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Yeah not that sure where you're coming from there. Just giving an opinion based on observation.
What we say on here has no bearing on outcomes anyway. We could be talking him up as a pick 1 fancy, wouldn't make a scrap of difference to where he actually gets rated and picked on the night.
 
To be honest im pleasantly surprised Ison hasnt shot up the rankings more.

Big powerful athlete, strong finish to the year, clearances + goals.

Has all the characteristics of a bolter, particularly in a weak draft.

Only thing missing is a strong combine (sat out thankfully).

Can't think of many beyond pick 10-12 that Id rather then him.

Agreed I won't be shocked come draft night if Ison's name gets called in the first 15. Came home like a train and has some special qualities. People make the Pendlebury comparisons, I see more Nat Fyfe with his ability to go forward. Obviously I’m not saying he'll be a Brownlow medalist but I have faith that he will have a very good AFL career.

He's a lot more of a thinker than Fyfe. Fyfe just ran through blokes as a specimen of pure strength. Ison likes to get physical on occasion but isn't the type to barrel through a contest like Fyfe used to. I think the Pendlebury comparison is more accurate as he generally looks to slow things down and draw opponents towards him to release a teammate in space.

Either way, if he ends up anywhere as good as either we'll be very very lucky.

Are you guys trying to talk him up to a point we can't match? Stop telling lies.

Take a page out of Chemical 's book (below). That's much closer to his worth.


Ison looks not up to AFL standard. Dean is also in that category. Late 5th rounder at best please. Or a rookie spot 😉
 
Geez we really have been royally screwed on Father Son points this year.
The ONLY scenario I see us getting both Dean and Ison this year is;
IF Dean isn't bid on before Pick 11 AND Gold Coast agree to a live Pick Swap of our picks 9+43 for their 18 & 24 (for Ison).
Further to this, If we don't Finish at least 12th and Sydney finish in the top 5, we are screwed for points for Walker.
 
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Does this mean we somehow have 8 free list spots?
 

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Is it fair to say Ison was only put into the Chargers midfield late in the year?

Weren't they playing him as a flanker / winger?
Yeah last 3-4 games of the season. Played on ball for Scotch too after the champs series. Early in the year he was restricted to a flank as he was coming back from injury and a bit underdone.
 
No, they just list the order of picks that we would have if we opened up that many spots.

We currently have 1 list spot.
My best guess is that we’ll cut 3 more before the 31st October so that we can take our 4 picks with points attached to the draft.

So if we delist / lose these guys:



Cincotta, Alex R
Curnow, Charlie
Docherty, Sam
Fantasia, Orazio
Lemmey, Harry
White, Will R
Hollands, Elijah
McGovern, Mitch
Durdin
TDK
SOS

We are left with 40 on the list including 2 cat B rookies and 6 rookies.

Which leaves 4 open spots?

We have to take 3 in the draft. Ison / Dean plus we most likely retain Gov. Leaves 1 spot I guess?

There's definitely a case to be made for trading with ess to fill that last spot with a higher draft pick. They're not great to tade with though so this is speculative.
 
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Yeah last 3-4 games of the season. Played on ball for Scotch too after the champs series. Early in the year he was restricted to a flank as he was coming back from injury and a bit underdone.

I remember him playing in the intra club games for Carlton during preseason and he stood out there.

Very unfortunate for him if he was injured early in the season but saves us a lot of draft points.

The kids like him that are already locked to a club and are rated in the 20+ range usually get all but forgotten by the other clubs who dont waste their time on them. Both Campos last year slid way further than they would have if they were open to other clubs.
 
So if we delist / lose these guys:



Cincotta, Alex R
Curnow, Charlie
Docherty, Sam
Fantasia, Orazio
Lemmey, Harry
White, Will R
Hollands, Elijah
McGovern, Mitch

We are left with 40 on the list including 2 cat B rookies and 6 rookies.

Which leaves 4 open spots?

We have to take 3 in the draft. Ison / Dean plus we most likely retain Gov. Leaves 1 spot I guess?

There's definitely a case to be made for trading with ess to fill that last spot with a higher draft pick. They're not great to tade with though so this is speculative.
Nobody knows if Flynn Young is contracted or not. Say he is, I’d guess those last 3 on your list will be cut, but we may well commit to re-draft Gov through either Rookie Draft or SSP.
I’d be surprised if we take more than 3 in the National Draft, but think we’ll head to the draft with 4 live picks for the extra points.
 

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I’ve heard we are putting pressure on with a Dean bid to trade 6 plus seconds for 9 and 11. Probably a win win for both clubs but you’d think would happen live on the night so as to protect you from a Richmond bid before just in case.
Sounds good to me, but the issue is whether or not we rate the players available at 6. Robey or bust in that range for me.
 
Sounds good to me, but the issue is whether or not we rate the players available at 6. Robey or bust in that range for me.
Not really.
As long as we plan to draft a 3rd player, and Dean is not bid on before 6 (9), we would get an earlier choice of player, plus extra points which would filter from the Dean bid to extra coverage for a Ison bid.

Even if our preferred players go in the first 5 live picks, it would still be a win/win. Unless we want to trade out one of our firsts for a 26R1.
 
Would be very interested in Cooper Duff-Tytler if we were to trade up. Seems to polarise many but if he was to turn into the ruck/key forward unicorn that many think he will then that would tick so many boxes for us. He's clearly athletically gifted. Would probably be a slow burn. We would have to hope that a few clubs didn't rate his promise though.
I’d be very interested in finding a way to get him too.
If we did the trade with Essendon to get their pick 6 and picks in the 20s to cover a Dean bid, I wonder if West Coast might not rate CDT as a need and would be open to trade pick 2 for pick 6 and a 2027 first round pick. If they had 3-4 options they were equally comfortable with, it just gives them a bonus first rounder.
 
I’ve heard we are putting pressure on with a Dean bid to trade 6 plus seconds for 9 and 11. Probably a win win for both clubs but you’d think would happen live on the night so as to protect you from a Richmond bid before just in case.
It could be ok. Im not sure the threat would change alot since we'd be factoring in a bid around that stage anyway. But it might be a deal we are happy with regardless.

Although we might be just as happy to trade you 11 plus 43 for your 3 seconds and leave you with 6. Thats if we want to get an F1 in for 9 rather then another pick before Dean

Depends how we rate the draft and what they do with bidding rules.

In either case bombers seem like the most logical trade partner for us.
 
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I’ve heard we are putting pressure on with a Dean bid to trade 6 plus seconds for 9 and 11. Probably a win win for both clubs but you’d think would happen live on the night so as to protect you from a Richmond bid before just in case.

Just gets down to what ess want more so than Carlton. I think we'd do that deal in a heartbeat. I can't see anyone bidding on Dean prior to 6. It would just be a bastard act with no particular upside to the club doing it.

Tom Greene for example was rated top 3 in his draft. Slid all the way to 10 I think.

But do ess want 3 picks in the top 11 or 2 picks in the top 6? They might decide the talent doesn't run that deep.
 
I’ve heard we are putting pressure on with a Dean bid to trade 6 plus seconds for 9 and 11. Probably a win win for both clubs but you’d think would happen live on the night so as to protect you from a Richmond bid before just in case.
How’s that protect us from a Richmond bid?
Why would you want to pressure clubs when you also have Bewick next year?
Just curious…
Richmond won’t bidding on Dean, so it sounds like “your club” possibly have its own agenda…
 
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It would only be a live trade on draft night
Reckon it'd be a good one too if it came off.

Robey would be well and truly gone, but someone like Schubert should be right in the wheelhouse. Getting our bookends sorted with Dean and HO'F down back, and Schubert up forward, is a bit like the 2015 draft revisited.

Either way, if we did end up with Schubert, Dean and Ison in the draft to cap off our trade period, that'd be a great result.
 
It would only be a live trade on draft night
Sure i understand that may be the case, the posters words are that they “ESS” themselves are putting pressure on us for a Dean bid…
Sounds like a tactic to extract our first rounder/s from us, if that is indeed the case…
That’s how I’m reading it anyway…
 
How’s that protect us from a Richmond bid?
Why would you want to pressure clubs when you also have Bewick next year?
Just curious…
Richmond won’t bidding on Dean, so it sounds like “your club” possibly have its own agenda…
Bewick is the year after in the 2027 draft, but your point still remains. Others can play that game and karma’s a bitch.

Essendon might be better off collaborating with teams to get another 27R1 pick rather than putting teams off side. Otherwise they might have to trade Merrett next year for some 2027 picks…
 
Sure i understand that may be the case, the posters words are that they “ESS” themselves are putting pressure on us for a Dean bid…
Sounds like a tactic to extract our first rounder/s from us, if that is indeed the case…
That’s how I’m reading it anyway…

Not sure I'm following...

So the bombres say - we will bid on Dean so trade pick 6 for pick 9 and 11? If they bid on Dean at 6 we'd still get him but 11 would slide back a bit.

So there's not much pressure being applied. They'd still have to include later picks to make it work.
 
How’s that protect us from a Richmond bid?
Why would you want to pressure clubs when you also have Bewick next year?
Just curious…
Richmond won’t bidding on Dean, so it sounds like “your club” possibly have its own agenda…

There is no way to "protect" from a Richmond bid that I can see. If want to they can.

I would rate the chances of rich bidding on Dean at somewhere between 0 and 1%.
 

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