All that is valid, but there are still semi standardised costs for trading up at various spots in the draft.
The Brisbane Lions have advised three players they will not be offered a new AFL contract for next year.
Senior listed players Tom Joyce, Brock Smith and rookie Connor Ballenden were informed of the decision in meetings on Monday.
In that case, this touches on my earlier comment about choosing speed over size. Drafting Sinn and Chesser (if available) would give us a massive increase in speed and both have at least some capacity to play inside. Maybe one of them makes it as a full-time midfielder, or maybe they both switch between HBF and midfield. Doesn't hurt that they're already teammates, and Will Ashcroft is another teammate.
As expected. I see CEY is also being delisted and redrafted in the rookie draft.
The Brisbane Lions have advised three players they will not be offered a new AFL contract for next year.
Senior listed players Tom Joyce, Brock Smith and rookie Connor Ballenden were informed of the decision in meetings on Monday.
Such a necessary but sad part of the industry.
The Brisbane Lions have advised three players they will not be offered a new AFL contract for next year.
Senior listed players Tom Joyce, Brock Smith and rookie Connor Ballenden were informed of the decision in meetings on Monday.
Bazzo is a higher rated talent than Smith was, he's also more versatile and bigger. I don't think it's too much of a stretch for him to make our team, I think he's more likely to than JVR as well.
That's a fair point. I'm not against drafting Bazzo or JVR at 18 because we could use depth, more so at third tall defender since Lester is 29. I just don't see it as essential this year, and I wouldn't expect to see much of them until Lester really starts declining, unless Gardiner gets injured again. JVR probably doesn't make it to 18 though.
We certainly have plenty of players capable of playing there, and I'm not knocking them, it's just worth noting they all have caveats. Starcevich might be ready to play midfield where we need a point of difference, Coleman and Ah Chee may be better suited at HFF, Prior may be better suited at wing, Answerth needs to work his way back from injury and Madden might never make it at senior level. And Rich is 32. Because there are several unknowns here, maybe it's better to say that it's not not a need, because we're not set there the way we are with KPPs.
, do they have to take 3 in the draft or have they got some sort of exemption from that requirement?
They're able to prelist players from their academy without having to match a bid on them so I'd assume doing that counts as making a selection.Just noticed the Suns have pick 3 in the draft and their next selection is 97
That’s the way I see it playing out with our 2022 first rounder as well. If Ashcroft continues with his development, that pick will need to generate the majority of the points required for matching. If we can generate a similar return like the Bulldogs, that coupled with our second rounder will tally atleast 2000 points.
Honestly I agree with a lot of that and if we were to get a Goater/Sinn/NWM/Johnson with our first pick they should be able to help with our half-back stocks as well as our future midfield. I do think we were pretty shallow in our key back stocks last season with either B. Smith having to play above his size (which hurt him in the end I believe) or young Arnold had to take a key forward. In a perfect world Bazzo could be our Ridley/Sicily which is probably the one thing we don't have in our backline. Either way can't wait for the draft just to see what actually happens.
Scrimshaw had a pretty good year at Hawthorn this year. He’s received a lot of plaudits from various podcasts for his year.
He’s looking for a club where he gets a shot as a best 22 KPF. Probably somewhere like North or Collingwood, where he’ll sign on after the draft.
I haven’t seen him play as a KPP recently to have an opinion as to his development.
I can see the value of adding a KPP for depth, certainly. But after seeing what happened with Richmond and CCJ, I'm also skittish about spending a high pick on a player who probably doesn't have a path to the best 22 in the next 4 years, save for an injury crisis. They could walk out due to a lack of opportunity right before they start being useful.
Not if it involves moving on both 14 and 18.
Only if they're in love with one particular prospect who won't make it to 14 (16 after bids). And there's no way of knowing that before it happens. As you'd expect, the club rarely tip their hand on who they're interested in.
