I am saying that we will only get that pick (say pick 20) during the draft when a player is bid before our pick.
So I was just having a cry that it is a shame we won’t have access to it during the trade period. So we can’t trade for a player like Walter.
But that was never the point of the compensation pick.
the whole proviso of the draft was crap teams to rebuild with youth.
the compromised nature of it is what teams are crying about
Some teams are crying about.
You don’t have much flexibility with it though. It gets given out at the end of night one, so you can’t use it to trade for a player or move up the draft order.
Its still a bonus pick so realistically you have 2 picks at the beginning of the second round’
Out of curiosity, where would Keenan Boi be sitting on the radar? Small forward with some good recent form. Hawks NGA product. Is he showing more than someone like Marcus Prasad at the moment?
On the surface, we definitely don’t need a small midfielder in Williams.
Butler seems like more of a need.
I am tempted on their pick 21 and challenging Dogs to match bid
I’d be fine with us drafting Williams. Our future midfield isn’t especially stacked. Parish and Merrett are on the way out. Braddles seems intent on pushing Tsatas out of the team. Durham and Robey are likely to be more part time mids playing a lot in the forward line, Kako even more part time mid leaning much more forward. Farrow is a possible rather than probable future mid.
So that leaves us with Sharp and Caldwell as full timers, and a couple of more part time impact players in the rotation
Neocleous or El Souki as the premier small forward this year?
Would love to either go the one of those two or Butler
he’ll be bid on in the top 15. Seems like a classic small forward that rises to each occasion he goes up to.
He’s the biggest watch come champs time for me. Looks so much better than his cohort right now
No Blake Justice 
Have said the last 6 months he’ll likely go outside 30, would need a seriously good back end of the year to shoot up the draft boards like Robey did last year.
We know what we have so im not disappointed he’s missing footy, think he could be a very good AFL player with his traits and athletic profile
think my number 1 target would be Van Hattum and then Butler. Williams would simply be best available and a bankable AFL player, Ala Dyson Sharp last year. Not disappointed with that at all
Thats my order too
Is Noah Williams quick? No issues with his size if he is pacey but don’t want a slow accumulator.
Yeh Blake had a great pre-season. Working on his upper body strength through hammy injury.
Just got this weird sense he may still have a strong 2nd half of the year to have recruiters tempted
tempting is a good way to describe him, I dont think he dominated any games last year but showed some flashes of brilliance to “tempt” recruiters.
we all know it just takes one club to bid
these second round picks we’re likely going to end up will be fascinating what we do with.
I wonder if we shift some into 2027 if we do end up with our own + this magical compo pick + anything we end up with from trades (looks at Zac Merrett)
