List Mgmt. The 2024 Draft (Nov 20/21)

[Keys]

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Drafted

• Bo Allan - Pick 16
• Jobe Shanahan - Pick 30
• Tom Gross - Pick 46
• Lucca Grego - Pick 48
• Hamish Davis - Pick 65
• Malakai Champion - Cat B

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Trade and draft period

In: F1, F2, F3, Baker, Owies, Graham, Allan, Shanahan, Gross, Grego, Davis, Champion
Out: 3, 63, F3, F4, Barrass, Darling

 

[Mudguts12]

We’ve very clearly prioritised hard, aggressive footballers over skills. Love the Gross selection, he’s an animal and will run straight out the front of the contest.

Expecting move the ball forward at all costs and a contested, manic style of play with fast ball movement, we’ve certainly drafted for it.

How good was it seeing him put Draper on his arse in his highlight vid haha.

 

[Farang83150]

Got a head similar to a recently retired player I recon!

 

[Jukes]

Feels like if we kept Pick 14 instead of trading it for Baker, we would have used it on Shanahan….

 

[CountryLad]

We’ve very clearly prioritised hard, aggressive footballers over skills. Love the Gross selection, he’s an animal and will run straight out the front of the contest.

Expecting move the ball forward at all costs and a contested, manic style of play with fast ball movement, we’ve certainly drafted for it.

It will certainly be a change from us chipping the ball 20 metres sideways to Gaff who then goes back behind the mark, takes 10 seconds to consider all options and then pumps it 28 metres down the line to a pack marking situation.

 

[Coasters7]

Feels like if we kept Pick 14 instead of trading it for Baker, we would have used it on Shanahan….

100%, given it sounds like we were trying to get back into the draft somewhere around there. Getting all our preferred choices and Baker is a huge W.

 

[HoneyBadger35]

Provisional 2025 draft order based on current ladder positions.

Richmond with one of the all time pissers of a draft hand.

 

[Byron_Clanger]

For people wondering where that leaves Malakai here's the post draft interview with our recruiting manager. He goes straight onto the list tomorrow according to him

 

[Bleedblueandgold]

If there's a negative in this draft, it's why claiming Grego cost us our 3rd round pick instead of Hawthorn's.
Brisbane just wanted to bank a pick, I can't see why Hawthorn's one wasn't enough.

 

[Keys]

Feels like if we kept Pick 14 instead of trading it for Baker, we would have used it on Shanahan….

Agreed

Things fell our way with players sliding

Only difference from our ideal draft based on what WCE_phil posted in the draft thread is we’ve ended up with Davis instead of Boxshall

 

[eaglevision]

How good was it seeing him put Draper on his arse in his highlight vid haha.

At the very start of the year I had him and Mraz as two I wanted to watch closely this year. Never went below 19 touches in the CTL for the entire season and to get him where we did is tremendous. Gross, Harley, Allan, Ginbey, Grego and Hewett will tear each other to pieces in match simulation. If we can sort the game plan and they all go on with it it’s going to be an imposing line up.

 

[eaglevision]

It will certainly be a change from us chipping the ball 20 metres sideways to Gaff who then goes back behind the mark, takes 10 seconds to consider all options and then pumps it 28 metres down the line to a pack marking situation.

Barrass also slowed the game down in D50 after a mark. Gov kicking long to this pack of animals we’ve just drafted will be a refreshing change.

 

[Grahame]

If there's a negative in this draft, it's why claiming Grego cost us our 3rd round pick instead of Hawthorn's.
Brisbane just wanted to bank a pick, I can't see why Hawthorn's one wasn't enough.

Because the Hawks finish below us?

 

[CountryLad]

Agreed

Things fell our way with players sliding

Only difference from our ideal draft based on what WCE_phil posted in the draft thread is we’ve ended up with Davis instead of Boxshall

Davis was a steal at that pick so still a good result. I feel Shanahan as much as most in here want mids was a steal as well. Clearly the Tigers didn’t rate him as highly as the Eagles but hopefully that’s a massive win.

 

[Byron_Clanger]

Feels like if we kept Pick 14 instead of trading it for Baker, we would have used it on Shanahan….

This. TheWest uploaded an interview with Shanahan a couple hours ago which I posted in his player thread where he said West Coast were interested in taking him with their first selection but then Bo fell into our lap. So to get the bloke we had penciled in at 16 at pick 30 as well as getting Allen is a massive win.

 

[Mop]

Rocking the 2007 era training shirt. Kid gonna be a winner

 

[Coasters7]

If there's a negative in this draft, it's why claiming Grego cost us our 3rd round pick instead of Hawthorn's.
Brisbane just wanted to bank a pick, I can't see why Hawthorn's one wasn't enough.

Because that was Clarke’s contribution lmao. Massey is responsible for the drafting. Clarke wet the bed again in a trade.

 

[Mudguts12]

At the very start of the year I had him and Mraz as two I wanted to watch closely this year. Never went below 19 touches in the CTL for the entire season and to get him where we did is tremendous. Gross, Harley, Allan, Ginbey, Grego and Hewett will tear each other to pieces in match simulation. If we can sort the game plan and they all go on with it it’s going to be an imposing line up.

Midfield packed full of BIBWBLF's, bring it on! So good to see the club ditching the speculative picks and get back on track again.

 

[Obeanie1]

So based off the draft picks this year, weve got for all serious hard at the ball tough nuts

In the next couple of years this group IMO will have some serious beef to throw around.

Half forward / mids Hewett, Harley, Davis, Gross and Hutchingson.

Half back mids Ginbey, Bo and Hough isnt small.

Mids Hall, Chesser

With Yeo, Graham and Duggan helping carry the load for the next 2 to 3 years.

Add Warner or two more 1st rounders as well and that is a powerfully built group with plenty of hardness amongst them.

Surround them with some outside speed and class. Champion, Dewar, Long with Baker adding hardness. With a couple of very promising skillful outside NGA lads next year.

 

[nameless]

If there's a negative in this draft, it's why claiming Grego cost us our 3rd round pick instead of Hawthorn's.
Brisbane just wanted to bank a pick, I can't see why Hawthorn's one wasn't enough.

We'll finish above Hawthorn

 

[dinnaz]

One early-ish drafted ruck on the list is enough for mine. Conventional wisdom now seems to be the draft isn't the place for most rucks.

If no one develops any- Then where do they come from?
I think we will start to see a sharp decline in the standard of rucks from an era where nearly every team had good-great options.

Jump if you see a projected gen player a bit like like Jackson (but that was stupidly early).

 

[eaglesnutcase]

So the naysayers who said we wouldn’t play finals for another ten years………

 

[Rowan18]

If no one develops any- Then where do they come from?
I think we will start to see a sharp decline in the standard of rucks from an era where nearly every team had good-great options.

Jump if you see a projected gen player a bit like like Jackson (but that was stupidly early).

I think that decline has already happened. The fact that post knee Nic Nat and Max Gawn kept getting AA in their 30s showed that there was no young rucks to take the mantle.

Clubs don't even want to draft them anymore. Just pluck them from the seconds comps or poach them from other clubs.

 

[HoneyBadger35]

I think that decline has already happened. The fact that post knee Nic Nat and Max Gawn kept getting AA in their 30s showed that there was no young rucks to take the mantle.

Clubs don't even want to draft them anymore. Just pluck them from the seconds comps or poach them from other clubs.

Add to that the fact that most clubs only play one ruck with a chop out from elsewhere nowadays, so long gone are the days of 30+ ruckmen getting a game each week. Slows the league wide development right down.

 

[WA footy mad]

So the naysayers who said we wouldn’t play finals for another ten years………
Nah never said ten years said 5

 

[Monocle]

Biggest win for me out of this draft is this.

We picked some hard arsed players, who are super competitive at the coal face, who are not afraid of committing to a contest.

Massey & Co kudos and a job well done.

We have gone run, grunt, crash and carry..... and amen to that ..........finally.

What a very refreshing change of course for the Club.