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It's a bit like that atm. Might have to wait until tomorrow for news.
 

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Okay so are we seriously arguing about either recruiting a player that only Damien Barrett has us as being a serious contender for at this stage or going to the draft with draft picks we don’t currently have.

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A 50/50 for what though. Outside of the first couple of picks, they're not 50/50 to become as good as Treloar or Houston. To me Treloar was a definite gain on what you'd expect from those two picks. Houston trickier as he's better but older, so you're not getting that many games
In what has been dubbed as the strongest draft for years you should not go at less than a 50% strike rate for finding an A grade player.

Yes next year is more complex as the talent pool is supposed to be weaker and the top end is dominated by academy picks plus we have McGuane who at the start of this year was projected as a first round pick and has likely climbed in the rankings.

Yet the last time we traded out a pick as we only needed points it ended up being pick 2 and we could have extracted better value from that if we held it
 
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I think clubs have just finally cottoned on that going to the draft is almost pointless when it’s the most shambolic system in world sport
The top end is worth it. But clubs have realised that in a standard draft (might be different this year) the margins get small pretty quickly -there isn't a particularly big difference in hit rate between pick 15 and picks 40.
 

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Yes all the early draft picks we’ve had didn’t really help did they? Other than being blessed with 1 N. Daicos.
Trading out 6 first round picks in 10 years probably didn’t help much. Coupled with the fact Stevo was a bust, Murphy had his concussion issues and we were unable to keep Henry and Ginivan. That said Henry and Stevo were the only high picks there
 
When drafts are so stacked, you are always gonna have good players fall outside top 10-15, and you find a bolter. That is what we can hope so if we don't manage to trade up. This year more than most. If we don't manage to trade up and have late 20's or 30's picks, we can just draft for needs with talls; as that's where most of the talls are meant to fall because of all the stacked mids.

Ome of your fav players ElliottsMaggies Darcy Jones was pick 21. So just shows how you can find good players outside the first round
 
Same people bitching about picking up Houston will be celebrating like mad when we add number 17 to the cabinet next year. We are in our window, let's flipping go.
That why we be Targeting Mature Age Players for next season or 2
 
Well, we could just lose most games every year for a few years & pick up lots of high picks...if that's what you'd prefer.

Personally, I'd rather keep going for that premiership.
Hasn’t the Carlton model shown you everything you need to know about success. Stockpile those high end draft picks, **** winning flags. That’s for suckers.
 
In what has been dubbed as the strongest draft for years you should not go at lads than a 50% strike rate for finding an A grade player.

Yes next year is more complex as the talent pool is supposed to be weaker and the top end is dominated by academy picks plus we have McGuane who at the start of this year was projected as a first round pick and has likely climbed in the rankings.

Yet the last time we traded out a pick as we only needed points it ended up being pick 2 and we could have extracted better value from that if we held it

Yes but we're not holding first round picks in this draft. And we're not likely to turn a future first, Noble and Richards into two first round picks in a really strong draft, unless they're pretty late first round picks. If we could turn them into Houston though, bring it on.
 

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