List Mgmt. 2018 Trade & Draft Review

Are you happy with our trade and draft outcome?

  • Yes

    Votes: 81 63.3%
  • No

    Votes: 21 16.4%
  • Jack Watts

    Votes: 26 20.3%

  • Total voters
    128

Remove this Banner Ad

*PAF

Brownlow Medallist
10k Posts Port Adelaide - Nathan Krakouer Player Sponsor 2015 Port Adelaide - Brendon AhChee Player Sponsor 2014 Port Adelaide - Jarrad Redden Player Sponsor 2014 Port Adelaide - Matthew Broadbent Player Sponsor 2013 Port Adelaide - Foundation Sponsor Port Adelaide - Captains Club 2012 Sponsor Port Adelaide - John Butcher 2012 Player Sponsor
Feb 17, 2005
22,024
10,285
AFL Club
Port Adelaide
An A on review is about right.
However on review Wingard, Wines, SPP also rated very high.

Let's not start counting chooks just yet.

Yeah I know, sad sack type post but that's what disappointing year after disappointing year does to you.
 
Oct 8, 2004
17,789
23,944
AFL Club
Port Adelaide
Other Teams
Liverpool
Jason Cripps only had 12 names on the piece of paper in front of him.

Port Adelaide had found themselves in a unique position coming into the 2018 national draft after months of planning had resulted in their goal of having three first-round picks.

You needed a PHD and a whiteboard to understand how Port’s list manager had pulled it off but now the final part of the plan had to be executed.

It was ambitious in a number of ways but his recruiting team, led by Geoff Parker, had come up with 12 players they felt were worthy of going in the opening round.

Port had picks 5, 10 and 15 and the decision was made that if the selected 12 were gone by the time of their third selection then they would take advantage of a new AFL rule of live trading on draft night.

It had already been a busy day for the Port contingent when they settled into their seats in the super boxes at Marvel Stadium.

They’d been forced to launch a misinformation campaign in order to save the “expected” draft order which would ensure a livewire from Bacchus Marsh named Zak Butters was available at their second selection.

The Western Bulldogs had pick No.7 and were all over Bailey Smith, a gun midfielder from the Sandringham Dragons, who had made it known he didn’t want to move interstate.

But Port had got wind of a plan for the Dogs to do a deal with the GWS Giants and slide down the draft because they were confident Smith’s stance had scared off the interstate clubs.

The Giants already had the pick before Port which they were going to use on Bendigo midfielder Jye Caldwell at No.9 but if they gained another pick inside that then word was it had Butters name on it.

So Port went to work with coach Ken Hinkley getting on the phone to Smith’s manager Paul Connors.

It was a simple message: if the Dogs dropped down, then he’d take Smith and back in his club’s system to settle the kid in Adelaide.

 

Log in to remove this ad.

Jun 6, 2000
33,127
59,460
West Perth
AFL Club
Port Adelaide
Other Teams
Woomera Centrals, Jazza
is there more in the article?


I posted something about our reaction when we got Xavier Duursma in the Let's Talk Port thread.
 

Adz2332

Brownlow Medallist
Sep 9, 2010
13,036
13,497
Adelaide
AFL Club
Port Adelaide
I posted something about our reaction when we got Xavier Duursma in the Let's Talk Port thread.

wasnt it adelaide who were going to keep there pick and select duursma but we got in first and they traded to carlton?
What did that pick end up as? who did adelaide get?
 
The information in the article about Butters is good value too...

As the Port contingent drove down the driveway of the Butters’ property in Bacchus Marsh they were struck by the mini-oval with goal posts which had been built next to the house.
Butters explained how he would spend all day and night kicking the football on the oval with his passion and love of the game overwhelming.
The kid was a footy addict and when Cripps left he looked back through the front window of the house and smiled at what he saw.
“I remember driving out and we looked back through the window and here he was, he still had his arm in a sling from the operation at this stage and he was throwing the footy up with his other hand while he was sitting on the couch,” Cripps said.
 

Ah12

Club Legend
Jan 24, 2019
2,025
2,796
AFL Club
Port Adelaide
So we rated Butters higher than Smith! I wonder if we would have still taken Smith if that trade went through because he is a gun.
Im not sure if we rated him above smith. We knew smith was a flight risk so our preference was with Butters. Supposedly we were big on Smith and were thinking of taking him at 5 (ahead of rozee) but our interview put that to bed. He fronted up with a medical certificate saying he couldnt travel because of anxiety or something along those lines is the rumour.
 

(Log in to remove this ad.)

Duckimus Prime

Norm Smith Medallist
Apr 26, 2008
7,050
10,597
Adelaide
AFL Club
Port Adelaide
wasnt it adelaide who were going to keep there pick and select duursma but we got in first and they traded to carlton?
What did that pick end up as? who did adelaide get?
Adelaide traded away their end of first round pick that Carlton used on Liam Stocker for the pick that eventually ended up getting them Fischer McAsey (or however it is spelt).
 

Adz2332

Brownlow Medallist
Sep 9, 2010
13,036
13,497
Adelaide
AFL Club
Port Adelaide
Adelaide traded away their end of first round pick that Carlton used on Liam Stocker for the pick that eventually ended up getting them Fischer McAsey (or however it is spelt).

Thats right, they traded Carltons pick down and got him
 
So we rated Butters higher than Smith! I wonder if we would have still taken Smith if that trade went through because he is a gun.
The article didn't say that. It was more about stopping GWS moving their pick to take Butters.

The club had planned for Butters at 10, had done no planning for Smith to be there. Pretty sure they would have take Smith at 10 if GWS took Butters, but the club's need was for Butters not another inside mid.
 
Back