Hamling might get the call up as the forward to fill in for Armaty or McDonald. He's been in good touch in the seconds.
Ditto Reid is on the rookie list too. We will need probably three senior list spots for the draft plus one to elevate McAndrew. I will be very unsurprised if we try to combine our two first rounders. Currently in contracted on the senior list:
I think only Geelong right now would he be a first choice ruckman, maybe West Coast.
I have some vague recollection that he's on about 600-650k a season with 2025 to go on his contract. I just can't see a club matching that so unless we're willing to pay some of his last year, I think he's staying.
I think we are seriously overstating where Cochran is going to go. He is probably right now around the 30-40 range and that should easily be covered by 56 given the discount and the fact that pick 56 generally draws into roughly pick 45 or so by the end of all the major bid matching. 18, 19 looking at the value of picks gets the equivalent of pick 5, but we know that levi ashcroft, leo Lombard and Tyler Walsh amongst others are going to go before those picks so it probably turns into 22, 23 which is valued at pick 7 so i think the best we could do would get pick 9/10 with those two picks if we were to go up in the draft as you have to pay a premium to move up.
You say that but the Swans are definitely different with their drafting strategies given they drafted a ruckman in the first round and atm it seems like a decent selection. If we remove Parker and Adams from the midfield ranks and say that King becomes a key forward and not an on baller it solves in my opinion your question about key forward stocks but leaves our midfield like this Heeney, Warner, Rowbottom, Mitchell, Sheldrick and Cleary as pure mids alongside Mills and Gulden. That is still 8 on ballers so even removing Sheldrick if he leaves gives us 7 so maybe then we draft a midfielder. I would think if Gus wants to leave we get a mid and a 4th tall but if he doesn't then we draft a 4th tall and either trade out or draft another project player given we don't really have any specific needs.
Agree with your points and its so early in the draft cycle and this usually happens every year that all of the draft profilers say the top 15 are going to be all midfielders and then it slowly filters out. Thats why i like Langford as well as it sounds he is playing some on ball minutes but is a 189cm high half forward with very strong marking capabilities. Honestly wouldn't mind if we went for 2 marking forwards that could also play on ball.
We can delist McAndrew and re-rookie him if needed. I think there is a fairly low risk of him being taken by anyone else if we go through that.
Don't forget we also have Joe Harrison as well, who they'll potentially bring into the mids group - ATM, he's in same range as Cochran, even a bit behind him (say mid 40's)
Definitely will be interesting to see where Harrison falls i think he slides to us in the rookies but i guess we will see. Still a while to go until draft time in what 6 months give or take. My hope atm tbh is to get a high half forward and Cochran and the rest we can do what we want whether that be trade out of the draft and then get a late pick to match Harrison or trade out of the draft all together to match on next years products as we don't have many needs
I’m surprised a couple of those are allowed to. I was of the understanding that if you’d signed up to the U19 programme of an academy you weren’t eligible for the MSD. Both Hawkins and Podmore-T have turned out as overagers in academy games this year, which implies they’re in the U19 programme.
Cochran is a key defender i believe 195cm but could be slightly off. Seems like a more mobile key intercepting style of defender. Roughly slated to go in the 30-45 range atm.
