I think once Rachele and Pedlar move to midfield we will need to find a forward like Frederick or McCreery to come in.Another WWT boy.Should be at the Crows.
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I wonder if WC ask for a priority pick
They could end up with just 3 wins from their last 2 years
They could end up with just 3 wins from their last 2 years
They made a strategic decision to take themselves out of the 2019 and 2020 draft in their pursuit of one player.
Absolutely no way should they be rewarded for one horrible list management decision.
If any team has ever been bad enough to justify a priority pick, it's this West Coast team. They have a percentage in the 40s and honestly I think their second half of the season will be worse than the first half. The Kangaroos are very bad and they are still massively better than West Coast and if they played next week I'd back them to win by 10 goals.
Whether priority picks should exist at all is another matter.
Whether priority picks should exist at all is another matter.
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Replace the W with a G in WC and they get more than 1 priority pick. A club like that needs help. Priority pick will take a long time to come into effect.
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It isn't a guarantee and never has been, it is just a risk averse pick where you have a very high probability of picking someone with a lot of talent, the media more or less picks them for you, you don't even need a recruitment department for pick one.
The players that haven't made the grade at the club they were drafted haven't made it anywhere else, even when they go to much better clubs. Watts was shit at Melbourne, he was shit at Port too. Some players just can't make the step up from junior football to AFL football.
I think the bigger issue is that the majority of pick 1s have been accumulated by a relatively small number of clubs that have been a rabble on and off the field, the majority of #1 picks have been over the last 20-30 years have been predominantly going to GWS, Richmond, Carlton, Saints, Melbourne and Gold Coast. Richmond and Melbourne have won flags since, but few of their number one picks made it to the premiership team, It isn't to say all bad sides result in potential pick one failures but these clubs were so bad for so long a lot of them just didn't survive long enough to experience success.
I think if there was a larger sample of clubs you could draw a conclusion, but we have seen a number of teams go from bottom four to top four pretty quickly and the sides that make the quickest rebound focus heavily on pressuring the opposition. It is much easier to put together a team that pressures than it is to put together a team of elite kickers.
A lot of those players also got close to winning flags, like the Saints, Deledio left the year before Richmond won the flag, etc. I think another factor is that the draft pool has increased in quality a lot over the last few decades so the number one pick isn't as big an advantage as it used to be so I think the concept of just taking the best player might be obsolete, it would make more sense to take the best player that will make the greatest improvement to your side.
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I think a condition of a club getting a priority pick is the whole footy department is sacked and the AFL oversees this for the next 4 years
You can’t let the people who caused all this go unblemished.
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Reckon North would be tempted to trade up for pick one with WC. They will have pick 2 and pick ~16ish (ports pick), that probably gets it done with something else going back their way.
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Not for Harley Reid it doesn’t
Will need to be pick 2 plus another top 10 pick at least
Gws are apparently keen, they'll have their 1st, Tigers 1st and whatever they get for Himmelberg.
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How can people say that WC have no stars? Just read an article stating they had the 3rd and 4th highest paid players in the league. (McGovern and Kelly)
They wanted 3 firsts for pick 1 (JHF). Their going to have to stump up similar
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No way I’m doing that..
Its pick 1 and the kid that is available looks likely to be a plug and play gun mid.
If north are desperate enough then
Their 1st this year and next year and the port pick…
Something ridiculous like that.. similar to what the crows offered North for pick one in the JHF draft. (So filuckn glad that didnt deal go through)
Take them to the cleaners..
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Beat me to it!
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Reid has actually played his best football this Season back and forward as surprising as that may seem, a highly
versatile utility perhaps more than a gun mid capable of playing on all lines. Going to be interesting to see how his much hyped "fend off" works at AFL level.
Sure he'll go Number 1 and rightly so but I think the gap has shortened a bit at the top end.
Therein lies the problem, too many $$$ spread between too few. And those getting paid are just going through the motions, Gaff is a great example of this.
Which player was that?
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When your 122 point win doesn't look so good :O
Surely the priority pick is based on the state of your list and not how it got there.
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Well the Eagles do play well at AO.
I mean, nobody's win against West Coast looks good after yesterday. We're the only team inside the 8 to beat them by over 100.
So far.
Sydney gained 15% yesterday :O
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Which is exactly why they are in a total world of pain...
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