Yeah this would have been ideal. I’d be disappointed if this exact trade wasn’t proposed by our team. Perhaps it was but yeah.
Lol.
Forget that.
I just had a look at a mock draft which had Warner going to Freo with pick #21.
So maybe Sydney wouldn’t have been quite so keen after all…
(also had Lord at #38…so expecting him to be there in the #60’s is also optimistic).
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I’m actually coming around to this view - not because I think Andy can’t play mid like some seem to have suggested, but because it actually fits the team better. We won’t see it in 2022, but in future? It’s possible.
btw…I don’t think the most likely explanation for clubs trading up for Draper is an Essendon intel leak.
While mock drafts are only a guide as to what may happen, the same one had him going at #26.
You don’t need intel to spot that when you’re at #40 in the draft.
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Given we really liked Hobbs should have we traded next years first and this years first to secure Richmond’s pick 9. Thus ensuring we got our man. Following all the logic of not doing this for Draper surely the same incompetence of not doing this trade applies.
Now some observant poster is going to point out we didn’t need to as we got our man anyway. But yes that’s half the point.
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Do you reckon we have stats nerds with a list of likely selections from every club, giving statistical probabilities of players getting to our picks on the night?
I would like if cal twomey being a big bomber fan posted some bullshit occasionally to help us get our man and throw other clubs off the scent of who we wanna pick up. He seems as disappointed as any of us when we miss our guy.
No we clearly don’t have this and it is something we should invest in.
So much whinging over players in the 40+ range.
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But we actually got it right.
You don’t think with one pick to go knowing Geelong we’re going to take the local kid, we were pretty damn confident we could get Draper(it’s still a could we might not have). Just some other club came over the top.
People want us to eliminate this uncertainty, but you can’t, there is allways risk in drafting that the guy you want won’t make it to your pick. You can’t allways burn picks to remove that uncertainty as you continually weaken your draft hand.
You can do it sometimes if you think the player is really worth it. We did that for Jones, the fact we didn’t for Draper probably means he wasn’t worth it.
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Nuh I don’t agree on selling the farm, but I saw a few teams on the night trading up for absolute peanuts, realising that another club no longer had value for that pick. Collingwood traded up for something ridiculous to gws once their academy kid wasn’t bid on early and knowing they weren’t going to use the pick as gws said they were only going to take 3 picks in interviews. Actually Collingwood have drafted very well in the past 2 years which is a bit concerning, trading not so much.
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Collingwood drafted Diacos, Draper, Marley and Harrison(the last 3 all 40+)
They could have drafted Finn Callaghn and Daicos except they got cute with picks swaps last year.
No idea why people think that’s a win. Bottom 4 side, new coach and likely bottom 4 this year and they would have added two elite top 5 picks, accelerating a rebuild. Collingwood stuffed up big time.
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Yeah that’s why I said drafting not trading.
If you trade away your good draft picks, but get a win becuase your 3rd and 4th round picks have some name recognition it’s not really drafting well. I’d take the two top 5 picks any day over what they have done the last two years.
Starting next year without a second round pick too. So in a rebuild they are taking one kid under pick 40 two years in a row(this and next years). That’s bad strategy.
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You are not giving that much up to trade up in the 40’s. Not the same thing at all.
Also, yes if you want a player enough, you do that. Look at Port, they took no chances, got their man for a price they were comfortable with.
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Yeah agree, I was more referring to their performance on draft nights though. Their midfield will be stacked in a couple of years time. Actually they are very much like gws, love drafting midfielders and lack real key position talent.
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If Collingwood had pick 2, North would have bid on Daicos with pick 1. Although, I think Collingwood would have tried to trade up to pick 1 in order to avoid North Bidding.
Na North needed the feel good story of pick 1.
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So wouldn’t the logical conclusion be that we didn’t want anyone that much.
I have no idea. I was responding to a post saying that we were seething!
We have no right to be seething.
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