Pretty sure this isn’t right, its match with first pick and then the next one straight after. Can’t choose.
That’s why if a club goes into deficit, it affects their first rd the following year. They can’t just say take it from our F3 for example.
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Best bet is to check out Split Rounds outstanding work here:
Why can’t we just give him a contract?
Old man Goldy got one and Menzie got 2 years, it’s hard to see Jayden being worse than either of those two
Menzie has a one year deal not two.
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The picks get absorbed one after the other in order, and any left over points are absorbed to push the next pick you have up by that amount. In this case pick 28 first, then 31 and so on.
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We have options to do what we wish. We could just contract him now.
However we have 7 picks with points attached to them. And if we don’t give Davey a contract, 7 list spots.
So I can’t see us giving him a contract pre-draft, as that allows us to use all of those points.
On draft night, some of those picks will go to the back of the draft after bidding on Kako, and we will likely pass on some or all of those picks and instead use those empty spots on rookie draft/dfa/ssp.
If we want to keep Davey, we will have an agrrement with him, that we will pick him back up in rookie draft or dfa would be my guess.
I may have to tidy up how it’s written, then. You use your next pick. If all the points of that pick are used, you use your next highest pick, etc, etc. You never have any choice in which pick is used next.
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I think Rosa has done well getting Kako this year and 2 firsts next year.
If he can use the system to get a 20 odd pick this year and a couple of later picks to fill list gaps, I think we are heading in the right direction.
The cream from next year would be to add 2 of the high profile free agents current becoming available. Get on the front foot and start talking to managers now, do a Geelong and start playing the long game with these guys.
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If we want him on the rookie list, we have to delist him and take him in the rookie draft.
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Rookie draft would be the only way. DFA period occurs before the draft. There used to be a second DFA period after the draft, but they’ve removed that since the introduction of the SSP. Teams can’t use the SSP to add a player to their list the same year they delisted him, precisely to avoid manipulating list spots for the main draft.
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Essendon is like a government major project that can’t get out of the planning phase. All the resources have been hired and are getting paid hefty salaries, but they are just sitting around waiting for the execution phase to begin. No one is in a rush, because they are getting paid regardless.
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Doesn’t seem that amazing to me yet, we’ve positioned from hoping for a first rounder + Kako this year (but hadn’t solved the points yet and faced an early bid risk) to Kako and a first next year after the 28/31 go, feels like there is one move left to make it really great rather than just… fine
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Ha, all good! I liked your idea better anyway
Like everything there is risk; But; if we can trade 28 & 31 for future 2nds, then trade back in for a mid-late 20’s pick, and keep our F1’s it would be a very good outcome.
Picking a star with that pick would make it an excellent outcome. 
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i’d keep Baldwin
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3 yr plan to actually achieve what? Anybody know?
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Probably this.
By year three of the Rosa plan, the Bombers will be more willing to splurge on a prized recruit, hoping that, by that stage, they will have assembled more elite talent – and invested games in those kids.
On the way to sustained success 
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