Trade talk - from October 2024

Football Discussion Trade week Duursma head in
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What makes people so confident that next years first could be a top 5 pick?

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We have eyes.

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I think we ill have roughly the same pick as this year

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Maybe no one wants to go and as soon as you start pushing you lose all leverage.

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Is that good or bad??

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Which they won’t because those players I mentioned are part of the problem not the solution.
In 5 years time we will still be sitting here asking the same question

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We got Caddy with pick 10 and will grab Kako who’s rated in a simialr draft range

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Unfortunately I agree with Nino.

Brad is a mid table master. Good at making ■■■■ teams slightly overperform because he extracts every last ounce from the old guys and won’t play young guys.

We won’t finish bottom 4 as much as I think that would be the best thing for us.

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Why do people think our 1st pick will be a top 5?
We don’t know what it could be

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Only way is to trade everyone but that wont happen or have a stack of injuries to key players

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42 goals from Stringer.

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sure but you’re comparing Kako, 20 and 31 to something like 11, Kako and (later picks)

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His hair

And he doesn’t go i. Hard enough for it to be messed up

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So you lie to them instead? That’s a sure fire way to build in distrust.

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Hawthorn should’ve said “Not our window” and stepped aside for another team.

Finals windows are bullshit

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Correct.

9 and Kako
or Kako 20 and 31.

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If Essendon genuinely think a bid will come before our pick #9, then it’s in our interest to consider breaking up our pick into a couple of later first rounders or a priority F1… Although more academy picks next year in first round complicated this. There’s no obvious low risk solve here.

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Absolutely we should consider and be planning for it. But we only execute if and when the bid comes.

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I agree :+1:

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I would agree in principle, but doesn’t the live trade scenario rely on other teams to respond favourably to a pick swap in the dynamic machinations of the live draft? In which case it is a less ‘secure’ scenario than having this sewn up prior to draft night.

I’m not against the idea but it’s not without risk.

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