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List Mgmt. 2023 Trade & List Management Thread II - Goldy&Bucket➡️✅/'24 EoFR & #44➡️Stephens&#25✅/#21&#25➡️Fisher&#17✅/'24 EoFR➡️#18✅

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Reid spoke with the Eagles and North Melbourne, including coach Alastair Clarkson, among other clubs, at last week’s AFL Draft Combine in Melbourne.

The Kangaroos remain the club most likely to prise the top selection off West Coast, given they not only hold picks two and three, but also 15, 17 and 18. They will need to part with one of their top two picks, along with a suite of other selections, to appease the Eagles, who are yet to indicate their intentions.

Rival recruiters believe North are keen on Tasmanian dasher Colby McKercher and classy forward Zane Duursma with the earliest of their selections, while the Eagles would almost certainly prioritise local product Daniel Curtin if they hand over the No.1 pick. Hawthorn (fourth) and Western Bulldogs (fifth) will follow the Roos in the draft.

Melbourne, who have picks six and 13, are expected to make a play in the coming days to try to move ahead of the Bulldogs, with both clubs keen on gifted small forward Nick Watson.

The Demons are likely to make only three selections, including matching a bid on father-son prospect Kynan Brown, whose dad Nathan played 146 games for the club.

If the draft was tomorrow who do you think North take with 2 and 3 mate?

Lots to play out I know 😂
 

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Maybe because I’m interested in American sports I find the best available trope baffling. If you have a good quarterback and the top of the draft is full of quarterbacks you trade down to create value in a position of need. We will end up having 30 top 10 draft picks on our list that are all mids or half forward flankers. I would love north to manufacture a pick in the 6-10 range to get one of the key position backs. I wouldn’t mind trading 3 for 6 and 11 and take both key backs.

Quarterback is a specialist position akin to a goalkeeper in soccer or a ruckman in footy. Plenty of room for talented flankers in our team.
 
Spud kick of a footy. Spud kick at 18 will always be a spud kick
Just watched about 150 disposals worth of videos expecting you to be wrong. Have to say he looked a bit of a turn-over merchant, even by hand.

my new player rankings
2. Duursma
3. Curtin
(based on my very limited knowledge of draft prospects)
 
Just watched about 150 disposals worth of videos expecting you to be wrong. Have to say he looked a bit of a turn-over merchant, even by hand.

my new player rankings
2. Duursma
3. Curtin
(based on my very limited knowledge of draft prospects)
No shit? Been saying it for months. Actually been saying it my entire life, shit kicks make shit footballers.. Clarksons hawks were all ****ing great kicks of a footy, all his disciples hit targets. Mckercher is not getting a gournsey
 
The worst part about drafting Zane is he wants to play with his brother so we either lose him in a few years or even worse, Xavier comes to us
X.Duursma had his chance to easily come to us if he just muttered the word "I want to go home" to uncle Kenny and he would have been in a JHF plus their 1st rounder last year which was a blessing in disguise since we all know how the JHF deal landed us #2&#3!!
As this article on Zerohanger stated in 2022 during JHF wanna go home saga.

"Port Adelaide's Xavier Duursma is reported to have no interest in a move to either North Melbourne or West Coast, with the young midfielder floated as the player added into trade discussions to potentially break the trade deadlock for a deal that would see Jason Horne-Francis land at Alberton.

With it coming to a head, Duursma was mooted as the potential candidate to break the deal open. However, the man who fell out of favour this season, playing just 11 games, is not keen to move, as reported by The Herald Sun.

The winger is committed to helping rediscover his best form and help Port challenge for finals and the top four again. It's been reported that he communicated this via his manager David Trotter during discussions with Port's football department chiefs."

Now 12 months later you want to come home because JHF has pushed you out....what happened to rediscovering your best?
 
Aint comin at ya. I agree with ya. Mckercher is a zak merret that cant kick.

Curtin is the best player in the draft (available) he has a unique set of skills that is rarely seen and a point of difference. Not a midfielder, not a defender. A Utility. A Finelly skilled 195cm utility who can read play and use his feet. THATS THE PLAYER
If I could add any player from our team of the century to the side we have now (outside of W Carey), I'd say it would be a toss up between David Dench and Ross Glendinning.

I don't know much about Curtin, but if he can play as a key defender if needed and get plenty of the footy then it seems like he is exactly what we need.
 

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It’s funny, I think the only time bigfooty was unanimous in who we should select with an early pick was JHF.
Sheez last year?
That's quite the hurdle.
I mean, half the ones during Covid and against Clive Palmer make up the top 10
 
No s*t? Been saying it for months. Actually been saying it my entire life, s*t kicks make s*t footballers.. Clarksons hawks were all **** great kicks of a footy, all his disciples hit targets. Mckercher is not getting a gournsey

You’re going to be very disappointed on draft night Ducky and if you’re not it’s because we were beaten to it.
 

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No s*t? Been saying it for months. Actually been saying it my entire life, s*t kicks make s*t footballers.. Clarksons hawks were all **** great kicks of a footy, all his disciples hit targets. Mckercher is not getting a gournsey
If you are right then we have nothing to worry about.
 
If the draft was tomorrow who do you think North take with 2 and 3 mate?

Lots to play out I know 😂
I've wanted McKercher and Watson. Based on the reports in AFL media/ HS/ The Age so far, it looks like it'll be McKercher and Duursma.
 
The worst part about drafting Zane is he wants to play with his brother so we either lose him in a few years or even worse, Xavier comes to us

we can get his younger brother, his older brother had his chance to ask to come over last year.
 
Nothing personal. Just hate the obsession that some have over Yank sports and how we can "learn something" from them.

We could.

They learn something from our sport, they now kick the drop punt thanks to Australian kickers going over there and having higher hang time with more accuracy with the punt.
 
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