The Scum want to trade their priority draft pick...

[Cupestar]

Can't begin to think how foolish that sounds, but I have no sympathy for them. The pick will be #1 or #2 depending on where the doggies finish.

Apparently they want midfielders, and they can't trade into the first two rounds of draft picks. I was thinking two of Jordan Bannister, Ken Hall or Robbie Forster-Knight for the pick, which might give us some real bargaining power if we want to go after Nick Stevens (Port could then use the pick to snag Adam Cooney or someone)

any thoughts?

 

[Darealrath]

I'd be laughing if we traded those 3 for a priority pick. It won't happen.

They'd probably want Harvey + Henneman from us imo and maybe Cory.

 

[windyhill]

Priority picks.
Untradeable.

 

[Cupestar]

This is the article that got me thinking

http://afl.com.au/default.asp?pg=news&spg=display&articleid=114824

Pagan ponders priority trade
12:17:51 AM Sat 23 August, 2003
Samantha Lane
afl.com.au
Carlton secured its entitlement to a priority draft pick after losing to Hawthorn on Friday night, and Blues coach Denis Pagan has hinted his struggling club might trade the selection in order to draft a proven midfielder.

“We’ve got to be wise with that, and who knows what’s on offer there? Someone might want it desperately,” Pagan said after Hawthorn beat the Blues by 74 points and ensured the club would finish with no more than 20 premiership points this season.



“We’ve got a lot of young kids – we’ve got to consider that when it happens. We’re certainly going to be able to get an uncontracted player come pre-season draft and who knows what can happen when the trade period’s on.”

“There’s plenty of opportunities and we’ve got to make sure we make the most of them.”

The Western Bulldogs and Melbourne are the only other clubs still in contention for a concession pick, which is customarily used to draft a talented youngster.

But Pagan indicated the priority of the 15th placed club come trading time would be midfielders.

A makeshift midfield brigade of Ian Prendergast, Matthew Lappin, Jon McCormick and Anthony Koutoufides, held Hawthorn valiantly until half-time of Friday night’s round 21 match, but was thrashed in the second half.

The late withdrawal of Scott Camporeale and Darren Hulme from the game only accentuated the Blues’ deficiency in the area on the night.

“At the end of the day we know that unless we can support our midfielders there’s always going to be the same result in terms of what happens there,” Pagan said.

“We need two or three midfielders. It’s as simple as that. You’ll see a difference there if we can get guys who can support and are capable of getting 20 possessions in the midfield it’s going to be pumped inside 50.”

“You have a look at the midfield, and with what we went in with tonight you couldn’t have asked for anything more until half-time.”

In stark contrast, Hawthorn was able to rotate its Brownlow Medallist skipper, Shane Crawford, and the experienced Richard Vandenberg, Daniel Harford and Angelo Lekkas in the middle.

The developing Sam Mitchell, Nick Ries and Tim Clarke were all rotated in the middle.

“I thought our midfield did pretty well, and under enormous pressure for a half. But the task just got too great,” Pagan said.

"They had rotations and blokes that were able to come off. We haven’t got that luxury, we’re not making excuses. This is the reality."

Pagan said he could not fault the commitment of his players, and said Carlton’s re-building phase might not be as protracted as critics have forecast.

“They’re totally committed to what we talk about, they try as hard as they possibly can. I look at their faces when I speak to them before the game, I look at them in the breaks and I know they’re trying as hard as they can.”

“We know exactly where we are and we’re going to work our way through it. We just want everyone to be a little patient with us. There are a lot of stories that it’s going to take eighth years or six years or three years – no one knows, it can change pretty quickly,” he said.

 

[Cupestar]

Windy, did you mean untradeable as in AFL rules, or untradeable as in stupid for a club that's screwed themselves over to our delight by trading draft picks for hasbeen hacks?

 

[windyhill]

I thought priority picks were untradeable.

 

[TheMightyDons]

Nope Windy, perfectly tradeable. Another PP Myth. But Carlton do not want fringe players, they want a GUN. Stevens, Brown, Power etc.

 

[Rogue Bomber]

Nope Windy, perfectly tradeable. Another PP Myth. But Carlton do not want fringe players, they want a GUN. Stevens, Brown, Power etc.

Exactly... one of Carlton's biggest mistakes was not trading there first picks for Blumfield, Cara and Heff last year prior to having the picks taken from them. They should have at least split the difference and traded one to reduce the risk.... but obviously they didn't.

In order to get that pick we would have to trade either JJ or Mark Johnson.... the club won't do it.

The power are likely to end up with it IMO.

 

[BluesPrez]

I don't know about Stevens going to Carlton, apparently he's not keen on playing under Pagan. But it would have to be a gun like that for us to trade it. Pagan isn't stupid...Brittain was which is why we ended up with McKernan.

Yes, and we would want Jason Johnson and maybe Henneman as well for pick 2, so I don't see us dealing with you even if we did trade it.

 

[poncho]

Originally posted by Cupestar
I was thinking two of Jordan Bannister, Ken Hall or Robbie Forster-Knight for the pick, which might give us some real bargaining power if we want to go after Nick Stevens (Port could then use the pick to snag Adam Cooney or someone)

any thoughts?

Why don't we throw in Davies, Barnard and our bootstudder's soiled jocks.
Or maybe they'll just trade the pick for Stevens.
Duh.

 

[Cupestar]

One gun player won't drag carlton out of the bottom 4. They want promising young talent, not an individual star who will burn out by the time the rest of the list catches up with him. Which is why they'd be better off with a clutch of reasonable youngsters since they wont be drafting anything anytime soon

 

[Cupestar]

mind you, if we were hypothetically in that situation, I'd want to pick a decent kid in the draft and sit tight on it. A kid like Daniel Wells at no.2 is a fantastic pickup, showing glimmers of a superstar already.

Let's just hope the scum trade the pick for a dud.

 

[pazza]

Was one of the subjects of discussion on Talking Footy last night. Both David Parkin and Scott Lucas agreed that Carlotn should go after Nathan Brown with their priority pick.

 

[BluesPrez]

Originally posted by pazza
Was one of the subjects of discussion on Talking Footy last night. Both David Parkin and Scott Lucas agreed that Carlotn should go after Nathan Brown with their priority pick.

And boy are we ****ed off at Parkin for saying this...he's the bloke who got us into this mess to begin with.

 

[dj21]

Originally posted by BluesPrez
he's the bloke who got us into this mess to begin with.

Are you sure there shouldn't be an 'ex' before your username?