12 becomes 15+ and 20 goes out to probably 25ish.
15 and 25 for Houston is a very average deal on our end when you consider he’s contracted and one of our best. We’d be better off just keeping him.
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12 becomes 15+ and 20 goes out to probably 25ish.
15 and 25 for Houston is a very average deal on our end when you consider he’s contracted and one of our best. We’d be better off just keeping him.
Ashcroft is the only pick before 12 who will absorb pick 18 and then you have a essendon and gc academy selection around the 12-20 range so 13 + 22 at worst and im still taking the picks in about 0.00001 of a second
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Not when we are supposedly in a premiership window. Different if you are rebuilding like Richmond with Rioli.
He's 27.
Subject to injury he'll play nearly 60 games before he turns 30.
And in this day and age 30 isn't old.
Houston could easily play 150 games for his next club should he be traded.
Lombard has been touted as likely top 10 and possibly Kako around that range. Doesn’t take much for that pick to be out to 15.
Receiving pick 15 for a contracted Houston is robbery. We have absolutely no reason to accept that.
When other lesser players in his position are going for top 10 picks, it’s pretty simple. Either match with a top 10 pick or put in an extra first rounder.
100% mate. Players still in their prime at 30 these days. Clueless posters banging on about his age as if that is a major factor. You’re paying the picks for elite talent in their prime for an instant hit to your list to potentially bridge the gap to a flag. Really need to stop overvaluing a pick 12 that won’t value add to a contending list for a few years.
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This is such a pointless attempt at posturing. You’d still be getting the 12th and 20th best players available from those in the open draft pool. It’s naive to think that this type of logic has any real gravity in these discussions.
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Battle might get the saints an extra pick. But I see your point.
I think it’s naive to think it isn’t taken into consideration when it’s a contracted player.
Why trade him for a diluted pick when we could just hold him and trade him a year later if he still wants out and get a pick in the same range then anyway?
If the Blues want him and they don’t want to part with their F1 as well, well then they need to find a way to improve their current pick so it doesn’t get pushed back to 15+.
If the Blues don’t want to pay overs which Port will rightly demand, Dan will know that North is his destination if he wants to return to Melbourne …
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I think we are up against it on this one.
Good luck with that in this draft mate, the campo twins have had decent years and were top 10 picks to start the year now going 30-50 such is the talent in this pool, if he leaves you arent getting better than pick 12.
27 is approaching 30, he will be a month off 28 when he 1st plays next year.
He could net you 150 games just as pick 12(13) could net you a duel brownlow medalist and captain of your club for 10+ years.That is without even mentioning the 200 game HBF you could get with pick 20 on top of pick 12.
Particulary this year im hitting the draft 10/10 times for that asking price, just look at the Saad trade Essendon made out like bandits overpaid for a HBF who now at 30 is starting to struggle with injuries and a long way off the player he was.
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