sr36
TheBrownDog
Well, in short, yes.
My understanding of it was that we had pretty well worked out that a bid would come for Reef after our two picks; Essendon would be reaching and their early selections were almost the most predictable of the night, Adelaide declaring interest in Pedlar to get in before Fremantle and what I can only assume was a prior agreement with GWS.
Before bids etc. shuffled the draft order, we started the night with 65, 66 & 68 which was a total of 229 points. When taking discount into account, we could only match anything from only Pick 41 onwards without deficit of any kind!
Hence we needed the 2 x 40s picks to match Reef otherwise I assume it would've had immediate impact on our future picks and/or our ability to trade them? Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.
A heap of picks were always going to vanish through matching other academy kids before Reef, thus pushing up our low picks and increasing their points value. Supposedly we were going to be able to match a bid in the 20s. We would have only needed to trade in a few more points to get the required amount when a bid came - if it came after our picks. TBH, I don't understand why we did that trade at all.





