I’ve been singing from this hymn book for weeks in relation to D Rioli. Why not Martin as well? Trade Rioli and pay half his salary for 3-years for picks 7 and 8. Trade Martin and pay half his salary over 2-years for pick 20.
A win/win/win for Tigers, Suns and the players.
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I am not as keen on the idea with Rioli.
Below is our 25-29yo contingent as at the start of next season. There are only 12 in the whole club. That includes 2 guys who have done current ACL's and Colina who we may never get to see. Of the 9 remaining, one is Graham, who looks a decent chance to leave. That leaves just 8. Ideally, you would want at least 10-12 in this age bracket in your best 22. We already have more young talent in the club than is widely understood, though 2 of those have done ACL's as well. We can get a really nice draft hand including access to the very top end of the draft just by losing Graham, who I would also be perfectly happy to retain. Dusty, who knows. But if he goes and we can get any sort of pick for him in return for paying even his whole salary, that might be a fair enough move but it needs to be a really strong pick. Rioli there re so many competing thoughts on it. If we got their 2 best picks they re currently sitting at 8 and 10 but could yet move either way. By draft night, every chance those are picks 10 and 12ish. And you are probably bringing about 6 or 7 youngsters onto a list with only 6 or 7 experienced players not past their prime.
It is very intriguing to see how this all pans out this year, but I feel we have a good enough structure still there to bring in a decent handful of top 25 type picks this year another couple of good picks next year, and hopefully a decent free agent somewhere in the next couple of years. This was the good youngsters come in playing with a decent structure for a competitive team. I probably still favour that approach at this stage. But if prime contracted players want to go, then we need to focus heavily on strong picks in return, or partially developed young players with talent. And paying some salary may be a useful way of achieving that.