Review Winners and losers - trade week 2024

[Wild Bill]

Most sides achieve nothing and then have to rebuild with your stock standard draft picks, maybe a free agent compensation, an older player trading out.

The perfect set of circumstances eventuated for our rebuild and we got a premium on a number of players who we would have gotten much less for if they weren't premiership players. This is an expansion side draft hand we have been given and if we take all the picks and really nail 5-6 (or more) of them, we are going to bounce back hard.

Losing 3 of your best 5 players as well as the Tiger GOAT will put you a long way back.

Yes you have a great draft hand - but if its A 2003 or 2020 draft then the bounce back is a long way away.

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

Fair enough.

I think Pick4 will need to become a gun full time midfielder for you to genuinely challenge. That will take a couple of years at best.

That will allow Soligo to be #2 and Rankine and Dawson to keep playing their part time roles. Peatling can be part of a strong midfield team but I don't think he is that top end talent.

Time will tell.

Why would we want Dawson & Rankine to play part time roles? They are our best 2 midfielders, so along with Soligo, Crouch, Peatling, ANB & Rachele gives us some depth in midfield rotations. Pedlar & Taylor should provided some depth too.

Hopefully pick 4 will come into the side, but we shouldn't be banking on them.