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Another aspect of the draft I question is that the draft order is repeated for every round (before they all get jumbled up by compensation picks, trading, bid-matching, etc). The compensation for finishing last is #1 pick which is fair enough, but this gets mirrored in every round with pick...

Perhaps this video is evidence that Bevo has been put on notice? If so, I’m all for it.

Too much emphasis on “rounds” for my liking. It’s artificial and largely irrelevant these days, now that we have so much pick trading. It could result in some really distorted pick trading. An example off the top of my head - the premier (19) holds out for an inflated price to a club...

The need to do this proves that the seemingly elegant draft points index was in fact a flop in the area that it was most important it succeeds: top 10 picks. As they usually do clubs found ways to exploit the rules at low cost to themselves. So we’re now into tweak territory, where the AFL...

Naah you must be thinking of the Star Spanghered Banner.

This is just getting at GCS without any logical justification, except ... well ... because we can. We'd be angry if they did that to us even though they rated our FS/NGA player lower than where they lodged a bid for him. It's just as unethical as the thing you were complaining about. Anyway...

I love a conspiracy theory as much as the next bloke but it’s also just possible that North rated McKercher higher than they rated Walter.

I hope there are no technical problems with your cunning plan.

Who said football wasn’t a matter of life or death?

i agree you sometimes have to be able to adapt your plans quickly during trade period but I certainly hope Sammy hasn’t adopted your line of thinking.

No that won't work. In fact I think it's the opposite of what's required. Unless I've missed his point VD is saying that we won't need to do much bid-matching next year. So we need to start accumulating some future picks for the following year so we can match bids in 2025 for our collection...

Short of pushing out Bailey Smith or some other big name how do we load up on future picks next year? We've already run down our draft assets for 2024 to get Sanders.

It is probably operating as intended.

What was Bedendo’s injury? I hope he hasn’t been wrestling again.

I very much doubt that one game against us would spur us on to recruit that player. We would know a lot more about them than that.

I understand why everybody is disengaged from AFLW right now. I feel the same. However (not picking on you Drb, just using your post as a trigger) we need to look at it from two other perspectives: 1. The players. How will they feel when they read/hear of so many members losing interest, no...

Jumping? Or pushed? :think:

Yes $1.4m operating profit ... which gets obliterated if we lose the appeal. But at least it means our month to month business operations are profitable.

You wonder whether any young women would even want to come to a club that's already the 2023 wooden spooner and likely to get worse in 2024 before it gets better. You wouldn't blame them for wanting anywhere else. The club could easily get stuck in a poverty trap. All the more amazing is the...

Thanks for the info. We've had quite a few players like that ourselves. Stars in the VFL, but don't quite cut it at senior level. And yes, most of them are no longer on the list. We'll keep our fingers crossed for Bramble. Sometimes a change of club and environment can do the trick.