Good summation.
It would be tempting, particularly if you are moving other players and bringing in picks for them (Draper, Ridley, Parish).
We could feasibly get a player like Reid and still have two first round picks plus two NGAs given we also currently hold two good second round picks that can be used to move up the order.
Geez this trade and draft period is a massive, massive opportunity
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I think Lindsay will be gone by our pick so I’d be happy with Cumming and Greaves plus our 2 NGA’s.
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Langford could be interesting too.
What are the chances that Tevita Rodan nominates us over Port? Usually I think a player should choose F/S over academy but geez he looks good.
I sat next to the family at cannons match a few weeks back. The whole family was damn lovely, I sure hope he picks us and they’re part of our fight back to relevance
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BigFooty draft poster mentioned that the Rodan family are very settled in Melbourne so there is a strong chance Tevita would like to stay here which would put us in the box seat. But that could just be BigFooty speculation!!
I think he has a younger brother too who is apparently meant to be even better (aren’t they always!!?)
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Slim from what I’ve heard but that is obviously from those involved at Port. They look to have some decent F/S picks coming through and I’ve been told they have a verbal agreement to get Dougie for nix. Absolutely sucks that will be gifted a number 1 pick most likely
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NGA system is completely broken imo. Great that Dougie Cochrane will receive the pathway benefits despite a multitude of things holding him back, like a father who spent a decade as a professional footballer and attending a football school that has produced prospects such as Isak Rankine, Jack Lukosius & Mattaes Philipou.
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I just don’t understand how the system works.
As I understand it, Dougie hasn’t been in Ports NGA program up to now. So why can they just add him and pick him a year later?
Isn’t this essentially the same thing that the Hawks tried to do this year with Ollie Greeves and were denied by the AFL?
As I understood the rules, you were only eligible to match an NGA bid on a player that was in your NGA program before the age of 15.
The AFL just seems to make it up as they go along.
Why are we in a situation where everyone is waiting around twiddling their thumbs for the AFL to make some kind of “judgement call” on Dougie Cochrane?? Surely there are a set of rules here and he’s either eligible according to the RULES or he isn’t?
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What irks me is the obvious rorting. It was reported that Stuart Cochrane is/was exploring his indigenous heritage in order to have Dougie be applicable for Ports NGA. Could all be coincidental but he didn’t feel the desire to explore it at any other stage in his 46yo life? Or even when his other son was coming through? I’m not blaming him at all as it’s what the rules allow, but just seems an obvious rort on paper that the AFL created.
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It’s a very obvious argument the AFL or anyone could make to ensure the draft a little less compromised at the top end.
It’s not like Dougie couldn’t request a trade to port whenever convenient for him and port. Something they have done recently.
If they get away with it clubs will immediately start doing their own investigations into the heritage of highly rated prospects which creates a very awkward and concerning approach towards indigenous pathways that will almost certainly have a negative impact on kids who have been brought up in indigenous cultures and experience life as an indigenous kid in modern Australia. Eventually the AFL will have to officially put in the very obvious rules that they’ll have allowed select clubs to have skirted.
The most annoying aspect is that port will be championing why they should be allowed to take Dougie as an NGA in 26 and then championing why Rodan shouldn’t be allowed to participate in our NGA the next year.
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Another kid that’s played football his whole life and finds out late he’s 1/50th aboriginal so becomes an nga, absolutely ridiculous (obviously I’m exaggerating, but you get the point).
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Exactly - the system was designed to nurture multicultural talent that otherwise wouldn’t have access to the traditional pathways.
In Dougie’s case - his Dad played 10 years as a professional footballer, goes to the premier (public) school that produces plenty of AFL talent and is in a Central Districts development program that will have 3 first round draftees this year. Again, not blaming him but cmon.
It’s just a bloody rort I tells ya.
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It’s all a rort. What makes any sense at all about father son? It’s the romance they say? Romance getting a discount to the best talent in the country? If it’s the romance why not make them pay a premium or negotiate for all this romance?
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Let me stop you right there noober…
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Wow. Tobie must have been a very young father.
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