Marchbank is rated a lot higher than Stewart. He was actually a required player. We pushed hard on Gibbs because he was required. We obviously rated Marchbank high enough to pay the price so it is water under the bridge.
But yes, the GWS relationship is over. I knew as much when their recruiting team changed. We need to find another trading partner.
Yeah I know that, but Stewart went for pick #70 something didn't he?
If there was a KPP premium surely they'd have asked for a better pick than that?
I just think they knew we wanted Marchbank badly and used that against us. Then with the Gibbs situation going on, they wanted to hold out for #13.
This could be a good reason why we should just draft our players from here on out. If we show interest in someone, we almost always have to pay more than what we should, even after being uncontracted and nominating us.
Next year, I think we take the 1st rounder for Gibbs, we then offer up our 2018 1st for an early 2017 1st, regardless of Ben Silvagni's perceived value. We need to bring in multiple high end dps so they can grow together, can't go off getting only 1 every year. Demons did it last year and got Oliver + Weideman.
With 3 top 11 picks, it'll be similar to our 2015 draft, but 2 of those picks possibly being top 5. I just think that our current squad is made up of too many players from other clubs. Luckily some of them are quite young still. We need to bring in some of our own young guns and let them become the core of our team.
Although, if Fyfe wants to come to us and we can pay him what he wants, we can take him as a free agent. That won't cost anything in terms of dps. Would potentially be the biggest and best recruiting period in our history next year if we bring in 3 top 11 picks and Fyfe.