West Coast Eagles Priority Pick (2024)
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Better Loosen Up
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They should get no more than what we got 1st time around.
End of 2nd rnd and end of 3rd rnd. Both have to be traded.
End of 2nd rnd and end of 3rd rnd. Both have to be traded.
So be it. Why should we care about other clubs after having to deal with several compromised drafts? Remembering that North have more concessions coming this year.
Why should we constantly have to deal with people directing us to split our top pick when no other struggling club has had to deal with that discussion?
Correct, but they need to wait another year or two before they get the small compo. North were bad for a long time and then they got even worse from 2020-2022 till the compo started. WC have only really been bad for this season since the last two were completely down to injury according to the Club, WA media and their fans. We shouldn't be giving out compo for injuries.
It was 2nd rounder & 3rd rounder tied to your finishing position, behind your picks.
VinnieB
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Do WCE have access to F/S? If so, how can it be unfair?
Iceman!
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I can’t speak for everyone but I sure as shit would be. Get rid of the lot and have an actual draft
Because clubs that are contending(Brisbane/Swans/Collingwood/Carlton/Bulldogs/etc) are getting priority access to elite talent whilst those at the bottom are getting shafted in return.
If contending clubs want to continue to have access to those players, then they should give up on complaining about clubs, who end up with 1 pick in the top 30 (due to said FS'/academies) perhaps being given some draft assistance.
Or just scrap any form of access to father sons and academy picks entirely and make it an even playing field.
People can't complain about the one mechanism(PPs) to assist struggling clubs if they're then going to say that a system which directly advantages their own club can stay.
Agreed.
Iceman!
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The Western Bulldogs are the best example of this. In the past few years they have been contending for finals and in some years Grand Finals. During that stretch they have had priority access to JUH, Darcy and Croft.
That alone is more talent than some bottom teams have had access to through the draft. It is beyond ridiculous that the main equalisation method is year in year out so compromised.
Yep.
I'd happily not take a PP if they scrapped all forms of priority access to players in the draft and the only way clubs could target specific players in the draft were through trading out players/picks to get a high enough pick to potentially get said player.
At the moment, there's no risk for the massive reward they get.
Maybe rethink priority entirely
Maybe clubs can pay full price for f/s and acad kids in draft value but get a saving in the salary cap 10 or 20% discount on their cap number for life would still be a good incentive to grab these kids and it wouldn’t stuff up the draft so much
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Maybe clubs can pay full price for f/s and acad kids in draft value but get a saving in the salary cap 10 or 20% discount on their cap number for life would still be a good incentive to grab these kids and it wouldn’t stuff up the draft so much
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This seems fair to me
With which offers?
There should be no priority pick for just sucking. West Cost won a flag just over 5 years ago. There are only 4 other clubs that have won a flag more recently than West Coast - how is this anywhere near bad enough to justify any kind of assistance? Let's look at my club, the Crows, by comparison. We haven't even made finals since 2017 (and don't look remotely close to doing it this year), let alone won a flag which we last managed in 1998. We collected a wooden spoon in 2020, just 3 years before West Coast. If there are going to be priority picks handed out to anyone (which there shouldn't be), I'd argue we're more deserving than West Coast.
Both clubs got themselves into this state, and should be responsible for getting themselves out of it. Both still sticking with coaches who have presided over this period of sucking (in fairness to Nicks, the Crows already sucked when he got there - Simpson has presided over the fall from flag to spoon). Surely cleaning out your coaching and list management departments should be a prerequisite prior to even asking for any assistance? If not, why should anyone expect that the assistance wouldn't just get squandered anyway?
Both clubs got themselves into this state, and should be responsible for getting themselves out of it. Both still sticking with coaches who have presided over this period of sucking (in fairness to Nicks, the Crows already sucked when he got there - Simpson has presided over the fall from flag to spoon). Surely cleaning out your coaching and list management departments should be a prerequisite prior to even asking for any assistance? If not, why should anyone expect that the assistance wouldn't just get squandered anyway?
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Elixuh
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Ultimately pushing for a flag when they shouldn’t have (Kelly) and failing to trade out any of their ageing stars will have set wce back.
But no one wants to see a team plod around for 7-10yrs. WCE only in their third poor year. Should get assistance in their fourth or fifth if they’re still a laughing stock.
But no one wants to see a team plod around for 7-10yrs. WCE only in their third poor year. Should get assistance in their fourth or fifth if they’re still a laughing stock.
Don’t deserve one. Shot themselves in the foot with stupidity.
Them ****ing up shouldn’t be rewarded.
Them ****ing up shouldn’t be rewarded.
LukeParkerno1
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You do realise they were offered diabolical trade offers for it and don't do the pick index points value every bloke around knows it's horribly overvalued for mid tier picks. The main offer was 18,18, 19 for 1 basically, these picks became mid to late 20's on draft night...no club in their right mid is doing that deal. The Melbourne deal was worse so forget that. Don't think North ever packaged up an offer that included pick 2 or 3. If they did with their f1 it would have been considered.
There's an old saying quantity does not equal quality, 3 average to below average players is not better than one sure thing and Reid was the surest thing to come out of the draft in a decade.
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I simply asked the question whether WC also get to participate in F/S.
If they don’t, I agree, it’s unfair.
Huh? Chasing Kelly a year after winning a flag?
Guess we can expect Brisbane to start the rebuild this year then?
We're currently in a worse spot than when North first got assistance.
Not in this draft, or the next, or the one after.
Father/son is an incredibly unreliable draft mechanism and it shouldn't exist due to far too many variables.
If they want it to remain a thing, then the father sons should be able to join their father's club's academy and all clubs should be able to access their own kids that way. That way the club can build a formal relationship with the players from a young age and each club gets proper opportunity to invest in their direct growth
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