We traded it to move up 1 spot on draft night.
Liam Ryan
28 years old
Contracted
Premiership player and AA in 2020
Traded for Saints F2 (we also gave up our 2027 F3 in the deal - so in effect, Ryan traded for a modest pick swap in the late 2nd / early 3rd round)
Tylar Young
27 years old
Out of...
Sure, but not at any cost. And pick 3 in a draft with many elite midfield options is not an acceptable cost.
A competent list manager would be able to acquire leadership without compromising our ability to acrue elite talent.
Same copium argument rolled out for Murphy Reid. On the contrary, I think smart, skillful footballers like Smith and M.Reid would stick out like sore thumbs in our side and transform our ball movement, despite their lack of size.
Below average lists become above average lists by accruing elite...
Quality > Quantity
There's a reason you can't bundle multiple post-first round for a top pick. Unless you're one of the northern acadmey teams, that is.
Just like how we likely wouldn't have taken Cooper Stephens, Jeremy Sharp, Nick Bryan, and Ryan Angwin with the picks we gave up for Tim Kelly, right? Only simpletons would think like that 🙄
Absolutely bewildering use of resources. Lindsay is a reasonable selection at 19 in a weak draft, but boy did we trade a house for a paperclip in the process.
I believe we effectively gave up Barrass, Ryan, pick 22, and 2027 F3 for Lindsay and Young (and possibly 33 depending on where the bid...
Assuming Cal's mail is correct, we'd have started the trade period with 16, 22, 23, only to end up with Addinsall, Stracevich, and 33 eaten up by a bid on Tylah Williams.
Have to say that is poor value for those original picks. Hoping for a surprise slider and a later bid on Williams.
Don't love it, but could live with it given we traded up to no man's land at 13 and lost the race for 9. As a combined haul, better Addinsall at 13 (in addition to Duursma & CDT) than reaching for the perceived need in Sharp at 2 + BPA at 13. Our list is so short of top-end talent that it's a...
Evidence:
Friejah/Roberts + Boxhall >> Hall
In fact, any one of those players > Hall
We paid a F3 to jump 2 spots from 40 to 38 to take Hall (a one-dimensional prospect with multiple obvious flaws) while Freijah, Archie Roberts, Joe Fonti, and Humphries (who in fairness we'd likely not have...
Quoted from the media thread. Our best (statistical) improvement according to champion data is Ginbey, up 18 spots to #222. A damning stat for a rebuilding side coming off the lowest of bases. Melbourne is the nearest side with Chandler improving 44 spots to #69.
This has been one of my main...
Oscar seems like a decent guy and capable of those inspiring on-field acts that lift the team. But I've had the impression he sees himself entitled to leadership despite lacking actual leadership skills. Jump through the right hoops, say the right things in the right way (his press conferences...
Disagree. Was always on the fringes. Skills were very poor plus rash decision making. There was a period where he was taking intercept marks to compliment his "headless chook" rebound, but have not seen this at the Eagles where he has played further up the ground.
*Slow, non-athletic players that can't kick.
Of the players you listed, maybe only Brockman is an above average kick of the ball.
We sacrificed pick 3 (where you'd usually have access to elite skill) for a player who would be lucky to hit the side of the barn.
In this rebuild, we have avoided...
Who? Maric is our best field kick of the next gen, and he's a KP-sized player picked in the MSD. Johnston? No class or skills across any line in the side as far as I can see
Great article. Journalism and analysis an order of magnitude better than The West with a fraction of the budget. So much for corporate efficiency.
Our efficiency going i50 in the 2018 premiership era was always a ticking time bomb. Could never sustain that long term. When that returned to the...
Easy to say, but unfortunately it's not that simple. The West is a media monopoly. And not only does Stokes own the only major newspaper in the state, he incredulously owns the only printing press, the technology required to produce newspapers. Even Pravda didn't have so much power.
There is no...
News.com.au is a tabloid. Like most of the footy media, pushing sensationalist drivel is its business model. Citing it does not help your argument.
Regardless, the article hardly portrays the press conference as a "debacle or car crash". Confirmation bias at play.