AFLW 2024 - Round 10 - Chat, game threads, injury lists, team lineups and more.
Why would we want him lol ? We invested so much in him just for him to leave like it was nothing.
Traded to GWS for two picks in the 20’s.
They never thought we would fall this far in a short amount of time. Prob thought the pick would end up being 11-13
Well yes and no. The pick would still have to be used for daicos, the debate is simply that we could have for more for pick 2 during trade night, than two picks in the 20’s. GWS have won and blind Freddy saw us dropping down, I had us at 13th. We got poulter who looks good, and McMahon etc, time will tell
I think they would have considered a chance but took the risk. It was essentially futures trading but my biggest complaint is even getting the picks that turned into Poulter and McMahon wasn’t a particularly good deal even when giving up pick 11-13.
We need Pendles to teach the new draftees. Get rid of our role models and we will be like Melbourne when they got rid of James Mcdonald and the rest of their leaders.
Trading Pendles would be about as bad for our image as possible, not to mention bad in terms of all the knowledge he can impart on our youth. Moreover, he's still our best mid!
If we had pick 2 or 3 from our ladder position then it’s quite likely it would have been used on Daicos if he goes number 1 as everyone is currently predicting as if we had say pick 2 when he was bid we would have had to use it under the F/S and academy rules. Essentially our 1st this year recruited Poulter, McMahon and possibly McCreery (we were so active last year I lost track but I think one of those pick 20s got traded (possibly with something else) to get two later draft picks which directly or indirectly turned into McCreery and McMahon). Having said that, as others have said I don’t think the club expected us to fall away this much. That’s the interesting thing about trading for future picks, clubs are gambling in how they or an opposition club may go in the next season.
I would have preferred us to have held this years 1st and traded it, perhaps for a highly rated player, perhaps for a 2022 1st rounder in this years trade/draft period. Would have netted a better return than what we got.
As good as they are, given their age I don’t think they have the trade currency they used to. If they were to move on, it would be more likely Sam Mitchell and Jordan Lewis type deals.
In hindsight I would agree with you and at the moment I‘m betting so would the club. But that’s the gamble clubs are taking when they deal with future draft picks, trading them in or out. I just don’t think the club thought we’d actually fall off the cliff and to be fair neither did the rest of the industry. Most people thought we’d be middle of the road with a pick in the early teens for which Poulter, McMahon and McCreery with a years development would have been a decent deal. As things stand right now , it’s not looking so shrewd. But either way it’s done and there isn’t anything we can do about other than look at what we can do with our list and How to get maximum benefit with what we do have and what we can now control.
I think you make a really good point with Grundy and Port Adelaide. They would probably believe that he would be the last piece in the puzzle to secure a flag. As much as I would love to keep him, we could get some real talent with his salary and would get some nice picks on top. We are in no position to maintain the likes of Grundy and would probably go places faster without him. Having said that, I don't believe we would trade him and i'm fine with that.
Woe is us, having to endure a top-2 ruck in the competition earning his market value in his prime
