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.

 

[Rich01]

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.

2003 was a stinker. But you’re going back 21 years to find such a bad draft. Feels like it’s been called out by all and sundry as the opposite to this.

And 2020 if we used the picks as they fell that night would have got us….

Thilthorpe, Hollands, Pedlar, Bruin, Holmes, ODriscoll and Berry.

Not the best return but also not the calamity some castrophise in a draft where there were reasons for it being so variable.

 

[Wild Bill]

2003 was a stinker. But you’re going back 21 years to find such a bad draft. Feels like it’s been called out by all and sundry as the opposite to this.

And 2020 if we used the picks as they fell that night would have got us….

Thilthorpe, Hollands, Pedlar, Bruin, Holmes, ODriscoll and Berry.

Not the best return but also not the calamity some castrophise in a draft where there were reasons for it being so variable.

You are getting Ashcroft, Kako and Lombard bids before 18. Replace Holmes with Bowey.

 

[Tonythetiger]

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.

In years gone past, we've struggled with first rounders and really had a lot more success later in the draft and the rookie draft. Guys like Dow, RCD, C.Ellis and Lennon are examples where we had one pick in the first round and stuffed it. There's a lot more to be optimistic about this year due to the eveness of the draft and the sheer number of goes we have to get it right. Blues got Curnow and McKay in one draft with picks 10 and 12 or something like that.

Bombers also had three consecutive early-mid first round picks and none have looked like becoming stars. I'd rather have the opportunity to potentially nail it than be stuck with limited picks relying on the later picks coming good.

All the guys that left, they didn't want to be here anymore, it happens and it's understandable. We got great service out of all of them so can't complain. I really don't see how we can go into this draft with any other feeling but extreme optimism about what the future holds.

Would you think that being at rock bottom, ground zero we are closer to a flag than some other sides? I would argue that the Bombers with their current list are not going to make the leap to being a contender and are more likely to end up blowing up the list at some point in the next couple of years and starting again.

 

[Wild Bill]

In years gone past, we've struggled with first rounders and really had a lot more success later in the draft and the rookie draft. Guys like Dow, RCD, C.Ellis and Lennon are examples where we had one pick in the first round and stuffed it. There's a lot more to be optimistic about this year due to the eveness of the draft and the sheer number of goes we have to get it right. Blues got Curnow and McKay in one draft with picks 10 and 12 or something like that.

Bombers also had three consecutive early-mid first round picks and none have looked like becoming stars. I'd rather have the opportunity to potentially nail it than be stuck with limited picks relying on the later picks coming good.

All the guys that left, they didn't want to be here anymore, it happens and it's understandable. We got great service out of all of them so can't complain. I really don't see how we can go into this draft with any other feeling but extreme optimism about what the future holds.

Would you think that being at rock bottom, ground zero we are closer to a flag than some other sides? I would argue that the Bombers with their current list are not going to make the leap to being a contender and are more likely to end up blowing up the list at some point in the next couple of years and starting again.

I like what you have done. This draft is so important - it’s nearly like what the Suns and GWS got. Two different paths on how well they drafted. It’s what the Tigers face in November.

Agree about mid table finishes. It’s hard to make the next step with mid 1st round picks.

 

[Tbonefreo]

You are getting Ashcroft, Kako and Lombard bids before 18. Replace Holmes with Bowey.

I remember bowey. Is he still on the list?