18 different clubs is a lot of differences in interests. Picks being traded for points reasons or any number of reasons will happen. Also some want future picks more than this year's pick etc etc.View attachment 1261130
Wonder what the interest is for clubs getting better hands at this years draft seeing that it's a huge unknown for Victorian players ie. the bulk of the draft.
Is it because they think they can pick up gems that may have otherwise been early selections? Because they think they are contending now/soon and would rather get a year into a kid then wait another year?
Reckon it you could get a glimpse at clubs draft rankings, this year would wildly differ club to club - way more than any year previously.
Some clubs just do a trade for the moment to get hold of a pick they can use to trade again and upgrade again with another club.
I suspect there will be heaps and heaps of trades that only involve draft picks before we get to the actual picks relevant to us on the night.
Remember there also live trading and even on second day of draft there will be more. Lots of picks will go threw 2 to 4 or even 5 clubs by the time the pick is actually called out in the draft.
The more interesting trades for picks tend to the ones where clubs try to upgrade two or three times to get from from up the draft order. Like Port did the year they wanted to draft Rozee, Butters etc. They offered a lot of picks to be able to get ahead of Crows to get hold of Rozee.
Also loved the trade we did to actually slide back in draft after first 10 picks one live night to split our pick into two and ended up with Kemp and Philp when really should have only had one pick to use early. We did a few trades to get there and even bid on Liam Henry at first from memory.
I think there are more trades about picks these days than trades about players.