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?