Club Focus North Melbourne 2024

[Ticky009]

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[LB2Snake]

My personal view, from Tigers perspective, is that there is not a lot of difference between getting a second player out of FOS/Lalor/Smith at pick 2 than getting Smillie/Langford at pick 6. So I would not be looking at involving pick 6 in a trade.
However, who knows what the recruitment team are thinking - are they set on a specific dynamic duo?

What about the possibilities of trading 10 & 11 for pick 2 while keeping pick 6?
It means missing on 2 of (for example) Travaglia, Lindsay, Armstrong, Berry for a second player out of FOS/Lalor/Smith and still getting Smilie/Langford.
That is definitely worth considering, especially if players like Berry, Hotton, Shanahan are a reasonable chance to be available at our pick 18 and are viewed close enough quality to those available at 10.

Would that also be attractive to North? Picks 10 & 11 instead of pick 2?
Would North prefer one of FOS/Lalor/Smith/Draper or two of Travaglia, Lindsay, Armstrong, Berry, Tauru, Trainor ?
Or, prefer other options involving trading out future first to get one from each group?

10+11 means both our preferred targets could be gone. Pick 6 involved more unlikely.
Pick 2 means for you that your absolute preferred 2 targets are at Punt road.
There is no real clear pick one this year, but there's not a massive imaginary gap to the 2nd bloke.
The top 4 look like locks to me.

 

[ctwenty1]

10+11 means both our preferred targets could be gone. Pick 6 involved more unlikely.
Pick 2 means for you that your absolute preferred 2 targets are at Punt road.
There is no real clear pick one this year, but there's not a massive imaginary gap to the 2nd bloke.
The top 4 look like locks to me.

who are your top 4 excluding NGA/FS?

For me (in no real order) Lalor, FOS, Draper and Smith

 

[Better Loosen Up]

If that happens again just shut the club down

8/9 wind should be a min and there is no reason they wont achieve that with double up games against the bottom 6 teams of 2024

There were games where North looked a million dollars for 3 / 4 of the game only to give up leads
That wont happen in 2025

North wont be bottom 3

So realistically, how many games do you see us winning next year? Because even if we double our number of wins next season, we are still bottom 3.

 

[Newbie Real Talk]

There seems to be a narrative that North are desperate for a key position tall. Charlie Comben established himself as a genuine game breaker this year and his future could be at either end of the ground. We also drafted a first round key defender Will Dawson last year who is tracking well. There is also a speculative tall we took at pick 2 in the rookie draft last year Finnbar Maley who was high in the VFL b&f as a first year playing forward/ruck. Then we have our AA key forward, a fit Logue, an improved Corr and an aging yet still capable Darling.
If North took one of the big 4 mids at pick 2 it would be fine. We are still to yet find our perfect midfield mix. The only 2 mids who are strictly CBA types are LDU and Wardlaw. The others are all very flexible.
There is quite a bit of depth for key position players in this draft and North could package F2 and F3 to get back in a bit later in the second round where there could still be Sims, O'Farrell, Gerryn, Mraz or Nichols to add to the developing stocks.