Trade talk - from August 2024

[stander2]

@wezza

My 8 year old has decided to barrack for richmond now.

Did you take your 8 year old to any Essendon games this year?

[donsrule]

Better yet, did she go to any Richmond games??

[Humble_NSW_Fan]

My 20yo offspring laugh at my commitment to Essington. Its become a family joke.

One now follows league, the other, the AFLW team (she is the clever one) and the other has lost interest in sport.

Mrs H just looks at me with sympathy…

[wezza]

They didn’t want to go. Still a 6 year member though.

[Lazer]

I mean one of those picks was used on Archie Roberts so can’t be too unhappy with that one.

[Anabelle]

Exactly get kids rebuild

[Banone32]

Now Im really scratching my head

[Kingston_Town]

@Anabelle

Exactly get kids

Agree with the get kids. Not so excited about the term “rebuild”
We showed in '93 and Hawks this year, what an injection of quality youth can do for a team.

[JJohnson]

@Kingston_Town

Agree with the get kids. Not so excited about the term “rebuild”

Ahhh, that classic supporter sentiment.

Would you say it’s time to invoke the old term “mini-rebuild”? i.e. “Get the kids, only get the good ones, and get a lot better without any of the pain.”

[Sameolds2010]

Did Finn Macrae
Have soup of the day

[Tagger]

@ivan

That we’re focusing on the draft this year is great. That we’ve already compromised our draft hand with moves we made last year highlights how poor our long term strategic planning has been

Counter view - we knew our later picks would get eaten up by a Kako bid anyway

[Drapersmullet]

We didn’t even know we’d be able to match a Kako bid till this year

[Tagger]

Ha! Good point

On that - how does the bidding system work this year? Do we still get a 20% discount? Or is the AFL making that up as they go too

[SplitRound]

Yup. Same as it’s been, just with expanded NGA access. Discount and stuff are on the table for next year I believe.

[brycemcdehn]

Well at very least we would’ve been planning around a bid beyond 40… not within top 20! Which would make more sense…

[SplitRound]

@ivan

And fwiw, with the benefit of hindsight, Lawson Humphries and or arie Schoenmakers at the back end of last year’s draft would have our polished running defender options looking a lot healthier.

Ah yes, the trash end of the draft that we have to avoid at all costs.

[ivan]

@Tagger

@ivan

That we’re focusing on the draft this year is great. That we’ve already compromised our draft hand with moves we made last year highlights how poor our long term strategic planning has been

Counter view - we knew our later picks would get eaten up by a Kako bid anyway

it works the opposite way. next pick in line. We will likely loose our 2nd rounder and then have nothing after

[Sugar_Winton]

@LeonBaker4Eva

We can only hope? The number of kids in Bombers gear at the Footy Dress Up at school today was terrible - we are losing a whole generation.

Or are we “saving” an entire generation

[Paul_Peos]

@Odoyle

Heaps at my kids school and daycare

I couldn’t believe it at my daughter’s school.

The Bombers clearly - and by quite a bit - had the most kids in the school, with Richmond and Geelong taking a distant podium finish.

I was just thinking “what’s wrong with you kids??”

And fark Carlton.

[alex.f.94]

@Paul_Peos

I was just thinking “what’s wrong with you kids??”

Do you see how much brain rot content they watch on YouTube? It has to have side effects somewhere, one of them is probably supporting Essendon.