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Note: Aiming for more of a statistical analysis than an opinion piece but read this how you will.
Anyone else a little concerned at how willing we've been to go full Sonny Weaver Jnr. and leverage our future picks? Since trading future picks came in we've developed a great fondness for parting with future 2nds but looking at the aftermath of the live trading this year left me worried. Let's look at our record so far, future trades only and the pick number they wound up being:
2015 - Nathan Freeman for our 2016 2nd round pick (33)
2016 - Jack Steele for our 2017 2nd round pick (27), the Koby Stevens deal saw us received North Melbourne's 2017 4th round pick (59) and concede our 2017 5th round pick (74), Hawthorn's future 1st (7), 23 and 36 for picks 10 and 68
2017 - Logan Austin and Port's 2018 4th round pick for our 2018 3rd round pick (42), pick 34 and Adelaide's 2018 4th round pick (from Port) for our 2018 2nd round pick (27) plus picks 59 and 63
2018 - Our 2019 2nd round pick went to Sydney in the Hanneberry deal, we traded 2019 fourth rounders with West Coast in the Hickey deal, we traded our 2019 3rd round pick to North for pick 51 and our 2019 4th round pick to Carlton for pick 67
Now there's some absolutely fantastic trades there, some that didn't go our way and some still in the balance. But the fact remains that we're entering 2019 without our own 2nd, 3rd and 4th round picks. We keep having to make trades to have any say in the draft, the Port Adelaide deals last year are why we gave up 28, so brilliantly earned in the Hanneberry trade, for 36 and 46. We've traded our 2nd round pick 4 years straight. We went absolutely berserk during the live trading on draft day 2, the draft strikes back.
Interestingly enough the one time we've gone after another team's future pick worked brilliantly.
We may ultimately be doing the smart thing, trading future picks to get players into our system 12 months early. Alternatively we're borrowing against the draft credit card and that bill's going to hit us hard.
Thoughts?
Anyone else a little concerned at how willing we've been to go full Sonny Weaver Jnr. and leverage our future picks? Since trading future picks came in we've developed a great fondness for parting with future 2nds but looking at the aftermath of the live trading this year left me worried. Let's look at our record so far, future trades only and the pick number they wound up being:
2015 - Nathan Freeman for our 2016 2nd round pick (33)
2016 - Jack Steele for our 2017 2nd round pick (27), the Koby Stevens deal saw us received North Melbourne's 2017 4th round pick (59) and concede our 2017 5th round pick (74), Hawthorn's future 1st (7), 23 and 36 for picks 10 and 68
2017 - Logan Austin and Port's 2018 4th round pick for our 2018 3rd round pick (42), pick 34 and Adelaide's 2018 4th round pick (from Port) for our 2018 2nd round pick (27) plus picks 59 and 63
2018 - Our 2019 2nd round pick went to Sydney in the Hanneberry deal, we traded 2019 fourth rounders with West Coast in the Hickey deal, we traded our 2019 3rd round pick to North for pick 51 and our 2019 4th round pick to Carlton for pick 67
Now there's some absolutely fantastic trades there, some that didn't go our way and some still in the balance. But the fact remains that we're entering 2019 without our own 2nd, 3rd and 4th round picks. We keep having to make trades to have any say in the draft, the Port Adelaide deals last year are why we gave up 28, so brilliantly earned in the Hanneberry trade, for 36 and 46. We've traded our 2nd round pick 4 years straight. We went absolutely berserk during the live trading on draft day 2, the draft strikes back.
Interestingly enough the one time we've gone after another team's future pick worked brilliantly.
We may ultimately be doing the smart thing, trading future picks to get players into our system 12 months early. Alternatively we're borrowing against the draft credit card and that bill's going to hit us hard.
Thoughts?