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No waterslides, no deal.I want to see a trade target pull out of negotiations with a rival club after being unimpressed with the tour of their facilities
Dustin Martin at GWS?I want to see a trade target pull out of negotiations with a rival club after being unimpressed with the tour of their facilities
Dude, you have 0 understanding of the market.Dude this is worthless analysis. We're in the business of picking actually good players, not maximising the points we take to the draft.
Do you need an extreme example to understand? What if the draft contained 20 Murphy Reids and 45 Devon Robertsons? Your two picks in the 20s are total garbage.
It blows my mind people are still talking points in terms of OUR drafting. The draft contains groups of players and there can be large cliffs between groups.
The only argument that can be made against is we gave away points to other clubs that need them for free. From our perspective, it looks like we only want one pick and have decided that there is someone worth drafting at our first one, then we get Whan. End of draft. Everything else is just noise.
Your arguing for a scenario where we have worse picks and have more picks than we need.
Perfect example. Reasonable alternative. Marginally better outcome all going to plan.12 for 25/26
25 for Mcvee (Dees took 24 so I'd be absolutely stunned if they wouldn't take 25)
26, 34, 51 = equiv of pick 15 (we still hold 44 in this scenario)
gets us close to GC pick 15, would almost certainly get us 18 in which case we end up with a pick 2 spots higher in both the first round and the 3rd round (44 never moves down to 46 in this scenario)
Alternatively 44 goes in with it and we get pick 15, as I reckon we are only taking 1x live pick this draft
Thats just going off the possible GC/North trade from the AFL, its without even delving into Brissy/Blues/Bombers possibilities
Basically we should have held points to allow us to trade up because there are gonna be multiple clubs willing to trade down for points
quick edit: FWIW I reckon we can do much better than 25/26 but this is just showing we can start off in a bad position and still come out on top of what we actually did, if only we held the other picks to trade up with points.
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1. Isn’t Gold Coast swapping out 15 for 25/26. So 12 > 25/26 is not a good swap.12 for 25/26
26, 34, 51 = equiv of pick 15 (we still hold 44 in this scenario)
I reckon I was being conservative (against us) too by allowing for 12 to become just 25/26Perfect example. Reasonable alternative. Marginally better outcome all going to plan.
12 for 25/26
25 for Mcvee (Dees took 24 so I'd be absolutely stunned if they wouldn't take 25)
26, 34, 51 = equiv of pick 15 (we still hold 44 in this scenario)
gets us close to GC pick 15, would almost certainly get us 18 in which case we end up with a pick 2 spots higher in both the first round and the 3rd round (44 never moves down to 46 in this scenario)
Alternatively 44 goes in with it and we get pick 15, as I reckon we are only taking 1x live pick this draft
Thats just going off the possible GC/North trade from the AFL, its without even delving into Brissy/Blues/Bombers possibilities
Basically we should have held points to allow us to trade up because there are gonna be multiple clubs willing to trade down for points
quick edit: FWIW I reckon we can do much better than 25/26 but this is just showing we can start off in a bad position and still come out on top of what we actually did, if only we held the other picks to trade up with points.
Why not keep 34 or 45 to use to trade up or otherwise trade into the future. Brisbane can have 45 at the cost of an F3 for example. Just chucking away the pick because we don’t need that isn’t justification for being inept.But at the end of all that - what's the highest draft pick we could end up with and getting an early 20s pick with McVee? Cos from a net stand point, if we're taking Whan with our second pick that's all that really matters. We weren't upgrading 12, so the only question is how far back are we sliding
1. Yes agreed but my main point is we end up better off and thats by starting off with a crappy offer (I think we could have done better than that but even starting off that bad we end up in a better position in both the 1st and 3rd round)1. Isn’t Gold Coast swapping out 15 for 25/26. So 12 > 25/26 is not a good swap.
2. A collection of picks 26,34,51 would never be enough for pick 15. Pick 34 is going to be around the same value is 40 and 26 pushed back as well. Pick 51 worth basically nothing.
Yeah but we're sitting here with McVee done and not chasing pick swaps for what might be a marginally better outcome.1. Yes agreed but my main point is we end up better off and thats by starting off with a crappy offer (I think we could have done better than that but even starting off that bad we end up in a better position in both the 1st and 3rd round)
2. I said it would be enough for 18 but close to 15, (it is actually worth more than pick 15 tho and GC are chasing points) also how have you decided they will be pushed back? GC very likely are the first club to have talent bid on, these picks are going to be eaten up before they have the chance of moving back
So this is why we went after pick 103![]()
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Any takers?
Thats the point though, you don't give up value when trading down a first rounder because you need that value to move up elsewhere, you're supposed to lose some value when moving up, its how the market works, some clubs want points and others want positions, we somehow squandered both points and position in our first trade.Yeah but we're sitting here with McVee done and not chasing pick swaps for what might be a marginally better outcome.
Still think it helps illustrate that the very squandering of value we're livid with is actually still likely to happen in the alternatives where we bundle picks to the clubs chasing points. End result starts to look very same same.
Spot on.Thats the point though, you don't give up value when trading down a first rounder because you need that value to move up elsewhere, you're supposed to lose some value when moving up, its how the market works, some clubs want points and others want positions, we somehow squandered both points and position in our first trade.
Wouldn’t we have to delist Sturt before the draft?Talking draft now
Do we think its as simple as pick 20 + Take Whan whenever our 2nd pick rolls around or do we try and slide him through to the rookie list?
I think the scenarios should be one of the below - first you delist Sturt and promise to redraft
Scenario A) 20 + whichever slider is available at 40 and then if Whan gets bid on, you take him and draft Sturt as a rookie.
Scenario B) 20 + whichever slider is available at 40 and no bid for Whan, then you take him as a Cat B and redraft Sturt in the PSD (gets us back to 36+6) - I call this the Gunston 2024 method
Scenario C) 20 + just take Whan if there are no sliders that we actually rate, redraft Sturt in the PSD (I prefer trying to get Whan to the cat B list so this is my least favourite scenario)
Port's past successes hardly make up for the current fact that they have a list management team that has brought in spuds like Ivan Soldo, Jordon Sweet, Joe Richards, Rory Atkins, Jacob Wehr, Will Brodie and Corey Durdin in the last 3 trade periods. Their biggest successes are Esava and Brandon Zerk-Thatcher (Who wouldn't be getting a game here!). They only got 7 games out of Jack Lukosious this year, that trade could go down in the dirt if he can't get over injury issuesWe can talk shit about Port and how they’re taking cast offs but I’ll wait to start flaming and laughing at Port until we actually overtake them in terms of success…
Fremantle haven’t really lit up the trading floor in terms of quality trading moves in our 30 year history….
There was a compelling case made on one of the Fox footy shows tonight regarding how tall forwards don’t win finals - with stats on who kicked the goals in the recent grand final. Are FFC missing an opportunity to trade out one of our tall forwards while they still have some value?
Wouldn't be surprised either way in terms of whether we delist and redraft someone as a rookie or not tbh. We used to delist and redraft contracted players all the time.Wouldn’t we have to delist Sturt before the draft?
Either way I don’t see them actually doing that. I’m almost certain it will be 20 and Whan. For the same reason we drafted Benning and Carr when we didn’t have to.
This gets brought up here a lot. Almost as much as not needing a good ruck because other teams have won flags with experienced, less good rucks.There was a compelling case made on one of the Fox footy shows tonight regarding how tall forwards don’t win finals - with stats on who kicked the goals in the recent grand final. Are FFC missing an opportunity to trade out one of our tall forwards while they still have some value?
Did we? Can only remember Blakely in recent times. Weren’t the rest all ooc?Wouldn't be surprised either way in terms of whether we delist and redraft someone as a rookie tbh. We used to delist and redraft contracted players all the time.
Another option if Whan does go inside Pick 40 (which I assume pick 47 falls inside of) is to upgrade Voss to the senior list post draft.
I didn't see the show but stats from one grand final wouldn't convince me too much.There was a compelling case made on one of the Fox footy shows tonight regarding how tall forwards don’t win finals - with stats on who kicked the goals in the recent grand final. Are FFC missing an opportunity to trade out one of our tall forwards while they still have some value?