Opinion What if Brisbane win the premiership AND get the number one draft pick this year?

[Johnny Bananas]

The 7 x top 25 picks are all from the academy. They wont be requesting trades home and leaving for peanuts just to get away.

Wait a second, are you counting next years draft-eligible players already? If so, there's a proverb, don't count your chickens before they've hatched. Those players could all drop in draft estimations over the next year.

 

[Elixuh]

2 x no 1 picks in 3 years for Brisbane.

7 x top 25 picks in 3 years for GCS.

If QLD arent winning all the flags over the next 6 or 8 years there is something wrong.

Brisbane are a battler club and are just trying to remain competitive. We don’t have hawkball like the Hawks do. No one talks about that.

 

[HairyO]

Wait a second, are you counting next years draft-eligible players already? If so, there's a proverb, don't count your chickens before they've hatched. Those players could all drop in draft estimations over the next year.

Yes, 3 last year, 1 this year, expected 3 next year.

If it turns out that its only 2 in the top 25... it is still 1/3 of their starting 18 in a 3 year period.

 

[Johnny Bananas]

Yes, 3 last year, 1 this year, expected 3 next year.

If it turns out that its only 2 in the top 25... it is still 1/3 of their starting 18 in a 3 year period.

Starting? You know players often take time to regularly make the best 22, let alone the starting 18, especially talls like Walter and Read? And not all players live up to their draft position.

 

[Cyclops]

No doubt this boy will be a star, but he coodabeen an even better banjo player:

 

[HairyO]

Starting? You know players often take time to regularly make the best 22, let alone the starting 18, especially talls like Walter and Read? And not all players live up to their draft position.

I said 6 to 8 years.
I expect Brisbane to be ahead of GCS for the next couple of years. GCS should really be hitting their strides starting 2027.

If they still cant make a Prelim by then they just need to be folded.

More than 15 years of insane concessions.

 

[King Patty]

Luck of the draw, as Lions got a father son.
QLD & NSW Academy concessions need to be reduced though. which they will be next year.
I think top 10 players should be excluded from academy bids.

So guys like Lombard could go anywhere.
outside top 10 anyone can match bid.
Maybe need to be 150+ afl games to match a top 10 bid on father son. which wouldn't have effected quality guys like Daicos, Darcy, Ashcroft anyway.

 

[juss]

Funny how your first response in August 2022 is different to your most recent response from yesterday. Back in 2022 you seemed unbothered and it was just luck for the draw for Brisbane to land Will Ashcroft. Now it's a "massive leg up" that Levi Ashcroft happens to be a top 2 talent as well. Don't forget, the Lions also landed another F/S prospect with pick 12 two years ago and his name is Jaspa Fletcher. It's got to be the best run any club has ever had with the F/S rule.

Brisbane is either the luckiest club in the AFL or they are doing something that other clubs aren't when it comes to F/S prospects.

Yes it's funny how views can change in 2 years, it's almost as if things change and new circumstances come to light.

TBH I wasn't even really aware of the second Ashcroft, but the point remains, it is entirely luck of the draw ans entirely they will massively benefit from it. That's been a pretty consistent view.