Game Day 2018 DRAFT - Christmas is early this year

How do you rate our draft this year?


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Scorpus

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You think thats all that makes a team?
Dont see how another year into their next crop of guns like Crips, Weitering, SPS, Dow, McKay and then adding in Gov and and an AA in Docherty and a better run at injuries isnt going to give them a boost?
For real?
Their list is horrendous. One pre season into guys who've played less than 50 games isn't going to make them good.

Wright gone. Murphy, Simpson and Thomas basically done or close to it. They played guys like Polson, Lamb, Mullet and Silvagni for bulk games. Lang and O'Shea played 10+.

And we're talking about a club that will need to win more games next season than they've done in the last 5 to make this a bad deal
 

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So which players are we now following next season for our pick at in the top 5 for next year?
Cam Taheny...or we will look to engineer another 1st rounder to go with hopefully a top 4 pick from Carlton to get Lukosius or Rankine back - maybe this was in the thinking all along once we knew we could not trade up to get them now????
 

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By giving out 2 of their best 5 players they did yes.

They're just about done in the draft, we have a great pick with some super players left and we are going to get a pick inside top 5 next season.

It's a decent win by us and I'm shocked weve been able to do it.
if you go through next years draw they have a genuine shot of winning upwards of 9 games because of the teams they play twice. if they win most of those they they will finish with a pick 5 or 6. see what happens I guess. I will chill out but this wont sit comfy for awhile
 
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next years draft is rubbish. a top 3 pick next year is 10th this year. There is no chance Rankine or Luko are coming back after one year. We just jumped at a trade we over thought and we drafted players we may not have drafted if we pre traded this pick before the draft. This is not Ogilvy's finest hour. In fact I don't think this trade will sit comfortably at all tonight with the AFC.
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Have you really taken the time to look at next years draft? Doesn't sound like you have. Go and take a cold shower and have a lay down.. you're melting.
Next years draft isnt anywhere near this. SA squad nowhere near as good, Vic Metro not that good either.
Best SA talent is Taheny and Gould. We have McEntee but he is small, Pickett I love but he is maybe late first or early second.
 

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if you go through next years draw they have a genuine shot of winning upwards of 9 games because of the teams they play twice. if they win most of those they they will finish with a pick 5 or 6. see what happens I guess. I will chill out but this wont sit comfy for awhile
Who are they going to beat ?? Freo will improve as will Brisbane. Can see the Saints sliding but that's about it.
 

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Because we couldn't and the clubs that held the top 5 picks were asking for too much. No club with a top 5 pick this year was looking at Crows pick 16 and 8 and thinking that's a good deal.
We needed to trade out a player. You don't get what you want without giving up something. Not going into who I would have traded but if you want rankine anyone over 25 I would have looked at trading out.
 

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Trading into the top 3 was too much to pay obviously. Disappointing to say i was wrong about Izak.
The trade to Carlton was massive though.
We have traded pick 19 and 12 - 19 next year for a top 5 pick next year.
You do that everyday of the week.
I can see carlton only finishing above st kilda and gold coast so thats pick 3 for 19 and 2019 pick 19
 
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Not if they trade their tp 5 pick for a later first round pick before hand... Could end up a shit deal. As we saw with Sydneys dodgy pick swaps, this is a risky move on our behalf.
The pick we swapped is based on the finishing position. They can't trade that pick because it is ours. So they can't finish 17th, have pick 2, trade 2 for say 10 and 12, then give us 10.
 
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