You think Cox is ok at a bunch of things?!
I can’t think of one. Although I guess he’s ok at being ■■■■!
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The list strstegy was
HBF who can move onto the midfield
Bean pole project talls
Players who are average at multiple positions
He drafted like he was stuck in 2002
He didn’t draft according to how the game was being played
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Anyone got access to text of this article please? Cheers
Not long until the draft. How can we get Shanahan?
There are reports that Dodoro is camped outside Mar-a-Lago pleading for a cabinet position.
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Even Trump wouldn’t be that stupid.
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Tigers should be our main target for getting active in the pick swaps. My preferred scenario would be the following:
Before Kako bid:
Trade 28 & 31 to tigers for 2025 2nd
After Kako bid:
Trade dees 2025 first to tigers for picks 20 & 23
We would want both trades agreed to before initiating.
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I don’t think Tigers would have any interest in increasing their 2024 draft hand. Even for Melbourne’s pick I don’t think they do that.
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I like the After Kako option, could be a chance.
Agree with Ants about the Before Kako.
Tigers could potentially then auction off our two picks for a couple of future 2nds though
Maybe we don’t land 20 & 23 but reckon there’s a win both ways in there somewhere
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If they don’t trade up for pick 2, maybe they’d be interested in that trade with us. I think they have one too many picks.
We could land Faull or Dattoli or someone like that.
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Not interested in moving a f1 for 20 and 23 tbh. We’ve made our bed with the trade and I’d be taking two firsts into next year.
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Agree. Particularly if clubs expect us to pay overs to get back into this draft. I’d be inclined to hold onto what we’ve got next year.
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I think it depends on the players who slide. And also whether we’re any chance of tempting Harley Reid to request a trade.
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Not even close to being enticing from Tigers end.
Teams will be offering future firsts straight up for pick 20 possibly even pick 23 straight up as well.
Melb F1 for both is laughable.
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Apparently the Cats are interested in trading up higher to secure the SA ruckman Alex Dodson. Collingwood keen to get a bit higher as well.
I’d look at trading 28 to Geelong for 45 plus their future second.
31 to Collingwood for 52 + their future second.
Once the bid for Kako has come at say 11, (1063 points after discount), we match with: 40,45,46 and are left with 52,53,54 which have all come in 7-10 with all the bid matching from ourselves, GC & Brisbane.
We are also now armed with three 2025 second round picks including our own to buy back into the late first/early second round of 2024. I’d rather use these and keep the Melbourne first round pick.
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Absolutely agree. Just not sure we’d get back in the 1st round; but, a mid-late second round and a third rounder or 2 could be very handy.
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I think having a lot of draft capital in next seasons draft isn’t a bad place to be anyway. I’m not completely on board that it’ll be a weak draft yet for starters. Plus having those assets in a market with big names moving gives us the ability to get involved in favourable deals.
For instance, Chad Warner seems likely to be moving, and one of the two WA teams will need to satisfy Sydney will sufficient draft capital. We could be holding a swag of picks that suddenly highly in demand.
The bid matching rules will be changing, lower picks won’t be worth as many points, and there are likely to be a number of first round northern academy boys which would make our second round picks more valuable as trade capital to GCS and Brisbane.
This kind of thing.
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