[GingerDocker]

If Berry and Hannaford are available at our first pick I hope we go the latter.

 

[Alfonz]

If Berry and Hannaford are available at our first pick I hope we go the latter.

Me too. I think Berry is a nice player, but I prefer the way Hannaford plays. He has more aggro and power. However, the big question mark is Hannaford had a very poor 2km time trial result. If Hannaford is viewed as having poor endurance, it could stop him rising up the board.

 

[go_the_dockers]

Me too. I think Berry is a nice player, but I prefer the way Hannaford plays. He has more aggro and power. However, the big question mark is Hannaford had a very poor 2km time trial result. If Hannaford is viewed as having poor endurance, it could stop him rising up the board.

Do you have the combine stats for both?

 

[GingerDocker]

Me too. I think Berry is a nice player, but I prefer the way Hannaford plays. He has more aggro and power. However, the big question mark is Hannaford had a very poor 2km time trial result. If Hannaford is viewed as having poor endurance, it could stop him rising up the board.

Hannaford gives me more small man syndrome/annoying shi t-stirrer/forward pocket specialist than Berry.

I think we have enough to cover the sort of player Berry is, but nothing in the Hannaford type player cupboard.

 

[Sherriff Incorporated]

I don’t mind Narkle for where we’re at. Has the class & with a forward half pretty stacked for threats - Bolton, Treacy, Amiss, Freddy, Jacko, Walters/Sturt, could easily get off the chain in crucial moments.

We’ve got blue collar for days. He’s a luxury item.

I had a doctor run an hour and a half late for an appointment today so I thought Id have a look at comments around Quinton Narkle on the Facebook site AFL Trades Delistings, Retirements and Free Agents. I was surprised at how many Port supporters were disappointed at his delisting. According to them he's been terrific in many games as a sub.Im fine with those disagree but in my view our sub players were terrible in 2024 bar Wagner and NOD for a game.

I had the time and I looked at his stats. By my count he played 13 games 8 of which he started as sub in 2024. After he had an interrupted preseason and then he suffered two injuries that resulted him missing six weeks and 3 weeks. After a couple of SANFL games after injury he returned to the team playing mostly sub. I checked his stat and what he regularly had as a sub was mathes raging from 4-10 possessions in games where had around 23% game. He also had an 13 possession game as sub but he played 40% so he got subbed early. H normally plays a high half forward role when he's sub due to Ports midfield depth as they want to keep their best players on the ground.

I also asked about his defensive running and was told he's played mostly midfield in the SANFL games he played as he did in the VFL and he's improved a ton. He's certainly had a few big possession games including 33 possessions in the game before he debuted in 2023 and a SANFL games he played late in 2024 after playing a series of games as a sub where he had 32 possessions.

So why was he delisted then. According to Port supporters they think the coaches want to get games into young mids and Narkle's 26 and there was a list squeeze which does make sense.

After looking into him Ive done a 180 degree turn and changed my mind. I think he feels a list need playing sub. Im confident many will change their mind after the 1st preseason reports. Here's an example of what he offers Here's his highlight from 3 afl games played in 2023 after coming over as a midseason draftee.

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