2 years to prelist 17 year olds, plus a 17 year old mini draft…
On top of all the regular NGA and F/S stuff.
Going to be some pretty rough drafts coming up.
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We need to be utterly ruthless to get our hands on those mini-draft and must-trade draft picks.
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The tricky bit for Tassie won’t be finding clubs eager to trade for those picks, it’ll be convincing the established quality players that they need to join them.
They’ll have a massive wheelbarrow full of money to chuck around which will certainly help, but most established clubs have a pretty good pipeline of ways to ensure their players are financially taken care of, ranging from Cotton On franchises to Welsh and dodoro’s property development schemes.
I could very easily see a scenario where a few late-career middling players make absolute bank off Tassie’s concessions because the big names and big talents all knocked the offer back, while the side spends years being crap and destroying young players by overworking them too early.
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Yep, all fair points. I just want us to make the best of it as we can.
Virtually every EFC player of the last decade or two cursing their timing.
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If Parish can get on the park at some point, he might be a mature body that they might overpay for in terms of slinging us a decent draft pick. That’d be a good outcome.
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They should look at players who lived there:
- James Leake
- Riley Sanders
- Colby McKercher
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Not really enough for mine.
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2027 draft is going to be diluted as fark Tassie will be able to sign draftees the year before they are eligable.
But will they be able to keep their gun 18-21 year olds? Tassie is more likely a place for 40+ year olds go to get out of the hustle and bustle.
Also, does the stadium need to be built before they enter? Or just confirmed that it will be built?
There are a group of local business owners in TAS who are already talking about what additional opportunities they may be able to assist with.
Yep. 2028 just became more compromised.
But heh, EFC seems to want to trade out of 2025’s draft, one of the last lesser compromised ones. Perfecto!
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Do we? Or are you just jumping at shadows.
Outside of potential 2nd rounders for Flanders, or something for Fiorini, what’s even been suggested?
We’ll have a bunch of first rounders depending on Draper compo/Merrett.
Hardly feels like we’re trying to “trade out of the draft”
Assuming by “EFC” you mean the club and not just crazy supporters.
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It is really dumb strategy. If we load up this year and next we could be at a big competitive advantage when all the compromised drafts come through in a few years. Instead we’re wanting to burn picks on guys like Sam Flanders, brayden fiorini and retain Zac Merrett.
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I’m no expert but with Tassie having the picks they’re going to have and us being likely at the pointy end of the draft for the next couple of years, isn’t it a competitive advantage if we tried to get into any and all first round picks in that draft and make it virtually a two horse race by locking other clubs out of as much of the first round as possible? I know it’s a hot take, but is it strategically a terrible idea?
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Well, you just mentioned the players we might trade in. Plus there seems strong talk we’ll trade up. And EFC seems to be trying to retain Merrett. 
Does kind of look and sound like that. Flanders, sure I guess. But otherwise retaining and then getting in 2 blokes who won’t be in the next competitive side we put out there is very stinky. Early days, due diligence etc. Fiorini might be a good leader type, meh.
Give him his own golf course
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