2025 Draft Thread

[Smiley Boy]

Nairm & Barker could be realistic

 

[Mojorisin]

Can understand what the bidding system complainers are on about.

You miss finals and you have the old traditional draft mindset of "on we missed finals so we get one of the 10 best youngsters running around in the draft".

See 2005 - miss finals, 3 priority picks, get Shaun Higgins (pick 11).

Yet somehow we've ended up with pick 21 in the same system without explicit priority picks.

How can we expect the league to be equalised when you allow the principles of it to be barstardised this much?

And Lions get a top 5 Mid.

 

[Doggies7]

I’m nervous

 

[TedDougChris]

Yeah but before the night started you didn't know if Cooper Duff-Tytler could cook any Sri Lankan dishes but now you do! That's insight!

 

[0utsider]

I’m sure we wouldn’t have made the trades to move down if they had someone they really wanted.

We’ve done well in our recent drafts. I trust our list team.

Not sure I agree with bold. We overpaid to move up hoping to get Watson, ended up with Sanders and got stuck just outside the top group the following year as a result.

Talent ID has been decent but I've lost faith in the club to navigate the draft overall when it comes to positioning.

 

[Doggies7]

Nairm & Barker could be realistic

Would be a nice haul but I really want Emmett now too…

 

[Doggies_13]

Do we now trade back

 

[Mojorisin]

Going to miss out on Lindsay and Nairn here.

 

[bulldogs54]

Can understand what the bidding system complainers are on about.

You miss finals and you have the old traditional draft mindset of "on we missed finals so we get one of the 10 best youngsters running around in the draft".

See 2005 - miss finals, 3 priority picks, get Shaun Higgins (pick 11).

Yet somehow we've ended up with pick 21 in the same system without explicit priority picks.

How can we expect the league to be equalised when you allow the principles of it to be barstardised this much?

The next choice some teams will be forced into making trades for quality players from the northern clubs as they stockpile them and some of them get frozen out of the best 23

 

[Dogs_r_barking]

Lindsay gone.

 

[TedDougChris]

There goes Lindsay

 

[Testekill]

Shit, that's both of our boys off the list.

 

[Dav1d]

Yeah trade out..

 

[JohnnySteel]

Cmon Barker…. My guy.

 

[iambrilliant]

Bugger

 

[Mojorisin]

Nairm & Barker could be realistic

Barker and Emmett

 

[Golden_6]

You’d really want to hope the club prepared for this and it hasn’t backed them into a corner in making a selection they don’t really want.

 

[Doggies7]

Damn Lindsay

 

[House_of_Dahl]

Nairm or Emmett?

 

[_Cerberus_]

Knew it would happen. We really got rear ended in defense this offseason. Addressed small defender, but were not able to find a body to help out the talls, and missed out on both running defenders in the draft. Will be interesting to see who helps Dale out now that JJ has left. Baker and Bramble too inconsistent.

 

[Doggies7]

Hawks probably snipe Nairm here and our trade downs start to look bad unfortunately

 

[Pencil case]

Thank goodness for that, now if Hawks take Nairn we trade out

 

[Testekill]

Trading back didn't cost us Lindsay, we only moved back one pick.

 

[stefoid]

So we gave Suns the pick to match addinsal, who otherwise would have gone to eagles?

 

[Hoges64]

Before this gets out of hand...

Nairn.