Really? 8 of the 10 still in the league 10 years on, 5 of them will end up 200 gamers.
No one absolute brownlow level superstar, but plenty of very very very good players.
Considering Hartlett, NicNat, Phil Davis and Hurley have lost year/s of their best footy to injury or suspension.
Yes, Blitz is very interested in the volume of cones.
Would prefer to be Brisbane
Jeez port would hope to finish top 8 next year
That doesn’t take into account why they did it.
They want a kid - they’re hope will be that he and the others they get are worth the move.
bugger that pushes us back a selection, based on Meads expected draft range.
Doesn’t it just mean that Mead goes before us instead of after? Actually, you are right. Bummer.
Hawks have pick 30 and could still do the same.
trade 30 for more points for Maginess.
was hoping Dodoro could get 29 off Port and get before the bids.
Mead could have been bidded on after our picks, so may not have mattered.
Interesting trade. They’re clearly confident of no Mead bids in the first 15, which sounds pretty likely from online draft watchers. A bid at #17 would be interesting though. Probably still unlikely.
Lets say they finish 9th. So they’ve traded a pick 9 and a 29 for a guaranteed mid-teen selection.
Even if they win the flag, the trade is a #29 and an #18 for a #16.
What they have done of course is more or less guarantee 3 picks in a very even top #20 plus get Mead, whereas that may have been two (and possibly a third at 29) plus Mead. Clearly they rate this year’s top 20 higher than next. And gambling that they’ll climb the ladder.
Next year’s draft must be really bad going by that trade. I’m glad we rejected Swans offer for Joe.
It’s also typical Port to want all the shiny new toys NOW!
The notion of building over a couple of years is not in their DNA - the en masse buys of Rockliff, Motlop Watts, followed by Lycett Burton & Mayes didn’t work, but kept their fans happy until after Christmas each year.
Same again this year.
Huh?
Maybe a few years back, but currently they are aggressively doing the complete opposite.
3 first round picks last year and again this year. To do so they have traded out Polec, Pittard, Wingard, Howard and Ryder. They are very much trading out the now to set themselves up for future success.
I’d believe that if they had gone all in on the draft.
Instead of bringing in 6 mostly older players as well. Watts, Motlop, Rockcliff all significantly older than the mature demographic we’re targeting.
One or two selected veterans like the Bears have opted for is a different beast, and again, a more considered rebuild strategy.
This speaks of a very confused rebuild strategy.
( and they didn’t trade out Howard - he chose to run)
Yes and no.
They were basically all in on trades/retreads in 2015 -2017 (Toumpas, Watts, Rockliff, motlop, trengove, trent mckenzie, lindsay thomas)
Since then they’ve largely gone the other way (they’ve added Lycett, but shifted Polec, pittard, wingard, hombsch, frampton, ryder, howard)
Agreed. They tried thinking they were closer to window than they were. It bombed.
So now gone rebuild path.
IIRC this years draft crop is stacked with SA talent so probably wanting to get in on it more so.
Fark Port.
Pork fart.
Art fork
