I agree. And I think the AFL likes being in the news with trades.
To the degree, I suspect if Richmond and Essendon wanted to do a deal to swap #1 and #2 and approached the AFL with the proposal and a request to keep the priority picks they might green light it.
Just thinking of recent trades this would have made impossible or harder, or at least impacted with hindsight:
can we have a separate thread on ‘Should we trade pick 1’,
and then another one on ‘Hypothetical pick trade scenarios and the Jay Neagle Butterfly Effect’ ?
Or at least, maybe it was covered during between holes 1 and 3 in the executive meeting. AFL ideas often get more scrutiny on nerdy forums than they do internally.
The weekend saw a change of role for Ethan Herbert, deployed as a deeper key forward, and he responded with a pretty impressive display. At 200cm tall Herbert is on the shorter side for a ruckman at AFL level, so proving himself capable in other roles will be big for his draft stocks. He took a number of impressive marks, showed some nice leading patterns and finished off his work with 4 majors including some nice set shot finishes.
I may be missing something but if we were interested in trading pick 1 couldn’t we make a bid so we get compensation pick and then trade it after that?
No we can’t, we have to use the pick and the compensation pick is not allocated until after round 1 is completed. As the thread says we are not trading pick 1 or even pick 2 if we win another game and end up with that instead.
This thread has been discussion the new draft rules since they were announced, a trade is simply not happening.
It actually makes it very hard to trade a future pick as well as if its say an Essendon future first you would assume that it would have an end of first round pick attached to it so would be super expensive to trade.
Would be kind of funny if pies trade next years first, then fall down the ladder and miss out on a second round compo pick after being pushed back by a bid.
It certainly seems like we are going to benefit from this end of first round compensation for this year and next year at least, which then AFL will probably scrap it.
Butler reminds me of Toby Green, but he also has a bit of Murphy Reid about him to my eye. All the other so called top picks other than hvh look underwhelming and with skill sets that don’t match the modern game as well. I’m talking guys like Williams and Edwards.
