Yeah no way anyone is paying two potential firsts for pick 13.
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Herald sun has a mock draft out… behind the pay wall.
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Had us matching Richmond’s pick 12
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Just had a quick Look. I have to say reading the comments from the mock draft pickers they’re selections do make sense to me. Just looking at how many picks Richmond have I think it’s entirely possible that they’d be happy to trade some of those picks for future ones. If I’m Rosa I’d be all over them once Kako has been confirmed.
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Depends who’s left and at what cost.
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I don’t care if half back is a position of need or not just recruit this kid, with work ethic like that you can’t go wrong.
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I think there is a concern with Clarke. Is he another man child just used to bullying everyone at junior level with his all ready fully developed muscular frame?
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Yep, last thing we need is another Christian Bock situation.
AFL needs to do more to protect the u18’s from these beasts.
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I don’t care if he’s as heavy as me or light as a feather I want players with work ethic ready to do the hard yards instead of the pretty boys we normally do that are busy working on tans
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I take your point but honestly, there are 800 odd kids who nominate for the draft each year. Around 60 get picked from 18 clubs.
I’m going to go out on a limb here and suggest that every single one of these boys has been busting their guts for 10 years or more just to get noticed.
Of course there are degrees of dedication but the bar must be set very high in the first place if you’re going to make it.
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AFL Draft central has put out a 152 page draft guide for those interested.
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No doubt they do, but to me a guy from the country chopping wood to pay for flights beats the rich kid from the cbd rocking up in a Range Rover as a story every day of the week
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No offense but I find the way in which some footy fans fetishize country kids to be kinda weird.
The last time I looked the vic metro region has been the best producer of top AFL talent and has been for decades at least, if not the entire history of footy as a sport.
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I should have been more clear like in my first post I was referring to work ethic.
But of course vic metro is going to produce the most talent year on year against the country sides due to sheer numbers it’s like comparing USA to New Zealand in the Olympics
Sure, but if you were putting together a multi national team of olympic athletes to compete in the alien games you wouldn’t prioritise picking New Zealanders over Americans.
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I assume you are neither rich nor drive a Range Rover nor from the city?
Can some of the draft experts on BB help explain what our options will be on draft night?
Let’s assume Kako is nominated inside the Top 15 picks and take things from there.
Will we try to trade our future picks to get back into the early part of the draft (can we trade both future firsts - the Melbourne pick plus our natural first pick) or would we want to given the apparent quality in this years crop of players?
Who in particular would we do this for and who would trade with us anyway if the draft is so good
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I know a lot of this has been touched on but a quick summary would be very helpful
Not originally from the city no
Some of the talented kids at private schools are country kids on scholarships too.
None of us are Matt Rosa, and he hasn’t been expansive on his preferences as far as I’m aware so nobody knows really. He briefly mentioned the possibility of trading back in if someone we like slides, but we don’t know who he likes so its impossible to say really. He could have someone in his top 10 that I don’t have anywhere near it.
I do think that if we wanted to trade back in to the first round it would cost a lot. I’m not sure I’m a big fan of it for that reason. Plenty have in the past spoken about how draft picks in the hand seem to be more valuable on the night of the draft, that a kind of craziness seems to infect the minds of all the recruiting teams. As an example I remember last year that West Coast were trying desperately to trade their future first round pick (which ended up pick 3) to each and every team in the top 10… they initially were offering it so they could pick home town boy Dan Curtin, but after he was gone they apparently even offered it to us once we’d traded up into pick 10 and they would have used pick 10 to take Caddy themselves.
So its fair to say that in a draft this deep, if we wanted to trade back into the back end of the first round we would have to pay significant overs.
The points values will fluctuate and get tricky, but a scenario that I like more is if Kako is bid on anywhere from pick 8ish onwards we can cover the points value with our late cluster of picks (40, 46, 53, 54) - so have something negotiated in advance where when the bid comes we trade out 28 + 31, match Kako using those late picks, then trade back in later to draft a couple of sliders that we like in the 30s or 40s. The depth should mean that there very talented kids around that pick range, it should be cheaper to trade back in at that stage rather than the first round, and it would leave us with an extremely strong draft hand for 2025.
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