Listening to The Age podcast today and they mentioned they spoke to a few club recruiters at the end of proceedings who thought bids for Quaynor and Kelly would come earlier than Collingwood imagine.
The Irony here is the fact that we dont have excessive points to play with, any team that puts in a higher than expected bid runs a greater risk of us not matching. That is, If a team dont really want the player and want us to pay more for them this becomes a far more risky situation than if we had pick 18.
To me, it means if a pick for IQ comes in at pick 10 - this is the true value of the player. We still match with our rights and discount and we add a top 10 draft pick player to beams and Kelly when he comes up. Size of the Deficit aside , its a win win.
How many clubs right now would be happy to go into max deficit to snare a top 10 draft pick ?