Opinion North Melbourne Priority Picks Part 2 - 2023/2024

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I'm surprised West Coast are still that low.


I said last year, I wanted the AFL to simply get rid of priority picks entirely (well, unless there is disaster that wipes out half the club's list or something). I still say that.
Just drop the cap floor, as a percentage of salary cap, so all s**t teams should have the space top entice players in. Announce that now and start it in a couple of years, it can't be the following year because it could mess with list management a lot and sides deserve a chance to adjust.
I agree.

Salary cap is around $13 million or $13,000,000. Its stupid that 95 percent of that is $650,000 less or $12,350,000.

Knock it down to 90 percent or $11,700,000.

Hell even 80 percent or $10,400,000 would be good.
 
Pick 1 and 2 on the proviso that they must trade them for experienced players over the age of 24

Have at it with your best bids

Get the feeling this will be AFLs next crack at compensation
Would only work if clubs could trade players against their will. Otherwise it's just the fishers and Dylan Stephens lining up for a pay day.
 

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Would only work if clubs could trade players against their will. Otherwise it's just the fishers and Dylan Stephens lining up for a pay day.
But even if you're just getting retreads, the aim is to get the ones who incrementally improve the list, demand better training standards, offer young players an example in preparation - not the ones who were well know as conditional at better teams.
 
Sydney are kings of offloading duds or average players for good picks

How they managed to offload Hannebery to st Kilda when was on MASSIVE coin and a long term contract when his body was shot still astounds me

My st Kilda mate laughed at me when I said that he will be lucky to play 5 games. Was pretty much on the money

Part of being a successful club and yours did it too is knowing when to offload players. Getting pick 19 for Stephen’s when we’d have delisted him and wasn’t near our best 22 is fantastic business. The Hanners one was awful at the time but he was cooked when he left us still a fantastic Swan
 
The rot started when they delisted or forced into retirement a bunch of players (including Boomer and Petrie) in 2016 after they had just made the eight.

I know they were nearing the end but they were also best 22 players or close enough to it and played in the elim final.

Could have had a staggered exit for some of them and transitioned to youth over a season or two as they earned it but I think it just sent a signal they’d be playing kids because they were kids.

Now we’re talking about priority picks eight years later ffs.
 
The rot started when they delisted or forced into retirement a bunch of players (including Boomer and Petrie) in 2016 after they had just made the eight.

I know they were nearing the end but they were also best 22 players or close enough to it and played in the elim final.

Could have had a staggered exit for some of them and transitioned to youth over a season or two as they earned it but I think it just sent a signal they’d be playing kids because they were kids.

Now we’re talking about priority picks eight years later ffs.
Yep. Ripped the heart out of the club.
 
They’ve almost got themselves to the point where they need to offer someone like McDonald ~$1m a year and Busslinger say ~$750k. They’ll probably Get knocked back so then move onto players like Howard for his retirement fund, possibly someone like Hayes.

The biggest problem is that the coach could be the wrong man for the job
 

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He would not be putting in the numbers he is at west coast, he would be sent to a position he isn’t (half back) like sheezel or mckercher

Agreed to an extent. He'd be getting key'd on more specifically if he wasn't playing along side guys Yeo and Kelly. The coaches had him planned on playing him at half back this year then saw how ineffectual we has in the practice games and decided to abandon it and move him back to the middle and split time deep forward.
 
The rot started when they delisted or forced into retirement a bunch of players (including Boomer and Petrie) in 2016 after they had just made the eight.

I know they were nearing the end but they were also best 22 players or close enough to it and played in the elim final.

Could have had a staggered exit for some of them and transitioned to youth over a season or two as they earned it but I think it just sent a signal they’d be playing kids because they were kids.

Now we’re talking about priority picks eight years later ffs.
Was saying the same today. It was insanity also that they then used those 2 list spots to pick up Marley Williams and Paul Ahern. Not like they went and hit the draft, just picked up 2 random crum bums from elsewhere....
 
The rot started when they delisted or forced into retirement a bunch of players (including Boomer and Petrie) in 2016 after they had just made the eight.

I know they were nearing the end but they were also best 22 players or close enough to it and played in the elim final.

Could have had a staggered exit for some of them and transitioned to youth over a season or two as they earned it but I think it just sent a signal they’d be playing kids because they were kids.

Now we’re talking about priority picks eight years later ffs.
It's made worse when they weren't like GWS or Gold Coast where they'd at least be replacing those champions with elite picks through an academy, or a Geelong, Sydney or Collingwood where they'd be bringing in established guns.

They got rid of them, and proceeded to bring in the likes of Marley Williams, Billy Hartung, Dom Tyson, Jed Anderson, Jasper Pittard, etc.

It flies in the face of the original strategy.

Boomer, Firitto, & Petrie might not have been what they once were...but at least they still carried the nous and experience to pass on some of that knowledge to the young brigade if they had kept them. Geelong have done it for 15 years.

The spuds they bought in were never good footballers even in their prime. The whole thing made it look like they had no idea what direction they wanted to go in.
 
Actually two of the dumbest things. They could have also tried to trade pick 2&3 as well but were too stingy and missed out.

and the funny thing is, if they had 1&2 this year, they would give them up without a blink.

if we could find another Reid, I'd give that up. It's costly, no doubt! but you know what you will get.

I don't mind whole winning game thing. we also did a dumb thing and beat the dogs but any hint of tanking destroys a club.
 
Was saying the same today. It was insanity also that they then used those 2 list spots to pick up Marley Williams and Paul Ahern. Not like they went and hit the draft, just picked up 2 random crum bums from elsewhere....
They also brought in guys like Nathan Hrovat.

It was a badly thought out strategy, like they wanted to do a lightening quick rebuild with fringe players from other clubs at the expense of club legends.

Anyway I have sympathy for the supporters who have had to put up with what followed. I’d be against an early first rounder given how many they’ve had recently. Maybe early access to state league players or an extra second rounder etc.

They problem is when you’re down and out it’s hard to recruit talent from other clubs without paying massive overs but they need some senior support.
 
It's made worse when they weren't like GWS or Gold Coast where they'd at least be replacing those champions with elite picks through an academy, or a Geelong, Sydney or Collingwood where they'd be bringing in established guns.

They got rid of them, and proceeded to bring in the likes of Marley Williams, Billy Hartung, Dom Tyson, Jed Anderson, Jasper Pittard, etc.

It flies in the face of the original strategy.

Boomer, Firitto, & Petrie might not have been what they once were...but at least they still carried the nous and experience to pass on some of that knowledge to the young brigade if they had kept them. Geelong have done it for 15 years.

The spuds they bought in were never good footballers even in their prime. The whole thing made it look like they had no idea what direction they wanted to go in.
And after missing out on Martin and some other A Grade talent they brought in Polec on a massive deal (Pittard was the steak knives from memory). A very confused strategy.
 
Genuinely don't know how they go forward
Melbourne were in a similar hole in the early 2010s - out of finals for years, gutted all the older players, uncompetitive, coaches booted left and right, looked utterly hopeless with no way out - and they eventually found a way.

Roos should scour the VFL and similar leagues for mature players with leadership ability. Don't have to be superstars, just blokes you know are able to lead men and will bust their guts for the chance at playing AFL. Much better than trying to keep bringing in other teams' discards that are just looking for a payday.
 
It's made worse when they weren't like GWS or Gold Coast where they'd at least be replacing those champions with elite picks through an academy, or a Geelong, Sydney or Collingwood where they'd be bringing in established guns.

They got rid of them, and proceeded to bring in the likes of Marley Williams, Billy Hartung, Dom Tyson, Jed Anderson, Jasper Pittard, etc.

It flies in the face of the original strategy.

Boomer, Firitto, & Petrie might not have been what they once were...but at least they still carried the nous and experience to pass on some of that knowledge to the young brigade if they had kept them. Geelong have done it for 15 years.

The spuds they bought in were never good footballers even in their prime. The whole thing made it look like they had no idea what direction they wanted to go in.
Beyond that also not, they simply removed them from the club altogether and didnt even keep them along post retirement to keep the club standards.

Eagles have kept Luke Shuey for example whose working as a stoppages coach. Both Chesser and Reid saying the other day how big of a support he is each week

No one around to do that for North since they delisted them or traded them out of the club and burnt the bridges on the way out
 
Or extra list spots and 2 or 3 senior 27 - 30 year olds to provide decent mentors and support.

Yes it means as many kids dont get fast tracked but that is one reason the performances are so poor. Playing too many kids before they are ready simply to fast track them. And wins and being competitive is sacrificed by plan.

The problem is what 27-30 year olds are going there? A player like Taylor Adams is 30 and can still go to Sydney, how much would he need to be paid to go to North instead?

They put players like CCJ, Stephens and Corr on long term deals to get them across. Thats the level of players they can attract at the moment.

Now with the cap going up so much, it means every team is cashed up to spend, it really leaves North no chance to attract better players they need. They obv need KP players, but so many other teams do as well, there is no chance the better ones will choose North.
 

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