Rumour GFC 2024 Player Trading, Drafting FA, Rumours and Wish lists Pt 3

[cats_09]

Here's 2024 Provisional AFL Draft Order

Cheers to Lore for their hard work in setting this up, and making it available for all users on BF to use and keep track of the picks ahead of the upcoming draft - and please practice patience grasshoppers if it's not updated in the immediate aftermath of completed trade





I'll also sticky this post to ensure it's easily accessible for discussion of our hypothetical trader


Also,

2024 Draft and Trade Period Key Dates​

Oct 17 to Nov 8: Pick swap window
Nov 1 to Nov 8: Delisted free agency period
Nov 20-21: Telstra AFL Draft
Nov 22: Telstra Pre-Season Draft and Rookie Draft

 

[Pure_Ownage]

what makes people think that Reid wants to come to Geelong?

also would you trade

• Humphries and Edwards and our future first for him? or possibly
• Holmes, Humphries and our future first

I would not take any of these.

Holmes would never agree to leave Victoria so its irrelevant.
I wouldn't trade humphries unless my hand was forced. I would trade neale (reluctantly as it would force us to find another kpf and he's a decent player but Reid is absolutely generational) or Edwards if that's what it took.

Unless neale absolutely shoots the lights out neale/edwards and 2 first rounders (with later picks exchanged either way) is probably what they would ask for.

 

[Pure_Ownage]

I'd be extremely surprised if we paid up for a ruck again this year with Edwards and Conway on the list. It feels like lazy reporting. They look at our list and see we need a ruck and don't check that we've already invested big time in developing rucks.

Twomey seems to be hinting it but this is one year even he will struggle to predict because of how even the draft is.

 

[Pure_Ownage]

I like the look of Jobe Shanahan.

Not sure if we would be able to get a back into the draft early enough to snag him… could be borderline a chance if he is someone we are keen on.

Shanahan + Neale young key forwards.

SDK + COS young key backs.

Conway + Edwards young rucks.

We’d all of a sudden look reasonably set for key position players all over the ground if we could get Shanahan.

I wonder if ess will try to trade back in for him after the kako bid.

If we are to use our F1 to trade up what are our targets for a trade? My take is
Richmond (maybe our F1 plus 45 for 18),
Essendon (F1 for 28, 31 or 40) or
Brisbane (F1 for 27, 34).
Any of those have legs?

Depends who we want and if they are there.
I think rich will keep 18. We might be able to do 20 or 23 for 45 and F1 type thing.
Brisbane don't have the points to trade out.
The problem with ess is they won't do a trade until kako is bid.
I still think we trade our future 1st with Sydney for 19 or 22 if we do it.

 

[BigCat1]

Really hope we don’t get duped into training a Future First for a pick in the late 20s.

Everyone has draft fever but no matter how much of a super draft this is that’s a ridiculous premium. If we get a pick around 20-21 then fine but after that forget it.

The time to trade picks like that was in the trade period (which we couldn't bc of the Smith stalemate) if we do it now on the night then factor that into the Bailey Smith

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Bailey Smith

Age

23

Ht

185cm

Wt

86kg

Pos.

M/F

Career

Season

Last 5

D

18.3

5star

K

8.5

3star

HB

9.8

5star

M

2.3

2star

T

3.8

5star

CL

2.7

4star

D

19.8

5star

K

9.6

4star

HB

10.2

5star

M

1.8

2star

T

3.2

4star

CL

3.2

4star

D

14.8

4star

K

7.6

3star

HB

7.2

5star

M

2.0

3star

T

3.4

5star

CL

1.6

4star

trade. All of a sudden it looks pretty grim

 

[year of the cat]

Is Dattoli someone we'd look at if he slid? He looks like a high impact, punish the opposition type... Small forwards are not a high priority though for us... Although I think he can play mid.

I’ve seen a fair bit of Dattoli as my nephew has played footy with him for years. I’ll be interested to see how his game translates to AFL. He’s tough, and has a good footy brain. Very driven. His Dad has pushed him since he was a young kid. But I just wonder whether he has the athletic profile to make it.

 

[Kobe Gryant]

what makes people think that Reid wants to come to Geelong?

also would you trade

• Humphries and Edwards and our future first for him? or possibly
• Holmes, Humphries and our future first

I would not take any of these.

In those scenarios you're essentially listing 22 year old B&F and AA squad member Max Holmes and raw ruckman picked in the thirties Mitch Edwards as equal assets.

The answer is no, though. Would rather trade picks for years in advance than entertain Holmes AND Humphries for Reid.

The guy is a freak, but we want to have a team ready to be taken to another level if he was to arrive, not a one man band ala Judd at Carlton.

 

[Turbocat]

Are you sure he gets drafted?

... has been linked to 4 clubs … Fremantle , Hawthorn, Geelong , Brisbane…

 

[Turbocat]

Cal linked us to

Dotson SA 203cm Ruck
Bowman SA 186cm Fwd
J Ough Tall Mid from Rebels - 194cm
H Boxshall Tall Mid 188cm WA
L Jacques HBF 184 cm Falcons Capt
L Voss tall Defender 199cm Dragons
Sam Davidson VFL
Will Hoare VFL 197cm tall defender Essendon/Pascoe Vale
Riley Bice VFL 185cm Werribee defender
Charlie Nicolls 197cm SA key fwd
Charlie McCartin - local footy Lorne 25 year old defender. Brother of Tom and Paddy

The Age said we had an interest in speedy onballer Unwin from the rebels and Trainor

Bowman looks like another who would be handy…

HSun … mentions a couple that Cal mentions ..so does that make those name more likely….

Alex Dodson
Sam Davidson
Charlie Nicholls
Lachie Jaques

and a few that are different...Charlie Rowe, Patrick Said, Lucca Grego..



It seems a big range of names that we might be interested in…. I guess if you throw enough darts sooner or later you hit the bullseye..


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[Turbocat]

what makes people think that Reid wants to come to Geelong?

also would you trade

• Humphries and Edwards and our future first for him? or possibly
• Holmes, Humphries and our future first

I would not take any of these.

Its all just a talking point but the truth is player for player trades are rare now. Im not sure how many there were this year but it would not be many. Players have a strong say in where they go and it rarely lines up both ways.

Its seems more likely that if Geelong were to trade for a player of Reid’s level and age.. we would have to find a truck load of picks..which means knowing he woudl want to move a fair way out..