Welcome Welcome to Adelaide: Alex Neal-Bullen - Traded for Pick 28

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Can't agree with the bit where you're happy to favour immediate uplift over future value, we're still rebuilding and are way off genuinely contending. Foregoing a potential Soligo for 3 years of ANB is not how you properly rebuild. You wear the down years to load up with talent that will be around when you're contending. We'll almost certainly going to rise up the ladder next year and contend for finals, but ANB won't be around when we're genuinely contending for a premiership. Happy to have him, but not at the price.

Foregoing a soligo? You mean foregoing a 20% of a Soligo - who in reality wont really impact our team until this year (or next).

We are at the stage where we need to rise up the ladder and get better as a team. We have invested through the draft (we have 7 first round picks 25 or under and 6 2nd round picks 25 and under).

We have a bottom four list in 23/24 with regards to Age/games played. Its time to surround our core of hopefully very talented core (TT, Rachele, Rankine, Dawson, Soligo, Max, Murray, Worrell, Fog, Curtin, Nankervis, Peatling).

 

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We look like needing 5 players at next year's draft and what it looks like we'll be left with is a first and downgraded 3rd. We should have played hardball on ANB and been prepared to walk away. If we'd traded 25 into next year's draft we would have made out like bandits.

If we'd not taken ANB then we would have another list spot to fill and would need the pick for this draft. And it would be pretty shitty to tell ANB we'll take him and then walk away from him. Good luck getting a player to nominate us again in the future if we did that!

If we need 5 picks next year, then we'll just trade some 2026/27 draft capital into the 2025 draft.